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 .
That yellow uniform on an afternoon timeslot in LA? Might actually be a competitive advantage considering how bright that yellow will come out :story:
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Somehow brighter than most team's whiteout uniforms.
Me watching the game
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Well the CTE stuff has the NFL shook for good reason.

If, at any point, players manage to get together and sue either the NFL or a college for knowing about the risks of neurodegenerative disorders and not telling players then that's the end of football. Insurers aren't going to cover it anymore and colleges aren't going to open themselves up to that liability.
Already happened. NFL settled in 2015. That and consequent policies will make future lawsuits pretty difficult
 
Hate to "Uhm Akshully!" but Gridiron Football was literally started by just a bunch of guys at Princeton and Rutgers playing a house rules version of Association Football (assoc'>soc>soccer? will never make sense to me) with some elements of Rugby mixed in. I like to think of it like what Pickleball is to Tennis, a hybrid of a couple of similar types of game that in the process becomes something completely different to any of it's influences. Why "Soccer" became our word for the original game, and we never came up with a new word for this distinctly North American game that nowadays bears practically no resemblance to "football" I'll never know.
The term "football" itself originates from hundreds of years ago when sports were classified by those played on horseback and those played on foot according to some sports historian nerd on the internet who's video I watched. There have been many types of "football" over the centuries.
 
The steelers giving a defensive end 40 million a year fucked up everything alot more then that. Didn't the mediocre qb from San Francisco get 50 mil a year. Nfl owners being idiots as usual
How much of that is guaranteed? Not saying this isn't being retarded on stilts, since it is, but NFL contracts often don't pay out as advertised.

I am curious what happens when the current round of TV deals run out in a year or two. It appears the NFL is expecting pull in a lot more shekels from some platform or other, meaning the amount allocable to player contracts will also increase, possibly substantially. Meaning what looks crazy now may not be in a few years.
 
How much of that is guaranteed? Not saying this isn't being retarded on stilts, since it is, but NFL contracts often don't pay out as advertised.

I am curious what happens when the current round of TV deals run out in a year or two. It appears the NFL is expecting pull in a lot more shekels from some platform or other, meaning the amount allocable to player contracts will also increase, possibly substantially. Meaning what looks crazy now may not be in a few years.
It was $123M with $108M guaranteed and here I am staring down the barrel of Jalen Carter's contract extension at the end of this season. Yeah TJ and Garrett are edges and Carter is a DT, but there's no way he's taking a $1M average above Chris Jones. I will be happy if we get away with $40M if he plays to the level he's capable of.
 
…or the whole “We TOTALY didn’t collude with the owners to keep QB contracts down” after the Browns gave Watson THAT much guaranteed money.
It was $123M with $108M guaranteed and here I am staring down the barrel of Jalen Carter's contract extension at the end of this season. Yeah TJ and Garrett are edges and Carter is a DT, but there's no way he's taking a $1M average above Chris Jones. I will be happy if we get away with $40M if he plays to the level he's capable of.
I wouldn't be shocked if in the coming years we see a giant revolt by the owners over these contract amounts. It is crazy to think that a mere decade ago guys like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning weren't even making $20 million a season. I am old enough to remember when Eli Manning and Philip Rivers each got $90 million plus contracts for six years after their rookie deals were up. Now and days a QB would laugh at that offer.

As the salary cap continues to increase, there is no way that owners are going to sit quietly. Especially since their last option will be to spike game costs on the fans so much to the point that no one will be able to afford to go anymore. The fact that pass rushers are now getting $40 million a year deals is a sign that things are heading to a calamity event.
 
I wouldn't be shocked if in the coming years we see a giant revolt by the owners over these contract amounts. It is crazy to think that a mere decade ago guys like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning weren't even making $20 million a season. I am old enough to remember when Eli Manning and Philip Rivers each got $90 million plus contracts for six years after their rookie deals were up. Now and days a QB would laugh at that offer.

As the salary cap continues to increase, there is no way that owners are going to sit quietly. Especially since their last option will be to spike game costs on the fans so much to the point that no one will be able to afford to go anymore. The fact that pass rushers are now getting $40 million a year deals is a sign that things are heading to a calamity event.
Isn't the NFL's TV Rights deal up for renegotiation soon-ish? Assuming that thing goes through as expected, I'd expect the cap to jump up accordingly.

This of course assumes that the NFL gets whatever fuck huge number they want for a TV deal. In the age of cord-cutting and streaming. I get this feeling no ones looking at a potential worst case scenario.
 
Isn't the NFL's TV Rights deal up for renegotiation soon-ish? Assuming that thing goes through as expected, I'd expect the cap to jump up accordingly.

This of course assumes that the NFL gets whatever fuck huge number they want for a TV deal. In the age of cord-cutting and streaming. I get this feeling no ones looking at a potential worst case scenario.
Cord cutting means streaming services are going to bid for the rights to broadcast games, which I think probably works out to more money for the league than the big players on cable ever would. I think one game this year is going to be streamed live exclusively on Youtube, Netflix is probably getting a couple of games again this year, and I imagine now that Warner is losing the rights to the NBA, they'll try and make a pitch for a couple of games to be on TNT/HBOMax
 
Isn't the NFL's TV Rights deal up for renegotiation soon-ish? Assuming that thing goes through as expected, I'd expect the cap to jump up accordingly.
There is an out after the 2029 season, so everyone is anticipating a renegotiation before that. numbers being kicked around that I've seen are 20-30% increase. That kind of jump is what the Eagles entire contract structure is built around.
 
Isn't the NFL's TV Rights deal up for renegotiation soon-ish? Assuming that thing goes through as expected, I'd expect the cap to jump up accordingly.

This of course assumes that the NFL gets whatever fuck huge number they want for a TV deal. In the age of cord-cutting and streaming. I get this feeling no ones looking at a potential worst case scenario.
Yep. The Iggles salary cap strategy is contingent on the league getting gigamoney from broadcast rights money going to the moon, and they're probably right.
There is an out after the 2029 season, so everyone is anticipating a renegotiation before that. numbers being kicked around that I've seen are 20-30% increase. That kind of jump is what the Eagles entire contract structure is built around.
Hehe, I too watched that one YouTube video.
All those clips of the Packers stomping the Cowboys out of the post-season were good for my soul
As is tradition. It's really cathartic since the Cowboys evoke a certain kind of hatred in the soul. I also fondly remember a regular season game where Green Bay was pretty far behind and we all discovered Aaron Jones was an honorary hwite man for the comeback. Ofc, after that Mike McCarthy never really figured out that handing the ball off to an elite RB was a valid strategy, but that's a different story for another time. Before Jerruh hired him for basically the most expected results imaginable.
I still remember watching that game with my old man, and everytime we scored, we were yelling and jumping with excitement. Before the game, I had totally thought we were gonna lose that game, cause the cowboys were undefeated at home. Not anymore!
God, it was so good. How about them Cowboys? It was their year. Then to go to their house and curbstomp them? Not just win but curbstomp Dallas to oblivion? Thinking about that game makes me want to start smoking cigawettes.
 
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God, it was so good. How about them Cowboys? It was there year. Then to go to their house and curbstomp them? Not just win but curbstomp Dallas to oblivion? Thinking about that game makes me want to start smoking cigawettes.
Going to "undefeated at home" Dallas and dissecting them so badly that we put the backups in convinced me that J Love is the guy (even if he did throw a bad pick to lose to the 9ers the next week).
The cope about Dak having a decent game even though 50% of his production was in garbage time was hilarious.
 
Will Levis is getting shoulder surgery, officially making the 2025 season one without Will Levis memes. Meanwhile, in the NFC, Trump is threatening to sabotage the Commanders stadium deal unless they change their name back to the Redskins. I do not like this partly because Trump is being his usual petty self, but also because former owner Dan Snyder wanted to keep that name, and Snyder doesn't deserve happiness.
 
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