Other Football Links

[Exe Gesis]

Stickied thread called Guidelines/Calendar/Directory/HOF there's a huge list of worthwhile threads to search.

Football 101 has a great many links provided inside.

Understanding American Football for discussion, questions and answers.

Plus, here's a 'definitive' list of excellent sites across a range of subject matter...

--Miscellaneous--(everything from stats, news, rumors, to full-on X&O analysis)
http://www.thefantasyfootballfirm.com/
https://www.fantasyindex.com/
http://pro32.ap.org/
http://stats.washingtonpost.com/fb/index.asp
http://nfl.com
http://nfl.com/rulebook
http://espn.go.com
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/
http://sbnation.com/nfl
http://rotoworld.com
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
http://nationalfootballpost.com
http://footballpros.com
http://pro-football-reference.com
http://profootballweekly.com
http://coldhardfootballfacts.com
http://profootballfocus.com
http://footballoutsiders.com
http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com
http://smartfootball.com
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com
http://advancednflstats.com
http://fantasyfootballtoolbox.com
http://fftoolbox.com
http://trojanfootballanalysis.com
http://scardraft.com
http://cfbdatawarehouse.com
http://fastandfuriousfootball.com
http://football.calsci.com
http://footballmastery.com
http://footballtimes.org
http://prointerviews.org
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football
http://scout.com
http://theredzone.org
http://profootballcentral.com
http://www.ourlads.com
http://www.nflpenalties.com/

--Full Contract/Salary/Cap Details per team--
http://www.spotrac.com/
http://overthecap.com/

--Yearly undrafted free agent signings--
http://nepatriotsdraft.com

--List of local 'beat' writers for each NFL team--
http://rotoworld.com/papers/nfl/football-local-papers

--Logos/uniforms--
http://sportslogos.net
http://nfluniforms.blogspot.com
http://hub.webring.org/hub/defunctsportslea
http://logoserver.com/index.html
http://logoshak.com

--Coaching & Academies--
http://coachwyatt.com
http://coachhuey.com
http://coachteed.com
http://coachingsearch.com
http://americanfootballmonthly.com
http://nationalfootballacademies.com
http://www.quarterbackacademy.com
http://www.kohlsnews.com

--Game streaming--
http://firstrowsports.eu
http://vipbox.tv

--Draft sites--(billions out there)
http://walterfootball.com
http://drafttek.com
http://nfldraftbible.com
http://cbssports.com/nfl/draft
http://cbssports.com/nfl/draft/prospectrankings
http://draftbreakdown.com
http://draftcountdown.com
http://draftinsiders.com
http://draftsite.com
http://mockingthedraft.com
http://draftmetrics.com/
http://www.drafthistory.com/index.php

Wikipedia has a huge range of pages related to football strategy, formations, history, trivia, etc. Just search for something inside wikipedia. Example...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football_strategy


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[Exe Gesis]

Here's a long in depth look at how Bleacher Report has risen in stock as a good sports site....

Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!


LAST YEAR, sportswriter King Kaufman stepped up to the lectern at a symposium held on the Google campus. In a 14-year haul at Salon.com, Kaufman earned a reputation as one of the best and most cerebral sports journalists on the Internet. But his subject that day was his new job, improving the content quality at Bleacher Report — an outfit with a reputation almost directly opposite Kaufman's own.

The San Francisco-based site is an aggressively growing online giant, tapping the oceanic labor pool of thousands of unpaid sports fanatics typing on thousands of keyboards. Launched in 2008, Bleacher Report meteorically rose to become one of the nation's most popular websites, and one of the three most-visited sports sites. Its dramatic success came via valuing site growth and pageviews over any semblance of journalistic "quality" or even readability. Operating a sports website on a supply-and-demand model turns out just as one would expect: High-trafficking Bleacher Report articles include "25 Wardrobe Malfunctions in Sports," "The 20 Biggest Criers in Sports," and "10 Possible Tiger Woods pr0n Spin-offs: Mistress Edition." The site quickly earned a rep for expertly employing the Google search engine to inundate the web with horrible, lowest-common-denominator crap.

"A lot of what Bleacher Report has done has been lowest-common-denominator crap, and horrible," Kaufman admitted to the audience. His task was to alter this perception of the company. But this was not due to any sense of embarrassment or a late-night visit to the site's brass by the Ghost of Journalistic Standards Past. Like almost every move the company makes, this was a business decision. And a smart one.

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[TheGreatBarryB]

Bleacher Report is why the profession of journalism will never die out.

 

[ausbacker]

Bleacher Report is why the profession of journalism will never die out.

The ironic point is most of the amateur home writers provide pieces commensurate to that of paid, professional journalists. There just isn't that much integrity or thought put into pieces these days. It's a crying shame.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

The ironic point is most of the amateur home writers provide pieces commensurate to that of paid, professional journalists. There just isn't that much integrity or thought put into pieces these days. It's a crying shame.

disagree with that. Read say SI and tell me that anyone on Bleacher even comes close to it. It's just opinionated (usually one-eyed) garbage.

 

[ausbacker]

disagree with that. Read say SI and tell me that anyone on Bleacher even comes close to it. It's just opinionated (usually one-eyed) garbage.

Perhaps you misinterpreted my comment Barry or simply glossed over the most component of it. Quality and informative piece writing is at an all time low thanks to the service me now approach to readership.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Interesting link to some oddball stats.

For instance, yards after catch for QBs

http://stats.washingtonpost.com/fb/leaders.asp?year=&type=receiving&range=nfl&rank=114

 

[Exe Gesis]

One of the interesting ones is that Andrew Luck leads the NFL in 3rd and 8+ conversions, at an astonishing 45%.

Not in the top 20? RGIII. In fact he is dead last in the NFL at a measly 5%.

http://stats.washingtonpost.com/fb/leaders.asp?range=NFL&type=receiving&rank=047&year=

Andrew Luck also leads the NFL in longest average attempted pass from the line of scrimmage.
Basically he pushes it down the field further than anyone in the league.

Best 4th quarter completion % and QBR in the NFL?
It’s not even close……Jay Cutler (70% and 130)

 

[Dirty Bird]

I thought the highest QBR possible was 100?
QBR is that stupid ESPN stat is it not?

 

[Exe Gesis]

Qbr is the normal one that the max is 158.3

Espn one that's stupid is called total qb rating

 

[Exe Gesis]

Excellent link here for contracts, cap hits etc for each team, player, depth charts, etc....

http://www.spotrac.com/

 

[drd23]

Except that for some reason the players on IR all disappear from their respective teams (both on their roster page and their future cap hits pages)

 

[Exe Gesis]

Another good site that lists coaching news only: http://coachingsearch.com/

 

[Exe Gesis]

A site dedicated to kicking, punting and snapping: http://www.kohlsnews.com/

Quarterback Academy, including would-be QB Coaches, path to get certified: http://www.quarterbackacademy.com/

Broader Football Academy: http://nationalfootballacademies.com

Coaching e-magazine: http://americanfootballmonthly.com

 

[Exe Gesis]

Another excellent cap/salary site: http://overthecap.com/

 

[Dirty Bird]

For future reference: http://www.spotrac.com/

 

[Exe Gesis]

yeah already got that one in the OP

 

[Dirty Bird]

Fair enough, thankyou Nicholas

 

[Exe Gesis]

Another good site: http://pro32.ap.org/

Associated Press Pro Football News

 

[Exe Gesis]

Another good site: http://draftmetrics.com/

 

[Exe Gesis]

A good site here that focuses on the full history of drafts, which players got taken where, collated into by position, by school etc etc.

http://www.drafthistory.com/index.php/positions/qb

 

[Exe Gesis]

Cool site. Only goes back to 2009 tho...

http://www.nflpenalties.com/

 

[Exe Gesis]

Adding one of the best fantasy resource sites around....


https://www.fantasyindex.com

 

[Exe Gesis]

And another excellent Fantasy resource site...

http://www.thefantasyfootballfirm.com/