Dynasty

33 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

It's the same thing, except the 7 and 8 seeds are up in the air. The winner of the 7/8 play-in is the 7 seed, and plays the 2 seed. The winner of the 9/10 plays the loser of the 7/8 game, and they'll be the 8 seed and will play the 1.

 

Ultimately, after the quick play-in round, you still end up with a playoff bracket seeded 1-8. Though I guess what would be weird is if LA or Miami end up losing the 7/8 game but winning the follow-up, and then the 1 plays the regular season 7.

 

 

Yeah, I think I get that part. I just don't think it's fair for a team like the Nuggets, a top ranked seed, to not get to play the lowest seed remaining. They earned the right to that and instead, there is a possibility that they play the best team remaining seeding-wise, earlier than they should.

Okay. That isn't what I'm use to seeing when it comes to a playoff system. Feels like I need the play-in to sort itself out first before thinking of who goes against who because honestly, that's all rather confusing. I know the number one seed gets home field, but the fact that they could play a statistically (or on paper) better team in just the second round feels like a liability for them. I don't believe the Nuggets would want to play a team like the Suns that early.

I'm guessing this was implemented with the creation of the play-in, because I don't ever remember seeing this.

22 hours ago, SCMODS said:

 

Wrong. If the Warriors are a 6 seed and the Lakers are 7 and they both win their first round series they would meet in the second round. NBA doesn't re-seed. 

Huh, what? Assuming Denver and Phoenix win, they would be the top two seeds remaining and GS and LAL would be the two lowest. The Lakers (7) would play the Nuggets (1) and the Suns (4) against the Warriors (6). When did they ever change from highest seed vs. lowest seed?

23 minutes ago, SCMODS said:

Assuming the Lakers win their play in game, I can totally see both them and the Warriors knocking off the Grizzlies & Kings to set up a second round match. 

They couldn't meet until the conference finals.

Golden State has playoff experience; Sacramento does not. I think that alone should make them a favorite... regular season be damned.

The Suns were going to have it tough either way to start the playoffs and now they have the Clippers. If you told me that this would be a first round matchup before the season started, I would believe you.

5 hours ago, VikWings said:

 

That uniform police exists in the NBA where they don't allow teams to go back to exact old uniform or logo designs for some reason.

That's because of the Hardwood Classics. It has to do with the NBA selling throwback merch or something in that regard... I don't know all the details.

I don't even remember UConn being that great in the regular season. They tended to hover between like 15-25 in rankings and lost a couple of games where they were (or should've been) the better team.

They got hot at the perfect time so good for them. This tournament was still pretty fun.

The wave ball is definitely better. The script makes no difference to me.

Someone posted the Pepsi-Cola script, reminding me it's no longer in use. 

Who wants to be a zero?

It's been mentioned already but yeah, Baltimore doesn't really value the WR position like other teams do. I would actually go deeper into it in how they are run as a franchise, dating back to when they came into the league. They have put more effort into forming elite defenses, along with RB investment. I don't ever recall them having a great receiver, or even developing one (Anquan Boldin was pretty good, but not great; Steve Smith was old at the time).

I know they've been considered among the class of the AFC in the past fifteen years, but their treatment of the WR position is still a glaring weakness.

22 hours ago, JerseyJimmy said:

of the 14 teams remaining as I write this, only two have won the NCAA tournament once before, and only UConn has done so in the last 25 years. therefore, preemptively congratulating the Huskies on their title because we all know how this goes.

Blue bloods adding to their trophy cases.

An NCAA tradition.

I'm surprised we're seeing a 1 lose to a 16 again. I thought UMBC-Virginia was going to be a once in a lifetime experience. Good for FDU though.

Just don't let Duke come out of the East, please.

4 hours ago, tBBP said:

And speaking of the Rams and related moves, Jalen Ramsey is being traded to the Dolphins...

A star CB still in his 20's... for a 3rd rounder and a backup TE?

Sure, I'll take Ramsey.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/35823306/patrick-ewing-georgetown-men-basketball-coach

Ewing went 75-109; that's pretty abysmal for a head coach. It makes me wonder if he only stayed for as long as he did because of his prominence within G-Town's basketball program.

They almost got it right when changing to the Nationals script. Then they had to change to those caps and create that logo inconsistency between the home and road.

8 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

Good so far.

 

 

Yikes!  Someone doesn't know his history.

 

 

It's actually amazing to me that they have that kind of history, given where they are at now. I mean they have 9 World Series titles, that's the third most in baseball. Plus I think they're up there in terms of most hall of famers as well. They have a lot of rich history and they could be in the same conversation with teams like the Red Sox and Cardinals. But now, I think they might be among the most forgettable teams within the younger generation of baseball fans (I don't know what their popularity out west is, so you can dispute this if there is something I'm missing). It's just a little mind-boggling.

13 minutes ago, DustDevil61 said:

Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that Lamar Jackson goes to Pittsburgh?

I can't imagine the Ravens letting that happen. Plus, there hasn't been any indication that the Steelers would really move on from Pickett, especially with his improvement at the end of the season (and being home-grown/home-town favorite?).

13 hours ago, See Red said:

I would think his mediocre college career would be the thing that scares teams off. 

Putting the fear of dairy aside, I don't know why he's rated so high by draft experts. He's been largely average in his time at Kentucky and I know Mahomes didn't have a great college career himself, but their styles of play look pretty different. I'm seeing people place Levis in the top five(!) of the 2023 draft and morons like Mel Kiper claiming he'll be a "game changer." I just don't see it... and I don't know if I will.

It's similar to what Kia did with theirs, where they made the wording more ineligible.

If this is another corporate logo trend, it sucks more than the standardized ones we've had in recent years.

I'm not gonna make any justification for a third party advertisement being on a team uniform. Sorry, there's nothing feel-good about this (especially for a casino); it's still aesthetically bad.

I need to see an official rendering, but it looks fine to me. Are they really doing purple and orange again after we had that a year ago? I hope the overall color palette is different enough from LVI.

48 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Pat Mahomes is the Terminator and the Chiefs are inevitable.

 

I spent most of game in my garage doing a woodworking project. Game was on in the background, which made it better, all things considered.

 

Would sure be nice if my team could win once these things someday.

The Patriots prevented many teams from winning their first Super Bowls, AFC and NFC alike. I'm just hoping the Bengals and Bills can get at least one out of the Chiefs' current dominance.

I'm not really surprised KC won. I know the Eagles were favored (not by much, though there were a lot of people picking them), but they kind of reminded me of the 2015 Panthers... being the best regular season team, had a mobile QB, and eventually lost to a HOF QB. Obviously the way it happened was very different from that Super Bowl, but I dunno, it just never felt like this team was going to win the big game.

I may have been wrong about Hurts though, he was the Eagles' offense tonight and he earned my respect.

37 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

The roof has been open.

I was just about to edit the post. Glad it looks better now; we just had to wait.

This could be one of the most colorful Super Bowls with uniforms, field, and backdrops alike... but man, Arizona's stadium is SO dark. It kinda ruins it.