It’s not hyperbole to say I probably wouldn’t be writing about the NFL today if it wasn’t for Football Outsiders. Way back in the summer of 2004, I had just bought my first Al Wilson jersey and spent the summer at the local bookstore gobbling up every single about football I could get my hands on. Calling it obsessed doesn’t do my frenzy justice.
Which is how I first stumbled upon Football Outsiders’ Pro Football Prospectus.
It took me a week to read it cover to cover and the pages got dog eared as I went back over all of the different analysis leading up to training camp.