The Rams run a broken 43 which was 31st in the league. Most top teams run a 34 cause it like the spread they meant to compensate for a under sourced team. Like Ed Reed said a properly built 43 is a dream defense.Flower was profoundly influenced by Moneyball, Michael Lewis's fascinating account of how the Oakland Athletics baseball team used statistics and computer analysis to improve their results. The recruitment of Nathan Leamon cricket coach, maths boffin, and known in the team as "Numbers" has been significant. On a daily basis, he enters individual, team, ground and other historical data into the Monte Carlo simulator, a specially designed computer program which forecasts the probability of various eventualities.

On Sunday, Sept. 11, NFL's two leading Latino quarterbacks, and , face off in their teams' season openers. It'll be the first time Tony and Mark will compete against each other on the gridiron, so we decided to compare the two QBs, not by their pl