Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 9)
By JERRY TAPP
As the calendar turns over to September, the 2017 NFL season will begin in less than a week. September is the first month of the season, and each team hopes to get off to a great start in the first month.
Let’s take a look at the last five seasons and which teams have played best in the month of September.
Team, September record (2012-16)
Denver, 14-3 .824
New England, 14-4 .778
Arizona, 13-4 .765
Cincinnati, 13-5 .722
Atlanta, 12-6 .667
Houston, 12-6 .667
Dallas, 11-6 .647
Seattle, 11-6 .647
Minnesota, 11-7 .611
Philadelphia, 11-7 .611
Baltimore, 11-7 .611
Green Bay, 10-7 .588
Kansas City, 10-8 .556
San Diego, 10-8 .556
Buffalo, 9-9 .500
San Francisco, 9-9 .500
Carolina, 8-9 .471
Indianapolis, 8-9 .471
Detroit, 8-10 .444
New York Jets, 8-10 .444
Miami, 8-11 .421
Chicago, 7-10 .412
Pittsburgh, 7-10 .412
Los Angeles Rams, 7-10 .412
New York Giants, 7-11 .389
Tennessee, 7-11 .389
Oakland, 6-12 .333
Washington, 6-12 .333
New Orleans, 5-13 .278
Cleveland, 4-13 .235
Tampa Bay, 4-14 .222
Jacksonville, 2-16 .111
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.