Highlighting one word in a sentence and disproving it is hardly a deep discussion and certainly isn’t difficult to accomplish.

Having said that, the OP was technically incorrect on a few things but I don’t think he expected his words to be picked apart to that degree.

It’s also worth noting that non of the Norseman “stat gurus” have gotten involved in that discussion. It’s my opinion that statistics can be manipulated to a degree that makes most of them completely irrelevant.

All things considered, these teams are pretty much playing themselves. Very good defenses and feast or famine offenses. It comes down to a couple things thayt have nothing to do with statistics. Who come out of the gate quickest. Which offense is forced to become one dimensional.

I don’t need any statistics to say that with absolute confidence.

You’d have to buy a membership to STATS Inc. for a lot of that information.

Footballoutsiders.com may have some of what you want for a lot less in their premium database. I’d suggest emailing Aaron Schatz and asking him specifically what kind of information similar to what you want exists in there. They publish some summary statistics in their Pro Football Prospectus each year.

Mostly, to get that information on your own you need to chart games, which is tedious, but not impossible with the view given by the TV cameras, but much easier with coaches tape.

Certain somewhat obscure information can be derived from the play-by-play published by the NFL and the various sports channels on line. For example, the play-by-play notes which plays occur out of the shotgun, on which plays the QB is hit and knocked tot he ground but not sacked (the player hitting the QB is in [brackets]), how deep the pass is thrown (under 5 yards is short, 5 to 15 yards is medium, over 15 yards is deep). On a number of passes with long runs after the catch the play by play may note where the pass is caught, but this is not consistently done. If you want to gather up all the running plays out of shotgun, for example, you could cut and paste each play by play log into Excel, run a text to coulmns function on the data and sort the data into its proper columns, tag each play line by team, and then sort out all the eagles offensive and defensive plays by things like down and distance, shotgun formation, score, ball carrier, etc.