Pilling on Jake

[bababoey]

Was just reading Pro-football refernce.com this morning and ran accross this little nugget of information.

"•From 1932 to 2008, NFL teams were 142-8 in games where they rushed for 300 or more yards. Since the merger (and excluding this season) NFL teams were 66-1 in games where they rushed for 300 yards; the one loss was this game where O.J. Simpson set the NFL record (since broken) for rushing yards in a game. Since the rule changes in 1978 to open up the passing game, NFL teams were 39-0 before this season in games with 300+ rushing yards.

•So how do you lose a game with an unstoppable running game backed by a strong defensive performance? Mark Sanchez was an abominable 10/29 for 119 yards with 0 TDs and 5 INTs, and was sacked twice, losing 23 yards. In adjusted net terms, that's -129 passing yards on 31 dropbacks, or -4.2 ANY/A. That's worse-than-Jamarcus-Russell bad. Our PFR game logs don't include sack data, so we need to look at simple AY/A. Sanchez averaged -3.66 AY/A on Sunday, the second worst game in the NFL this year; only Jake Delhomme's miserable season opener ranks as worse."

The last sentence in that just made me sad. It shows even if you have a great running game, if your quarterback sucks you can still lose.

[g5jamz]

Not to nitpick...but it's piling.

Pilling is what drug addicts do.

But yes...a QB can give away a game.

[Jangler]

How are facts piling on?