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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...
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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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 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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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...
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