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White facemasks would be great. But what they really need to do is shed the final remaining vestige of the previous era (if they haven't already). They wore this uniform last year and I have no idea if they're supposed to this year:

Regarding helmets, a bigger problem to me is chrome helmets. These need to be banned:

I'm just hoping and praying that the Rangers don't decide to wear their blue helmets on the road -- it would horribly clash with the red pants.

I'm just hoping the Colts don't wear their "iNdIaNa nIgHtS" alternate for that game. That would put it in the conversation with Jags/Saints and Raiders/Lions for worst uniform matchups of the season.

A lot of it probably has to do with the team who's leading the charge in making this a trend. The Hurricanes have consistently made baffling decisions for no apparent reason for several years now, and their decision to wear red helmets last season (and into the playoffs) ruffled a lot of feathers (mine included). I don't think the backlash would be as strong if a different team started doing it first. As others have mentioned, this isn't the first time there's been colored helmets with a white jersey. It's done all the time for outdoor or specialty games, as well as one-off games like when the Avalanche did it in their inaugural season Also, Mario Lemieux started his career wearing a yellow helmet with the Penguins' white jerseys (the only triple mismatch I could think of in NHL history)

Honestly, if they're trying to reduce the amount of equipment they bring out to Sweden, this would have been a good opportunity for color vs color. I'm not the biggest fan of it, but Leafs in blue vs Wings in red would have been great contrast.

The Canes trying to be quirky is one thing. An ORIGINAL SIX team should know better. Then again, this is the same team that partnered with Justin Bieber to create a gimmicky reversible BFBS jersey.

Still feel like off-white was unnecessary, as were vest jerseys.

What I don't get is why the home uniform is that vintage off-white color. Off-white makes sense for traditional franchises and/or traditional color schemes. It does not make sense with this modern color scheme. And I appreciate the effort, but "Diamondbacks" looks way too narrow on the red alternate. Other than that, I like the new uniforms. Was a bit shocked to see the snake-D return.

I both love and hate how much the Hurricanes twitter account leans into their persona. It's actually infuriating.

This is really bizarre. We're looking at this color vs color matchup:

They don't need to make this throwback the primary, but my goodness does it make a good alternate. Please continue to wear this three times a year instead of that color rush set.

As they say, you don't know how good you have it until it's gone.

Ooh, that's against the Bears. The game might turn into a rout, but it'll look gorgeous.

Consistency doesn't matter if the uniforms are consistently bad.

Wasted potential. So much wasted potential.

A bonus of repurposing the WFT look is that it would remove black from the uniforms, undoing the loophole that allows them to wear one of the worst uniforms of all time

I expect they'll wear orange pants against the Steelers again, per tradition. Should be a great-looking game.

With Tarasenko on the Senators and the Rangers reportedly out on Kane, I think we can call both of these the "wrong" uniform:

Nevermind then. White leggings continue to be the most popular uniform element in the league.

Thoughts on this week's matchups ahead of tomorrow's game: - The Ravens wearing the all-black at some point this season was inevitable, but that doesn't mean I have to like it when they do go all-black. Could have chosen a different opponent than the Bengals, whose white uniforms are basically black and white below the helmet. - Cardinals/Texans will look bizarre. I'll reserve judgement on the red helmet/navy color rush until we see it on the field, but I don't have high hopes for it. - Bears/Lions should look good, as long as the Lions wear their silver pants. - Panthers, whatever you do, please don't wear white leggings with your black jersey ever again. I'm still holding out hope that they break out their classic black jersey/silver pants home combo against the Cowboys. - Not the biggest fan of the Packers' throwbacks, but the Chargers aren't the worst opponent to wear them against. They're certainly better than last year's throwback game against the Jets, who were in the middle of their black leggings run. - Raiders/Dolphins should look good. Dolphins will probably be in all-white, but it's one of the better all-white looks in my opinion, and will pair fine with the Raiders in black. - Commies need to burn their BFBS alternates yesterday. Actually one of the worst uniforms in NFL history. Despite not wearing grey pants anymore, the Giants' road uniforms can actually look fine against the right opponent. The BFBS Commies aren't that opponent. - Steelers/Browns will look incredible, per usual - Titans/Jaguars will be fine if not spectacular. At least the Titans are wearing their socks properly this week. - Bucs/Niners will look good. I expect pewter pants for that game. - Jets/Bills will likely be ruined by the Jets. They only wear all white or black leggings with their white jerseys these days. - Seahawks/Rams will look as good as it can with the Seahawks in grey pants. Hoping the Rams wear their yellow pants. - Vikings/Broncos will look good with the Broncos in the alternate that should be a primary. They'll probably go mono-navy, but it's not even that bad as far as mono-navy goes. - Chiefs, Eagles, do not, I repeat, DO NOT go all-red vs all-white. I know the players probably want to. Don't listen to them.

Honestly, even if the Lions wore a proper combo instead of practice pants, the light blue of the two teams would have clashed a little too much.

Seriously, why couldn't they just take the new helmet logo, put a Commanders wordmark on the previous uniforms, and call it a day? These with the Commanders logo on the helmet would've been a great uniform.

This was just posted on the week-by-week thread, but the red helmet with the navy color rush, along with the tweet containing emojis in a significantly lighter shade of blue, must be hinting at something. Edit: it has been brought to my attention that that is just the standard blue emoji.