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I don't think it has anything to do with the Lions. More of a Thanksgiving thing and that's who their opponent happened to be. Still possible it can be worn then1

The question now becomes what game(s) will they wear these for? When they were last around, the Pats always seemed to wear them against the Jets.

What does a black helmet do for the Jets or Eagles exactly? The green helmet gets lost anyway with such poor contrast. Might as well leave an additional speck of your ACTUAL team color.

I will say, some of these work better than expected (Cardinals, maybe Bills), but some are just destroying color balance (Texans, Bears, Titans). That Bears look is especially pitiful without the navy helmet.

5 hours ago, ScubaSteve said:

Which is why I think/hope it means change is on the way. The Eagles, regardless of what they do with their color green, need a visual shakeup. It's been way too long

Perhaps you’ll think again once you realize the rebrand would be an over-designed all green look, all white look, and all black look.

The Saints have arguably the best Color Rush look in the league, and they somehow find a way to ruin it? I just can't wrap my head around why the league is allowing and encouraging this watering down of brands. yeah, it's just a game (or almost definitely two) but why is this necessary? Such a slippery slope, and while they at least are avoiding all black or all white, most teams will likely not take this approach.

1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

Is this supposed to be a bad thing?

Nope. It works for them, but the point is that there don’t seem to be any rules restricting teams from doing whatever they want, which in other cases might not work so nicely.

By this logic, pretty much any team could introduce an all-black “Color Rush” look even if black isn’t in their scheme. The league hasn’t made any effort to discourage this pathetic trend in any way, so keep expecting teams to do it.

Look at the Chargers, for instance. Navy and royal aren’t anywhere on their home or away uniform, yet both of these colors are featured as “Color Rush” looks.

So basically lots of teams will be ruining decent looks and destroying any form of color balance in favor of monochromatic looks? Wooohooo!

3 hours ago, Michael Bolton said:

My Tampa predictions. I think we'll see less white/pewter at home now that they finally lost a playoff game.

 

1- at DAL: white/pewter (SNF)

Is this a typo? I agree with a lot of your other predictions, although I could definitely see one of the Saints games being a pewter game.

Didn't want to quote the whole thing, but here are some of my thoughts regarding WAH predictions, sort of going off of the above post:

I think the Jets will do it Week 1 vs. Baltimore since they did for their home openers each of the past two seasons. Could do it again Week 3 vs. CIN, in October, or not a second time at all.

Bears also wore throwback white in October last season vs. Green Bay. Could happen any week really.

Hopeful that Carolina wears blue or black for that Week 4 late afternoon game.

Saints wore Color Rush at home three times last season. I would expect it at least once in the Superdome, not just for the London game.

I think the Rams definitely wear white over yellow for the season opener rather than Week 2 vs. Atlanta. They could also appear against Dallas, but I think it's possible they save them for later in the season for another home game.

Bucs realistically might only wear it in Week 3 and Week 5 based on their allotment of late kickoffs.

Jags will likely only do it for Week 2. They come back home in Week 5, which is when teal started in 2021.

Titans is interesting with that late afternoon Week 1 kickoff. I think we could see light blue there or in Week 3 vs. Vegas.

Miami will hopefully start to wear aqua in Week 10 or 12 vs. CLE/HOU.

Atlanta is anyone's guess. Would love to see it in Week 1 because it would likely mean Saints in black over gold.

53 minutes ago, flyersfan said:

“White out game” leads me to believe the white uniforms will normally be work with burgundy or black pants, which yuck: but I’d say yuck to white too. This is how I feel about a stupid uncohesive design 

I don't think that is the case, unfortunately. The team has yet to post any image or clip of a player in the white jersey with anything with but white pants.

Like the Falcons situation, it's unclear if this means Washington will wear black more than once or if Week 9 will be the lone time. It is right in the middle of the season, so I guess it's possible, but I wouldn't be shocked to see it again in December.

Teams don’t seem to put too much thought into Media Day. The Titans still use navy over white, which they have yet to wear more than once a season or in their home stadium.

27 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Not sure if this is official confirmation, but Washington posted this on their social media pages regarding Week 1-

I would say this is quite convincing, considering they took the time to edit four players into this specific uniform combination. Still can't believe they omitted stripes on the pants just so that they could rock the all-white pajama look that looks awful on every team.

On 6/2/2022 at 12:28 PM, Brave-Bird 08 said:

I would be shocked if that is the case, i think they just posted the date for the return of the helmet b/c it was some major marketing spin up sponsored by Coca Cola, but I am sure they will wear them twice. Though idk, the last two seasons they only wore gradient jerseys once. They could be planning on doing gradient twice and the throwback once, who knows

Plus, they always release a full uniform schedule and probably wanted to save the other date for that. The fact that they only wore the gradient once last season and for a London game tells me they don't think too highly of it. I don't seem them wearing it twice, whereas, with how much they're hyping up this red helmet, I don't see why they would only wear it one time.

First official announcement: Falcons are wearing throwbacks with red helmets Week 6 against San Francisco.

Glad it is officially back, but does this mean they will also wear throwback once with the black helmet? Or will they wear the gradient twice or maybe only use two of the three throwback opportunities?

Some of these combos don’t even exist. Bengals white/orange, Broncos white/navy, Falcons white/red hasn’t been confirmed to be real yet. 
 

The rest of the predictions are fairly reasonable, although I don’t think they’ve ever worn black in back-to-back weeks, as Weeks 16 and 17 has.

I think the Bills game will most likely be all-white vs. purple/white. The blue pants do not seem to be the preference at the moment for Buffalo. 2016 gave us that matchup with the blue pants at least.

3 hours ago, orangefaniniowa said:

You realize the game is at Philly, so I’m 100 percent certain the Eagles will wear green and the Packers the road white.  Besides the Eagles haven’t worn WAH in the regular season since 2015, and this late in the season since the mid 90s.  Just clarifying that.

 

 

Sadly, I think that could very well be a black jersey game for Philly, which they also did last time Green Bay visited in 2016 (also Week 12, but on Monday night).

The thing is, the Eagles somehow have four home prime time games this season, so who knows which ones will feature the black jerseys? I’m hoping Week 10 vs. Washington is one of them.

11 hours ago, dont care said:

I thought they were keeping them and introducing a white version of the helmets for them.

Let’s hope not. We don’t need them and the Bengals possibly doing this.

1 hour ago, Andrew7256 said:I'm assuming the Color Rush will make a return this season since they used 75th anniversary last year. I'm also hoping for more White on white as well.

The Color Rush look hasn’t been worn for a home game since the redesign. Only at Dallas in 2020. I don’t think it would suddenly appear for three home games in one season. Maybe one though.

23 hours ago, aaa333bbb said:Week 2: Bills in all white for their home opener monday night vs the Titans (in probably all navy

I’m curious what they’ll do for this game. They haven’t had a night home opener since they started wearing white at home for their opener. This will be a good indication of whether or not it’s a heat thing or they just like doing it regardless.

I’m also curious how much of the blue pants we’ll see this year. They stopped wearing them with the white jersey after the loss to Jacksonville last season, but they brought them back on Thanksgiving with the blue jersey.

15 hours ago, Bathysphere said:

Really not too horrid, just very greyscale. Almost like the Raiders lack of color makes the Jags tealless aways look less out of place. Regardless, just one more year of these unis for the Jags (bring me teal numbers, baby)

Teal socks too, and maybe some sort of stripe on the pants and sleeves. I honestly miss the color integration of these uniforms. Helmet aside, they at least had some personality and utilized some teal and gold:

Luckily the Jaguars host the Raiders in November too and will likely be in teal. Should be a great looking matchup, as long as they wear a reasonable pant and sock combo.

10 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

 

There is no way the Jaguars don't wear all white in the summer in Ohio.

The game is in the evening. I'd say black pants are more than possible. Teal is the least likely.

Week 1:

BUF blue/white at LAR white/sol

PIT black/gold at CIN white/white

PHI white/white at DET blue/gray

BAL purple/white at NYJ white/white

NO black/gold at ATL white/white (could also see Atlanta wearing black white and NO in white/white)

CLE brown/white at CAR white/white

SF white/gold at CHI navy/white

NE navy/navy at MIA white/white (gonna guess regular white for MIA, not throwback)

JAC white/black at WAS burgundy/burgundy

IND blue/white at HOU white/white

GB white/gold at MIN purple/white

NYG blue/white at TEN white/navy (really hope the late afternoon kickoff inspires TEN to wear navy or light blue like in 2017)

LV black/silver at LAC white/white

KC white/red at ARI red/white (rare occasion where I'd welcome Arizona in black, but it's not likely in Week 1)

TB red/pewter at DAL white/mint (could also see Tampa in red/white)

DEN white/white at SEA navy/navy