Last Monday, disaster struck the New York Jets despite winning their season opener. Their high profile roster acquisition of Aaron Rodgers went down for season with a torn Achilles tendon after playing only four snaps. This led to much criticism over the artificial turf in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Rodgers’s former teammate David Bakhtiari was […]

In college football, the USC Trojans have a custom known as the Perfect Day. This custom is quite simple: a perfect day for USC and its fans is when their team wins, and their archrivals in UCLA and Notre Dame both lose. That feeling of joy can port over to any team in any sport, […]

The tackle is one of the most context lacking statistics in football. The act of the tackle itself is of course discrete: one or two defensive players wrestling an offensive player to the ground. But what each tackle means to the goal of the defense varies widely, and cannot be described meaningfully by a simple […]