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The Impact of 1st-Round Offensive Linemen: III. What About (a Lack of) Continuity?
Welcome back for Part 3 of my series on how the drafting of Anthony Davis and Mike Iupati might impact the 49ers' statistics in 2010 (and beyond). Just to recap, Part 1 and Part 2 basically came to the same conclusion: Davis and Iupati are likely to be develop into good NFL players fairly quickly,...
The Impact of 1st-Round Offensive Linemen: II. A World of Difference
READER ADVISORY: Explicit statistical content.On Monday, in Part 1 of this series, I outlined the recent NFL history of drafting OLs in the 1st round. In a very superficial way, I also provided some crude statistical expectations for both the 49ers' and their new OLs performance over the next few...
The Impact of 1st-Round Offensive Linemen: I. A History Lesson
AUTHOR'S NOTE: It's been about 3 months since I posted last (work = grind), so far any newbies out there, here's a brief introduction. I'm Niners Nation's resident statistics geek. Why? Because Fooch found me lurking over @ Maiocco's blog a couple of years ago. Background-wise, I've got a Masters...
The San Francisco 49ers LOLffensive LOLine: Lamentations and solutions
I mentioned last week that we'd hold off quarterly reviews until this week since the team has a bye and it's close enough to the quarter point. Things changed rather dramatically with the on-field product, and even for those who view it as just one game, it's still a very tough pill to swallow. ...
2008 sack totals and the Martz effect on the 49ers offensive line
This morning's discussion about the right tackle position has taken some interesting twists and turns. However, there is one aspect of it that I'd like to pull out for discussion. In reality it might be better as a statistical discussion, but I just wanted to at least get the ball rolling...or at...
49ers-Bills Statistical Preview: In the Trenches
This week, the 49ers travel to the Eastern time zone to face the Bills. I've talked previously about how horrible the Niners have been in east-of-the-Mississippi games since Mike Nolan took the reins as head coach (1-12, outscored by 15.7 ppg), so there's no need to beat the proverbial dead horse...
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