SUPER BOWL 59 STATISTICS TO KNOW

 

·       VIC FANGIO- LED DEFENSES ARE 0-8 ALL-TIME AGAINST PATRICK MAHOMES

 

·       MAHOMES IS 15-0 ALL-TIME WHEN PLAYING IN DOMES AND RETRACTABLE ROOFS

 

·       MAHOMES WINNING PERCENTAGE IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER QB WHEN DOWN DOUBLE DIGITS IN ANY GAME

 

·       WHEN FACING DOUBLE-DIGIT DEFICITS TOM BRADY HELD A 6-8 RECORD, MAHOMES IS 5-2  

 

·       CHIEFS DC STEVE SPAGNUOLO HAS MORE SB RINGS (4) THAN ANY OTHER COORDINATOR IN NFL HISTORY

 

·       16 OF THE LAST 20 SB WINNERS WERE THE AWAY TEAMS; NFL ALTERNATES THE AWAY TEAM EVERY YEAR REGARDLESS OF TEAM WIN % (KC IS THE AWAY TEAM THIS YEAR)

 

·       MAHOMES CAREER RECORD INCLUDING PLAYOFFS- 106-26

 

·       JALEN HURTS CAREER RECORD INCLUDING PLAYOFFS- 54-30-1

 

·       JALEN HURTS IS THE QUICKEST QB TO MAKE IT BACK TO HIS 2^ND SUPER BOWL AFTER A SB LOSS SINCE DENVER’S QB JOHN ELWAY IN 1987 & 1988

 

·       HURTS IS ALSO THE YOUNGEST QB IN THE SB ERA TO HAVE APPEARED IN TWO SUPER BOWLS- 26 YEARS OLD (BEN ROETHLISBERGER WAS ALSO 26, HURTS IS 5 MONTHS YOUNGER THAN BEN WAS IN HIS 2^ND SB)

 

·       PHILLY’S AVERAGE O-LINEMAN IS 6’6” 338 LBS (BIGGEST IN THE NFL)

 

·       KANSAS CITY’S AVERAGE DT IS 6’2”, DE 6’6”

 

·       PFF RANKS EAGLES LEFT TACKLE JORDAN MIALATA THE BEST RUN BLOCKER & BEST O-LINEMAN IN THE NFL THIS SEASON

 

·       PHILLY’S SAQUON BARKLEY ENDED THE REGULAR SEASON AS THE NFL’S LEADING RUSHER (2005 YARDS)

 

·       BARKLEY IS ONE OF ONLY TWO PLAYERS IN NFL HISTORY TO HAVE 2,000 + SCRIMMAGE YARDS WITH MULTIPLE TEAMS (DERRICK HENRY IS THE OTHER)

 

·       BARKLEY WON THE AP OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR AND THE JIM BROWN AWARD (JIM BROWN AWARD IS FOR THE MOST RUSHING YDS IN A SEASON)

 

·       EAGLES DT JALEN CARTER HAS 34 QB PRESSURES (2^ND MOST AMONG DEFENSIVE TACKLES THIS SEASON INCLUDING PLAYOFFS)

 

·       PATRICK MAHOMES NEEDS ONLY 85 PASSING YARDS TO MOVE FROM 5^TH TO 2^ND PLACE IN MOST PASSING YARDS IN SUPER BOWL HISTORY (BRADY LEADS ALL QBS WITH 3,039 & KURT WARNER IS SECOND WITH 1,156 YDS) 

 

·       IF KC WINS, THEY WILL BECOME THE FIRST TEAM TO WIN THREE CONSECUTIVE SB TITLES SINCE THE SUPER BOWL ERA BEGAN; THE PACKERS WON THREE STRAIGHT TITLES FROM 1966-1968, 1 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP, AND 2 SUPER BOWLS (SB 1 WAS IN 1967)     

 

 

 

 

SUPERBOWL TRENDS THROUGHOUT NFL HISTORY

 

AFC SB WINS                                     NFC SB WINS

27 TITLES                                                                                27 TITLES

 

 

AFC WEST                                                                              NFC EAST

10 WINS                                                                                       13 WINS

 

 

KC CHIEFS                                                                         PHI EAGLES

4 WINS                                                                                             1 WIN

4-2 SB RECORD                                                            1-3 SB RECORD

 

 

COMBINED SCORE TOTAL OF ALL SB GAMES PLAYED PER TEAM

KC                                                                                                         PHI

105 = 21 PPG                                                                    107 = 26.75 PPG

  

COMBINED TOTAL YARDS OF ALL SB GMS PLAYED PER TEAM

KC                                                                                                         PHI

342.33 YPG                                                                                   421 YPG

THIS YEAR AVERAGE YARDS & POINTS PER GAME REG. SEASON

KC                                                                                                        PHI

 327.6 YPG (17^TH)                                                                   367.2 (8^TH)

   22.6 PPG (15^TH)                                                                     27.2 (7^TH)

 

 

 

     AVERAGE YARDS & POINTS PER GAME POSTSEASON

(OUT OF 14 TEAMS)

KC                                                                                                       PHI

  290 YPG (9^TH)                                                                     366.3 (6^TH)

27.5 PPG (5^TH)                                                                   35 PPG (1^ST)

A RUNNING BACK AWAY

                The Denver Broncos have just completed their second season under Sean Payton, one of the best offensive-minded coaches in the NFL today.  During his first two seasons as the Broncos head coach, they’ve recorded eighteen wins and sixteen losses, plus he took the Broncos back to the playoffs for the first time since they won their last Super Bowl (2015-2016).  In only one year Payton, alongside the Broncos' offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, improved their offensive output across the board.  Last season, the Broncos ranked 26th in total yards per game (298.4); this season, they upgraded their position to 19th (324.6).  The offense managed to split the difference in their points per game ranking going from 20th (21.0) last season to 10th place (25.0) this year.   There is no doubt the entire outlook of the Broncos offense has already come a long way in just one year.  The story of their season was about how a rookie quarterback (Bo Nix) threw for 29 TDs, the 2nd most passing TDs by a rookie in NFL history (Justin Herbert had 31 in 2020).

                While the Broncos were able to outproduce both their passing (24th in 2023, 20th in 2024) and rushing yard (18th in 2023, 16th in 2024) totals this season, the offense still lacks something important.  They could and certainly should upgrade their tight-end position through the draft or free agency, though the top priority this offseason needs to be the running back position.  What if I told you the Denver Broncos have not had a thousand-yard rusher in the past six years?  They currently hold the fifth-longest streak of this nature.    Did you know the last time the Broncos drafted a running back who accomplished this milestone was in 2009? (Knowshon Moreno) Crazy right?  That’s the year I graduated high school!  They have only had nine rushers achieve this feat since Terrell Davis’s last thousand-yard season, (three of them ran for 1,000+ yards twice, Mike Anderson, Clinton Portis, and Phillip Lindsay).   Five of these players were drafted by Denver, two went undrafted, and the other two were free-agent signings.

                This is why I have the certitude that Denver needs to make a major impact this upcoming year by drafting a highly talented running back.  Though not just any runner, I am talking about a guy who fell just twenty-seven yards short of breaking Barry Sanders’ all-time NCAA single-season rushing record, Boise State’s own Ashton Jeanty (2,601 yards).  I’m tremendously confident through watching Ashton Jeanty the past three seasons that he would take Sean Payton’s offense to a whole new level, even as a rookie!  The Broncos are running back away from becoming a great team yet again and possess the top offensive line in the league according to profootballnetwork.com.  This year they made the first round of the playoffs though, with a runner like Jeanty, the mind of Payton plus an immensely talented quarterback in Bo Nix, I firmly believe they can return to a Conference Championship or even the Super Bowl.