NFL Records: 2021

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work marketplace. Empower your business and hire the world's most in demand developers, designers, project managers and more at www. Dot up work dot com suddenly holds steps up what NFL history. Watt has tied Michael Strahands single season record twenty two and a half. Sex t J one comes through again. Yes he did, as he has been doing all season long. That was Week e teen. T J Watt time Michael strayhands all time sack record twenty two and a half, absolutely amazing and an absolute terror for

offenses this year. I'm like, yeah, I'm here's always with my good friend Addi kinkawala. Add I know you've got something on t J for me, but I gotta say hello, well, good morning. And obviously, because I was there for that, Mike, that rainy, rainy, cold, nasty day, at least he got to see something kind of cool. So there's the fun story aspect of it while you were soaking wet and well, and I did and I did talk to t J afterwards obviously, and you know he appropriately gave credit to

everybody else around him. Uh. What's really interesting, though, Mike, is that there was a play earlier in the game that felt like it was a sack should have been a sack, and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in his postgame comments kept dropping that he hopes the NFL changes what the official statistics are and finds t J Watt to

have sack so he can hold that record all by himself. Yeah, the pomp and circumstance though, will be a little bit different now that they potentially could do it on the back half, But it is NFL explained. NFL records, we are all about those monumental moments for the game, and at first the DD, you know, we weren't sure if there were going to be enough records from one to

do an entire episode on. But the research continues to pour in and we just saw how many interesting stats there were, so I promised this episode is going to be nothing short of record breaking. But before we get rolling and discuss all the record breaking numbers, I think we're going to talk a little bit about this season first. The thing that always will come to my mind a d D and I think it's the same for everyone

is the pandemic. So I think we should quickly dive into some crazy NFL numbers regarding COVID, especially since this is the second season in this pandemic, hopefully my second and final forever and ever and ever. So, from September nine one, the start of the season, to January tenth, the final regular season game, nine hundred and thirty one players were placed on the reserve COVID list, and that is despite the fact that we know the NFL has

an absurdly high vaccination rate. December was especially brutal, which is what everybody's been telling us to expect. Of course, as the weather gets colder and people are inside. More six hundred and seventy two players we're on the reserve COVID nineteen list between December one and December one. God, I'm just shaking my head thinking about all of those injury rapports, all of those stories that you and I have talked about on NFL network of players not being

able to play, but the missing games. In a lot of ways, we just got to see maybe the most important position on the football field. I should say maybe the most important position on the football field. We got some names and some throwback names in some instances that I kind of almost forgot. We're still in the league one sixty two different starting quarterbacks a d sixty two, and only eleven started all seventeen possible games. All of those eleven, by the way, except for Trevor Lawrence and

Matt Ryan, had winning records. So clearly, teams that had their starter all season long they've benefited. And this even led us to do in a little bit more an entire episode on backup quarterbacks, which was a whole lot of fun. And if you miss that, highly encourage you to check that out, because where else you're going to get a reference to the Jets and Mike White and Hush Johnson and Colt McCoy getting some wins for the Cardinals.

And I can't help but forget. I don't want to forget my guy who used to wear that utah ute uniform, Tyler Huntley, who actually a d D. You got to see a whole lot in person in some of the instances where he got to start with Lamar Jackson, who, by the way, wasn't protocol, it was actual injuries, right, And I did get to see a ton of Tyler Huntley.

And you know what, here's a little known fact for his dynamic and amazing as former m v P Lamar Jackson is, Tyler Huntley actually did something against the Green Bay Packers that hadn't been done before by Lamar Jackson. Ever. He threw for two touchdowns and he ran for two touchdowns. Add anything else that that strikes you about this past season that comes to mind. This is such a hard one, Mike, the way that the Raiders rebounded through this roller coaster

of a year and now we're in the playoffs. The way that the final Sunday of the season ended, not just that Raiders Chargers game, but also the Rams forty Niners and the Steelers Ravens, these rivalry games all going into overtime and it just felt like they were crazy, crazy games, especially over the month. But I mean, Aaron Rodgers once again the presumptive m v P. And forget

like the hosting of Jeopardy and all the vaccination. It's just simply the fact that the Packers are the number one seed and one of the Super Bowl favorites, and it really has to do and most entirely with how unbelievably dominant Aaron Rodgers is on the field. And Mike, since this is our records episode, let's go ahead and hit some of those records that were set this year by Aaron Rodgers. He had thirteen games this season with

at least two passing touchdowns and no interceptions. That's the most any player has ever recorded in a season in NFL history. Here's another one. Aaron Rodgers surpassed Brett Farve for the most passing touchdowns and Packers history. He did that Week sixteen versus Cleveland, four hundred and forty five is what the record was. Aaron Rodgers after Week eighteen now has four hundred and forty nine. And then here's

one more for the entire Packers team. The Packers became the first team to win thirteen games in three consecutive seasons. No NFL team before has done that. It's once again. And for any of those fans born you know, I guess what those called two thousand before or after two thousand? Yeah, that red five guy was actually pretty good. Rogers also just besting him with some of those numbers. The dv that you just dropped. But let's take a closer look at some of the other players who had m v

P type seasons and some records of their own. My guy, Cooper Cup, little West Coast Love here the receiving triple crown, leading the league and receptions, yards and TVs. Cup is actually just the fourth player since nineteen seventy to achieve that. The other guys pretty good list. Jerry Rice Sterling Sharp the last guy to do it before Cup, one of our colleagues Steve Smith, who did it back in two

thousand five with the Panthers. But Cooper actually finished the regular season second most receptions HDT, second most receiving yards almost two thousand in a single season in in NFL history. He also led all receivers with sixteen touchdowns. The dudes got a nose for the end zone and figures out ways to concord his body and wiggle his way down the sidelines and just breakthrough defenders. It really was really special. Now, one thing adds were and I think it's actually really

interesting to know because we're talking about one. Cup himself actually had made reference to this. You should know, eighteen week season, seventeen games season, first in NFL history. So the records are a little funky here, but Cup actually said, we're in the longest football season ever played. What the guys did to set those records in sixteen games, it wouldn't seem right for those to be broken in seventeen games.

It wouldn't hold the same weight to me as it does for guys that have done it in a sixteen game season. And the accomplishments those guys had, the seasons they put together, those are incredible things. Incredible accomplishments. You kind of have to separate the two. Who am I to say that he's wrong? But Adity, I think you know,

you fast forward, I have ten twenty years. I don't know if we're going to be referencing a longer season or not, because the reality is the NFL season over time has changed and we don't necessarily characterize some of those records accordingly. Well, and that's right. You think about baseball and the asterisks, and I think that when it's new. I think it's very fair of Cooper Cup to say this,

and I appreciate that. But as you said, I think over time all of that sort of softens or we just don't think about it as much, you know, And look, even t J Watt, right, let's go back to the top. He tied Michael Strayhan's record in a season where, yes, the Steelers did indeed play one more game than Michael Strahan's Giants did, but t J actually only played in fifteen games, and even in three of those fifteen he had to leave early because he was hurt. So I mean,

if you're what are we going to do? Are we going to sit here and divide numbers by snap counts and then come up with a number. I think at some point you just have to say, look, this is the season, mar right. No, I'm with you. It's a good point. So let's just go on to some of the other big names that have broken some records. You

talked about Aaron Rodgers being the goat. I think that anybody who's ever watched Tom Brady would may be quibble with that, at least at this moment, especially since this is a game that is all about winning championships and Tom Brady is the record breaking machine. So this year, what are the records that Tom Brady broke. He surpassed Drew Brees for the most career passing yards right now, Mike, he sits at eight four thousand, five hundred and twenty.

He also bested Drew Brees for most career completions. At this current moment, Tom Brady has seven thousand, two hundred and sixty three completed passes. Brady has now the most passing yards versus one single opponent. That is no surprise, Mike the Jets with nine thousand and fifty nine. He also joined Drew Brees, Brett Farve, and Peyton Manning as the only quarterbacks in NFL history to beat all thirty two teams. Brady became the first player in NFL history

to throw for six hundred passing touchdowns. Right now he has six hundred and twenty four. He also has the most games with at least three passing touchdowns that's one hundred and one, and with at least four passing touchdowns that is thirty nine. And of course, my favorite, favorite, favorite one is that Tom Brady is the oldest player in NFL history to pass for five thousand yards and that is at the ripe old age of forty four. Although I shouldn't say that, Mike. I think I've said

this to you before. May Tom Brady play forever because he is older than me, and as long as he is playing, I can't really feel that old, can I know you can't. Isn't there like a thing like is it all peaches and cream with this dude? Like? Is there anything bad about what Tom Brady does on the

football field? My god, I don't want to sound like the negative dude, but so interesting you say that, And you know what, Mike, you sound like Steelers fan who was like hell bent on just needing something negative about Tom Brady. There is actually one for the first time in fifteen years. Tom Brady was actually shut out when the Bucks lost to the Saints nine nothing in Week fifteen. It broke a streak of two hundred and fifty five

consecutive starts without a shutout. But you know, this episode, we're focusing, Mike on records that are broken this year, this season. I feel it's only fair that we do mention that Brady already holds the record for most touchdowns and wins, and we're not even talking about the playoffs

or Super Bowl records here, Mike. We could probably do a whole NFL explained on every mark that Tom Brady has ever said and what is probably never going to be threatened ever, every every So how about you're gonna make this deal with me and just say yes, even if you disagree in fifteen years, when we're still doing this podcast and Tom Brady decides to retire in fifteen years, we will do it an exclusive Tom Brady record podcast.

At that point, I think it'll be fair to say that Tom Brady holds the most records for of any category. It'll be Tom Brady's name, and we'll just dedicate a whole episode of NF will explain to him. Just because of that, there's some other dudes that also stood out. Well, you know, frankly, I'm a girl who likes to run the ball as opposed to right and especially as we get to this weather, and so let's get into some

of that. You got any running records for me? Oh yeah, there was a dude who was pretty good who I thought was in the m v P conversation for most of the season. It's Jonathan Taylor the Cults They're back, was tremendous youngest player. And we're talking about Brady being one of the oldest dudes and some of those records. How about what Taylor was able to accomplish youngest player with at least two thousand yards from scrimmage and at least twenty touchdowns. The dude is twenty two years old.

Kind of crazy when you consider the success he's had already from a cult perspective. Single season rushing yard record he now owns it. Single season scrimmage touchdown record, he owns that as well, and actually tie one of our colleagues with Danian Tomlinson, like Eel Mitchell, also for the consecutive games mark with eight with at least a hundred yards from scrimmage and one rushing touchdown. That is a

really good company for him to be in. So a little bit of love to Jonathan Taylor and what he was able to accomplish, But a d D. I think we are off to a fast start, not as fast as Jonathan Taylor on the football field. I think we've actually covered some of the biggest stories of the season.

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field goals. This is for an NFL record sixty six yards on tw it boxes off the place calls oh dif just happy, grand want a check, welcome back to NFL, explained, I can't help but smile as I listened to that ball. That was, of course, Week three one, Justin Tucker nailing a sixty six yard game winning field goal against the Lions, setting the record for the longest field goal of all time,

bounced off the crossbar and through and Mike. That happened a week after he was our very first guest on this podcast when we were talking about all things upright related field goal related to be fair, not just upright. I want to throw something in your way. And I don't know if you view uh field goals differently after our conversation with Tucker, because I do, because I know we were talking about the uprights on that episode, but Justin also went through some of the fraumatics and the

science behind some of the kicks. He didn't do a deep dive, but I find myself now every time there's a field goal kicker lining up to just watch every single moment. And there's one thing about that Tucker field goal that I just will never forget, just that little hop step before he takes off to get a little bit of extra momentum, like he never does that, and

I've never seen anyone else do it as well. And it was good enough for that ball to go through the uprights with a little bit of help because Tucker did say there's no uprights. He's necessarily more fond of in the NFL. But when you get help like that, I would be popular in your mind compared to some of the other one ones. But I do want to continue on. Well, let's yeah, let's stick in the a f C North. Actually, okay, so how about this, because we were once again loving up an older Tom Brady

at the quarterback spot. I want a little bit younger with Jonathan Taylor. But another quarterback for you, Joe Burrow Week sixteen, weeks seventeen. In fact, I was actually working Sunday of weeks seventeen, and we're obviously coming off a Joe Burrow performance which was amazing against Baltimore and then what he did against Kansas, and I was in the stadium for that one. You were in the stadium for that one, so you know what I'm talking about here.

But Burrows set the NFL record for the first time a player has had back to back games of four hundred plus passing yards and at least four passing touchdowns with no picks. The dude was on fire, burrowing the Bengals rounding it to form probably a d D at the right time. Would you consider we're knocking on the door of the playoffs and potentially a little bit of a run here from a Cincinnati squad. But this is will be back at Paul Brown Stadium this weekend to

be a whole lot of fun. Borrow does it against the Raiders? Right? No, I'm with you. There's also some staples right on the fensive side that you just kind of anticipate. We're always going to put up big numbers. Aaron Donald comes to mind. Four straight seasons with twelve plus sacks. That's the second longest streak in NFL history. And give me the young fellow Micah Parsons thirteen sacks and had he been healthy enough to be able to play, maybe we could have added to that total in that

last game of the regular season. But thirteen sacks ties for the third most by a rookie in NFL history, And who knows if he didn't test positive for COVID and was able to play in the last game of the regular season. That actually might have been fourteen sacks or fifteen, because he's that much of a monster. All right, Well, speaking of rookies, let's go to the rocky pass catchers. You mentioned Joe Burrow at the top, so of course Joe Burrow's favorite receiver was his old L s U

teammate Jamar Chase. Well, Chase not only said a Bengals franchise record for most receiving yards, he also set a record for the most receiving yards in a game by a rookie, and that's an NFL record two d and sixty six yards versus Kansas City Week seventeen, jail and waddle. He suppressed on Quan Bolden for the most receptions by a rookie in NFL history, the Dolphins Turkie had one hundred and four. And then the first rookie tight end

with a thousand receiving yards Atlanta's Kyle Pitts. No one's ever done that in the Super Bowl era? How about that, which is pretty amazing. Here's another one. I'll throw this one out there just because it's you know, the Lions, and it was a tough year and I got to talk to this young man this year Amon Ross st Brown. Lovely, lovely, lovely young man. You can see he's going to turn

into a real leader. Well with his performance against Green Bay at the end of the season, he bested Lions former first round pick Roy Williams with eight hundred and seventeen yards in his rookie season. That is a Lions franchise record. Sc Fans are like, yo, fight on. We saw this from him and we knew he'd be this good. He has been terrific for that Detroit team. One of those bright spots the TV that you made reference to already mentioned Jonathan Taylor. A couple other super sophomores entered

the record books as well. How about we throw out Justin Jefferson's name. I still think back as I closed my eyes, I can imagine and see him on the football field with the Odell Beckham T shirt on. I was able to surpass O b J for the most receiving yards in a player's first two seasons, just over three thousand. What a big number there, and Justin Herbert one of the nice guys passing Andrew Luck most passing yards in a player's first two seasons. All those Haymaker throws.

Herbert certainly d able to to rack up some yardage numbers just because of some of those long bombs. All right, well, how about the leaders? How about the coaches. Bill Belichick ties Don Shula for the most ten win seasons by an NFL head coach, with twenty. He did that Week seventeen versus Jacksonville. The first head coach to win one hundred games with more than one franchise, well, that became Andy Reid. He won a hundred, of course with the Eagles.

In Week fourteen of this year, he won his one with the Kansas City Chiefs. And then, of course there's Matt Lafleur. He's thirty nine and ten in his first three seasons as a head coach. That seventy nine point six win percentage is the highest in the NFL since the start of the two thousand nineteen season, and the highest in the NFL history for any head coach that has coached five games. Nice to have Aaron Rodgers on your team right when your first time head coach. There

is that for sure. And let me tell you that Zach Taylor, another young coach who was hired at the same time as la fleur. He had two very rough first season, six wins in those first two seasons, but you got Joe Burrow and a healthy Joe Burrow. Everything's changed this year. Yeah, quarterback position, oh so important. Do we also add had some close games. Heason actually started with the Bucks just taking out the Cowboys Thursday Night Football ended with that insane thirty five to overtime win

for the Raiders over the Chargers. A time out called that I think will forever be synonymous with that Chargers team, and hopefully they'll be able to write the ship in the next couple of years, and that Steelers fans will forever be grateful for because remember, the Raiders needed to win that game or the Chargers somebody needed to win. Had there been a tie, the Steelers would no longer be in the playoffs. So there were a lot of

fan bases, very very invested in what happened in that game. Oddly, and I Mike Tomlin dozing off at the end of that game, so he claims, so he claims that one. But you know what, Mike, I don't think this is anecdotal. We talked about the Ravens playing so many close games earlier well, Mike, you know what, it's not just anecdotal. We talked about the Ravens playing so many close games.

We've talked a lot, at least I have talked a lot about the Steelers kind of engineering game winning drives, specifically Ben Roethlisberger, who, by the way, is second all time in history in terms of engineering game winning drives, second to Tom Brady. But they season, there were actually more games decided by a winning score on the final play of the game than in any other single season in NFL history. Thirty five games, Mike decided on the

final play of the game. I mean, that's insane, right, There's so many moments just watching at home or at work. I'm going you gotta be kidding me. I mean even sometimes thea looked like the game was gonna be over and you just didn't really give the other team a chance to really make that run late, and then they did. All right, Mike, But before we say goodbye to everybody, let's go through some of the really fun records broken

in season. Twelve players this year who waited at least three hundred pounds scored a touchdown, and Week sixteen, four of them did it. In one single day. That's the most in NFL history. Never before in NFL history have four three hundred plus pounders scored a touchdown on one day. That was Dallas is Terence Steele, the Jets, Connor McDermott,

the Eagles, Lane Johnson, and Jacksonville's Will Richardson. Okay, legit, when you said all of those three pound guys, I only knew one, and maybe most fans didn't know any of them, or maybe the die hard ones that were watching, you know what happened to be a Dallas fan or Jets fan or Philly Farner Jack they would have known. But I got to cover Connor McDermott when he was in college at u c l A. I saw it. I went nuts at home because he's like the nicest

dude ever. And actually one of our producers is a Jets fan, and just because of that, we just thought we would play the audio board and the fullback is in fake from Wilson. Here they come Rolston to the ends, tuchsdown, Tony mcderbot going there for the Jets. So much fun to see those kind of plays to do right, it

was awesome. It was awesome. Also awesome to hear my college buddy spireaud this on the call on that one um a d D. You know, I actually teased this a little bit earlier, and I actually knew the answer because I was working with one of our friends and colleagues and Lewis, I was hosting a radio show with him, and he threw this question out to me as a trivia question, and I was ashamed because I can only name two quarterbacks that could have been in the mix.

So I actually got it right, but that's just by dumb luck. So I threw out this question about Notre Dame quarterbacks and a d D one Ian book started at QB for the Saints a Monday at football in Week sixteen and lost. It was the four consecutive loss for a Notre Dame quarterback in the NFL, which is mind boggling. And here's some of the guys Ian book Seawan Kaiser, Jimmy Clawson's one of those guys. Brady Quinn the other one. So Red had asked me, He's like,

who's the last one to get a win? So I was like, oh, maybe it's Jimmy, maybe it's Brady Quinn. I went with Brady Quinn but it was Brady Quinn and I actually had forgotten that he wore that Kansas City uniform beat Cam Newton's Carolina squad back in twelve. It is wild. Oh it's my birthday. I remember that, So you remember that exact moment. You're probably on a football field somewhere covering a game on your birthday, knowing you.

But this is kind of wild. Notre Dame starting quarterbacks during that game, losing streak, completion percentage, fifteen touchdown passes. Oh dd, this is what's going to get it thirty two picks. Well, here's another little lah fighting Irish nugget.

Before Tom Brady, a Michigan man came along, Notre Dame actually had the most Super Bowl wins of any college and that's because of Joe Montana and Joe Siseman, who incidentally, when he was growing up in South River, New Jersey, his name was pronounced Joe Theisman, and it's when he went to Notre Dame and they wanted his name to rhyme with Heisman that it became Oh good, No, I didn't know that story. South River, New Jersey is right next to East Brunswick, New Jersey, which is where I

grew up, so you know, these are things we just learned. Yeah, things that you get on the NFL Explained podcast. That's a bonus nugget for you fans and Cincinnati a DT. They've had some up and down moments over the years. Coming up here on the NFL Explain podcasts, I will give you a nugget that will have every fan who wears a Bangles jersey smiling ear to ear. That's coming up on the NFL Explain pod. This podcast is sponsored

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All right, here's another bonus one. And I hate to do this one as having grown up as a Giants fan who wants to give roses to the Cowboys, But we have to give roses to Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott because week sixteen, he threw touchdown passes to a running back Ezekiel Elliott, a tight end Dalton Schultz, an offensive

lineman Terrence Steele, and a wide receiver Amari Cooper. This happened one time before, and it was our colleague and friend, who, of course has also been one of our podcast guests, Kurt Warner, who did it in got it done in the playoffs. Speaking of getting get done in the playoffs, my guy Rob Gronkowski got to give him some love, passing Tony Gonzalez for the most career one hundred yard games by a tight end in NFL history thirty two of them at DV thirty two. That's just wild to me.

How about this one. You know who the first quarterback is with a rushing touchdown in the first five games he played, Uh, I'm back, Cam Newton. Cam Newton rejoined the Panthers mid season and in his first five games back, each of them featured a rushing touchdown and he was yelling, I'm back, I'm back, which was kind of cool, except that he went oh and five in those games. We don't have to talk about that. So let's just let's just take let's keep this thing positive here longest, all right?

We had the NFL had it's it's biggest season ever, the longest day of football in the last fifty years, from the London kickoff. If you missed our international show, you gotta go back and check that one out. But the London kickoff to the end of the Sunday night football game fifteen hours and one minute back on October t roller coaster of a day. Let me tell you you know who else had a roller coaster of a season. The Dolphins. They lost seven straight games and they also

won seven straight games. Talk about streaky. But can we go to the guys that I spent a lot of time with this year, one of them being rookie running back Naji Harris. He of course was the Steeler's first round pick, and I tweeted this the other day, three hundred and eighty one touches without a single fumble. I do have to say, Mike that when I tweeted this, I said, because I'm sure Naji Harris doesn't believe in jinxes.

And then I share that that he is a first rookie in NFL history to have three hundred rushes, to have seventy receptions. He definitely got stronger as the year went on, and every time we tried to talk to him about his body hurting or what was going on, he said, I am built for this. I train for this. And then, of course, the guy who's most great full that he had Nagi Harris on his team is Big Ben Roethlisberger, who at some point is going to complete

his eighteenth season. You know, we said goodbye to him in this epic Monday Night against the Browns at Hines Field and then what was supposed to be his final start in Baltimore, except the Steelers engineer this overtime when over their rival Ravens, and then, as you talked about earlier in the show, the Raiders kicked that game winning field goal. And so now Ben Roethlisberger has at least one more game against Kansas City. Whenever he does hang it up, it will be the longest tenure for any

quarterback in NFL history with just one team. So he has been a stealer from day one to whatever the final day is now. Kicker Lou Groza did play twenty one seasons with just one team, but he's a kicker, not a quarterback, So there you go. The distinction there, all right. I'm gonna leave everyone with this one. I know we loved Joe Burrow. I want to give Cincinnati

fans even more reason for often miss him. The Bengals first team in NFL history to have a four thousand yard passer, a one thousand yard rusher, and two one thousand yard receivers, all twenty five or younger in the same season, Burrow, Mix and Chase Higgins. They got themselves a nice little offensive core, a d D And with that, I think we can kind of drop the mic on the records right for the season for now, But you know, the playoffs are just starting, so we may come back,

so we'll do a playoff edition. I'm still looking for that episode on Tom Brady. Fifteen years from now, when you retires me and you another edition. We may be retired. We may be pushed a pastor by then, but not Tom Brady. It's been a hack of a season. I'll tell you this. I certainly appreciated the extra game. I'm all about more football, and we have more football in this playoff weekend. It's an amped up super wild Card weekend. I hope everyone enjoys that weekend of football that a

d D made reference to enjoy the postseason. And of course, if you've missed any of our fun episodes of the NFL Explained podcasts, make sure you check those out. And we actually love hearing from you a kin Kawala at Mike Underscore Yam. You can find us on Twitter. Keep firing off those questions. A d D response to all that, our friends is twenty twenty one Records Explained, brought to you by up work, where you can build the team that will build your business. Learn more at upwork dot Com.

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