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    250 Stats Every Packers Fan Needs to Know: Fascinating Stats, Numbers, Facts and Trivia From the Packers 2014 Season
    250 Stats Every Packers Fan Needs to Know: Fascinating Stats, Numbers, Facts and Trivia From the Packers 2014 Season
    250 Stats Every Packers Fan Needs to Know: Fascinating Stats, Numbers, Facts and Trivia From the Packers 2014 Season
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    250 Stats Every Packers Fan Needs to Know: Fascinating Stats, Numbers, Facts and Trivia From the Packers 2014 Season

    By Jerry Tapp

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    250 Stats Every Packers Fan Needs to Know is a compilation of stats, numbers and interesting tidbits about the Green Bay Packers 2014 season and the team's history. It provides an interesting and entertaining look at Packers players and team stats that you can't find in the pages of your local newspaper. When you read these 250 stats, you will become the smartest Packers fan on your block!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 3, 2015
    ISBN9781483557120
    250 Stats Every Packers Fan Needs to Know: Fascinating Stats, Numbers, Facts and Trivia From the Packers 2014 Season

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      250 Stats Every Packers Fan Needs to Know - Jerry Tapp

      Trivia

      Introduction

      Like you, I am a Green Bay Packers fan. I may not have a man cave adorned with Packers memorabilia, and I may not wear my Packers gear on game day, but I do set my schedule to the time of each and every game the Packers play. I cheer, yell at the TV when they fail to secure an onside kick (sorry, couldn’t resist), and have involuntary twitches when an Aaron Rodgers’ pass falls short of a receiver. I may not bleed green and gold, but I am a true Packers fan.

      What may set me apart from you is how I watch the games. Armed with a notebook and laptop or tablet at my side, I am fascinated by the numbers in the game. If the Pack is at the one yard line and chants of K-U-U-U-U-H-H-N-N are vibrating around Lambeau Field, I want to know if John Kuhn has more one-yard touchdowns than anyone else on the Packers team… current or history. If Rodgers connects with Jordy Nelson for another long TD pass, I wonder, Does anyone have more long TDs than Jordy? If the Packers take a seven-point lead into the fourth quarter, I wonder, What percentage of games have they won when they’ve got a seven-point lead going into the final quarter? You get the point.

      In 2014, that’s how I watched Packers games. When the game was over, I had a notebook page (or two) with anywhere from 10-20 questions about the game; stats I wondered about. To get the answers, I would research the following day. Whether it was pro-football-reference.com, the Sports Illustrated Almanac, the Official NFL Record and Fact Book, nfl.com, or the Green Bay Packers Media Guide, I would get answers to my statistical wonderings. I’m a stats fanatic, and this research was a lot of fun, especially when I would discover a stat that maybe I had never known before.

      I posted my findings on my blog at www.statsontapp.com under the heading of Packers Numbers Notebook. Response from friends, family and blog fans were very positive. That’s how this book evolved… I took many of those findings from the 2014 season (and blog) and incorporated them into this book. In addition, there were times when researching one stat would lead me in another direction, even further back in the Packers history. Those findings were also added for this book.

      I hope you will find these 250 stats fun, entertaining and informative; that was my goal. Anyone can recite a bunch of numbers. That is not what I wanted to do. I wanted to provide you with information that forces you to say, I didn’t know that.

      Enjoy!

      The Players

      1 Aaron Rodgers is one of only eight quarterbacks in NFL history to have a Quarterback Rating of 90.0 or above in the same season when he was sacked 50 or more times; in fact he has done it twice. Here’s a look at those QBs:

      Quarterback, Year, Team

      Aaron Rodgers, 2012, Green Bay, 108.0 QBR, 51 sacks

      Aaron Rodgers, 2009, Green Bay, 103.2 QBR, 50 sacks

      Ben Roethlisberger, 2009, Pittsburgh, 100.5 QBR, 50 sacks

      Steve Bartkowski, 1983, Atlanta, 97.6 QBR, 51 sacks

      Ken O’Brien, 1985, N.Y. Jets, 96.2 QBR, 62 sacks

      Steve Beuerlein, 1999, Carolina, 94.6 QBR, 50 sacks

      Tony Eason, 1984, New England, 93.4 QBR, 59 sacks

      Jeff George, 1997, Oakland, 91.2, 58 sacks

      Craig Morton, 1981, Denver, 90.5 QBR, 54 sacks

      2 Former Green Bay QB Bart Starr is one of only 15 QBs since 1960 to throw five or more interceptions in a game (regular season or playoff) that his team won. Starr accomplished this rare feat on September 24, 1967 when the Packers defeated the Chicago Bears 13-10 in a game where Starr had five interceptions. The last QB to have five-plus interceptions in a game his team won was Atlanta’s Matt Ryan on November 18, 2012 in the Falcons’ 23-19 win over Arizona. He had five picks and no TD passes in that game. Of the 15 QBs, Starr and Ryan are the only QBs not to have a TD pass in that game.

      3 Did you know that fullback John Kuhn is one of only three offensive players since 1966 to have 20 or more career TDs with less than 1,200 career yards from scrimmage? Kuhn has 21 TDs and 1,107 yards from scrimmage in his nine-year career (eight years with the Packers). The others on the list: Roman Gabriel (24 TDs, 990 yards from scrimmage) and Hank Bauer (20 TDs and 474 yards from scrimmage).

      4 The last Packers runner to gain 100 or more yards in a season-opening game was Ahman Green in 2006 when he gained 110 yards in a 26-0 loss to Chicago. Green gained 100 or more rushing yards in four season-opening games for the Packers; the only other Packer to reach this mark in the first game of the year was Eddie Lee Ivery in 1982.

      5 In their Week #5 game against the Vikings, Aaron Rodgers threw his 200th TD pass of his career with the Packers. In doing so, the Packers became just the fifth franchise to have two quarterbacks with 200 or more career TD passes with a team. Rodgers has 226 career TD passes, while Brett Favre ended his Packers career with 442. The five franchises with two (or more) QBs with 200-plus TD passes:

      Green Bay: Brett Favre (442) and Aaron Rodgers (226)

      Indianapolis: Peyton Manning (399) and Johnny Unitas (287)

      Pittsburgh: Ben Roethlisberger (251) and Terry Bradshaw (212)

      San Diego: Dan Fouts (254), Philip Rivers (252) and John Hadl (201)

      San Francisco: Joe Montana (244), Steve Young (221) and John Brodie (214).

      6 In his seven years as the Packers starting QB, Aaron Rodgers has never gone two consecutive games without throwing a TD pass. In his 16 years as Green Bay’s starting QB, Brett Favre did not throw a TD pass in two straight games in 1993 and 2006, and had four straight games in 2005 without a TD pass.

      7 Did you know that defensive back Sam Shields is one of five active players who has 15 or more career interceptions but has never returned an interception for a TD in his career? The NFL record is 50 interceptions without an interception returned for TD by Don Burroughs, who played in the league from 1955-64. The Packers record is 31 interceptions without a return for TD by Mark Lee. Shields has 15 career interceptions.

      8 The Packers are 5-4 in games when placekicker Mason Crosby misses two or more field goals in a game. The last time it happened was on November 10, 2013 when he went two-for-four in a loss to Philadelphia.

      9 Running back Eddie Lacy had 25 or more rushing attempts in four games in the first two years of his career with the Packers. The Packers are 3-0-1 in those games. Since 1966, the Packers are 57-12-2 (.817

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