NFL records unlikely to ever be broken?
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July 7, 2008
http://bal.scout.com/a.z?s=118&p=2&c=767608
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[Touchdowns -- 8 straight league-leading seasons]
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The NFL with all the better defensive players
and schemes has made it harder to set offensive
records that had been acheived in years gone by.
Take Hutson's receiving record of eight straight
years leading the NFL in touchdowns scored.
He led the league many years ago and no one
has ever come close to his record and most
likely will never come close to this record.
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[Head Coaching -- 29 straight years]
Some coaching achievements are also unbreak-
able by anybody in the NFL. Tom Landry , head
coach of the Dallas Cowboys was head coach
for 29 years. In today's era of win the Super
Bowl and make the playoffs each year, no coach
unless he owns the team like George Halas did
with the Bears has a chance to even be head
coach that long or come close to Mr Landry's
record.
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[Head Coaching -- 325 & 347 lifetime wins]
And when you mention Halas you think of his
325 wins over decades of coaching and you
have to be amzed at Don Shula's 347 wins that
broke that record that many thought could never
be accomplished. Just think if you average 10
wins a season over 10 years as no coach ever
has done in modern times that is 100 wins. If
you average 10 wins over 30 years you still
are 47 wins short of Shula's record.
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[One game sack record of 7]
There are other NFL records that are unlikely
to be broken but are within reach, maybe.
Kansas City's linebacker Derrick Thomas who
set a one game sack record of seven.
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[Games started at Quarterback]
Brett Favre's games started at quarterback are
maybe within reach but Favre's record I would
say is safe.
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[Losing streak & Games straight passing
for touchdowns]
But Tampa Bay's losing streak and John Unitas's
47 straight passing for touchdowns in games are
probably safe, too. Of all the great QBs that throw
and throw 40 passes most games and score lots
of passing TDs and throw for over 4,000 yards
a season have not come close to Mr Unitas's
accomplisment.
Manning, Brady, Marino, Elway, Montana, and
many others haven't even got past the high thirties
in straight games with a TD pass.
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[10 championship games by a QB]
And talking of QBs, no one will touch Otto
Graham's record of starting in 10 championship
games that are now called Super Bowls.
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[10 or more interceptions by a DB]
Because of rule changes and so many specialists
on offense and defense, many records can not be
reached.
Most of the best defensive backs in today's NFL
can not get 10 or more interceptions in a season
because teams just throw to the other side of the
field most teams have so many more skilled re-
ceivers that great defensive backs don't get a
chance to intercept passes.
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