Dan Daly
@dandalyonsports.bsky.social
Incurable sportswriter/historian, author of The National Forgotten League & The Pro Football Chronicle (with Bob O'Donnell). NFL Films talking head. You can find some other stuff I've written at ProFootballDaly.com.
Something else we've been waiting a long time to see again: a RB racking up 200 yards from scrimmage in both the conference title game *and* the Super Bowl. #Raiders HOFer Marcus Allen did it in the 1983 season.
January 31, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Something else we've been waiting a long time to see again: a RB racking up 200 yards from scrimmage in both the conference title game *and* the Super Bowl. #Raiders HOFer Marcus Allen did it in the 1983 season.
The RBs with the most yards from scrimmage in these #NFL playoffs are the #Patriots' Rhamondre Stevenson with 280 (3 games) & the #Seahawks' Kenneth Walker with 256 (2). Makes you wonder again whether John Riggins' record of 625, set in the '82 strike season, will ever be broken. #Commanders
January 31, 2026 at 6:34 PM
The RBs with the most yards from scrimmage in these #NFL playoffs are the #Patriots' Rhamondre Stevenson with 280 (3 games) & the #Seahawks' Kenneth Walker with 256 (2). Makes you wonder again whether John Riggins' record of 625, set in the '82 strike season, will ever be broken. #Commanders
Re: #Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia, at 5-9 7/8, possibly becoming the shortest #NFL QB since the merger
I've stood next to Doug Flutie in locker rooms. On my tallest day I went 5-10. Flutie wasn't 5-10. (I'd say 5-9 max.) He hired Bob Woolf as his agent, I think, because Woolf made him look taller. 😂
I've stood next to Doug Flutie in locker rooms. On my tallest day I went 5-10. Flutie wasn't 5-10. (I'd say 5-9 max.) He hired Bob Woolf as his agent, I think, because Woolf made him look taller. 😂
January 31, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Re: #Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia, at 5-9 7/8, possibly becoming the shortest #NFL QB since the merger
I've stood next to Doug Flutie in locker rooms. On my tallest day I went 5-10. Flutie wasn't 5-10. (I'd say 5-9 max.) He hired Bob Woolf as his agent, I think, because Woolf made him look taller. 😂
I've stood next to Doug Flutie in locker rooms. On my tallest day I went 5-10. Flutie wasn't 5-10. (I'd say 5-9 max.) He hired Bob Woolf as his agent, I think, because Woolf made him look taller. 😂
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
Saw the #Patriots lead the way with 12 Super Bowl appearances, followed by the #Cowboys, #Steelers, #49ers & #Broncos with 8 apiece. That's the last 60 years. Here's the Top 4 in title-game appearances for the *1st* 60 years (1933-92):
16 #Giants
11 #Bears
11 #Washington
10 #Packers
16 #Giants
11 #Bears
11 #Washington
10 #Packers
January 28, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Fun Fact: Johnny Unitas threw 32 TD passes in a 12-game season in 1959, when he led the Baltimore #Colts to the second of back-to-back titles. It was 35 years before an #NFL QB threw more in a season he won the title. Steve Young tossed 35 -- in four more games -- for the '94 #49ers.
January 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Even with all these passes flying around, we've only had 3 Super Bowls in which both starting QBs threw for 30+ TD passes in the regular season. (I included Carson Wentz just for fun, though he didn't start on Super Sunday because of an injury.) The specifics: #Saints #Colts #Patriots #Eagles #Bucs
January 27, 2026 at 5:35 PM
This Drake Maye-Sam Darnold matchup will be just the 4th in Super Bowl history between QBs who were taken in the first 3 picks of the #NFL or AFL draft. The first was Joe Namath vs. Earl Morrall in Super Bowl III. (Maye went 3rd in '24; Darnold was the No. 3 selection in '18.) #Patriots #Seahawks
January 26, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Super Bowl-winning QBs who were sacked the most times in that season's playoffs. Drake Maye has already been sacked 15 times in the #Patriots' last 3 games.
January 26, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Super Bowl-winning QBs who were sacked the most times in that season's playoffs. Drake Maye has already been sacked 15 times in the #Patriots' last 3 games.
What's this, 12 Super Bowls in 41 seasons (1985-2025) for the #Patriots? Going back to the first #NFL championship game in 1933, I can't find a franchise that's played in more title games over the same span. Not the Halas #Bears (11, 1933-73, not the Lambeau/Lombardi #Packers (10, 1936-76). Nobody.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Never mind players. You find out a lot about *coaches* in bad-weather games. The standard philosophy has always been: Try to score early, because you don't know what the conditions are going to be like later. Three points at that stage was pretty automatic. In the second half, not so much. #Broncos
January 26, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Never mind players. You find out a lot about *coaches* in bad-weather games. The standard philosophy has always been: Try to score early, because you don't know what the conditions are going to be like later. Three points at that stage was pretty automatic. In the second half, not so much. #Broncos
The part of the Payton Fourth Down Decision that's been missing in the stories I've seen is that he spent his first 15 seasons as an #NFL coach with a dome team, the #Saints -- in the NFC South with Atlanta (another dome team), Tampa Bay and Carolina. That's his worldview. #Broncos
January 26, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Late in the third quarter, Darnold (142.7) and Stafford (135.4) both have a passer rating of 130+. A rating that high has been rare in a conference title game since the merger. Only 10 QBs have managed it -- once apiece. We've never had 2 do it in the same game. #Rams #Seahawks
January 26, 2026 at 1:53 AM
The #Rams had an explosive offense when they were in St. Louis, but it dawns on me that *L.A.* fans haven't seen the team score like this -- talking about the Sean McVay era here -- since the stretch from 1949-53, when they averaged 30+ points a game four times in five seasons. Seven decades!
January 26, 2026 at 12:50 AM
The #Rams had an explosive offense when they were in St. Louis, but it dawns on me that *L.A.* fans haven't seen the team score like this -- talking about the Sean McVay era here -- since the stretch from 1949-53, when they averaged 30+ points a game four times in five seasons. Seven decades!