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

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 .
They're talking about hot prospect Dixon Mayaz going to Houston

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Figured I'd provide some updates to the Pearce case. I'll link the video, but the guy is seriously annoying and the only reason I watched if because I hadn't seen any comprehensive recent news. I mean seriously. The guy has LeBron, McAfee, and Mahomes jerseys framed behind him in his fucking studio.

- The 5 felonies were knocked down to 3 felonies and 1 misdemeanor
- The stalking charge was lowered to a misdemeanor and assaulting a police officer was dropped
- The felonies are aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, fleeing and eluding police, and resisting an officer with violence
- Jackson has said she will testify if the case goes to trial
- A woman at Jackson's address called 911 seven times in the months leading up to the attack that got him arrested
- Pearce tried to bribe her several times to see him and stay his girlfriend with offers going as high as $200,000
- Pearce's father called her to warn her he was coming back after he'd left when she called 911 during one incident
- Pearce was told to leave Jackson alone after another incident (did not specify if he was formally trespassed)
_ Jackson went to a hotel after he damaged a door to her home during yet another
- Jackson hired a private security guard for her residence
- Pearce allegedly assaulted Jackson at a gas station in Florida, though a witness to part of the incident only saw a verbal altercation
- Pearce had been sleeping in his car with a view of Jackson's home before the attack that got him arrested
- Pearce also blocked her at an intersection and tried to car jack her during the attack
- Pearce repeatedly rammed her car during the attack and forced her off the road

My big takeaway other than Pearce being a fucking psycho who's character concerns were well known to scouts, is that the Falcons knew. It's either that or Blank doesn't pay a security team worth a shit. No way your 1st round draft pick is getting named in half a dozen DV calls and nobody at team security gets a call. That might be beyond even Jets level incompetence.

"But I'm even prouder of the man he's became [sic]. James has a heart of gold, deep love for family and friends,"

-Sheboon Enabler on her son James Pearce at the NFL Honors
 
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Absolutego said:
Hollywood and the corpse of Goedert != AJ Brown, not even close. Howie's gonna diamond hands this no matter how many cryptic tweets AJ posts.
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I was on team They're Never Trading AJ, but I really don't think Hollywood signed on to be a #3.

Waddle and a 4th to Denver for a 1, 3, and 4.

OK, nm on moving AJ. Hollywood only got up to $6.5M. I guess he has accepted his place in the league. I just assumed he was a receiver diva who looked at himself still as a 1st round pick.
 
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9 picks total for the Dolphins, including the 11th overall. Outside of LV, I think I'm the most excited to see what they do in the draft to build around Malik. Always love me a team in full rebuild.

Speaking of the Raiders though, man I'm scared of them next year. If they get Mendoza and kill the rest of their draft as well they're gonna have a terrifying amount of potential, they already do with them nabbing Linderbaum and potentially keeping Maxx, I'm big on them rn.
 
Piss Jugman said:
9 picks total for the Dolphins, including the 11th overall. Outside of LV, I think I'm the most excited to see what they do in the draft to build around Malik. Always love me a team in full rebuild.

Speaking of the Raiders though, man I'm scared of them next year. If they get Mendoza and kill the rest of their draft as well they're gonna have a terrifying amount of potential, they already do with them nabbing Linderbaum and potentially keeping Maxx, I'm big on them rn.
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Grier gone, McDaniel gone, Tua gone, Hill , Waddle, Fitzpatrick, Chubb... Hell, even our kicker Sanders is gone. At least we still have Achane?

Piss Jugman said:
9 picks total for the Dolphins, including the 11th overall. Outside of LV, I think I'm the most excited to see what they do in the draft to build around Malik. Always love me a team in full rebuild.
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Sucks, but it's been a long time coming. Basically everything they've done since 2020 was trying to build around Tua and his skillset. I guess now that they've finally bit the bullet and cut him, it's as good a time as any to just burn the whole thing down and start over.
 
Piss Jugman said:
9 picks total for the Dolphins, including the 11th overall. Outside of LV, I think I'm the most excited to see what they do in the draft to build around Malik. Always love me a team in full rebuild.

Speaking of the Raiders though, man I'm scared of them next year. If they get Mendoza and kill the rest of their draft as well they're gonna have a terrifying amount of potential, they already do with them nabbing Linderbaum and potentially keeping Maxx, I'm big on them rn.
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I have no idea about their cap situation, but if I were them, I would bite the bullet and just accelerate as much cap hit as possible this season. Just open it up so you can go all out in a year or two
 
CFC-12 said:
Grier gone, McDaniel gone, Tua gone, Hill , Waddle, Fitzpatrick, Chubb... Hell, even our kicker Sanders is gone. At least we still have Achane?


Sucks, but it's been a long time coming. Basically everything they've done since 2020 was trying to build around Tua and his skillset. I guess now that they've finally bit the bullet and cut him, it's as good a time as any to just burn the whole thing down and start over.
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What's the point of getting rid of Tua if they still have to pay out his contract? You get rid of all your WRs and Tua, now you're still paying Tua, AND you're just setting Mallik Willis up to fail.
 
Bartolomeo said:
What's the point of getting rid of Tua if they still have to pay out his contract? You get rid of all your WRs and Tua, now you're still paying Tua, AND you're just setting Mallik Willis up to fail.
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You have to bite the bullet at some point. Taking the cap hit now with a new front office and coaching staff, during a weak QB draft, getting a bridge in Willis, and building out the team while you wait on a QB is one of the logical ways to rebuild. Willis isn't there to win a Super Bowl. Everyone in that building knows they're in a rebuild.

The new coaching staff and new front office didn't want Tua. They want to build their team. The NFL is a nepotistic old boys club with a lot of ego. The Cowboys are still living in 90s because of Jerry according to players who've left and been critical of the club. On the opposite end of the spectrum, some new regimes tear down the legacies that came before them. They'll literally take down trophy cases and paint over murals at the stadium and training facility.
 
Bartolomeo said:
What's the point of getting rid of Tua if they still have to pay out his contract? You get rid of all your WRs and Tua, now you're still paying Tua, AND you're just setting Mallik Willis up to fail.
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The culture of an organization is one of the most un-heralded aspects of team management and success in the league. You can have a roster of straight all-pros from other teams, but they will get beat out by lesser talent if the vibes on the sideline and in the locker room are off.
Keeping a QB around who is dragging down the rest of his team, either by benching him or, worse, playing him, is poison to team culture. It took the entire media shellacking Russ to get the Broncos offense to start defending him out of sympathy (vibes were extremely off when he first came in the building, he has that effect on people), and the defense still wasn't on board with him. Cut him, eat the dead cap, Payton says "Russ is history, let's focus on what we can do together" and within two years he's built a team that made the AFC championship game, primarily off of its defense.
Miami is basically ridding themselves of every underperforming Grier contract, and in doing so, the new staff is making it clear they are resetting expectations, starting over, and guys previously pigeonholed into secondary roles are given the signal that now is the time to put up or shut up, and that cultural buy-in will be rewarded.
Willis, I'm 50/50 on whether he just unwittingly signed on to be a tank commander (wouldn't put it past Ross and the new front office), or if they have convinced themselves there's enough overlooked potential on that roster that a good draft can restore the offense. We'll see in a month, I suppose.
 
Absolutego said:
The culture of an organization is one of the most un-heralded aspects of team management and success in the league. You can have a roster of straight all-pros from other teams, but they will get beat out by lesser talent if the vibes on the sideline and in the locker room are off.
Keeping a QB around who is dragging down the rest of his team, either by benching him or, worse, playing him, is poison to team culture. It took the entire media shellacking Russ to get the Broncos offense to start defending him out of sympathy (vibes were extremely off when he first came in the building, he has that effect on people), and the defense still wasn't on board with him. Cut him, eat the dead cap, Payton says "Russ is history, let's focus on what we can do together" and within two years he's built a team that made the AFC championship game, primarily off of its defense.
Miami is basically ridding themselves of every underperforming Grier contract, and in doing so, the new staff is making it clear they are resetting expectations, starting over, and guys previously pigeonholed into secondary roles are given the signal that now is the time to put up or shut up, and that cultural buy-in will be rewarded.
Willis, I'm 50/50 on whether he just unwittingly signed on to be a tank commander (wouldn't put it past Ross and the new front office), or if they have convinced themselves there's enough overlooked potential on that roster that a good draft can restore the offense. We'll see in a month, I suppose.
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Yeah both of you make good points. Lots of weird intangible shit like that with sports. I lean toward thinking about it like Madden "Why not just use the 85 OVR QB if you have to pay him?" You are dealing with actual people and their performance can be affected significantly by culture/vibes/imfinallygettingmyshot.
 
Bartolomeo said:
What's the point of getting rid of Tua if they still have to pay out his contract? You get rid of all your WRs and Tua, now you're still paying Tua, AND you're just setting Mallik Willis up to fail.
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Short answer:
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