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Jacoby Jones: Snapshots In Time
I've been thinking about Jacoby Jones' defining moment a lot lately. Isn't it funny how quickly a player can change everything we think about him in the football world? NFL players, at this point of time in Americana, usually are playing football for around a decade of time before they are...
Football Outsiders Playoff Odds: 49ers Fans, Be Vewwwy, Vewwwy Quiet
I suppose posting about the 49ers increasing playoff odds goes against the title of this post, but I can live with that. I've posted the odds twice and the 49ers have one twice. I've weened myself off most of my superstitions at this point, but I'll stick with this one for now. Football Outsiders...
Alex Smith And The Art Of The Short And Long Sack
The folks at Football Outsiders conduct various charting exercises to help develop more detailed information about what we see on the football field. Their latest release of information is a rundown of quarterback sacks for each team. Thanks to Ougadas for pointing it out in the Fanshots. They went...
Football Outsiders Playoffs Odds: 49ers Second Best In NFL
During football season, there are times I believe in jinxes and times I try to talk myself out of believing in them. This is one pattern I'll continue to roll with until proven otherwise. For the past two weeks I've posted about the Football Outsiders playoff odds. For the past two weeks the 49ers...
Football Outsiders 2011 Almanac And The San Francisco 49ers
Regular season football is just around the corner and that means we're getting more and more previews of the upcoming season. One of the always controversial previews comes courtesy of Football Outsiders as the 2011 Football Outsiders Almanac preview is available for purchase. We'll have a Q&A...
49ers Defensive Game-Planning And WR Formation Analysis
Last week we took a look at some formation analysis done by Florida Danny over at Football Outsiders. He broken down various wide receiver formations and how much success or failure teams had in the various formations. This week, Danny published the second half of his wide receiver formation...
49ers Winning the Future With QB Alex Smith: A Statistical Profile?
Greetings from FO-land, everyone. Just thought I'd drop in to share a blog post I came across while scouring the internets for Extra Points fodder. This one pertains to Alex Smith, so I figured NN would be a better home for the discussion. In case you're unaware, Ben Alamar is a Professor of...
Football Outsiders' Rivers McCown Lists "Top 10 NFL Draft Steals Who Failed"
Rivers' first foray into the big time that is ESPN.com does require Insider access, but I'm be damned if I'm not going to take every opportunity to publicize his work. If you need any more reason to click on the link (or to ask someone who has Insider access to e-mail it to you sign up for...
Nate Clements Still Knows How To Tackle
It seems fitting to bookend the day with another post on open field tacklers amongst the 49ers. Football Outsiders went into their 2010 stats and took a look at pass tackles and stop rate on those pass tackles. For those wondering, stop rate is defined as "total number of plays by a defensive...
Shawntae Spencer Might Need To Re-Learn How To Tackle
A couple weeks ago, Football Outsiders put together a rundown of broken tackles against defensive players. The stat comes from FO's game-charting in which individuals track entire games for very specific statistics that aren't captured in many other places. Given the fact that people are watching...
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