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Continue reading →: Pittsburgh Steelers 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback In 2018, the Steelers fell just short of the post-season at 9-7, despite having one of the better offenses in the league, finishing the season 6th in first down rate. In 2019, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger went down for the season with an elbow injury in week 2 and backups…
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Continue reading →: Detroit Lions 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Lions have been one of the least successful NFL teams in recent memory. Dating back to the turn of the millennium in 2000, the Lions have qualified for the post-season just three times, all three times as a wild card, and they’ve come up short in their first…
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Continue reading →: Tennessee Titans 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback Prior to a couple of seasons ago, the Titans had not been known for their offense in recent memory, as they went almost two decades without a top-10 finish in first down rate for a season. That changed in 2019, when they finished 9th, and more specifically the change…
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Continue reading →: New Orleans Saints 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback For over a decade, the Saints haven’t had to worry about the game’s most important position, with future Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees arriving before the 2006 season and playing at a high level basically every season. In total, Brees completed 68.8% of his passes for an average…
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Continue reading →: Cleveland Browns 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback Since returning to the NFL in 1999, the Browns have been synonymous with losing in the NFL. On a decade plus long playoff drought dating back to 2002, the Browns underwent a radical tear down of their roster that saw the team roll large amounts of cap space to…
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Continue reading →: Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback Basically since the inception of the franchise, the Buccaneers have been consistently among the worst teams in the league, most recently missing the post-season for 13 straight seasons from 2007-2019, the longest post-season drought of any team in the league aside from the Browns over that stretch. The Buccaneers…
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Continue reading →: Los Angeles Chargers 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback For years, the story for the Chargers was almost always the same. They would look good on paper at the beginning of the season, but would almost always be derailed by injuries, poor special teams, and a poor record in one score games. In first down rate differential, the…
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Continue reading →: Minnesota Vikings 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback The Vikings finished the 2020 season just 7-9, their worst record since 2014, but there are reasons to be optimistic about this team. For one, their major problem last season was special teams, which tends to have a very high variance on a year-to-year basis. The Vikings ranked 8th…
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Continue reading →: Kansas City Chiefs 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback During the 2017 NFL Draft, the Chiefs made a bold decision that would redefine their franchise for years to come. With a team stuck in good, but not good enough mode, posting five straight winning seasons and making the post-season in four of those seasons, but only managing just…
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Continue reading →: Atlanta Falcons 2021 NFL Season Preview
Quarterback After the Falcons almost impossibly blew a 28-3 lead to the Patriots in the Super Bowl following the 2016 season, the franchise became synonymous with blown leads, but in some ways, that’s nothing compared to what happened to the Falcons in 2020, when they lost four games in which…
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