The NFL Thread - Root for your favorite team (or laugh at the Browns, whichever's easier)

Who are you rooting for in Super Bowl 60?

  • New England Patriots

    Votes: 11 22.0%

  • Seattle Seahawks

    Votes: 25 50.0%

  • Team State Farm

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • The Meteor

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
Looks like you are a lying faggot. The battered wife (Crosby) is going back to her abusive husband (the raiders).
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Baltimore Ravens gave me my pink slip today(:_(
Sorry, but @Trombonista told me to diagnose him with "Kawhi Leonard degenerative knee disease", for the Bills' sake.
Waiting for my lifetime T&H, year of wingstop hot honey boneless wings, autographed Null bodypillow, and autographed Josh Allen game jersey! Thanks! Go Billies!
 
Trombonista said:
I guess they decided two first-round picks was too much of a price to pay.
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I wanted Maxx Crosby in Dallas, but two first-round picks is too much of a price to pay. We should draft two guys in the first round or trade up to get Jacob Rodriguez. Maxx Crosby is good, but not two first-round draft picks good.
 
LongTallTexan said:
I wanted Maxx Crosby in Dallas, but two first-round picks is too much of a price to pay. We should draft two guys in the first round or trade up to get Jacob Rodriguez. Maxx Crosby is good, but not two first-round draft picks good.
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A healthy Maxx Crosby is 100% worth 2 first round picks, especially since one of them would be late in the 1st round since you're not going to be a losing team if he joins it. I'm saying that as a Ravens fan, we don't usually have back to back losing seasons.
 
The Raiders statement reads with genuine anger. I mean yeah can't blame them I guess, I'd be pissed too if I was missing out on first round picks, but still damn. Not sure I've ever seen that before lol
 
Im sure signing Trey Hendrickson who didn't have the market he thought he did 12 hours after reneging on the trade will make the conspiracies go away.

Baltimore getting fined and losing picks is going to be so funny.
 
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lmao Chris Ballard is D E S P E R A T E to keep his job, and the Irsay daughter is making every new owner mistake in the playbook.
You weren't just a corner away. Shouldn't have traded for Sauce. (Probably) shouldn't have paid Pierce that much money after his first 1K yard season. Pulling a Schoen and betting the farm on Daniel Jones isn't going to inexplicably save Ballard's job, in all likelihood. The Colts were already on a downward trend before Jones got hurt. It's pretty unlikely they'll return to form next year.
 
Nogg said:
Im sure signing Trey Hendrickson who didn't have the market he thought he did 12 hours after reneging on the trade will make the conspiracies go away.

Baltimore getting fined and losing picks is going to be so funny.
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This whole Crosby debacle is exactly why you shouldn't be allowed to do deals or announce them until the official start of the league year. I know there is still obviously contingencies and stipulations that could still allow teams to back out of deals. But to have a deal announced for days and to go through the entire free agent process with other players just to back out of the deal before it can officially go through is a massive oversight on the NFLs part.
 
LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2 said:
This whole Crosby debacle is exactly why you shouldn't be allowed to do deals or announce them until the official start of the league year. I know there is still obviously contingencies and stipulations that could still allow teams to back out of deals. But to have a deal announced for days and to go through the entire free agent process with other players just to back out of the deal before it can officially go through is a massive oversight on the NFLs part.
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It's a feature, not a bug. Everyone is working on deals outside designated periods. Everything gets leaked by one side or the other. The league has a vested interest in making sure sure everything they want public is out there. It needs to be some nuclear grade bad optics for it to have a negative effect at this point like a video of Ray Rice KOing his fiancee and then dragging her unconscious body around.

Being a professional sports league is now firmly secondary to the owners. All they care about is selling the league as a commodity to as many people as possible. They told Goodell it was his job to maximize profits and he's doing that. Jerry Jones has built the most valued brand in all of professional sports by being constantly in the media. The NFL is following suit. Don't pay attention to what that does to on the product on the field.

They've been vocal about turning the NFL into a international year round league and it's why they've made the draft, combine, and training camp such spectacles. It's why I find it funny that they flub on the Pro Bowl so badly. It shouldn't be that hard to turn that into something fun, but realistically the only way to get the talent everyone wants to see back on the field would involve lots of bonuses and prizes for whatever they come up with. Ownership is too cheap for that despite soaring profits because they haven't had to pay in the past.
 
Nogg said:
Im sure signing Trey Hendrickson who didn't have the market he thought he did 12 hours after reneging on the trade will make the conspiracies go away.

Baltimore getting fined and losing picks is going to be so funny.
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Trey had 3 other teams interested, Baltimore just came in a little hotter than the others did. Judging by how quick Baltimore pulled the trigger it looks like they had intended on signing Trey and putting him on the other end next to Maxx before the deal failed since Baltimore could have restructured and turned Maxx's 30 mil hit in to a 7 mil hit.

Baltimore is not getting fined, and they aren't losing picks because they violated nothing. Their doctors determined his knee was structurally sound for this season, but it probably isn't going to survive beyond year 2 of his enormous contract.. because he's had knee and ankle problems for the last two seasons.

In 1997 Baltimore nixed a trade for Brock Marion because of his left shoulder.
In 2016 Baltimore nixed a contract for Ryan Grant.
In 2020 Baltimore Nixed a trade for Michael Brockers.

Ryan Grant's career was dead because the injury was worse than expected.
Michael Brocker's career died after one more full season before Detroit cut him and he retired.
Brock Marion's the only one who continued to have solid seasons after the trade was cancelled.

I'll trust the Baltimore medical staff on this one.
 
CapricornusRex said:
Baltimore is not getting fined, and they aren't losing picks because they violated nothing. Their doctors determined his knee was structurally sound for this season, but it probably isn't going to survive beyond year 2 of his enormous contract.. because he's had knee and ankle problems for the last two seasons.
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I don't think they're getting fined either, but Schefter's report on the how it went down is only going to fuel the fire on conspiracy. The only named doctor with reservations about Crosby was the Dallas cowboy hat wearing one. He's one of the current medical gurus teams check in with, but he wasn't the only one. People who want to believe they were doctor shopping looking for a reason to pull out will continue to do so. "What, their team doctor can't read an MRI?"
 
break these cuffs said:
I don't think they're getting fined either, but Schefter's report on the how it went down is only going to fuel the fire on conspiracy. The only named doctor with reservations about Crosby was the Dallas cowboy hat wearing one. He's one of the current medical gurus teams check in with, but he wasn't the only one. People who want to believe they were doctor shopping looking for a reason to pull out will continue to do so. "What, their team doctor can't read an MRI?"
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And notice how Dallas isn't involved anymore? Almost like their doctors got to see the same thing? A ankle that's been chewed up the last two seasons, a knee that's been surgically repaired multiple times. I do believe Maxx will be good this season, but will he be Maxx Crosby good? At this point I think Baltimore realized he's going to finish his career more as an edge setting DE who can get you 6-8 sacks, rather than the guy who can get you 16.
 
CapricornusRex said:
Trey had 3 other teams interested,
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And all contact with those teams stopped around noon yesterday. The Baltimore renegade in the trade. The idea that thay were trying to pair up Trey and Maxx is a massive cope. This wasnt Baltimore junping on Trey early. It was two days of teams telling him he wasn't getting what he wanted and once the Ravens saw they could get him for cheap and took the opportunity to get their picks back.
CapricornusRex said:
Their doctors determined his knee was structurally sound for this season, but it probably isn't going to survive beyond year 2 of his enormous contract..
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Guess its a good thing he has an out with zero dead cap after 2 years of his deal. Instead you got an older EDGE coming off of back and hip injuries one of which resulted in surgery.
 
CapricornusRex said:
A healthy Maxx Crosby is 100% worth 2 first round picks, especially since one of them would be late in the 1st round since you're not going to be a losing team if he joins it. I'm saying that as a Ravens fan, we don't usually have back to back losing seasons.
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Honestly, after looking into it a little more, I think we should do whatever it takes to get Maxx Crosby. I'm not sure we should give up two first-round draft picks, but I think the late first-round pick and maybe throwing in a few late-round picks and players would be worth Maxx Crosby. I think he would be a great addition to the Dallas Cowboys defense.
 
LongTallTexan said:
Honestly, after looking into it a little more, I think we should do whatever it takes to get Maxx Crosby. I'm not sure we should give up two first-round draft picks, but I think the late first-round pick and maybe throwing in a few late-round picks and players would be worth Maxx Crosby. I think he would be a great addition to the Dallas Cowboys defense.
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No amount of money or high profile players will ever fix that shit-show in Dallas. Best hope for the Cowgirls is for Jerrah to croak.
 
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