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That “boys club” won 6 SBs, so its reasonable for him to reunite with them. *Yes I know Brady was more important than the coaches but it’s still not unreasonable.

they’d better figure out how to clear a ton of cap space. Not that anyone knows the true story of anyone’s cap, but some quick searches indicate that they may be over at the moment. Also - none of those QBs are winning a Super Bowl (or another one) before they retire.

I'd rather them put the goal posts right at mid field (they'd probably use the old H style.) 1. If you complete a pass and the ball goes through the H, you get automatic first down. 2. To kick a field goal, you have to be on the other team's side of the H (at midfield), and the kicker would have to do a bicycle kick and kick the ball backwards through the uprights. 3. Any passes that hit the uprights and bounce backwards are considered fumbles and can be recovered by anyone. Discuss.

Of all the things broken in the NFL (mostly the officiating), the scoring system is not one of them. We've seen so much drama that the 2-point conversion has allowed for, I don't see a need for 3. I thin it would cheapen comebacks when 27 points is only a 3-score game. Fix the officiating, fix some of the rules, and narrow the goal posts to make teams actually have to gain yards in order to score. That's all that's needed.

I think the best they can hope for is that people tune in each week just to see the absurdity with their own eyes, until everyone's seen it once, and then it totally dies.

Nothing at all. Dalton and Dak beat them without Jalen Hurts, and Dak's game was also without two top defensive backs. Also, Dalton's game was more about the failings of the Eagles offense - the Saints only scored 13 non-garbage-time points - and Tasum (sp?) Hill came up big. Purdy isn't the threat on the ground that Hill is. Heinecke's win was totally legit, but that was a weird game for the Eagles, as they were adjusting to losing their starting NT and got demolished on the ground, which enabled Heinecke to have a good game. Since then, they've got Linval Joseph and Ndomaken Suh stuffing the middle along with healthy studs all around them, and honestly if Hassan Reddick's name was Micah Parsons, he'd be in the running for DPOY. He's been that good. The Eagles haven't seen a team like the 49ers - but the opposite is true too. Each team presents the best defense that the other has faced all year, and the Eagles probably have the best offense that the 49ers faced. The 49ers offense is no slouch, so I think it could really go either way, with Eagles being a slight favorite.

they have to win this game to be the standard. Otherwise, KC will have been to 3 SBs, and have made it despite losing their top receiver. I’ll always root against Andy Reid, so I’m pulling for Cincinnati, but right now the Chiefs are still the standard. The Bengals can change that in 6 days.

And I have to say, if I was starting a team from scratch using only AFC players, my #1 pick would be Burrow over Mahomes. Not by much, but that's the one I'd take.

wasn't Kaepernick highly regarded when he was drafted, even if not a first-rounder? IIRC they traded up for him, so I think most people expected him to do something. Yesterday was my first time watching Purdy, and he's much better than I expected. He's never played in an environment like he'll see next week, but he seems remarkably poised for a late-round rookie, so we'll see. This will be by far the toughest game the Eagles have played - and their schedule was not easy, considering they had 7 games against playoff teams, and several others against teams that just missed. But it's also the 49ers toughest game, and their schedule was a relative cakewalk. So we'll see - it could really go either way. EDIT: I think we truly got the best final 4 teams regardless of conference. I'm not sure how often that happens, but definitely not every year.

I thought I heard that the ball wasn't actually supposed to be snapped and the whole thing was a mistake. I have no idea what the end-game was there - there's no chance anyone's jumping offsides there, so it was dumb regardless. At least with the Dallas play, I get what they were trying to do, and in theory, it makes sense since someone can throw it right back to Elliot and he'd have blockers on either side - but it all depends on him not getting absolutely demolished by a rusher - which means it could never work, and was therefore, just like their owner, coaches, and QB, dumb as F.

Greg Olsen is a very underrated announcer. It's a shame that he'll be demoted as soon as Tom Brady retires.

I agree that penalties should be challengeable. In fact, that shouldn't even be necessary. If Mike Pererra can figure it out in a split second on the broadcast, then they should be able to simply buzz down and fix it. Other than that, I disagree with every single idea that makes kickers a bigger part of the game. The sport was not invented with the thought that there would ever be kickers that were specialists and able to nail 60+ yard FGs. Teams should be rewarded for getting closer to the goal line, not rewarded for getting to the 40 yard line.

Dan Marino was a legit HOF QB. Jared Allen is more on Donovan McNabb watch now (though even McNabb made it to a SB.)

This is hard to believe:

It looks stupid that receivers always hold their hands out like "what? how did he get away with that? no flag? I was robbed!" even before the ref has a chance to throw the flag. Maybe give it a few seconds? They look like whiny female dogs.

Yep! Buffalo did it against the Eagles back in 2011, and the Eagles announcer went ape-poop.

I've proposed that in other threads several times. QBs could be exempt, but would still need to fit into the percentage of revenue that's shared with the players. Decrease the cap by x amount, and then cap-x = QB allowance. I don't know if it would just be QB1, or all QBs that would fit in this new cap. There's a lot of complicated things that would need to be worked out. A lot. But it could be done. The Eagles have to decide this offseason whether or not to pay Jalen Hurts (I think it's clear by now that they should.) But because of this, several pro-bowlers will either be gone, or they'll have to get even more creative than they already do in order to keep guys and be in compliance. I understand every team deals with this so I'm not saying it's unfair, but it does feel like a penalty for making a good 2nd-round draft pick - especially since if he was a 1, they'd get him cheap for an extra season.

But I don't see how it would generate more revenue than the current system. Playoff gate is shared (after operating expenses), so there's no difference between a neutral site other than if the host cities have to bid (i.e. pay the league) to host. So unless I'm missing something big (which is possible), I'm not sure why owners would even want it due to potential competitive advantages some teams could have - Currently there's what - 6ish cities in the SB rotation? So despite it happening twice in a row, it's still a very slim chance that a team would play the SB in its home stadium. For neutral-site CGs, I'm assuming it'll be a similar rotation (maybe work in some of the domes in non-SB-caliber cities like Indy, Minn, Detroit). So unless they host the AFC game in an NFC stadium and vice versa, the chances of a team playing a "neutral" game in its home stadium is much higher. The teams who wouldn't be in the rotation (cold weather teams with outdoor stadiums) should be opposed to this.

that could actually be a bad thing, since they may have said “ok, at least we tried it and collected feedback”. Now I’m afraid they may try to actually plan it from the get go, even if just an experiment.

Reminds me of a game we played as kids called "6 inches" (insert joke here) where you'd extend your pinky and thumb on one hand (which is around 6 inches), put the pinky against your opponent's shoulder, put your fist on your thumb, then punch the person's shoulder as hard as you could from that distance (so no windup or anything.) Then just keep exchanging punches until someone quit. Or in college, we had a smaller-than-regulation pool table, and we'd put our hands over the rail, so our knuckles would be totally exposed. Then your opponent would take a pool ball and spike it against the opposite rail so that it would shoot across the table and hit your knuckles. Then you just keep doing that till someone quits. Just some stupid to entertain ourselves while drunk in a redneck town in western PA.

LOL. Not the first time he's had F-bombs heard on TV.

Back when I was just a lowercase g, the Phillies were on 29, which eventually became FOX, then moved to 17 in early '90s. 17 became The WB, and then "My Network TV". This might not be totally accurate, but based on memory, some Flyers and Sixers road games were on 48 then eventually 57 then 17, with home games only on Prism (pay TV - kinda like HBO, with some titty movies late at night) which sucks because you needed cable (which we didn't have) and then pay an extra 10-20/month. I think at some point, even most road games were only on Prism, with only a handful available for free. When Comcast took over everything, Sixers and Flyers mostly moved to CSN, with maybe a few random games on 57 (which eventually became the CW... I think.) For some reason I think there was a gap where not all Sixers or Flyers games were even televised locally. I vaguely remember one of them being UPN, but I lost track and stopped caring. Nowadays I have no idea who owns what, and when there's conflicts, there might be a random Phillies games on NBC, but if the local NBC station can't air it because of a national network conflict, they'll be on 17 or some random-ass cable channel. There's a second Comcast (or NBC sports Philly) channel that handles some of the overflow, but for some reason it's not always used. EDIT: now that I'm interested, I'm trying to find a history of each team's broadcast partners, but coming up empty. Lots of gaps in the few pages I've found.

I totally agree. It sucks to have a season come down to the randomness of someone slipping on snow, when hundreds of millions have been spent on the team, and the emotional and financial investment the fans put in. It also sucks to build a team a certain way only to have to play a totally different way because of a snow storm (but I get the other side of that argument too.) I've done a total 180 on my stance on roofs. I think all new stadiums should have retractable coverings. Not necessarily full domes - I don't care if players or fans are cold - but something to at least keep the field clean and the players safe. EDIT: I still don't want neutral site CGs. It kinda compensates for the loss of the 2nd bye, but I still don't want it.