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 .
LOL Todd Monken missed the Head Coach photo because he was getting a haircut for it. I don't know why Sean McVay missed it, though.
 
break these cuffs said:
There is at least a proposed rule change to allow egregious calls to be overturned from the booth. The officiating situation is an embarrassment. It's a $100-200Bn league and they trot out 60 year old hedge fund managers and retired dentists to ref. Now they've added billions upon billions in gambling to it as well. Refs need to be getting younger (like ex-players), be full time, and have training/education in the off season. We probably also need 2 more per game in the deep field for explosive plays.

Treat it like a real job and not like it's when players still had to keep day jobs. Give ex-players some kind of leg up on being accepted as a provisional official or something. It can be a fallback for all the guys who blow their money or who never made much.
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They're also paid 350k a year.
 
CapricornusRex said:
They're also paid 350k a year.
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As much as I think the league and owners are greedy kikes who are killing the game, the refs have such a fucking racket going that I'm siding with billionaires to a degree. The broad strokes are that the refs want more money and the league wants more accountability. NFL refs are paid the most per game, while making less than other big league refs in the US because they officiate less games. The refs claim to spend days doing film study as well and the "only work 21 days a year" is an unfair portrayal, although how they manage all that with a day job I do not know.

The NFL wants to add in things like requiring poorly graded regs to do more non-NFL games in the off season while refusing to make them full time employees because the owners are cheap kikes who only shell out money for soccer players. There is also the conspiracy that they're going to use this to union bust and completely redo the referee system. An added element to that is the slippery slope of centralizing officiating and eventual AI refs by allowing NYC to make their own calls and overturn calls this season. I'm sure they'll be transparent with their gambling partners while everyone else will be told "lol just trust us bro".

I personally think the ref system needs a total overhaul, except I expect the current iteration of NFL leadership to send a bunch of cricket refs from Jeetland to community college, hire them as independent contractors, and call it a day. The NFL needs to make refs full time with bennies, offer a larger pay increase, and require officiating to be their only job along with strict training, evaluation, and continuing education standards. The NFL is the biggest league in the world money wise. They can afford to have the best paid refs and establish the standards where they have to earn that distinction.
 
Trombonista said:
LOL Todd Monken missed the Head Coach photo because he was getting a haircut for it. I don't know why Sean McVay missed it, though.
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It's even funnier when you hear that the coach photo always happens at the end of a meeting between coaches, so he skipped the meeting to prep for the photo op, then missed it anyways.
I don't give him good odds on lasting more than a year (I'm still rooting for the universe where Haslam is actually retarded enough to try and poach Deion Sanders to coach his team), so he might've missed his only shot.
 
It physically pains me to be siding with the League and the Owners, but after years of poor calls and outright heinous Refball, honestly Fuck the Refs.

I’m just amused that the Refs Union apparently has more balls than the NFLPA.
 
Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
It physically pains me to be siding with the League and the Owners, but after years of poor calls and outright heinous Refball, honestly Fuck the Refs.

I’m just amused that the Refs Union apparently has more balls than the NFLPA.
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Remember when the NFL let coaches challenge pass interference but the refs wouldn't overturn a single challenge. Its hard to sympathize with the refs when the blatantly ignore the rules they are supposed to enforce.
 
I'm tired of watching a bunch of geriatrics running around out there pretending they can keep up with the game. How many times have you seen a team trying to go hurry up mode with the clock running out and the fatass ref who's actually a small claims lawyer in his real job takes fucking forever to set the ball and get out of the way? And then when they screw up, there's zero accountability. They don't have to speak to the media or justify any of the bullshit they do. Refereeing is never going to be perfect all of the time, but the NFL can sure as hell put in the resources to improve the situation.
 
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Finally a good helmet for the Browns
 
Kermit the Frog said:
Refereeing is never going to be perfect all of the time, but the NFL can sure as hell put in the resources to improve the situation.
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That is the crux of the problem. The NFL refuses to. They've let the current system stand because owners are cheap. There is something like 120 refs in the NFL at ~380k a year. Call it an even $50M for refs. Even if it's doubled to a $100M a year, you're telling me each team can't find another $1.57M a year? Horseshit. Profits are fucking soaring between gambling, tv deals, and expanding teh viewer base. They're pumping a bubble.

I was excited with the prospect of them using this as an excuse to do away with the system at first. Then I remembered what league we're dealing with. The Eagles owner also brought up AI and how it's being used in the organization multiple times unprompted in his owner's meeting interview. They are 100% going to half-ass the ref solution until they can have AI cameras/drone refs controlled in NYC.

"Internationalizing", their word, the game is the NFL's priority along with getting an 18th regular season game. French NFL ads aren't free you know.
 
Some hot goss on the downfall of PFF. Tl;dw - Cris Collinsworth put his kid in charge. The nepo baby and a pajeet ran the company into the ground. I haven't watched it all the way through yet, but they're being surprisingly candid. I guess they're happy with the inroads they made into NFL orgs with the 33rd Team and don't mind burning bridges.


I never watched much PFF and when I did it was for overviews on the state of each team. I understood that while they gave better takes and went a layer or two deeper than the MSM for the Eagles, they were not some insiders with secret knowledge. There would be an oversight or incorrect take for every unique nugget I'd get from them. I don't know much or care much about college football and evaluating talent and did not watch them for that.
 
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