Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff September 8, 2017 (No. 2)
By JERRY TAPP
Last season the Green Bay Packers led the NFL with the most drives that took eight minutes or longer. The Pack had six such drives in 2016.
There were 45 drives of eight minutes or longer last season in the NFL, 41 ended up with the team either scoring a touchdown or putting three points on the scoreboard via a field goal. The Pack scored on each of their six 8:00 (or longer) drives.
Here’s a look at the number of eight-minute (or longer) drives by each team last season.
6: Green Bay
4: Arizona
3: Cincinnati, Detroit, L.A. Rams, New Orleans, New York Jets, Pittsburgh
2: Baltimore, Buffalo, Carolina, Tampa Bay
1: Dallas, Indianapolis, Miami, New England, Oakland, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tennessee
0: Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Minnesota, New York Giants, Washington.
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.