Detroit Lions Career Passing Records Will Fall Sooner Rather than Later

Zac Snyder — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:28:17 +0000

What were you doing at age 25? If you’re not there yet, what do you expect to be doing at age 25?

If you’re like me, the answer isn’t setting the Detroit Lions’ career passing records but that could be the case for one person. Matthew Stafford. It feels like his career is just beginning, which it really is, but he’s amazingly close to rewriting the Detroit Lions’ record books. It’s a topic I tackled in my weekly column for the Detroit Free Press at freep.com.

I’m a day late in posting the link here but figured I’d get it out anyway. Follow the thumbnail below to check it out.

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Matthew Stafford’s 2011 Better than Scott Mitchell’s 1995 for the How, not the What

Zac Snyder — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:35:34 +0000

With Matthew Stafford having already broken the Detroit Lions’ single season touchdown record and positioned to break the single season passing yardage record on Saturday, it is worth taking a look at his season so far in comparison to Scott Mitchell‘s record setting 1995 season.

Just as Stafford and Johnson are enjoying career years in 2011, Scott Mitchell and Herman Moore did the same in 1995. When looking at the percentage of Mitchell’s numbers that came as a result of passes to Moore we see that Mitchell was much more reliant on Moore than Stafford is on Johnson.

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Detroit Lions Career Passing Records Will Fall Sooner Rather than Later

Matthew Stafford’s 2011 Better than Scott Mitchell’s 1995 for the How, not the What