The Zack Moore Show Episode #1

Whew. Finally, the NFL regular season is over and I can stop taking notes and start sharing those notes. This season, around Week 4, I realized that there’s no point in me writing week to week articles or podcasts when my main focus is on trying to figure out how a Super Bowl champion is created and how Super Bowls are won. So with that in mind I just kept piling up the notes and ideas all season.

In October, I went to the Red River Shootout with my father and sister because she’s a student at the University of Texas, I saw West Virginia at Baylor the next week before flying back to New Jersey. I then decided to drive back down there for the month of November to stay with my roommate from URI and see a different game every weekend. I saw Kansas at Texas, Oklahoma at Baylor, Baylor at Oklahoma State, and Baylor at TCU during my time there, while also exploring Jerry World before the Thanksgiving game with some cheap standing room only tickets. I had a lot of fun driving each weekend to see these games and experience each stadium, but I also got a perspective on Big 12 football that has added to my understanding of the game.

After finishing the rough draft of Caponomics this summer, I think I needed some time off from writing long-form and some time to process what I had just written. I knew I needed to watch the game more closely than I’ve ever been able to in the past with my own football playing responsibilities, along with school up through fall 2014. The whole process of what I did this season has really prepared me for a better offseason this year and I look forward to sharing all the stuff I’ve been working on, getting some questions from you guys and continuing to improve on this podcast every week. This podcast will allow me to share a lot more information than I ever could have just writing, it’ll help me clear the clutter out of my head with all the things I want to share and it’ll help me focus in for some of the longer articles that I will be writing this year.
So if you’re interested, head on over the iTunes here to download and subscribe: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zack-moore-show-1/id1072967078?i=360279417&mt=2

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2015 Positional Spending for Playoff Teams

I have some podcasts and articles coming soon, so here are some more figures that will be referenced to often. Below are the offensive and defensive averages for all 12 playoff teams as well as the Super Bowl positional averages that I compiled last offseason.

Tweet me at @ZackMooreNFL with any questions that you want covered in the podcasts. The first one should be up this week as I’m putting together my notes on the 1997/1998 Broncos and how they have given the 2015 Broncos, and others, a Super Bowl blueprint to follow. Continue reading 2015 Positional Spending for Playoff Teams »

Patriots Win Super Bowls with Cheap Offensive Lines

Tonight, everyone on Thursday Night Football is mentioning how young and inexperienced this Patriots offensive line is, but this is nothing new in New England as they have always had young, inexperienced and inexpensive offensive lines. As Deion Sanders and others have mentioned tonight, Tom Brady gets the ball off very quickly. These two things are correlated.

As I wrap up the first draft of Caponomics, I joked to someone that at times the entire study of Caponomics really begins to feel like a discussion of “what did Belichick and the Patriots do?” because they’re that good, they wrote the book on how to use the salary cap to your advantage. They’re so good that not only did Brady cost about 4% less than Manning, their main competitor, all these years, but the Patriots gave Brady what is still his biggest cap hit, $17.42 million in 2010, the uncapped season.

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Moore’s Law Podcast Episode #1: Concussions, Painkillers and Week 2 Caponomics

UPDATE: I was able to upload it to SoundCloud, the link is below!

https://soundcloud.com/zackmoorenfl/moores-law-podcast-1-concussions-painkillers-and-week-2-review

(Download SoundCloud on your phone if you want to listen to it on the go!)

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Moore’s Law Podcast #1

I recorded this on Tuesday night after a weekend spent taking notes on the college and NFL games. I wanted to wait until I got the Moore’s Law podcast up on iTunes, so that I could direct everyone through there because I think that podcasts are much better when they are listened to as an audio file on your phone, rather than on YouTube, so that you can listen to it if you go workout, commute, do some work around the house or cook.

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@ZackMooreNFL Shares Bonus Caponomics Chapter

Ray Lewis mentioned “formulas” with Trent Dilfer regarding how the Jets are using the salary cap, so I figured I would just share the bonus chapter I’ve already shared with everyone on the Caponomics@gmail.com e-mail thread.

As of right now, this chapter is slated to be a part of book two or three of this Caponomics book series, a book where I break down the Super Bowl champions on a team-by-team basis using my Caponomics ideas.

So with that in mind, check out the attached file that has me breaking down the 2000 Ravens. Continue reading @ZackMooreNFL Shares Bonus Caponomics Chapter »

The Tebow Experiment and the Definition of Objective

There’s a way of thinking that’s really poisonous in our society today and it’s this all-knowing way that so many of us, myself included, put labels like “good” and “bad” on things. For example, since I’ve been so outspoken in my support of Tim Tebow, I had quite a few people contact me on social media letting me know he was released with an “I told you so attitude.”

Well, you didn’t really tell me anything. I just supported the Tebow Experiment in Philadelphia because there are two people in this world who I see living out the version of Jesus Christ that I envision in the Bible, they are: Tim Tebow and Justin Wren. Now, Tebow is just barely 28 years old and he has accomplished so much more off the football field than we could even imagine. Yet, there really are people out there, not just internet trolls, who have negative things to say about the guy because of what he does with a football in his hands….

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