ManillaToad

1 hour ago, Sport said:

Sounds like a reward for the higher seed.  Not sure what your point is. 

That the 7 seed format sucks and no amount of wins will make that untrue, as previously discussed

Now we're all on the same page. The 7 seed sucks and so do the Cowboys

7 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

Where did I say that I thought the 7th playoff team was a good idea? My point was that your comparison was dumb. It still is.

 

You never mentioned the Panthers. No one looked at your 16 vs 1 comparison and thought "Oh, he must be talking about the NFL." Nice try, though.

You're being bizarrely combative given the fact you agree with my point. Why would I be talking about the NCAA? There are 16 teams in an NFL conference. I'm not going to specify that I'm talking about the NFL in an NFL thread.

In the 1973 AFCCG and Super Bowl some of the players on the Dolphins wore the "Dolphin through the Sun" logo instead of the "Dolphin in the Sun" that the team had been using since 1969. Miami officially switched to the former the next season.

Both decals were used in Miami's inaugural 1966 season as well. This may be a supply issue thing or something of that sort, but I figured it fits here well enough

19 minutes ago, PERRIN said:

Ok, and? If that 16 seed is good enough to win when it matters most, they've earned their spot more than the 1 seed. 

The worst team in the conference does not deserve to be in the playoffs.

2 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

Never mind that Dallas was the #2 seed. Comparing a #7 seed in a 32 team league to a #16 seed in a 68  team tournament is silly. The 16 seed has won exactly two times in the NCAA Tournament. It took 33 years for it to happen the first time. The overall 16 vs 1 record is 150-2. Pittsburgh and Green Bay (there may have been others, I don't remember) both won a Super Bowl as the #6 seed in the playoffs. The gap between a 1 and 7 seed in the NFL is nowhere close to being as large as the gap between a 16 and a 1 in the NCAA.

 

 

I'm not talking about the NCAA, I'm talking about the Panthers.

The point is that just because a 7 seed finally won doesn't mean the addition of a 7th seed was a good move, nor is all that complaining everyone did about the new format now considered a controversial and contrarian take. It's funny how everyone seemed to agree with this the last 3 years, but as soon as one of those 9-8 teams wins it's now The Way Things Should Be.

1 hour ago, Sport said:

Your takes don't even make sense. The Packers were the first 7 seed to win a game in the new system and I think they proved that they belong. How does that reward mediocrity? 

Play enough 1v16 games and eventually the 16th seed will win.

Garbage time Stat Padscott in ELITE form

3 hours ago, BadSeed84 said:

All Star Jerseys looks like trash some 12 year old kid would find "lit".

Modern sports uniform aesthetics in a nutshell

10 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

The Chiefs Defense has been the strength all season long.  Does the DC, Steve Spagnuolo get another chance to be a head coach?

He's 64 and was terrible with the Rams so no

The charging bronco is a better logo than the old D horse

The football world has collectively lost its mind in regards to uniform aesthetics

2 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

 

The previous record holder was Jeff Garcia, a B+ quarterback when he was on the Niners.

 

And Tyreek Hill. As far as value for their team goes, Tyreek has been the guy to get a relatively-limp Dolphins team into a playoff spot. 

 

Nothing against CMC, Purdy, or Lamar, but Tyreek should be given just as much consideration. 

1800 yards and 13 TDs for an mvp? They won 30-0 in the game he  missed and Mostert had 21 TDs

I voted for the teal version because the color scheme is more unique in the league

4 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

This looks cute for a one off game, but the needed facilities for a football league would cause a lot of traffic and other logistics issues. Soccer doesn't need as many cameras football does, and can you make sure there's no distractions on that train line during broadcasts? Pitt has used it for spring games which don't require all of the extra equipment, but this isn't somewhere you should be playing regular season league games. Canton wanted their own team, and dressing up the Maulers in Steelers colors wasn't helping that. 

 

I'm still certain the only reason the Roughnecks survived is that UA already made their uniforms and they hadn't decided on uniform designs for the USFL teams coming in. So instead of wasting stock, they kept the Roughnecks and moved them to the USFL Conference. 

I think we'll see a bump in the numbers from those fans that refused to watch one league or the other tuning in to see their teams playing that other league. How long that last depends on the league and the broadcasters. I think the Fox presentation being almost equal to the NFL broadcast in terms of graphics will tell some fans this is a good thing. The one thing I wish ESPN would drop, but I know they won't, is the bet trackers for the Over/Under. 

They really need to use BIR instead of BHAM. Do they think nobody will know what city BIR refers to??

12 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

There was no national championship game back then.  1994 Penn State played in the Rose Bowl while Nebraska played in some other bowl and undefeated Penn State didn't get even a share of it despite being undoubtedly no worse than the #2 team, and likely an equal.

 

The silly-ass BCS didn't come around until late 90s

The Bowl Coalition was  a step above de-facto national title games so I started there.

Arbitrarily splitting a league into geographic divisions is boring.

13 minutes ago, Kramerica Industries said:

I can't even think right now when the last time a national championship was played between two teams who have gone decades since their last win. This isn't 2016 World Series levels of droughts involved for either side, but Washington hasn't claimed a national championship since 1991, Michigan since 1997. (Almost) always nice to see some fresh blood in the championship game.

I looked it up and only found two other times something like this has happened since they created the national championship game in 1992:

1993 was FSU (never) vs Nebraska (1971)

2010  was Auburn (1956) vs Oregon (never)

We missed out on an undefeated P5 champion in the playoffs and Georgia going for a threepeat for... a boring Alabama team that got bounced in the semis

Caught this hilarious Giants loss on redzone: 

• New York scores a late TD and kicks the XP to tie the game
• Penalty on the defense, Daboll says hm yep take our point off the board
• 2-point conversion fails, Giants down 1
• Get the ball back with ~1 minute left
• Tyrod Taylor runs 40 yards to LA's 35
• Panic spike it at 40 seconds left
• Surely our 39-year old kicker is a sure thing from 52!
• Terrible run play loses 2 yards
• Terrible pass play falls incomplete
• FG lands in a different timezone, Giants lose

MVP goes to the QB with the best stats who makes the playoffs. Obviously putting up 5000 yards and 40 TDs is gonna win you a lot of games, and seeding can come into play in close races (Rodgers-Brady 2021) but it's not like the AP just looks at the teams with a bye and says here's our candidates. See: Ryan Tannehill, also  in 2021

1 hour ago, Ark said:

 

The early 2000s Rams uniforms were great. They eventually ruined that design though.

Not with the side panels. After they dropped those it was fine

15 hours ago, BBTV said:

I have to question why more players don't quit sooner.  Once you've solidified yourself as a top pick, even if it's by Nov 1, why not walk away then?  Why wait till the bowl game?  I wouldn't risk anything once I got myself in position to be a top pick.

They like playing football and probably don't want to let their teammates down

The NFL never had a genuinely bad uniform in its history until the early 2000s (Rams, Bills, Falcons et al.)

2 hours ago, 1stAndPhoremost said:

Eagles have confirmed the all black unis for Christmas Day….so much for Kelly green against the Giants’ road red/white

Grinches

1 hour ago, the admiral said:

The existence of Hollywood Brown and Cadillac Williams made me think of how it'd be fun to have a whole squad of, like, '70s black guys. A running back named Buttermilk Jackson because "his moves are, quote, smooth like buttermilk." Even just more food-based named would be great, so like if you had a change-of-pace who went by Short Stack. Wide receiver, obviously Downtown Jones because he takes it all the way downtown.

I'd take Sweetness at RB