The Swamp

Phalon Algebra.

Not Pharell, not GPJ (unfortch). His real name is Phalon Alexander of course but that won't get the gold.

Where's Johnnie? Must have just missed him. I'm basically just giving him a gold star if he sees this.

F it. This one was forced.

JAZZE PHA - he's yelling his name in the first 5 seconds of probably 100 popular songs.

Make-up question:

Seattle's defense is very good. BUT - it did not set the modern NFL record for fewest points per game allowed (regular season only). What defense has that record? Need the year within, let's say, +/- two years.

Modern basically means Super Bowl era.

Gunpowder wrote:JAZZE PHA - he's yelling his name in the first 5 seconds of probably 100 popular songs.

Wouldn't even know how he pronounces that.

And I'll guess the '85 Bears.

Nope. This answer truly is an unexpected one.

Chuck Knoll era Steelers, I'll guess '76 season (77 bowl, which did not feature the stillers).

ETA: well, this guess is not exactly unexpected.

1983 Cincinnati Bengals

2011 Indianapolis Colts.

Errrmmm . . . the Los Angeles Rams around 1976?

None of the above.

Not the '76 Steelers. They lost four of their first five games, giving up plenty of points. But over the next nine games, gave up 28 points. Basically averaged a field goal per game, five shutouts.

Franco Harris and Rocky Blier were out with injures, didn't play the AFC Championship game in Oaktown, and Raiders cruised to a 24-3 win. Swann caught three balls, Stallworth one; that is a fun reminiscence. Skip Thomas, Willie Brown on the corners, Atkinson and Tatum the safeties.

Yeah, that Ram team was sick. Until Tom Landry got ahold of them in the NFC final. That was before Isaiah Robertson got done by Earl Campbell, and he was a premier MLB.

wwlis--The List: Best NFL defense of all-time (posted 2007)
Don't look until after you are through guessing.

08-09 Steelers.

This defense is so unheralded...that it's not even on that list.

I doubt anyone will get this, so I'll just reveal the answer.

It was a team that didn't even make the playoffs. A team with basically zero starpower. The brainchild of Jerry motherfucking Glanville.

The....

1977 ATLANTA FALCONS

Oakland Raiders around, oh . . . 1973?

ETA: Too late, didn't matter anyway.

The Falcons? The Falcons? </Jim Mora>

Oh yeah. The Joe Namath Rams (you can look it up), Steve DeBerg Niners and a really old-Jim Hart Cardinals twice each. Despite that six-game pad, they were pretty good.

ETA: I gotta look up this shit before I post from memory. Cards were still in the east; Saints were the fourth team in the NFL West. The original Manning face.

Also, DeBerg came to the niners the following year. Bad Jim Plunkett. A wonder what a difference an O-line makes, especially anchored by Shell and Upshaw.

Two of the top 5 least intercepty years ever by a QB were freak KC Chiefs years...DeBerg at #5 and the weirdest of all time...Damon Huard of the 2006 Chiefs...the most difficult QB to intercept in NFL HISTORY. Yes. For real. Weird.

howard wrote:Oh yeah. The Joe Namath Rams (you can look it up), Steve DeBerg Niners and a really old-Jim Hart Cardinals twice each. Despite that six-game pad, they were pretty good.

Manning Saints. Second season Bucs, too.

That was a great trivia question (and answer), by the way.

Gunpowder wrote:Two of the top 5 least intercepty years ever by a QB were freak KC Chiefs years...DeBerg at #5 and the weirdest of all time...Damon Huard of the 2006 Chiefs...the most difficult QB to intercept in NFL HISTORY. Yes. For real. Weird.

That Chiefs offense with Damon Huard was downright Larry Johnsonian.

That was the year that Trent Green got concussed for the first half of the season by Robert Geathers (I think?) in week 1 against Cincinnati.

ETA: Johnson had 457 touches in the regular season and 18 more in the playoffs.

howard wrote:It was in Modesto, Ca, right? I remember the newspaper headlines the next day, I was about 11 or 12.

I could've at least come up with Bob Hays (wind-aided, hand-timed) five years or so earlier.

Bob Hays is who I kept thinking of. But of course, in my brain it was coming out as "Lester Hayes", which I knew wasn't quite right, so I didn't guess.

Gunpowder wrote:Where's Johnnie? Must have just missed him. I'm basically just giving him a gold star if he sees this.

Had no idea. Does Jazze still produce music? That was a good question though.

Brontoburglar wrote:

Gunpowder wrote:Two of the top 5 least intercepty years ever by a QB were freak KC Chiefs years...DeBerg at #5 and the weirdest of all time...Damon Huard of the 2006 Chiefs...the most difficult QB to intercept in NFL HISTORY. Yes. For real. Weird.

That Chiefs offense with Damon Huard was downright Larry Johnsonian.

That was the year that Trent Green got concussed for the first half of the season by Robert Geathers (I think?) in week 1 against Cincinnati.

ETA: Johnson had 457 touches in the regular season and 18 more in the playoffs.

Steelers just hired that year's RB coach. Hope he doesn't ruin LeVeon Bell.

TODAY'S QUESTION

Who was the first NFL player with consecutive 100 reception seasons?

Herman Moore

Moore appears to have been the first to do it three years consecutive, but he was not the first with two straight.

I can work him into another question that Brian would get in three seconds. Maybe that one will run next month.

Man, it was hard not to put a "?" after that, but given my limp dick joke up above I had to leave it off.

Art Monk

Mark Duper

No on Monk and Duper.

Carl Pickens and Larry Centers came damn close.

Cris Carter

Not CC

Henry Ellard

Update - I just checked his stats, and no. He never got to 100.

Steve Largent

Gunpowder wrote:Moore appears to have been the first to do it three years consecutive, but he was not the first with two straight.

I can work him into another question that Brian would get in three seconds. Maybe that one will run next month.

Is it that he and Brett Perriman still hold the NFL record for most receiving yards by a pair of wide receivers? (3,174 in 1995).

brian wrote:

Gunpowder wrote:Moore appears to have been the first to do it three years consecutive, but he was not the first with two straight.

I can work him into another question that Brian would get in three seconds. Maybe that one will run next month.

Is it that he and Brett Perriman still hold the NFL record for most receiving yards by a pair of wide receivers? (3,174 in 1995).

Would have been first WR tandem to each have 100 receptions in a season.

So basically.

The Sybian wrote:Steve Largent

Never had a 100 catch season.

Well helll...Jerry Rice with the MJ answer.