Some great names in this quiz. Stoney Case! Rusty Hilger! Dave Ragone!

Things get pretty vague before 1999.

Forcing fumbles is a skill

I agree that there is skill involved. I become skeptical when some claim that certain teams possess this skill in greater concentration than others because of “coaching” or “drills.”

You see every corner in the NFL try and punch the ball out after a completion. Every linebacker in the league goes for the RB strip. Every defender is taught to do this. And the fact that a different team leads the league every year shows that there’s pretty much one way to do it, and sometimes the ball comes out and sometimes it doesn’t.

Not every FF is a result of luck. But I’m saying that you can punch the ball twice the exact same way and once it may come out and the other time it won’t. I don’t know a better word for it than luck. Randomness?

Indianapolis has a winning record, but yeah overall that schedule has been dogshit.

Shit, forgot they won yesterday.

If they stomp Houston out next week I’ll be impressed. Until then, I dont much care that they’re blowing out Jags, Rams, Lions, Cowboys, Panthers, Titans. Ughhhhh.

Fumble recoveries are luck. Forcing fumbles is not. When teams force lots of fumbles but don’t recover a large percentage of them, or don’t fumble much but lose a lot of them, it tends to even out over time.

Even forcing fumbles has a lot to do with luck. When there are multiple 270-pound monsters smashing into a runner from multiple angles, sometimes shit happens. You see it all the time. Hell, the Pittsburgh RB straight up dropped the ball and kicked it OOB yesterday. NYG didn’t do anything.

I went back and looked at FF for the last decade. No team has led the league more than once over that span. And the difference between first and 10th is a few fumbles.

It’s luck.

i am in the market for a sweet boombox

/team can’t throw away my hundreds of cassettes

/ Monster Is Meth shows up bearing gym bag
// Unzips gym bag
// “What the fuck are those?!”

Fumble recoveries are luck. Forcing fumbles is not. When teams force lots of fumbles but don’t recover a large percentage of them, or don’t fumble much but lose a lot of them, it tends to even out over time.

/team can’t throw away my hundreds of cassettes

He’s overthinking everything. Needs to go with the Nuke LaLoosh mantra, “Don’t think, just throw”

his refusal to throw away some of those balls where he has 3 defenders in his face are baffling.

Recovering fumbles is pure luck. Often times, recoveries are made by guys completely out of position or completely blocked out of a play or pushed onto the ball.

recovering fumbles is lucky like winning a raffle. you can’t win if you don’t buy into the raffle drawing. likewise, you can’t recover a fumble if the other team isn’t fumbling. also, there’s a good chance you’ll win a sweet boombox if you punch a ball out.

Well played, Coop.

Recovering fumbles is pure luck. Often times, recoveries are made by guys completely out of position or completely blocked out of a play or pushed onto the ball.