99 Stats Until Kickoff (#96) When was the last time your team won an overtime game on the road
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Last season there were 21 regular-season overtime games in the NFL. Of those 21, the home team won 11 of them. There was also an overtime game in the playoffs; that was won by the away team (Baltimore) as they knocked the Denver Broncos out of the playoffs on their home field on a Justin Tucker 47-yard field goal in double overtime.
One of the more interesting overtime games last season was on December 2. The Seattle Seahawks were on the road facing the Chicago Bears. The Seahawks won the game 23-17 in Chicago in overtime. It was the first victory in a five-game winning streak that propelled the Seahawks to an 11-win season and a spot in the playoffs.
But another reason that game was noteworthy was that it was the first overtime win on the road for the Seahawks in almost 10 years. Prior to that win in Chicago, the last time Seattle won an overtime game on the road was December 29, 2002 when they beat the Chargers 31-28 in an overtime game in San Diego.
The current longest drought for a road overtime win belongs to the Arizona Cardinals. Arizona has not won an overtime game on the road since December 2, 2001.
With that in mind, here is the last time each team won an overtime game on the road.
Last overtime game won on the road, team
12-2-2001: Arizona
10-23-2003: New England
1-10-2004: Carolina
10-10-2004: Minnesota
10-24-2004: Philadelphia
10-16-2005: Jacksonville
10-30-2005: Chicago
11-27-2005: St. Louis
12-10-2006: Tennessee
10-29-2007: Green Bay
11-18-2007: Cleveland
12-9-2007: San Diego
9-14-2008: San Francisco
10-4-2009: Cincinnati
9-26-2010: Atlanta
10-17-2010: Miami
11-28-2010: Pittsburgh
12-26-2010: Washington
11-20-2011: Dallas
11-27-2011: Denver
12-24-2011: Oakland
1-22-2012: New York Giants
9-23-2012: Kansas City
9-23-2012: New York Jets
10-14-2012: Buffalo
10-14-2012: Detroit
10-28-2012: Indianapolis
11-18-2012: Tampa Bay
11-22-2012: Houston
12-2-2012: Seattle
12-23-2012: New Orleans
1-12-2013: Baltimore
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99 Stats Until Kickoff (#53) How many points does it take to win a playoff game?
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Looking at the 444 playoff games that have been played in the Super Bowl era (since 1966), here is a breakdown of win-loss records when teams scored a certain range of points.
Points, Record
0-9 points 3-107 .027
10-19 points 63-205 .235
20-29 points 192-112 .632
30-39 points 134-19 .876
40-49 points 43-1 .977
50 points or more 9-0 1.000
Here’s a few more stats:
* The most frequent score in the playoffs has been 17 points, which has happened in 69 of the 444 playoff games since 1966.
* Teams that scored 25 or more points in a playoff game since 1966 have won 263 and lost 49 (a .843 winning percentage).
* Teams were 66-312 (.175) when they scored under 20 points in a playoff game since ’66.
* Teams that scored 25-plus points in the 2012 playoffs were 7-5; teams that scored under 20 points were 1-5.
* Most points scored in a playoff game (since 1966) to lose a game is 45. Green Bay Packers’ fans will remember that loss to the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2009 playoffs.
* Three teams that scored 30 or more points in last year’s postseason lost games: Denver, Green Bay and San Francisco (in the Super Bowl). This was only the second time in an NFL playoff season that three teams that scored 30-plus points in a game lost that contest. The first time was this happened was during the 2002 postseason.
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99 Stats Until Kickoff: (#24) Arizona Cardinals start four QBs in 2012
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The Arizona Cardinals started Brian Hoyer in their season finale against the San Francisco 49ers on December 30 making Hoyer the fourth Cardinals quarterback to start a game for the team in the 2012 campaign. John Skelton started six games, Kevin Kolb started five, and Ryan Lindley started four contests for the Cards prior to Hoyer’s start. Hoyer was also making his first start in the NFL.
The Cardinals were the only NFL team to start four different quarterbacks this past season; the Jets and Steelers each started three different QBs in 2012.
Hoyer was also the 27th different QB the Cardinals franchise has started in the last 25 seasons (since 1988). That tied them with the Cleveland Browns for the second most since 1988. The Chicago Bears have started the most different QBs since 1988… 28!
While the Bears have started 28 different signal-callers since 1988, the Green Bay Packers in that same timeframe has started only eight different QBs. (If you are a Packers fan, can you name those eight quarterbacks who have started a game for the Pack since 1988? Answer at the end of this item.)
Following are the number of starting quarterbacks used by each of the NFL teams since 1988.
Number of starting QBs since 1988, Team
28: Chicago
27: Arizona, Cleveland (no team from 1996-98)
26: Washington
24: Detroit, Oakland
23: New York Jets
22: Dallas, Miami
21: St. Louis
20: Atlanta, Minnesota, Tampa Bay
19: Kansas City, Philadelphia, San Diego
18: Denver, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle
17: Cincinnati, Indianapolis
16: Baltimore (Ravens franchise started in 1996)
15: Jacksonville (Jaguars franchise started in 1995), Tennessee
14: Carolina (Panthers franchise started in 1995), New England
13: Buffalo
12: Pittsburgh
9: New York Giants
8: Green Bay
7: Houston (franchise started in 2002)
Die-hard Packers fans will remember that the eight quarterbacks who have started games for the team since 1988 are (alphabetically): Anthony Dilweg, Brett Favre, Matt Flynn, Blair Kiel, Don Majkowski, Aaron Rodgers, Mike Tomczak and Randy Wright.
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99 Stats Until Kickoff: (#22) Your QB throws five interceptions in a game! No problem, right?
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If your quarterback throws five interceptions, it’s impossible to win that game, right? In fact, if you look at the numbers, an NFL team that has had a quarterback throw five interceptions in a game had won eight times, tied twice and lost 144 times (from 1966 to 2011). That’s a winning percentage of .058. Maybe not impossible, but highly unlikely.
Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons made the “not impossible, but highly unlikely” a definite “yes” on November 18 last season when they defeated the Arizona Cardinals 23-19 despite Ryan throwing five interceptions in the contest.
(Two other QBs threw five interceptions in a game last season: Tony Romo did it on October 1 and Drew Brees did on November 29. Their teams lost both of those games.)
Ryan’s first pass of the game was intercepted as were two more of his first quarter passes. The Falcons recovered from a 13-0 first quarter deficit to win their ninth game of the season.
Ryan became the first QB since Tony Romo in 2007 (and only the second QB in the last 23 years) to have five interceptions in his team’s victory.
In addition to Ryan’s game this past season, here are the eight other quarterbacks whose teams won when they tossed five interceptions in a game:
Oct. 8, 2007: Tony Romo, Dallas, in a win over Buffalo
Dec. 9, 1990: Mark Rypien, Washington, in a win over Chicago
Oct. 26, 1987: Wade Wilson, Minnesota, in a win over Denver
Dec. 24, 1985: John Elway, Denver, in a win over Kansas City
Sept. 14, 1980: Dan Fouts, San Diego, in a win over Oakland
Sept. 7, 1980: Joe Ferguson, Buffalo, in a win over Miami
Nov. 29, 1970: Johnny Unitas, Baltimore, in a win over Chicago
Sept. 24, 1967: Bart Starr, Green Bay, in a win over Chicago
Following are the QBs who have had the most games with five-plus interceptions:
8: Joe Namath
5: Ken Stabler
4: Vinny Testaverde, Tommy Kramer, Joe Ferguson, Dan Fouts
3: Jim Hart, Steve Grogan, Steve DeBerg
Here’s a few more interesting stats concerning QBs who threw five or more interceptions in a game and his team won.
* Ryan became only the second QB since 1966 to have five-plus interceptions and no TD passes and his team won. Bart Starr did it in 1967.
* Tony Romo is the only QB to throw five interceptions in a game that his team won on the road. The other eight QBs who threw five-plus interceptions in a win did it at home.
* Quarterbacks who threw five-plus INTs in a playoff game are 0-11. The last QB to do so? Jake Delhomme of the Carolina Panthers who had five interceptions in the Panthers 33-13 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Jan. 10, 2009.
* Ten QBs have thrown six or more interceptions in a game. None did it in a victory.
* David Woodley of the Miami Dolphins had the highest passer rating of any QB who threw five-plus interceptions in a game. He had an 82.8 passer rating in his five-interception game versus the Dallas Cowboys on Oct. 25, 1981.
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The Mike McCarthy playoff era: 10 stats you probably didn’t know!
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Green Bay Packers Mike McCarthy took over head coaching duties for the team in 2006 and has compiled an impressive 74-38 regular season record. In addition, McCarthy has led the Packers to the playoffs in five of his seven seasons where the team has won six playoff games and lost three (through January 5, 2013).
Let’s take a look at the Mike McCarthy playoff era; those nine playoff games the Packers have currently played (they play playoff game number 10 in the McCarthy era tonight against the San Francisco 49ers).
1. With McCarthy as head coach, the Packers are 5-0 in playoff games played in an odd-numbered year. The team is 1-3 in playoff games played in an even-numbered year
2. The Packers are 2-2 in home playoff games in the McCarthy era and 1-0 at neutral sites (Super Bowl). McCarthy’s teams have a 3-1 record in road playoff games.
3. During McCarthy’s tenure, the Pack has won each of the three Saturday playoff games they played; they are 3-3 in Sunday playoff contests.
4. The Packers have scored 20 or more points in each of the nine playoff games under McCarthy’s leadership. The team is 6-1 in games when they scored 21 or more points in a playoff game since 2006 (the only loss was the 51-45 defeat at the hands of the Arizona Cardinals).
5. When Green Bay allowed 21 or fewer points in a playoff game under McCarthy, the team is a perfect 5-0.
6. The Packers had the lead at halftime in each of the last six playoff games they won.
7. Green Bay has scored first in only three of the nine playoff games under McCarthy.
8. The Pack averaged 119 yards per game on the ground in their six McCarthy era playoff wins, only 88 yards rushing per game in the three losses.
9. The Packers had nine turnovers in their three playoff losses since 2006. In their six playoff wins since 2006, they had only seven turnovers. The defense had 15 takeaways in those six wins; they had only three takeaways in the three losses.
10. The Green Bay defense had 16 sacks in their six playoff wins under McCarthy; in the three losses they had only four sacks. The Packers QB was sacked nine times in their three defeats; they allowed 12 sacks in the six wins.
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