Awe: a blog about God, football and anything else.
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Father Time is Undefeated: The Growing List of Ringless NFL Veterans
If the Patriots had won the Super Bowl then Drake Maye would have been the youngest player to win a Super Bowl. That title is held by Ben Roethlisberger at 23 years and 340 days. But what of the other end of the spectrum. The NFL is crowded with quarterbacks at or pushing that 30…
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A Look at Ten Years of NFL Drafting and Associated Tier Commonalities
A little over a decade ago Seattle won the Super Bowl with a trend reversal strong running game and a dominant defense. Come the 2025 season and things have come full circle. Many “overnight successes” are actually the result of a decade of quiet work. The days are long but the decades are short. “Identified…
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How does your Quarterback perform with First Downs?
The NFL referee looks in the direction that the offense is going and points at the endzone. Refs will often use a little flair and momentum with this signal. The players often celebrate with a similar gesture. This is the much sought after “first down” accomplishment. These are critical in the game to keep the…
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Seven Days to the Super Bowl and a Seven Yard Metric
This year’s Super Bowl teams have something in common with prior year teams. They have both achieved in the regular season an ANY/A and NY/A of 7.0 plus. In seven of the last ten seasons both Super Bowl teams had a regular season team Net Yards per Pass Attempt (NY/A) and an Adjusted Net Yards…
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From the NFL Draft to AI to Outer Space: My Week Searching and Where it Led
From Artificial Intelligence to ocean depths to outer space, the world resounds of the glory of God! My week started with some football queries on the site sports Sports Reference. I was looking at college players that interest me for the 2026 NFL draft. From there I used Google AI to help evaluate the players…
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The news of the demise of Smash-Mouth Football is greatly exaggerated
Right around the late 1990’s the trend of decreasing rush attempts and increasing pass attempts were crossing. This was highlighted by the 1996 Green Bay Packers Super Bowl team with quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the 1999 St Louis Rams team with quarterback Kurt Warner. You can see their yellow token for pass attempts is suddenly…
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Believing in the Comeback: The NFL’s Next Great Turnaround Story
The ability to turn things around from a bad situation to a good one is cherished. Our literature and movies are full of such turnarounds. We are drawn to such stories. Our religious hope echos this in the saying – Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” This love of dramatic…
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Faith And The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God 90% of people believe in God I believe In God Less than half of people (48%) see God’s hand at work in all or most things that happen to them.1 The Apostles Creed summarizes the key points of what we believe. It has been in the past attributed to…
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Create a Team Value Spreadsheet
If you want to create a spreadsheet that will show you how your NFL team players rank compared to other league players this post can be a useful way to do so. It provides a overall worksheet on all active players in the NFL that have started at least one game over the last four…
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Beyond the Ring: The NFC East Path to a Dynasty
Following my Part 1 and 2 posts of Beyond the Ring: Quarterbacks on the NFL Dynasty Path (Part 1) today I take a look at the other pieces in the elusive dream of building an NFL dynasty in the NFC East. New York Giants Here is a list of the Giants players that had an…
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Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Happy New Year! The title is a quote from Psalm 90:12. As we have counted down for the New Year may we also gain wisdom of heart. New Year Day has traditionally been a day to resolve to start the year with resolutions for improvement. For a good source for resolution material let us look…
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Beyond the Pocket: Does being a Mobile Quarterback take a Toll
Here is a look at recent mobile quarterbacks. It is filtered on rushing yards per game of 30+. So not all years are shown if they dipped below 30. The right axis shows rushing yards per game in the yellow line. The left axis is both games started (GS) and age. The recent newbies are…