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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Multiple records broken, a shocking lack of blitzes, and an under-the-radar receiver performance: Breaking down the Eagles’ blowout Super Bowl LIX by the numbers www.nytimes.com/athletic/612...

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Breaking down the Eagles' blowout Super Bowl LIX victory by the numbers

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The (other) big game is HERE. Introducing Connections: Sports Edition, a spin-off to test your ball knowledge. Can you find the common thread? Test your knowledge www.nytimes.com/athletic/con...

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Play Connections: Sports Edition, our newest word game

Group sports terms that share a common thread. A new puzzle is available each day.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

No the logic’s definitely there. A handful of these go to OT, which helps too. I was just surprised that those kinds of historic totals only turn into wins at just better than coin-flip odds

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

One I was really surprised by: the Dallas Cowboys are 0-6 in their six highest passing games in franchise history.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

After last night's record-setting performance by Jameis, teams are currently 18-14 in the games where they set a franchise passing record. Kinda surprised! Panthers, Browns, Cowboys, Broncos, Lions, Colts, Jaguars, Chiefs, Chargers, Dolphins, Vikings, Saints, Giants, and Buccaneers all with Ls.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The per-month stuff rules. Tougher for albums bc I’ll throw on sets for peloton rides/get-togethers sometimes, but the songs are a nice snapshot of what I got hooked on for a few weeks

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Taking a break from Radiohead to participate in cultural moments, then going back for more Radiohead

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Before December 2023, I think the only Radiohead song I had ever heard was Creep. Whoops

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If MVPs are equal parts stats and narrative, Saquon Barkley has both. The Hard Knocks clips, the backwards-hurdle, and the Eagles' NFC dominance give you the narrative. The franchise records and once-in-a-decade rushing performance give you the stats. Tell the story of the 2024 season. Saquon MVP.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The tides are shifting. The pendulum is starting to swing back to more hard-nosed, physical football. Saquon Barkley strattles the line between the speed/finesse game that dominated the last five years and the physical style that could be cultivated the next five

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Philadelphia is a good offense turned great by the single acquisition of Saquon. This is also coming after several years of PHI being an elite, high-scoring rushing attack. The Eagles had the fifth-most rushing TDs in NFL history just two years ago, but this team is clearing them by EPA totals.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Collectively, the Eagles rushing attack is operating with an efficiency not seen in over a decade. PHI is averaging 5.2 rush EPA added per 100 snaps this season. Only 8 teams have hit 5.0 rush EPA/100 snaps this century, and no team has since 2011. Just 9 teams have a POSITIVE rush EPA/100 this yr

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Then you look at his EPA numbers. Barley is averaging 0.12 offensive rushing EPA/play, eighth-most in the 21st century (min. 225 carries), has not been done since the '00s. Again, 2 of the 8 players (LT, Alexander) to hit this mark picked up MVP awards. Neither had Barkley's receiving efficiency.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Barkley accounts for 34.2% of all PHI offensive touchdowns, one of only 10 skill players to account for at least 30% of his team's TDs. Of those 10, only Barkley, Derrick Henry, and Ja'Marr Chase are also playing on offenses ranked top-10 in offensive EPA/Play

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Barkley doesn't score as much as other MVPs. He likely won't sniff the lofty totals put up by former MVPs LT (31), Shaun Alexander (28), or Marshall Faulk (26), but Barkley is still an offensive engine. Barkley gets GL TDs vultured by Hurts, but Barkley still accounts for 13 of the Eagles' 38 TDs.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It's even more impressive on a per-touch basis. Barkley is averaging 6.1 yards per rush and 6.4 yards per touch. Only seven RBs have averaged at least 6 YPC on 200+ carries, last done in Adrian Peterson's MVP campaign. Only 5 other seasons have seen at least 6.4 YPT with min. 275 touches

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

His additional 22.3 rec yds/gm put him up closer to 150 yards from scrimmage per game. Hitting 2,350 yards would put Barkley in elite company -- just six other players have hit that mark in NFL history. Two (Sanders, LT) won MVP.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Saquon Barkley is getting close to hitting those benchmarks. At 124.9 rush yds/gm, Barkley is just the fifth running back to average those totals for a single season. Each went on to rush for 2,000 yards. While Barkley is projected to fall just shy of that benchmark (given a Week 18 bye)...

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The argument looked something like this: -Averaging about ~100 rushing yards per game, or about ~140 all-purpose yards per game to eventually crack 2,000 APY in a season -Lots of scoring -Shining on a contending team It was the case for CMC, which was clearly derailed by injury HOWEVER...

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Earlier this year, while doing preseason predictions, I laid out the case for what a running back's MVP season would look like. It was a long-shot, and I really didn't think it was all that realistic. Saquon Barkley's making the case right now.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Think I cracked Miami’s cold-weather problem: just switch colorways after November 1. Can’t wear teal below 50 degrees

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thinking NBA rules, that’s on me

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Build the whole defense out of 11 Overshowns

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Forgot team leader in TFLs. Sixth-lowest average tackle depth among LBs (min. 50 tackles). Cowboys have to be excited about his development

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

DeMarvion Overshown can really do it all. -Cowboys Co-leader in sacks. -2nd-most tackles on team. -Most PDs on team outside the secondary Now, the owner of the team’s only pick six (and only defensive touchdown) of the season. If Dallas was better, he’d be a DROY dark horse

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Osa Odighizua enters today’s game with the fourth-most pressures among DTs and as many pressures as Micah Parsons but only has 2.0 sacks on the year. He’s already taken a massive leap this year, but when those pressures start converting he’s going to be a PROBLEM

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

47 RBs qualify for PFR’s rushing leaderboard. Of those RBs, the Chargers had only faced one RB (Chuba Hubbard) who cleared the league-average 4.4 yards per rush art. With about half a quarter left to play, LAC has already allowed a season-high 194 rushing yards

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The Chargers — allowing the third-most yards after contact per carry this season before tonight — finding out they have to tackle Derrick Henry

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Everything looked effortless for the Buccaneers as Tampa Bay picks up a 30-7 win over the Giants and Tommy DeVito. The first few weeks of the post-Daniel Jones era are not going to be fun. www.nytimes.com/athletic/594...

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Bucs beat Giants in N.Y.’s first game without Daniel Jones: Key takeaways

The Giants were shut out in the first half and couldn't convert a third down until after halftime in Tommy DeVito's first start of 2024.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Bucs-Giants has been pretty standard fare thus far but we’ve gotten at least three or four insane acrobatic plays in this one

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Gross-weather AFC North football also applies here. Russell Wilson hasn’t missed a pass but has three sacks and a fumble? Perfection

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The time after Day Light Savings ends but before Christmas season starts is all about slipping into mild insanity. Big Twin Peaks/House of Leaves szn

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The most iconic moment of the 2024 NFL season thus far has officially been immortalized in Madden www.nytimes.com/athletic/593...

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Madden 25 adds Saquon Barkley viral reverse hurdle in latest game update

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

THIS IS NOT A DRILL THE COLTS JUST RAN A GOALLINE WING T PACKAGE WITH TWO DEFENSIVE TACKLES IN THE BACKFIELD lost yards on the play, but we've never been more back

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Fantastic, thanks! Still learning how to navigate here

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

One part of the old site I’ll miss: curating algo got so busted that I turned my For You page into 100% bird pics. Didn’t follow any birders or nature accts. Just started liking bird pics. More showed up. Kept liking. Repeat. Could scroll for hours w/o seeing X crap. Just birds. Need BSky birds!

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

What happens when you mix one of the lowest defensive spends, a bunch of rookie-contract players, and one of the most demanding defensive schemes in the NFL? Answer: a top-5 defensive unit by DVOA For the first time in the Mahomes era, the Chiefs D is carrying the team

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How the Chiefs Built a Top Defense

Finally, the Kansas City Chiefs have a defense to match their offense. How did they get there?

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Daron Bland has been absolutely eating off those sideline outs/fades. Third pick six of the year, second one on that kind of play

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

This is the funniest bit from a TV show in recent memory

A copy of the book “The You You Are” by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

p.s. I’ve watched the Brett Kollmann and QB School vids on Mac/NE. I know a lot falls him. Just starting to think *most* of it doesn’t fall on him

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

4.) A small part of me is starting to think this *gestures vaguely to a fire* isn’t Mac Jones’ fault? Got exonerated of a few bad luck INTs, handling pressure well. He’s not completely blameless but when you pair it with data like this (ht Judah Fortgang), feels more a team thing than a Mac thing

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

3.) This was the exercise that alerted me to Jalen Hurts’ dropoff under pressure. Didn’t end up doing a pressure segment (IWTs happen so infrequently, why parse down further?) but 6 of his 11 IWTs and 4 of his 8 INTs were thrown under pressure. About the same as Sam Howell volume-wise.

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

2.) Josh Dobbs is by far the luckiest QB in this group. 15 IWTs (t-2nd most), 3 INTs (t-2nd fewest). Went into the assignment understanding that ~20% of passes defended (PDs) translate to INTs. He’s clearing that easily. 28 PDs, 3 INTs

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

1.) Jimmy Garoppolo still has a little Shanahan in him somewhere. Of the 32 QBs in our sample size (min. 100 att), Jimmy G was the only player with ZERO IWTs to first reads. Six of nine IWTs went to second reads; 50/50 between Davante Adams and Jakobi Meyers

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Quick thread (do we thread here?) dumping my notes from my latest piece over at FTN. Few odds and ends, one-liner stats, etc. that stood out to me and couldn’t make it in the article

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Lessons from Interception-Worthy Throws

What do charted Interception-Worthy Throws tell us about which quarterbacks might be good or bad this season, or lucky and unlucky?

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Cale Clinton @caleclinton.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Latest over at FTN: We take a look at the charting stat Interceprion-Worthy Throws, how they add great context for QB performance, and fun little outliers that pop up

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