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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 .
Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
Apparently the NFL has lost an Antitrust suit regarding Sunday Ticket, and is going to be having to pay out Billions.

Sure, the league is appealing this, but it’s probably notable for… something, idk I’m not a lawyer.
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I think it probably gets thrown out on appeal.

The Sports Broadcast Act allows leagues to bundle broadcast rights together for every team and effectively act as a monopoly. The plaintiffs successfully argued that it only applies to TV broadcasts and not streaming or satellite. I think that's an overly narrow interpretation of the law, honestly.

If this holds teams are gonna be able to sell their own streaming packages though, so it'll be good for you if you follow a team and don't live in their broadcast market.
 
Newly drafted Vikings CB Khyree Jackson died in an accident on July 6th, he was only 24.
Surprised nobody posted about this, maybe we don't have a lot of purple people eaters in here. Pretty sad shit regardless.

Trombonista said:
the Falcons are forfeiting a fifth-round pick in the 2025 draft.
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Such a slap on the wrist honestly. This whole fiasco is still such a meme to me, I can't believe they gave Kirk that much money coming off an Achilles injury like that. The falcons desperately needed a QB which I get, but they need a lot of other things too. They had a pretty solid pass defense last year but that was about it. Maybe there's other pieces to the puzzle I'm missing here but I think this was a bad deal for them. Kirk should have pulled a Tom Brady and accepted a pay cut so the Vikes could have the cap space to draft some new talent- but that ship is long sailed (no pun intended).

Also some gossip I picked on, my coworkers friend works at the Mayo Clinic where Kirk received care for his injury. She alleged to my coworker that Kirks' primary doctor recommended Kirk let his injury heal naturally instead of opt for the surgery, due to surgery not being that successful in his age group. Despite this Kirk went against the doctors orders and got the surgery to expedite recovery anyway and his doctor was not happy about it. My coworker or his nurse friend could be bullshitting, but this is kind of a bombshell and I'm really curious to see what goes down this coming season.
 
miiisha said:
Also some gossip I picked on, my coworkers friend works at the Mayo Clinic where Kirk received care for his injury. She alleged to my coworker that Kirks' primary doctor recommended Kirk let his injury heal naturally instead of opt for the surgery, due to surgery not being that successful in his age group.
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Well usually people his age don't get these surgeries. You can live with a torn Achilles. But also most people his age don't make millions upon millions of dollars playing football.

So, looking at Rodgers' Achilles injury it was pretty obvious what happened. It was a complete tear and his Achilles retracted, and that requires surgery. I can't find a really good angle of Kirk's injury and I don't really feel like going through potato videos frame by frame like it's the fucking Zapruder film, but I would imagine it's the same. So that would require surgical correction.
 
Trombonista said:
Didn't Aaron Rodgers get the surgery too? If it worked for Rodgers, maybe Cousins thought it would work for him too.
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He did yes IIRC. If the story is true I assume the risk is that surgery=faster but wont heal as completely so there is risk of reoccuring injury, whereas naturally=much slower but more complete healing. I'm not a doctor though so I have no clue if there's any truth to that.

Either way Im still sad about losing Kirk, he was arguably the best deep (and also mid passer I believe) the Vikings have ever had.
 
miiisha said:
Either way Im still sad about losing Kirk, he was arguably the best deep (and also mid passer I believe) the Vikings have ever had.
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He was the GOAT of fantasy football. Like, seriously nobody ever fucking drafted him so he was always hanging out waiting for me to pick him up, and he was one consistent motherfucker.

Now the Vikings get to have McCarthy, who suddenly goes from UM's run-first offense to the Vikings' pass-first offense and well good luck.
 
std::string said:
He was the GOAT of fantasy football. Like, seriously nobody ever fucking drafted him so he was always hanging out waiting for me to pick him up, and he was one consistent motherfucker.

Now the Vikings get to have McCarthy, who suddenly goes from UM's run-first offense to the Vikings' pass-first offense and well good luck.
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Yeah he is underrated imo. You see a lot of seething about how Kirk was apparently garbage in the NFC North spaces, and I'm heavily inclined to disagree not only from a fantasy stand point but from a real world stand point as well- statistically Kirk has almost always been a stud. It's sad our 2022 run was doomed with the joke of an defense Donatello was running. Thankfully, Flores is a much better DC.

Also yeah I'm a little worried about McCarthy panning out too. Unfortunately there just wasn't a lot of of true pocket passers around, and it's kind of a dying breed anyway aside a few guys like Burrow and Goff. In the same regard I think Flacco is the only OG left. Praying to god we don't get Ponder 2.0 lol
 
VasonJoorhees said:
Yeah he is underrated imo. You see a lot of seething about how Kirk was apparently garbage in the NFC North spaces, and I'm heavily inclined to disagree not only from a fantasy stand point but from a real world stand point as well- statistically Kirk has almost always been a stud. It's sad our 2022 run was doomed with the joke of an defense Donatello was running. Thankfully, Flores is a much better DC.
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Yeah it was always weird to me how so many Vikings fans wanted to ditch Kirk. Do you really want to be stuck in QB hell like the rest of us? Having to convince yourself that Jameis is the future? You don't know what we've seen.
 
std::string said:
Yeah it was always weird to me how so many Vikings fans wanted to ditch Kirk. Do you really want to be stuck in QB hell like the rest of us? Having to convince yourself that Jameis is the future? You don't know what we've seen.
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Its because theres a ton of "football fans" who actually dont know shit about football. People blamed Kirk for our 2022 playoff loss rather than blame the defense that was terrible all season. Donatello's playbook was literally just zone every play no matter what with no coverage ever, and the staff we had was too old/too big and not fast enough for these zone plays. We made nearly all offenses we played look elite that year lol.


Average Vikings fan IQ on display from 2023:
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I probably dont need to explain why this is so funny.
 
std::string said:
Yeah it was always weird to me how so many Vikings fans wanted to ditch Kirk. Do you really want to be stuck in QB hell like the rest of us? Having to convince yourself that Jameis is the future? You don't know what we've seen.
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All fanbases do this when they arent winning. Some Detroit Lions fans did this to Matt Stafford, despite being the best QB the team has ever had including Goff. Hell, if the lions dont win this year there's going to be people saying the same thing about Goff! I know there will. Its just how some football fans are. Everyone blames the QB for the team not winning just like everyone blames the CEO when the company is failing. Its sorta part of the job.
 
FootballBuff said:
All fanbases do this when they arent winning. Some Detroit Lions fans did this to Matt Stafford, despite being the best QB the team has ever had including Goff. Hell, if the lions dont win this year there's going to be people saying the same thing about Goff! I know there will. Its just how some football fans are. Everyone blames the QB for the team not winning just like everyone blames the CEO when the company is failing. Its sorta part of the job.
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It could be worse though. You could be a packers fan and have to hear this when Brett Favre was pushed out, and then Aaron Rodgers. And the next guy in the organization is good enough to justify these idiots
 
Former receiver Jacoby Jones passed away today just three days after his 40th birthday. No word yet on the cause of death. He was a first-team All-Pro kick returner and Super Bowl champ with the Ravens back in 2012 after playing his first five seasons with the Texans.
 
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FootballBuff said:
All fanbases do this when they arent winning. Some Detroit Lions fans did this to Matt Stafford, despite being the best QB the team has ever had including Goff. Hell, if the lions dont win this year there's going to be people saying the same thing about Goff! I know there will. Its just how some football fans are. Everyone blames the QB for the team not winning just like everyone blames the CEO when the company is failing. Its sorta part of the job.
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It drove me nuts listening to Seahawks fans complain about Geno being the problem by merely being a good QB this year instead of being top 10 in 2022, while our front 7 were swiss cheese against the run and our defensive backs not named Devon Witherspoon were jogging routes.

Anyways, sounds like both major WR signing drama candidate sagas are coming to a middling end. Tee Higgins has signed the tag and Brandon Aiyuk has said he'll play on it as well this year.
Gonna be an interesting free agency class for that position next year, though.
 
Addison you stupid fuck! You have a chance to learn from the best receiver in the league and you're blowing it because you can't take an Uber?! That's twice in 2 years.

If he wants to be a little shit, then fine. We'll trade him to a team for a good haul who thinks they can "fix him".
 
InteracialBowelSyndrome said:
Addison you stupid fuck! You have a chance to learn from the best receiver in the league and you're blowing it because you can't take an Uber?! That's twice in 2 years.

If he wants to be a little shit, then fine. We'll trade him to a team for a good haul who thinks they can "fix him".
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Really frustrating too as Addison is already a strong WR, rather not see him go down the path of being a soak or worse
 
Did the Seahawks seriously just sign Julian Love to a $12m contract?
How have we not learned our lesson about overpaying fringe starter safeties after it got bad enough to get Pete fired?
100% he put more effort in than Diggs last year and isn't destroyed by injuries like Adams but STILL, spend a few third day picks on special teamers that might pan out as dbs, for Christ's sake, we aren't in need of even MORE wideouts
 
So it looks like the NFL and the PA have been discussing making an 18 game season a reality before 2030. I know I gave my opinions on this awhile ago, but I'm not sure the current player base is going to agree to another extension of the season. The last bargaining agreement barely passed with 51.5% of members voting yes and the biggest concern was the league asking for more games to be played.

I'd really hate to see a lockout between the league and players, but I can't blame the players if they stood up and said no.
 
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