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

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account

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 .
If I am reading it right, that means the Eagles are getting an advantage because Lurie has cash on hand and is willing to use it. I think there is a good argument that such a tactic goes directly against the spirit of the salary cap. It's pretty much exactly what the cap exists to remove from the game.
 
Hunter Hearst Helmsley said:
If I am reading it right, that means the Eagles are getting an advantage because Lurie has cash on hand and is willing to use it. I think there is a good argument that such a tactic goes directly against the spirit of the salary cap. It's pretty much exactly what the cap exists to remove from the game.
Click to expand...
The Eagles are far from the only ones doing the void years thing, they're just the most successful ones at doing it and do it the most. The biggest difference between Lurie and other owners is that he places a higher onus on the Eagles being a winning organization than a business.

Take a look at the Cowboys. They are worth billions more than the Eagles. Jerry Jones makes $560M per game. That's double the next closest team and 10x the 32nd team. He was willing to spend all-star money to buy Super Bowls before the salary cap. The Cowboys have been irrelevant ever since he stopped caring about winning.

I can see the point of view that it goes against the spirit of the salary cap to a degree. My counterpoint to that is the value of teams these days. Even the lowest valued teams are worth billions. Owners can sell minority stakes like Lurie. The Browns, Jags, and Saints are 3rd, 4th, and 5th when is comes to void money and rank like 20th-26th in team valuations with pedestrian earnings per game.

Some teams like Bungals are poorly exploited from a business perspective. They practiced under a fucking bridge during winter off the Great Lakes until recently because the Brown family are cheap fucks. They refused to get a sponsor to put up an indoor bubble that D1 high school teams in Texas have until Burrow took them to a Super Bowl.

I won't be particularly sad to see void years go as I do think it's an exploit, but it's an exploit everyone can use. Once again people are mad because nobody can do it as well as the Eagles.

Edit. It also completely goes off the rails if you can't draft worth shit and the players don't live up to the contracts. Talent evaluation is vital.
 
Drama Fan said:
3/32 NFL teams are gay this year.
View attachment 7442046
Click to expand...
1749061081258.webp 1749061135294.webp
I haven't looked, but I see no way the Patriots, Giants, Jets, Commies, 49ers, etc. don't also join the fun at some point.
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
View attachment 7454326View attachment 7454329
I haven't looked, but I see no way the Patriots, Giants, Jets, Commies, 49ers, etc. don't also join the fun at some point.
Click to expand...
1749068112618.webp
Seahawks are in on it too, though this is the only recognition of Pride in any way, which is surprising. Social media team is doing an All-Time Top 50 Seahawks thing this week instead.
I know corpo offices nationwide were spooked after the 2024 elections and how much troon fatigue started tainting any association with the Rainbow Mafia, but the reserved attitude is so common across the NFL I legit wonder if there was a missive that went out after the owners' meeting this year.
 
Zaryiu2 said:
Garish but maybe it's the motion of the Buffalo that makes it not the worst example of the sort?
Click to expand...

Absolutego said:
View attachment 7454858
Seahawks are in on it too, though this is the only recognition of Pride in any way, which is surprising. Social media team is doing an All-Time Top 50 Seahawks thing this week instead.
I know corpo offices nationwide were spooked after the 2024 elections and how much troon fatigue started tainting any association with the Rainbow Mafia, but the reserved attitude is so common across the NFL I legit wonder if there was a missive that went out after the owners' meeting this year.
Click to expand...
You know... I can take it, I meant yeah it's empty pandering but it seems to me like maybe things might be changing even in the slightest seeing that.
I want to believe
 
xX Puss Slayer Xx said:
man look at this top 10, philly and SF and then a who's who of terrible franchises

1. PHI (duh): $390.4M
2. SF: $204.1M
3. CLE: $187.5M
4. NO: $112.1M
5. JAX:$106.55M
6. NYJ: $87.6M
7. MIA: $70.6M
8. DAL: $62.755M
9. TB: $56.1M
10. DET: $52.1M
Click to expand...
Two ways to burn cash:

Lock in contracts early and long on proven talent like Brown, Smitty, Saquon, etc.

Shovel money to absolute bums like Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence while missing year after year in the draft on both sides of the ball, without any money to keep anyone half-way decent you have left on your roster.
 
Oh god, the Steelers are absolutely boned now. There goes the 9-8 winning seasons that Tomlin loves so much, but honestly, good riddance, signing this washed up controversy machine deserves you to lose games. (Although him saying that men shouldn't be in women's sports is cool, the rest of his ego-stroking personality isn't)
 
Speaking of hearing news from Tom Grossi first, just saw the Steelers signed Aaron too. I think they're fucked but who knows, they managed to end 2019 8-8 and by all accounts that should've been much worse for them.
 
The cost of shrooms and DMT in the Greater Pittsburgh Area is plummeting on the news. You know Rodgers is bringing his stash
 
Now I'm wishing they kept Pickens. Had he stayed, this year's Days of Our Steelers would have been absolute kino.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom