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

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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 .
Franz Joseph said:
I know who the Raiders are taking in the first round.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he goes to the Packers or maybe even the Bucs, idk. A lot of people don't trust raw speed.
 
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Kilo Riley said:
I wouldn't be surprised if he goes to the Packers or maybe even the Bucs, idk. A lot of people don't trust raw speed.
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That would be wild but I think the Packers have other needs ahead of another WR

There's a lingering sense the NFL still wants to get to 18 regular-season games
When immersed within the NFL universe for multiple days, you pick up a few things. Here's one thing I picked up this time around.
The push to 18 regular-season games hasn't been abandoned, health and safety concerns be damned.

The first hint of it came when Browns G.M. Andrew Berry explained on PFT Live that Cleveland and other teams are proposing a delay of the trade deadline by 14 days, from the Tuesday after Week 8 to the Tuesday after Week 10. Berry said that one week was aimed at accounting for the extra week created by the 17th regular-season game — and that the second week was in anticipation of further expansion of the regular season, to 18 games.

That happened on Tuesday. In talking to folks after that, I mentioned Berry's plan, with the anticipation of another game. The reaction was, basically, "Yeah. That's coming."

It likely won't come until the next labor deal. And the league will likely have the same determination then that it had four years ago, when it was clear that the league wanted an extra game badly enough to lock out the players, like the NFL did in 2011.

On one hand, the players share in the extra money that comes from playing extra games. On the other hand, how many more games can the human body endure?

At one point when the NFL wanted to go straight from 16 to 18, someone floated the idea of 18 games with players appearing in a maximum of 16 each. Maybe the 18th game comes with a caveat that, in addition to a bye, no player can play more than 17 regular-season games. (There probably would be an exception for quarterbacks, kickers, punters, and long snappers.)

Regardless, the NFL has good reasons to increase inventory. It's another weekend of TV windows — which means another weekend of TV money. Also, it's more stuff on which folks can bet, bet, bet. Which further feathers the nest of owners, both through sponsorships and their ability to own up to five percent of any. company with sports betting operations.

So, ready or not, here it comes. Eighteen regular-season games. Two preseason games.

The question then will be whether the league will eventually if not inevitably try to go with 20 games and no preseason.
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They should add another bye and increase the size of rosters if they want to add more games
 
1Tonka_Truck said:
They need to add another bye anyway and schedule TNF games around those byes.
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That will probably be the NFLPA's starting offer for the 18th game when they start negotiating the next CBA.
What they will likely settle for is the 2nd bye but not TNF scheduling. The league already had to issue flexing for TNF games after 1 year on the current Amazon deal to keep Bezos happy, they aren't going to trade that tool for keeping the games from being total dogshit away so easily.
 
Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
I’m assuming Jimmy G is in the Baker Mayfield role - he’s cheap, and with that kind of dead cap hit, cheap is probably the best bet for the Broncos.
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trying to get Jimmy G is just asking for whatever QB Payton drafts this spring to be thrown to the wolves on a team with a lot of holes and not a lot of depth sometime around Week 5.
And then the Broncos will wonder why all their homegrown QBs never work out and they have to procure them on the open market instead.
 
Its amazing how the Broncos' QB woes, much like those of the Browns, is becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. Wilson wasn't The Answer(tm), but he was a serviceable QB that in their shoes, I would have kept in the position.
 
He definitely earned it and thanks for all the seasons you put in with us autismo birds fans.

Good dude all around. I hope he gets into broad casting or scouting or something he is personable and knows the game aside a monster
 
Kilo Riley said:
Jason Kelce has officially retired. One of the greatest to play at the center position.
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I feel as though Kelce may be the very best representative of Philly and the Eagles (even though he's from Ohio).

The guy was tough as nails, extremely intelligent (as all great Centers have to be) and mentally as resilient as they come. His commentary on Ben Simmons was incredibly on point.

I've always said that Eagles fans can love you like no other fan base if you bring it on every down and play hard.
 
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