Jacobs Carrying The Whole Bottom Half of the NLL

This is from Paul Tutka's latest thumbs up/thumbs down for the past weekend:

"Everything that could go wrong for the teams that are favored is definitely goin’ a$$ backwards wrong for ‘em, while Cody Jacobs is shootin’ the friggin’ lights out and givin’ the bottom feeders hope?!?!?"

OK, every year, there are upsets in the NLL. Nobody can say with 100% certainty that team A will beat team B in a game because team A is 10-0 and team B is 0-10. There is a chance, no matter how small, that in a small sample size of 1 game, that anything can happen.

Cody Jacobs is apparently the new hope for all of the league's mediocre teams. You hear that Bob Hamley? Cody Jacobs is the reason you might make the playoffs.

Cody Jacobs has never been a bad player. He scored something like 69 goals in one year of junior B. That is ridiculous. Last year, his first year of playing anything above the junior level, he shot 15.9% in the NLL. Some guys within 1% of his percentage last year? Gary Rosyski, Dan Stroup, Tracey Keluskey, Ryan Powell, Josh Sanderson, Jim Quinlan, Kelly Hall. Most of those guys have been all-stars. Sanderson scored 6 goals this year against Minnesota. Why is it so incredible that he scored 6 goals in a game? That is not that unlikely in the small sample of one game. If he can average that over the course of the year, then that is incredible.