Awe: a blog about God, football and anything else.
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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…
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Beyond the Ring: The NFC West Path to a Dynasty (Part 2)
Following my Part 1 post 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. To look at the other players on the teams was too much for one post. So I will look at them…
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And the Word became Flesh . . .
The “Helmut Catch” play in the 2007 season Super Bowl was unbelievable. The “Miracle on Ice” in the 1980 Olympics was unbelievable. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was unbelievable. The First Man on the moon in 1969 was unbelievable. The fall of the World Trade Center towers was unbelievable. The rise of…
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Beyond the Ring: Quarterbacks on the NFL Dynasty Path (Part 1)
In the NFL to dream the impossible dream is to strive to go beyond just winning a Super Bowl. It is having the goal of creating a dynasty. A team that for a set timeframe dominates the landscape and wins multiple Super Bowls. In the Super Bowl era here is a timeline of NFL dynasties.…
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World Hunger and Honeybees
One of the pleasures of life is to enjoy a good meal. Our celebrations often will be highlighted by a special shared meal. Yet in many places in the world this pleasure is replaced with hunger and malnutrition. Here are some hunger facts: Half of all child deaths are linked to malnutrition. Every year, around…
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Why the Giants Should Stay With Joe Schoen as General Manager
Joe Schoen should remain as the New York Giants General Manager after the 2025 season ends. It takes some time for a new general manager’s changes to be shown on the field. According to Google AI that is typicallly three years. Schoen has started in 2022 so this 2025th season is his fourth year. How…