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 .
Absolutego said:
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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.
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The Dolphins just gave Malik what was essentially 2 years, 45 million. For a guy that has started 6 games in his career. Giving Daniel Jones a short contract like this after the year he had is the best move they could make. It's better to pay a bit more per year and not be shackled by a Russell Wilson or Tua-like contract where you're fucked for years
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
The Dolphins just gave Malik what was essentially 2 years, 45 million. For a guy that has started 6 games in his career. Giving Daniel Jones a short contract like this after the year he had is the best move they could make. It's better to pay a bit more per year and not be shackled by a Russell Wilson or Tua-like contract where you're fucked for years
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The Colts are paying Jones effectively double Willis' salary, and Willis isn't coming off an injury that the last two times a franchise QB had it, they were a shell of themselves for the next year (made worse by the fact that Jones' deal is also for two years), AND Willis was drafted by a bad team, traded on his rookie contract, and this is his first market deal. We've already been through this cycle once already with Daniel Jones, and it's a miracle (thank God for John Mara's incompetence, I guess) that the GM that gave him that deal survived the aftermath.

Not really comparable scenarios where you can just shrug and say "ehh QBs are overpaid, at least it's not too long this time". I'm mostly criticizing the Colts for caving this hard to his agent, the injury alone should've bopped him south of $40 million AAV. Just point a big finger at Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins and say "yeahhhhh have fun testing the open market". But Ballard wouldn't survive the aftermath if they actually lost him, he knows it, so he's breaking open the check book.
 
Absolutego said:
The Colts are paying Jones effectively double Willis' salary, and Willis isn't coming off an injury that the last two times a franchise QB had it, they were a shell of themselves for the next year (made worse by the fact that Jones' deal is also for two years), AND Willis was drafted by a bad team, traded on his rookie contract, and this is his first market deal. We've already been through this cycle once already with Daniel Jones, and it's a miracle (thank God for John Mara's incompetence, I guess) that the GM that gave him that deal survived the aftermath.

Not really comparable scenarios where you can just shrug and say "ehh QBs are overpaid, at least it's not too long this time". I'm mostly criticizing the Colts for caving this hard to his agent, the injury alone should've bopped him south of $40 million AAV. Just point a big finger at Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins and say "yeahhhhh have fun testing the open market". But Ballard wouldn't survive the aftermath if they actually lost him, he knows it, so he's breaking open the check book.
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So what you are saying is they did a Jerry Jones (after that one season Dak was hurt), more or less?
 
Trombonista said:
LOL the Giants actually re-signed Evan Neal.
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It sucks and I wish they hadn't. At the same time given that we have an entire new coaching staff, I am sure Harbaugh just wants to see what he has and determine if he can turn Neals career around.

His contract is only the minimum and they can easily dump him after training camp if they want to.
 
Google Drive said:
God, I hope the Seahawks don't end up moving to the south west a la every sports team in the last 10 years. Currently dooming so hard right now.
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They so completely own the regional market for football, the only argument for a move is that all the governments in the area suck balls to do business with. Sonics had local competition with the Trailblazers that the Seahawks simply don't. Even with the local government being shitty, Lumen makes them so much money they've actually kept up with renovations and done their part to take care of the stadium district overall.
It would straight-up take Jodi selling the team to a clearly predatory ownership group with the goal of bringing a team to their local area (also like the Sonics) for a move to happen. What's going to be a consequence of the city/state going to the shitter is we'll lose out more often on free agents because they'll get soaked more for tax gibs here, and we have neither the weather of LA or the cultural relevance of New York to offset that.
 
Double post, but it's been 12 hours and I bring offseason news, plz have mercy @Trombonista

L'Jarius Snead, unofficial NFL mascot of the Kiwi Farms, has been cut by the Tennessee Titans. He's become a classic case of a player getting paid and things just not working out. Suffered a season-ending quad contusion early in his first season as a Titan, managed to re-injure it (in practice I think) ahead of last season and consequently did not play, and now is a cap casualty.
The only thing he contributed in his time as a Titan is providing more evidence that league GMs should be skeptical about what they'll get from cornerbacks the Chiefs are willing to lose.
 
Drama Fan said:
Pretty much the least surprising move. Vikings get a low to mid starting tier QB for pennies as a backup or potentially starter. Kyler hopefully lights a fire under 9 or outcompetes him for the starter job. Kyler gets to play on a better roster for a better coach for a year and see who wants to take a chance on him next year.
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Yep. And it's a win on their cap considering
Minnesota will pay $1.3 million of Murray's $36.8 million salary for 2026. The Arizona Cardinals will pay the remainder as part of their decision to release him Wednesday. His new deal prohibits the Vikings from using a franchise or transition tag on him next offseason, sources told ESPN, giving him a guaranteed path to free agency if he wants it.
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Crossposting from another thread, I got a simple question to ask:

So I came out with this idea for any ball-themed sport:
Simply put, always give the serving to the losing team (lowest score) and, in case of parity, serving is decided by a coin toss.
In case of football, before the whistle, the ball would start in the hands of the losing team.

Can anyone please explain to me why this a incredibly retard retard reason? Not just for football, but inferior sports like tennis and soccer too.
I don't know sports, I have only an hunch that this is an incredibly idiotic idea, I just want to know why and be called a disgusting, retarded negroid to your heart's content.
 
Strangolapreti said:
Crossposting from another thread, I got a simple question to ask:

So I came out with this idea for any ball-themed sport:
Simply put, always give the serving to the losing team (lowest score) and, in case of parity, serving is decided by a coin toss.
In case of football, before the whistle, the ball would start in the hands of the losing team.

Can anyone please explain to me why this a incredibly retard retard reason? Not just for football, but inferior sports like tennis and soccer too.
I don't know sports, I have only an hunch that this is an incredibly idiotic idea, I just want to know why and be called a disgusting, retarded negroid to your heart's content.
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tl;dr - It would never happen because professional sports inthe modern day is driving by sport betting. Nobody in the gamblingworld would want your rule.

What you're proposing whats known as a rubberband or comeback mechanic in video games like MOBAs to make a game play out more closely. While realistically people watch sports to see their team win, most people would talk about concepts like fairness, skill,competition when it comes to sports. Giving one team a decided advantage over the other doesn't fit what most people think of when they think of sports beyond youth leagues. Just because a game is close doesn't mean it's exciting or fun to watch if the competitiveness, for lack of a better term, is artificial.

There is another business related reason in addition to the money reason in my tldr. In any pro sport there are well run organizations and there are poorly run ones. Winners want to win and winning raises team valuations, gets players higher and longer running contracts,etc. Winners in sports expect to get rewarded. Why try hard if there are advantages to losing?

What you propose would get exploited to the high heavens in NFL football. It's a game ball possession and territory on the field. One of the most basic strategies after getting a lead is trying to limit your opponents time of possessions to limit their ability to score.Just giving the losing team the ball to keep would destroy the basic nature of the game.

Any game being decided by two points or less where one team knows they're outclasssed would result in the losing team just fucking around until a final drive to get into field goal so they can score three points. If a losing team isn't confident they can score, why try until they absolutely have to?. Currently teams will sometimes let other teams score purposefully just so they can get the ball back and score again themselves rather than let the clock run out with their opponent in possession of the back. The losing team completely dictates the game if they can't give up possession of the ball without scoring.

Here is an extreme hypothetical example. A dogshit team like the Jets is playing their much better division rival the Patriots. The Patriots score a touchdown and kick an extra point on their opening drive and it's 7-0 with 53 minutes of game time to play. The Jets fuck up and fumble there way down a number of times and eventually get a field goal and it's 7-3 and now there is 40 minutes left to play. They then fuck up and fumble a bunch more until half time without scoring leaving 30 minutes to play. After half time they Benny Hill their way around and get a second field goal making it 7-6with 22 minutes left to play.

Now they have the advantage. Under your rule they could just keep the ball until there is 2-4 minutes left on the clock. Run a drive to get into field goal range using every trick in the book to tick down the clock and kick another field goal with 1 second left on the clock and the Jets win 7-9. You get 7 minutes of good football by the Patriots, nearly 53 minutes of horrible shit nobody will watch, and the worse team wins because they abused an advantage they were given.

It would make the game unwatchable and would pop the current bubble the NFL is operating in.
 
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