Here are some trivia facts related to the 2020 season and active players.
- Half of the games played this season had one team up by two scores going into the fourth quarter. The leading team won 94% of those games.The NFC East teams were four of twelve teams that were never up by two scores going into the fourth quarter.
- With all the talk of it being easier on offenses this season due to less penalties called that may not be so. If you take the top 100 teams in passing yards thru the first four games of the season going back to 1940, only five teams from 2020 show up and only two of those are in the top fifty. However Dallas 2020 is number one.
- Compared to 4 game starts last season the Cardinals and the Steelers are most improved. The Cowboys, Texans, Patriots, Giants and 49ers are most regressed. The Bears, Chiefs and Rams are most consistent in a good way. The Jets are most consistent in a bad way. The Panthers and Raiders are most consistent in an average way. Out of these teams the Cowboys has to be the biggest surprise.
- Only nine active quarterbacks have won a divisional playoff game by age 26. The only ones currently under 30 that have accomplished this are Blake Bortles, Jared Goff and Patrick Mahomes. Ben Roethlisberger is the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl doing so at age 23. Him and Tom Brady are the only quarterbacks to win two Super Bowls by age 26. With all the talk about getting to a Super Bowl on a rookie quarterback contract there have only been 11 quarterbacks to win a Super Bowl by age 26 since 1950.
- The run game is not dead. For the first four games of each season from 1940 sorted by rushing yards the year 2020 shows up seven times in the top 500. An equal distribution for all seasons would be 6.17 times. Cleveland leads the 2020 season coming in at number 33 of the top 500 with 818 yards. The Patriots and Ravens round out the other two 2020 teams in the top 250. The next 250 have the Packers, Vikings, Cardinals and Rams.
Enjoy the week five games. Go Giants!
