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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 12
Last week, I said that “barring a surprise announcement in the next twelve hours or so, the league seems to have passed up chances to flex out of two Browns games this week”. Well, guess what...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 13
As he did last year, NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning Mike North spoke with Rob Tornoe of the Philadelphia Inquirer about Eagles-adjacent flex scheduling situations. So you don’t have to use...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 14
Twice under the old flex scheduling regime, the NFL and its partners agreed to hold off on deciding the Sunday night game for the penultimate week of the season until the week before, later than the...
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Last-Minute Remarks on NFL Flexible Scheduling Decisions Following Week 15
Week 16: No announcement was made on the Week 16 slate on Sunday, which is a change from past “six-day hold” situations. This sort of limbo can end up getting the 506sports Discord stir-crazy and...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 15
Note: This post (mostly) does not reflect the result of the Thursday night game. I said on Twitter that I wanted to get this out on Thursday even if I completed the percentage chances for the Sunday...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 16
Note: This post does not reflect the result of the Christmas day games. Here’s something I could have put in this section last week but didn’t: last week Mike Tirico appeared on Jimmy Traina’s podcast...
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Cantonmetrics: 2025 Finalists
Offseason Snapshot Each year, the Pro Football Hall of Fame names at least 15 modern-era players (more if there’s a tie for the last spot), narrowed down from the semifinalists named in November, who...
View ArticleIntroducing Morgan Wick’s Shadow Pro Football Hall of Fame
Less than a week after the Class of 2022 was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Deion Sanders implicitly trashed it. In a video running just over a minute and 45 seconds, Sanders claimed...
View ArticleMorgan Wick’s Shadow Pro Football Hall of Fame: Initial Ballot
As I wrote earlier, I’m working on a “shadow Hall of Fame” to settle the debate over how exclusive the Pro Football Hall of Fame is by sorting players into five tiers, adopting Bill Simmons’ “pyramid”...
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Cantonmetrics: 2025 Inductions and Offseason Snapshot
Congratulations to Antonio Gates, Jared Allen, Eric Allen, and Sterling Sharpe on their induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Now it’s time to look at how this year’s selection process affects...
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