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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 .
The Saints drag out a win, the Saints starters humiliated Kansas City's starters, Carr looks good in his roll, and most of the Saints third and fourth string are probably going to get cut. Overall, today was good day.
 
I am a firm believer in the preseason not meaning anything.

I also believe that the Trey Lance pick might have been the worst thing the 49er's have done in the past 5 years. He looks like our own Christian Hackenberg except we gave up way more to draft him.
 
Ensok said:
I am a firm believer in the preseason not meaning anything.
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They may not mean anything to us fans, but they mean something to the teams and players. Its these preseason games that determine who makes the team and who gets cut, and what the actual depth chart looks like. Who gets to be the first string, second string, etc. Who at least makes it to the practice squad. For us watching at home, yeah, it means nothing, except getting to see whether our teams actually have something going on when the starters play a drive or two. But for the players and coaches, they mean a lot.
 
Ensok said:
I am a firm believer in the preseason not meaning anything.

I also believe that the Trey Lance pick might have been the worst thing the 49er's have done in the past 5 years. He looks like our own Christian Hackenberg except we gave up way more to draft him.
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tbh it's disgusting how the 49ers can whiff on a pick like Lance so bad but still remain in contention for the NFC championship because of how good they draft on day 3.
Any other franchise, literally any other franchise, and the Lance pick sinks that organization for half a decade. Not San Francisco.
 
Absolutego said:
tbh it's disgusting how the 49ers can whiff on a pick like Lance so bad but still remain in contention for the NFC championship because of how good they draft on day 3.
Any other franchise, literally any other franchise, and the Lance pick sinks that organization for half a decade. Not San Francisco.
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Shanahan is somehow both a defensive mastermind and a QB whisperer. It's absolutley crazy.

He said that if they had beat the Eagles, he wanted to bring back Phillip Rivers for a Superbowl. That would of been amazing. Imagine the MEMES!
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
They may not mean anything to us fans, but they mean something to the teams and players. Its these preseason games that determine who makes the team and who gets cut, and what the actual depth chart looks like. Who gets to be the first string, second string, etc. Who at least makes it to the practice squad. For us watching at home, yeah, it means nothing, except getting to see whether our teams actually have something going on when the starters play a drive or two. But for the players and coaches, they mean a lot.
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It's pretty wild watching someone fuck up so bad they kill their potential million-dollar career within the span of five seconds though.

Whatever the absolute chaos Trey Lance's TD pass was is going to get multiple people cut. Pass rusher had Trey dead to rights but he slowed down and deployed the jazz hands. Dude you're trying to sack a QB not scare off a mountain lion.
 
std::string said:
It's pretty wild watching someone fuck up so bad they kill their potential million-dollar career within the span of five seconds though.

Whatever the absolute chaos Trey Lance's TD pass was is going to get multiple people cut. Pass rusher had Trey dead to rights but he slowed down and deployed the jazz hands. Dude you're trying to sack a QB not scare off a mountain lion.
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Honest question here, how the fuck has Trey so poorly developed? I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt to a degree but holy shit he looks like me playing Madden that one time after I stopped for several years. "Fuck it throw it down there."
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
They may not mean anything to us fans, but they mean something to the teams and players. Its these preseason games that determine who makes the team and who gets cut, and what the actual depth chart looks like. Who gets to be the first string, second string, etc. Who at least makes it to the practice squad. For us watching at home, yeah, it means nothing, except getting to see whether our teams actually have something going on when the starters play a drive or two. But for the players and coaches, they mean a lot.
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Which is why I have no idea why people like Goodell want to gut the preseason. He'll complain about the "quality" of the game and how it doesn't make money but it is not supposed to. They should stop advertising it so much to regular fans who aren't going to watch it.
 
Dildo_SHwaggins said:
Which is why I have no idea why people like Goodell want to gut the preseason. He'll complain about the "quality" of the game and how it doesn't make money but it is not supposed to. They should stop advertising it so much to regular fans who aren't going to watch it.
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Remember the NFL pays 0 taxes as a whole. So any use of their money that isn't bringing back profit hurts them more than a usual business that does. If we could bring back a fourth preseason game and use that to allow teams to develop these players better I could see some awesome things happen overall.

Off topic but a dream NFL season I think for every team would be something like this.
-18 games a year with at least two bye weeks, these by weeks would be spacing after a single Thursday night game, so each team could have a week off - game -week off. Really taking time to make these games a bigger deal.
-6 games against your division (3 home and 3 away playing each team twice)
-3 games against other teams ranked the same in other divisions of your conference.
-4 games against a division in the other conference
-4 games against a division in your conference.
-1 game against a team ranked the same as your previous year in the opposite division. (If the Chiefs were #1 in the AFC the previous year, they would play the #1 seed of the NFC the previous year as well)
 
I Hate Giraffes said:
Honest question here, how the fuck has Trey so poorly developed?
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He has barely played any football for the past five years. To put it in perspective Brady had more pass attempts last season than Trey has had in his entire career including college.

Some of it's Shanahan's fault since he kept making Trey run up the gut until he eventually broke. That's what RBs are for, Shanny...

Now he's buried behind Purdy. Trey's best hope is to scoot off to a team that will start him so he can actually play. Don't know if he will be any good or not but sitting on the bench isn't working out.
 
std::string said:
Now he's buried behind Purdy. Trey's best hope is to scoot off to a team that will start him so he can actually play. Don't know if he will be any good or not but sitting on the bench isn't working out.
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Which sucks for him because SF is utterly snakebitten on QB injuries, and unless Lance demands the trade there's no way they offload a QB from that roster.
They're currently rostering 5 QBs and I wouldn't be surprised at all if they carry 4 into the full season.
 
std::string said:
Trey's best hope is to scoot off to a team that will start him so he can actually play. Don't know if he will be any good or not but sitting on the bench isn't working out.
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At this point, his best bet is to become a 2nd or 3rd string somewhere that has an established QB. What team would want to pick up a QB who has zero success to show and fell behind a 7th rounder?
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
What team would want to pick up a QB who has zero success to show and fell behind a 7th rounder?
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Honestly, Bucs or Rams probably. This is almost certainly Stafford's last season and the Bucs, uh...Canales seems to have done a good job stopping Baker from doing stupid Baker things but we'll see how that goes.

Or I guess he can go to the Titans since they collect these high-ceiling QBs like pokemon.

Aside from that he doesn't have many options as a starter.
 
std::string said:
Honestly, Bucs or Rams probably. This is almost certainly Stafford's last season and the Bucs, uh...Canales seems to have done a good job stopping Baker from doing stupid Baker things but we'll see how that goes.
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Aside from the Rams deciding to draft the 8th year senior Stetson Bennet, why would you go for Lance? Why would you trade for him instead of drafting a first round pick next year and getting 5 years of control? I get the Rams threw everything to win a super bowl and don't pick until Round 4 but I bet they could find a way to move up in the draft if they found a QB they really liked. Lance's issues are that he can't give teams contractual control and he has proven he can't do it at this level. Like if a team had contractual control, he might be interesting to try or if he had proven anything at this level he would be an interesting pick up. I mean, at least have a mystery about whether you could do it at this level would be good too. There's just no where to go for him right now
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Why would you trade for him instead of drafting a first round pick next year and getting 5 years of control?
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If, for whatever reason, you thought he was a QB1 that needs to be unleashed he'd be cheaper than grabbing a first round pick. Niners rolled most of his contract into his signing bonus ($22m/4yr for warming up the bench with his ass I guess.)

So it'd be like $3m next season if he was traded right now and $5m the next. That's like Dalton-level money. I could see how it would be worth it since if he sucks he sucks who cares.
 
std::string said:
If, for whatever reason, you thought he was a QB1 that needs to be unleashed he'd be cheaper than grabbing a first round pick.
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There's a million of those out there though. He hasn't set himself out from others. If a team needs a QB to potentially win a super bowl or make a run then they will go for something better than him. If they need a rebuild, they will draft a QB. He's in a spot that so many other QBs find themselves in but even worse because he hasn't played enough
 
Seeing Dalvin Cook play with Rodgers is like breaking up with a great girl cuz you both wanted different things in life, and then watching her date the guy who used to wedgie you in school.
 
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