Ryan McCrystal

Ryan McCrystal

@ryanmccrystal.bsky.social

College football & the NFL Draft @ Sharp Football Analysis | Previously: ESPN Stats & Info, Bleacher Report, numberFire https://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/author/ryan-mccrystal/

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Ryan McCrystal reposted

News: The Utah-BYU Holy War game on Nov. 7 will be a 10 am local kickoff on ABC or ESPN. That is just brutal for fans for a likely top-10 matchup.

Ryan McCrystal reposted

I already yelled about this in the comments but I'm still mad EQUINOX JUST MEANS A DAY WITH AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT AND DARKNESS. A CONJUNCTION LIKE THIS IS CALLED A SYZYGY WHICH IS A COOLER WORD ANYWAY CAN WE PLEASE GET THIS RIGHT THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Sports Reference@sports-reference.com

Tomorrow is the 33rd Sports Equinox—a day when MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL all have games on the same day. ⚾🏀🏈🏒 Here's your schedule for a very busy Monday. 👀 See every Sports Equinox, with stats and more: https://www.sports-reference.com/friv/sports-equinox.html

Ryan McCrystal reposted

The Bucs had 64 net passing yards today -- tied for fewest for any team in a game this season. They scored 43 points and won. The Colts had 64 net passing yards today -- tied for fewest for any team in a game this season. They scored 10 points and lost.

Dave Aranda's record over 7 years 40-40 overall 27-33 in Big 12 play 6-15 against ranked teams 1-6 against TCU

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com

SOURCES: Baylor has fired Dave Aranda, @theathletic.com has learned. Baylor lost to Kansas yesterday to fall to 4-3.

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Replying to @minakimes.bsky.social

Here’s where Deshaun Watson ranks in various stats QBR (25th) Percent of 10 yd+ plays (31st) Completion % over expected (31st) Pressure to sack rate (31st) Success rate on third down (32nd)

Went to the UVA/Duke game last night and can confirm that offense is embarrassing. We were calling out play calls from the stands bc they kept running the same plays from the same formations in the same situations. Horrendous play calling/time management from Elliott at end of 1st half too.

Mike Barber@stillmikebarber.bsky.social

There’s no defense for this offense, as Duke loss sinks UVA’s season The Cavaliers scored 1 touchdown, tried 4 field goals, committed 2 turnovers and allowed 5 sacks in their latest unsightly offensive outing, a 19-16 home loss to Duke on Friday night. cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

Great turnout for a Friday night ACC title game rematch too. 🙄 If UVA had any fans they’d be raising money to fire Elliott. But it’s such an apathetic fan base that they’re stuck with him.

The most wine-and-cheese crowd I’ve experienced at a sporting event. Walking out after that brutal loss fans most weren’t even talking about the game. No one was pissed off. I had no rooting interest and I was more angry than most of their fans!

QBs Utah has faced this year: Joshua Wood KJ Jackson Grady Brosterhous Jaylen Raynor Isaiah Marshall Isaac Wilson I think Conner Weigman is gonna make the Utah defense look quite a bit more vulnerable than its been so far this year.

A few of the reasons Mike Locksley is gone: 94th in penalty yards per game 106th in 3rd-down conv rate (def) 108th in opp-adj scoring (def) 109th in explosive play rate (off) 109th in opp-adj pressure rate (def) 116th in 3rd-down conv rate (off) 132nd in red zone defense

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com

NEWS: Maryland has fired head coach Mike Locksley, @theathletic.com has learned. The first head coach firing of the cycle. Maryland is 2-5 this season.

Ohio sports owners Mike Brown (Bengals), $30K Bob Castellini (Reds), $27K Dan Gilbert (Cavs), $16,615.67 Jimmy Haslam (Browns), $16,615.00 Paul Dolan (Guardians), $2.5K $15K from Castellini's total is filed under R.H. Castellini. Those are his initials, so I'm assuming its him.

David at FOIAball@foiaball.com

heres a list of all of viveks big money donors this campaign, if you wanna ask some of them how they feel about his recent ad docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

left off the Blue Jackets because John P McConnell is not listed. John H McConnell is listed at $12.5K. That's his dad, the original owner. But he's dead. So... 🤷‍♂️

Ryan McCrystal reposted

Look we hired Lanning to bring Georgia football to the west coast idk what the fuss is about

The Oregonian@oregonian.com

Police say they did talk with other Oregon football players but no one has been accused of wrongdoing. https://mrf.lu/2b4-c

I think Ohio State is going to lose at least 2 more games and miss out on the CFP. Of course the last time they lost their starting QB they won the whole damn thing.. But there's pretty good reason to think Luke Fahey isn't the next Cardale Jones. At least not as a true freshman.

I also think Ryan Day isn't going to tell us Sayin is out of the year, bc then the committee will give them the FSU treatment. If he hints at Sayin returning, the committee has to consider how they looked with Sayin up until we know for certain. But I'd bet we don't see him until 2027

For all the hate Michael Lombardi got (all most all of it deserved and of his own doing), he gave Bill Belichick the right QB for the job last year... Belichick just decided to stick Lopez with Freddie Kitchens and an out-of-date NFL offense

David Hale@adavidhalejoint.bsky.social

Gio Lopez’s last 12 games dating back to last season: 83.9 QBR, 68.5% completions, 3,183 total yards, 30 touchdowns, 1 turnover, 7.9 yards per dropback

Ryan McCrystal reposted

Lowest pass block win rate and they allowed no sacks! That's heavily Stroud.

Seth Walder@sethwalder.bsky.social

C.J. Stroud recorded the highest QBR in Week 6 (thus far) while the Texans recorded the lowest pass block win rate in Week 6 (thus far).

I think Ballard is a good GM, but drafting Anthony Richardson was a historically bad decision and it looked like the moment he made it. So I get it. You're gonna get fired after a mistake like that.

Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social

The Colts have fired GM Chris Ballard.

Now they're stuck with Jones, not good enough to complete but not bad enough to tank and rebuild. That middle ground is just a miserable existence in the NFL and it was the poorly planned Richardson selection that sent them there.

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Starting QBs for the top-5 teams the last time BYU was ranked in the AP Top 5 Danny Wuerffel Stanley Jackson Thad Busby Jake Plummer Steve Sarkisian

That became a must-win for Ohio State in the final minutes bc if Sayin is out for awhile they're definitely taking another loss at some point. Losing this game would've made 9-3 or worse very likely. Now they still realistically hope for 10-2 even without Sayin