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

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

I swear if the Panthers win the NFC South, I'm killing Todd Bowles myself regardless if he's fired or not.

 

[Norms Abused Liver]

It was expected. The Andy Dalton 5 straight playoff appearances were only the second time in franchise history that the team had even been to the playoffs two years in a row. Even the fleeting hope they would change for Joe was crushed when they started letting guys walk after the Super Bowl. It was exactly what happened after the 2015 12-4 season, too. Let talented guys walk, then miss on draft picks, and hope everything just works out.

Bengals wasted Dalton's entire career, and Burrow will likely suffer the same fate. At least on the Browns you KNOW you will be bad, the Bengals give you a taste of success only to kick you in the balls.

 

[Quence]

It’s my understanding that the Bengals’ owner is the league’s poorest so they’ll never have the money to spend on enough quality players to make them consistent winners. They can only hope to get lucky in the draft and get good young players who are ready to perform immediately and fill roster holes with cheap free agents that can perform decently for 1 season. Then they end up trading away or not resigning their quality players and they return to their natural state of being cellar dwellers.

 

[DSP's Tax Lawyer]

It’s my understanding that the Bengals’ owner is the league’s poorest so they’ll never have the money to spend on enough quality players to make them consistent winners. They can only hope to get lucky in the draft and get good young players who are ready to perform immediately and fill roster holes with cheap free agents that can perform decently for 1 season. Then they end up trading away or not resigning their quality players and they return to their natural state of being cellar dwellers.

I think individually, the Packers have the poorest owners

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

It’s my understanding that the Bengals’ owner is the league’s poorest so they’ll never have the money to spend on enough quality players to make them consistent winners.

Sorta. The ownership is cash poor so they can't tie up too much money in escrow. This leads to the Bengals not signing good players they draft in a timely manner, the other teams seeing those players' real value, and the ownership either overpaying compared to what the extension would have cost 12-18 months earlier or losing players to another team and needing to fill a lot gaps with free agents.

Their current #1 problem is around 40% of their cap is tied up in 3 players(Burrow, Higgins, Chase) for the next several years. $94m 2025 , $101m 2026 , and $115m 2027.

I think individually, the Packers have the poorest owners

Sure, but The Packers could put out Packbonds™ tomorrow to cover some obnoxious fully guaranteed contract for (insert hot player of the week here) today and it would be covered by Wednesday.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

God damn browns are their own worst enemies. Second time in the red zone and 6 points total. First and goal from the ~3 this time.
They get down there and start playing totally different from what got them there. A lo of teams have that problem but their case is extreme.

Browns get the pick six! lol 13-3, 7 mins left in 2nd
Go browns

 

[Norms Abused Liver]

It’s my understanding that the Bengals’ owner is the league’s poorest so they’ll never have the money to spend on enough quality players to make them consistent winners. They can only hope to get lucky in the draft and get good young players who are ready to perform immediately and fill roster holes with cheap free agents that can perform decently for 1 season. Then they end up trading away or not resigning their quality players and they return to their natural state of being cellar dwellers.

Owner being poor (they own an NFL team, poor is a different word for them) means nothing. Every team gets the same amount to spend on players, their coaching and behind the scenes team is the failure. And that is 100% on them.

 

[Nogg]

Owner being poor (they own an NFL team, poor is a different word for them) means nothing. Every team gets the same amount to spend on players, their coaching and behind the scenes team is the failure. And that is 100% on them.

The salary cap is the same, but how the contract is structured is where the owner's money comes in. Any guaranteed money on a contract has to be placed in escrow the day it's signed. That's part of why all the owners were pissed when Cleveland gave Watson a fully guaranteed contract. So, when a team like the Bengals, whose fortune comes from owning the team, they have less guaranteed money they can decide to give a guy than a team run by somebody like the Waltons and their Walmart money. It's one of the biggest issues Katie Blackburn has had with contracts over the last decade. They rarely want to put guarantees past year one of contracts.

 

[Norms Abused Liver]

Ahh,okay. I didn't know that about the contracts, kinda changes things.

 

[Iron Hamster]

Can that same person tell the Chargers as well?

Chargers always seem to have an issue traveling East. Dolphin/Titan wins were anomalies and should have been blowouts.

TB and Buff game sounds nuts!

Not one day game had an O/U better than 48.5

I think individually, the Packers have the poorest owners

I see what you did there.

 

[Zaryiu2]

Goddell deserves to be beaten for fucking up the league in general

Ftfy

 

[Squanto Airi]

The Browns have trotted out Shedeur

 

[W@rui]

We got another angle on the Ja'Marr Chase and Jalen Ramsey incident from earlier.
You can clearly see Chase spitting on Ramsey.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Disgusting. It's only acceptable to spit on cowboys.

 

[Wallace]

Shedeur fitting right in with the Browns.

 

[Ensok]

And my crippled and broken 49er's are demolishing the just plain terrible Cardinals. Maybe we did just need Brock Purdy back.

 

[Wallace]

This is sad. Shedeur now at 2 for 5, an interception, and -9 yards for the day so far.

 

[Nogg]

We got another angle on the Ja'Marr Chase and Jalen Ramsey incident from earlier.
You can clearly see Chase spitting on Ramsey.

You can clearly see the spit pass by his arm, and unless you think spit can ricochet, you're looking for excuses for why a man that is known to chimp out and get ejected, chimped out and got ejected.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

The browns got fucked on that call. He was clearly still out before pushing it away!

We got another angle on the Ja'Marr Chase and Jalen Ramsey incident from earlier.
You can clearly see Chase spitting on Ramsey.

I thought something seemed weird about how that all played out.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Isn't the play/ball dead the moment it's touched by the kicking team? Why are the rules different for goal line? Who wrote these retarded rules and thought they were a good idea? Seriously!

BULLSHIT even with the rules!