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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 .
I'm tired of this performative "we gotta stop the game because of a major injury."

It's football and you guys are grown men. The show must go on and sitting around moping isn't going to do your teammate any good. It's very womanly behavior. You guys gonna go back to the locker room and have a good cry?
 
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Dragged Into Sunlight said:
I'm tired of this performative "we gotta stop the game because of a major injury."

It's football and you guys are grown men. The show must go on and sitting around moping isn't going to do your teammate any good. It's very womanly behavior. You guys gonna go back to the locker room and have a good cry?
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Counter point, it was the end of the first pre-season game. It's a glorified practice at that point.
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
I'm tired of this performative "we gotta stop the game because of a major injury."

It's football and you guys are grown men. The show must go on and sitting around moping isn't going to do your teammate any good. It's very womanly behavior. You guys gonna go back to the locker room and have a good cry?
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Ok who wants to watch a bunch of guys who will be playing in a local park league for the remainder of the 4th quarter in the first pre season game after that injury? The only ones who lose out here are those fourth string guys who didn't get to rep out a few more plays that nobody cares about but they make their name in practice and scrimmages
 
JustStopDude said:
Im pretty happy with Sander's performance. His one TD throw was really nice. He seemed to really get in synch with the rest of his team.
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Too bad he looks even slower against NFL players. Not sure where all his dad's athleticism went...

Pretty good at making the right read and has a good amount of touch. If he stops running backwards as soon as he's pressured he can be a fine pocket passer.
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
I'm tired of this performative "we gotta stop the game because of a major injury."

It's football and you guys are grown men. The show must go on and sitting around moping isn't going to do your teammate any good. It's very womanly behavior. You guys gonna go back to the locker room and have a good cry?
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JustStopDude said:
Counter point, it was the end of the first pre-season game. It's a glorified practice at that point.
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Additional counter point - our hyper-litigious society has made performative concern mandatory to avoid being tagged as "negligent" later in court.

"My client was paralyzed and you didn't even stop the game?!"

"Irrelevant. Stopping the game wouldn't have made his sustained injury suddenly less severe"

"But.. you didn't even TRY it! You didn't even CARE!"

Letting the players "be men" and play it out is how the NFL got on the hook for CTE - "You should have known they weren't ready to go back in, even though they said they were"

See something in a businesses' procedures that just doesn't make sense or clashes with the rest of the "vibe" of the place? It was lawyers, it's always the lawyers.
 
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Ensok said:
2019 QB Class is just disappointing, mediocre, or dead.
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That doesn't say much when you only had three QBs from the class to begin with. It says a lot that Daniel Jones is the only one from that class that has a playoff win.

Then again if Kirk Cousins didn't throw a checkdown on fourth and long maybe no one from the 2019 class would have had a postseason victory.
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Ok who wants to watch a bunch of guys who will be playing in a local park league for the remainder of the 4th quarter in the first pre season game after that injury? The only ones who lose out here are those fourth string guys who didn't get to rep out a few more plays that nobody cares about but they make their name in practice and scrimmages
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Yeah, I don't really care about them stopping a preseason game. Even if Marquavius Ja'Bobo at CB8 didn't get to show out there are more meaningless games to come.

I hope it doesn't get normalized for regular season games though.
 
So y'all probably discussed this but the NFL just put out a youtube video explaining the rules changes. I hate the OT change.

The initial change to having to score a tuddy instead of kicking a fg was needed as kickers at the time were just beginning to kick more 45-50 yarders. This was still the time where the starting point after a touchback was the 20 yard line compared to now the 35 yard line.

I hated the change of "both teams get a possession" in the playoffs because I knew it would lead to where we are now.

Pretty soon people will bitch about the "sudden death after both teams possession" and demand more possessions. Especially if the special number 1 Josh Allen gets picked 6th on the first possession.
 
Mister Ferro said:
Pretty soon people will bitch about the "sudden death after both teams possession" and demand more possessions. Especially if the special number 1 Josh Allen gets picked 6th on the first possession.
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Oh be nice. The NFL has only changed two rules in their quest to get Josh Allen a Super Bowl and prove he can perform in clutch time.
 
Mister Ferro said:
So y'all probably discussed this but the NFL just put out a youtube video explaining the rules changes. I hate the OT change.

The initial change to having to score a tuddy instead of kicking a fg was needed as kickers at the time were just beginning to kick more 45-50 yarders. This was still the time where the starting point after a touchback was the 20 yard line compared to now the 35 yard line.

I hated the change of "both teams get a possession" in the playoffs because I knew it would lead to where we are now.

Pretty soon people will bitch about the "sudden death after both teams possession" and demand more possessions. Especially if the special number 1 Josh Allen gets picked 6th on the first possession.
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Yeah, the eternal whining about overtime b/c of salty fanbases is extremely annoying, but personally, when it came to rule changes, I was most pissed off at how they implemented replay assist.
If a camera on the field catches that a penalty was obviously not a penalty, the league is free at their discretion to radio the refs and tell them to pick up the flag, feeding the footage to the broadcast team. But it can't be used to challenge calls or demand a review.
Because that's what fans wanted when asking for more use of modern tech towards calling - a way that protects the ego of the referees' union and gives the league plenty of discretion to manipulate games, in an era where they're more closely tied to Vegas than ever.
 
Absolutego said:
Yeah, the eternal whining about overtime b/c of salty fanbases is extremely annoying, but personally, when it came to rule changes, I was most pissed off at how they implemented replay assist.
If a camera on the field catches that a penalty was obviously not a penalty, the league is free at their discretion to radio the refs and tell them to pick up the flag, feeding the footage to the broadcast team. But it can't be used to challenge calls or demand a review.
Because that's what fans wanted when asking for more use of modern tech towards calling - a way that protects the ego of the referees' union and gives the league plenty of discretion to manipulate games, in an era where they're more closely tied to Vegas than ever.
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Now I might be wrong given I don't know ESPN's business structure, but I think the league now own a stake in ESPN Bets with the merger deal. Then: Vegas couldn't have a team because it would look improper. Now: The NFL is the book.
 
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