Akers Post

Just because there are times it's fun to mess around with the visual display of quantitative information:

Although this chart is a little interesting:

We know the average kickoff distance is a bogus stat, because the league thoughtlessly includes onside kicks in the numbers.  Which, really, is just sort of lazy on the part of STATS Inc.

Anyway, if you adjust the numbers to account for those, you still find a nice jump from 2007 to 2008.  And while the adjusted average is good, the adjusted touchback percentage is great.  Almost one-fifths of Akers' kickoffs last year weren't returned, seventh-best in the league and far better than anything he's accomplished before.

Keep working the P90X, man.