Folks, the Pittsburgh Steelers just keep winning ugly. In their 23-19 Sunday win over the Green Bay Packers, Mike Tomlin’s team continued its streak of being outgained by every single one of its opponents. This time, the Packers gained 399 net yards to Pittsburgh’s 324. The Steelers are now the only professional football team since at least 1933 to be outgained in every game and still have a winning record.
Impressive? In a perverse way, yes.
Despite this lack of offensive firepower, and a point differential of -26, the Steelers stand at 6-3 on the season, which got us thinking — what are the worst winning seasons in NFL history? Those seasons in which you think to yourself, “There’s no WAY these guys can be winning,” but they are anyway?
As it turns out, the Steelers are nowhere near the worst winning teams in these categories. But it is notable that in all three seasons of Matt Canada’s tenure as the Steelers’ offensive coordinator, the Steelers are either on this list, or in the discussion.
Terrell Davis, Jake Plummer set to represent Broncos in CDMX and Monterrey from April 29-30 when Denver announces a draft pick in Mexico.
The Denver Broncos will play an international game in Mexico. Not this season. Maybe not next season, but within the next seven years.
The NFL requires every team to play at least one international game every eight years. The Broncos just played in England last season, so their next international game might not be imminent, but it will be scheduled before 2030.
So, why Mexico?
The NFL announced in 2021 that Mexico has been designated as Denver’s “International Home Market Area.” As part of that announcement, the NFL said “the league will use its best efforts to ensure clubs play their international games in their international HMAs, where possible.”
The Broncos have said numerous times that they would like to play in Mexico, and the team has taken steps to grow their already sizeable following south of the border.
Denver donated 100 flag football kits to public and private schools in Mexico last fall. Last March, the team sent former senior V.P. of strategy Brittany Bowlen, Hall of Famer Steve Atwater and then-Bronco player Bradley Chubb on a multi-day tour in Mexico to promote the club’s IHMA affiliation.
“Outside of the Denver Metro area, the largest population of Broncos fans resides in Mexico City,” the Broncos said in a press release last spring.
Last week, the team announced they will have another event in Mexico this spring around the 2023 NFL draft. Denver will have Hall of Famer Terrell Davis and ex-quarterback Jake Plummer represent the team in Mexico from April 29-30.
Speaking with media at the NFL owners’ meetings in Arizona last month, Broncos president Damani Leech said the team will announce one of their draft picks in Mexico (presumably Plummer and/or Davis will make the announcement).
This all points toward the team continuing to grow its brand in Mexico ahead of an eventual international game played in Mexico City. The NFL will not play any games in Mexico this season because Estadio Azteca is undergoing renovations.
Once those renovations are complete, the NFL will return to Mexico — and the Broncos will be part of the league’s international schedule at some point within the next seven years.
A win is a win no matter how it happens and this one must feel great for the Irish. It was a long time coming as the Marcus Freeman era began with three straight losses. Although Cal would not just roll over in Notre Dame Stadium, the Irish earned a win that came down to the wire. Here are the best, 5-stars, and worst, 1-star, performances from Notre Dame’s win over Cal.
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The Irish enter week three with tempered expectations. It’s been a rough go for Marcus Freeman and although Notre Dame enters this contest 0-2 and California is 2-0, the Irish are still favorites at home. The Golden Bears wins haven’t come against teams that would scare many teams, so there is some talent on their squad. Here are five Bears that could give Notre Dame problems on Saturday.
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With 16 days left till Week 1, check out some of the players for the Cardinals who have worn No. 16 over the years.
The Arizona Cardinals are one day away from their final preseason game, a matchup with the Tennessee Titans Saturday night in Nashville. They are also only 16 days away from their regular-season opener.
In 16 days, the Cardinals will take the field at State Farm Stadium to face the Kansas City Chiefs.
No. 16 belongs to undrafted rookie quarterback Jarrett Guarantano, who likely will not make the team.
He and other players who have worn No. 16 are below.
Three former Cardinals players have nicknames that get honorable mention while four, including Jake “The Snake” Plummer are in the top 101.
There have been a number of great nicknames for NFL players over the years. Thomas Neumann, for USA TODAY’s Touchdown Wire, gives us the 101 best nicknames in NFL history.
Four of them belong to former Arizona (or St. Louis or Chicago) Cardinals players.
A few notable nicknames didn’t make it. Budda Baker’s given name is not Budda, which is a fantastic nickname. Larry Fitzgerald is known as Larry Legend. That one didn’t make the list either. DeAndre Hopkins is called Nuk, which also didn’t make the cut.
Three former Cardinals players have nicknames that get honorable mention while four, including Jake “The Snake” Plummer are in the top 101.
There have been a number of great nicknames for NFL players over the years. Thomas Neumann, for USA TODAY’s Touchdown Wire, gives us the 101 best nicknames in NFL history.
Four of them belong to former Arizona (or St. Louis or Chicago) Cardinals players.
A few notable nicknames didn’t make it. Budda Baker’s given name is not Budda, which is a fantastic nickname. Larry Fitzgerald is known as Larry Legend. That one didn’t make the list either. DeAndre Hopkins is called Nuk, which also didn’t make the cut.
“They’re playing for the love of the game, which I really respect,” Jake Plummer said of CFL athletes.
Former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jake Plummer is set to portray an aging Canadian Football League QB in Kick, an upcoming film.
Plummer, who grew up watching Doug Flutie and is familiar with Warren Moon’s accomplishments in the CFL, is eager to bring more exposure to Canada’s version of American’s No. 1 sport.
Plummer will lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on an unlikely championship run in the movie, but he won’t be the main focus of the film.
“It’s going to be about four kids, 12-year-olds coming of age, kind of finding out who they are, and going on a real fun adventure together,” Plummer said during an interview with Broncos Wire. “So I think it’s going to be a great way to expose and bring to light a league that’s got a rich history, [and] has been going on for a long time.”
Plummer never played in Canada but he does have connections in the league. While he played for the Cardinals from 1997-2002, Plummer worked out in the offseason with CFL wide receiver Travis Moore in Arizona.
“He’s a really great receiver, one of the best to play the game up there,” Plummer said. “Now I think he’s coaching in Saskatchewan, so he and I were good buddies who worked out a lot, so I knew about it [the CFL] and tried to follow it as much as I could.”
A three-time CFL all-star and two-time Grey Cup champion, Moore totaled 9,930 receiving yards and scored 79 touchdowns in 11 seasons.
Moore’s probably not well known among NFL fans, but he’s the kind of CFL player Plummer admires.
“I think it’s really cool because it’s a game that’s played not for the multi-million dollar contracts and all that,” Plummer said of the CFL. “It’s more played by a lot of people that, a lot of athletes that love the game. They’re Canadians, mostly. You can only have, like, so many Americans on your roster — only a certain percentage of the roster can be American players.
“So it’s Canadians that are playing for the pride of their country. They’re not playing for $3.5 million a year, they’re playing for — I don’t even know what the average contract is, but I know it’s not like NFL. So they’re playing for the love of the game, which I really respect.”
The CFL’s roster rules have relaxed in recent years and teams can now have 14 American starters (compared to a minimum of seven Canadian starters), but Plummer’s point about the pay stands. The NFL’s minimum salary this season is $660,000, while the CFL’s minimum is about $52,563.
CFL players clearly aren’t in it for the money, and that “love of the game” mentality is an appealing role for Plummer, especially as a grizzled vet.
“I’m not being asked to play any weird role where I’ve got to like change who I am, I just have to go out and kind of be that guy I used to be,” he said.
Plummer has always had connections to the CFL, and he’ll now get an opportunity to add his name to the history of the league (in a fictional setting).
“Marc Trestman, my offensive coordinator in Arizona with the Cardinals in ’98 when we beat the Cowboys [in the Wild Card], he’s won a few Grey Cups up there also,” Plummer recalled. “So I’ve got connections up there. I’ve had them, I just don’t go to Canada a whole lot, but I’m going to have the opportunity to go now and it’s exciting.
“Who knows what it leads to – if anything – it’s just once you’re on film and the movie’s cut and it’s out, no one can take that away. You’re in a movie.”
He will play as a veteran quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger Cats in an upcoming film.
It has been a while since Arizona Cardinals fans have heard about what is going on with former starting quarterback Jake Plummer. He is apparently dabbling into some acting.
According to 3 Down Nation, a site dedicated to the Canadian Football League, Plummer will star in the movie “Kick,” which will be about a CFL team.
He will play as the veteran quarterback of the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
“It won’t be too hard to put on shoulder pads and get made up to look like that old, torn-up vet and go in there and spit some knowledge on the team,” said Plummer. “I don’t think it’s going to be a far stretch for me to act it out and get it done.”
Plummer was a star at Arizona State and was drafted by the Cardinals in the second round in 1997. He was their starting quarterback from the middle of his rookie season through 2002. He led the Cardinals to their first playoff appearance and victory after moving to Arizona.
Tim Tebow is the quarterback drafted by the Broncos who has won a playoff game.
Earlier this month, a graphic about Tim Tebow’s crazy stat with the Denver Broncos went viral on social media.
“Tim Tebow is the only QB in Broncos history to be drafted by the team and win a playoff game,” ESPN’s NFL account wrote on May 3.
That might sound hard to believe, but it’s true.
Peyton Manning, who helped Denver dominate the AFC West from 2012-2015, signed with the team as a free agent. Manning reached two Super Bowls with the Broncos, winning one of them.
Jake Plummer, who helped Denver reach the AFC Championship Game in 2005, joined the team during free agency in 2003.
John Elway, who won two Super Bowls with the Broncos, was acquired through a trade with the Baltimore Colts in 1983.
Craig Morton, who helped Denver reach the Super Bowl in 1977, was acquired by the Broncos in a trade with the New York Giants.
Tebow, who helped Denver defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Wild Card round of the 2011 playoffs, was selected by the Broncos in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft.
Fans in Denver are hoping that Drew Lock, a second-round pick last year, will join Tebow on the list of drafted QBs who have won in the playoffs.
