The Pros and Cons of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Selection Process Overhaul
Two years after the introduction of the biggest change to its selection process since at least 2004, on Friday the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced what may be the biggest change to its selection...
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Assessing the 2026 NFL Schedule from a Flex Scheduling Perspective
This is one of the most bizarre NFL schedules I can remember, certainly since I started sorting games into “tiers” before the schedule release. There are several reasons for this that I’ll get into as...
View ArticleWhat the 2026 NFL Schedule Should Look Like
The NFL schedule is set to be released on Thursday, and as I’ve done the last two years, I’m attempting to put together the sort of schedule the league should be constructing, with the goal of...
View ArticleTipping Picks Is a Rejection of the NFL’s Potemkin Draft
A few days before the start of the 2026 NFL Draft, Peter Schrager took to his podcast and social media to beg viewers to stay off social media and not spoil themselves with each pick. Part of his...
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2026 Cantonmetrics Offseason Snapshot: What Will the Hall of Fame’s Reaction...
Congratulations to Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, Adam Vinatieri, and Roger Craig on their induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Now it’s time to look at how this year’s selection...
View ArticleDid the NFL Get the Week 18 Schedule Right?
Heading into this past Sunday, there was concern that Week 18 of the NFL season would be a complete dud. The Lions and Colts had already been eliminated by the Lions losing and Texans winning, meaning...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 16
It’s the last Flex Scheduling Watch of the year, the end of what has been a wild and unpredictable NFL regular season, and a much more interesting potential Week 18 schedule than we had last year....
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 15
The Jacksonville Jaguars are the red-headed stepchild of the NFL. The league’s decision to put an expansion franchise in Jacksonville was considered questionable even in 1995 – the expansion group had...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 14
Well, here we are. I warned the league back in May that the surfeit of divisional games CBS was getting in Week 15 that were rematches of games on other networks, none of which were even slated for...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 13
So far this season we haven’t had any “real” flexes, in the sense that none of the official flex-scheduling windows in primetime have seen any of their games flexed out. That will change as we enter...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 12
I’ve complained in the past about how much I often tend to struggle with filling out this opening section. That hasn’t been quite so much the case this year, but in some ways it’s grown more acute....
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 11
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of the Thursday night game (mostly). Last week Joe Burrow suggested that he’d like to return on Thanksgiving night against the Ravens. This week he...
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Last-Minute Remarks on NFL Week 13 Flex Scheduling Decisions
Click here if you missed the Flex Schedule Watch on Saturday. 2025 Week 13 Flex Schedule Watch Through Week 11 (except MNF) | morganwick.com 7-3 6-4 9-2 3-8 2-9 9-2 Sunday Afternoon Flex Candidates...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 10
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of the Thursday night game. On Sunday the Seahawks and Rams will square off in a game to determine not only the lead in the NFC West, but at minimum, no...
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Assessing the 2025 NFL Schedule from a Flex Scheduling Perspective
This year’s NFL schedule seemed to represent a shift in the league’s scheduling philosophy, going bigger in windows where you wouldn’t normally expect them to. Part of that has to do with how many...
View ArticleWhat the 2025 NFL Schedule Should Look Like
The NFL schedule is set to be released on Wednesday, and as I did last year, I’m attempting to put together the sort of schedule the league should be constructing, with the goal of maximizing...
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Where Will the NFL Draft Go Next?
Earlier this year the NFL announced what had been widely expected: the 2026 draft will be held in Pittsburgh, PA. Then on Monday the league announced that the 2027 draft would be held in Washington,...
View ArticleMemo to the NFL: Don’t Foster Pick-Tipping By Slowing Down the NFL Draft
After a long period of scuttlebutt that the NFL would move the draft to a streaming service, last year we started to get clarity about the future of the draft. First, the Athletic‘s Andrew Marchand...
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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...
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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