2024 NFL Changes

[Silver_Star]

46 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

All potential Broncos combinations via GUD

 

Well, DAMN!!! WOAH!!! WTF!!!

[FiddySicks]

4 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

As the CCSLC CTE expert, I wholeheartedly agree.  They don't even need to make them super big to fit around the helmets, they could wear the caps and nothing else.  If anything, it'd prevent leading with the head and force good technique, which would inherently reduce concussions.

Now I’m picturing a scenario where all the great QBs of the past wear caps instead of helmets. What hats would they wear? 
 

You would have to think that Mahomes wears a 59Fifty with a stick straight bill. Maybe a slight turn of the cap to the right, for style (not Pedro Stroop style turned, but just a little bit). 
 

Peyton Manning is for sure gonna wear one of those low profile caps with a very curved bill and a Velcro back. He might have a pair of Maui Jim’s on the bill for, like, the Pro Bowl or games in Miami. 
 

Tom Brady, well, Tom started wearing his cap backwards after the Falcons Super Bowl Win. It’s technically against NFL rules, but who’s gonna tell Tom Brady what to do? 
 

Josh Allen goes a little wild and wears a beanie/toque, but the league still has a pretty strict rule about hats needing bills, so he wears one of those hats with the wool earflaps you can pin up instead. 
 

Aaron Rodgers started wearing the same, sad, floppy straw hat he got during a stay a few years ago at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville. It’s falling apart, and everyone keeps telling him that, but he just shuffs it off like he’s smarter than anyone else wearing hats made out of petrochemical materials sourced by the big banks. 
 

Daniel Jones has a hat, but it keeps falling off. 
 

Russell Wilson is for sure rocking a golf visor with the words Let’s Ride! Steelers Nation on it. 
 

Kyler Murray went missing a few weeks ago and the Cardinals were really worried about him. Turns out he was there the whole time, but his hat is WAY too big and everyone just mistook it for an old hat lying on the floor. 
 

Terry Bradshaw would’ve for sure worn one of those Gillian/Fishing style hats. 
 

Brett Favre also wears an old floppy hat, but he takes it off after every single play and holds it until like two seconds before the snap and it stresses out the coaches big time. He also stole that cap from the State of Mississippi’s public food bank. 
 

Joe Montana would wear a cowboy hat, and even as a 49er and also as a goofy white dude, still pulls it off so damn well. 
 

Troy Aikman wears an old deflated basketball. It’s all that will fit his huge melon head. 
 

Kurt Cousins always has a new hat, and it always seems WAY out of his price range, but he always inexplicably gets someone else to pay for it. 
 

Gardner Minshew wears one of those old fancy velvet top hats. Because wouldn’t seeing Minshew huck tuddies in a top hat just be so wonderful? Attached Monocle for red zone trips. 

Joe Burrow doesn’t wear a hat. His hair is far too cool. Also, technically against NFL regulations, but viewership triples when those golden locks are out flowing. 
 

Speaking of golden locks, Trevor Lawrence has been required by his employer to wear a hair net. It just causes too much of a health hazard otherwise. 
 

Got any more? 

 

[Brave-Bird 08]

Just want to chime in on the news regarding guardian caps. 

 

I would bet that the statement made about the allowance of players to wear guardian caps, if they please, is more of a covering-their-ass statement from the NFL than anything else. If they were to say anything on record about them not being allowed in games, or just not preferred for aesthetic reasons, that could literally be used against them in litigation later on. 

 

Treading lightly, but I don't envision many players being willing to wear those things during games. These athletes are already taking a calculated risk with their lives to play this game, I am not so sure that they're going to be that motivated to strap those clunky contraptions on their heads. 

 

I could be completely wrong about this, but I don't think it's as big of a news piece as it is. 

[mmejia]

[oldschoolvikings]

2 minutes ago, mmejia said:

Yup.  It sucks. 

[Brave-Bird 08]

Just now, oldschoolvikings said:

Yup.  It sucks. 

 

The best way I can describe it is it looks like it's bleeding. When there are two complementary colors already there (steel blue and new blue), throwing red in at that level is just loud and unnatural looking. It's the same effect TCU had with the purple, black and red uniforms -- which quite literally had a blood motif to them. 

 

When a uniform is primarily red, or uses red as its complementary color, it looks great. When red is used as tertiary and it's competing with another complementary color, it stands out and not in a good way

[SFGiants58]

25 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Now I’m picturing a scenario where all the great QBs of the past wear caps instead of helmets. What hats would they wear? 

 

But which QB would wear the thing that literally Satan Mike Love wore in the ‘70s?

 

[FiddySicks]

Deshaun Watson. 

[BBTV]

Regarding the Guardian caps, is there any advantage / disadvantage to making your head extra huge? Like a DL taking up more space when trying to fill holes? Or a RB grazing a defenders shoulders due to the cap and losing balance or being otherwise affected?

[BBTV]

37 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Now I’m picturing a scenario where all the great QBs of the past wear caps instead of helmets. What hats would they wear? 
 

You would have to think that Mahomes wears a 59Fifty with a stick straight bill. Maybe a slight turn of the cap to the right, for style (not Pedro Stroop style turned, but just a little bit). 
 

Peyton Manning is for sure gonna wear one of those low profile caps with a very curved bill and a Velcro back. He might have a pair of Maui Jim’s on the bill for, like, the Pro Bowl or games in Miami. 
 

Tom Brady, well, Tom started wearing his cap backwards after the Falcons Super Bowl Win. It’s technically against NFL rules, but who’s gonna tell Tom Brady what to do? 
 

Josh Allen goes a little wild and wears a beanie/toque, but the league still has a pretty strict rule about hats needing bills, so he wears one of those hats with the wool earflaps you can pin up instead. 
 

Aaron Rodgers started wearing the same, sad, floppy straw hat he got during a stay a few years ago at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville. It’s falling apart, and everyone keeps telling him that, but he just shuffs it off like he’s smarter than anyone else wearing hats made out of petrochemical materials sourced by the big banks. 
 

Daniel Jones has a hat, but it keeps falling off. 
 

Russell Wilson is for sure rocking a golf visor with the words Let’s Ride! Steelers Nation on it. 
 

Kyler Murray went missing a few weeks ago and the Cardinals were really worried about him. Turns out he was there the whole time, but his hat is WAY too big and everyone just mistook it for an old hat lying on the floor. 
 

Terry Bradshaw would’ve for sure worn one of those Gillian/Fishing style hats. 
 

Brett Favre also wears an old floppy hat, but he takes it off after every single play and holds it until like two seconds before the snap and it stresses out the coaches big time. He also stole that cap from the State of Mississippi’s public food bank. 
 

Joe Montana would wear a cowboy hat, and even as a 49er and also as a goofy white dude, still pulls it off so damn well. 
 

Troy Aikman wears an old deflated basketball. It’s all that will fit his huge melon head. 
 

Kurt Cousins always has a new hat, and it always seems WAY out of his price range, but he always inexplicably gets someone else to pay for it. 
 

Gardner Minshew wears one of those old fancy velvet top hats. Because wouldn’t seeing Minshew huck tuddies in a top hat just be so wonderful? Attached Monocle for red zone trips. 

Joe Burrow doesn’t wear a hat. His hair is far too cool. Also, technically against NFL regulations, but viewership triples when those golden locks are out flowing. 
 

Speaking of golden locks, Trevor Lawrence has been required by his employer to wear a hair net. It just causes too much of a health hazard otherwise. 
 

Got any more? 

 

I think reading this gave me CTE. I may need to donate my brain to the mods for examination after I finish publishing all my notes. 

[FiddySicks]

You’re welcome. 

[MCM0313]

49 minutes ago, Silver_Star said:

 

Well, DAMN!!! WOAH!!! WTF!!!

Hey, at least it means they haven’t officially ruled out socks that contrast with the pants. 
 

20 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

 

But which QB would wear the thing that literally Satan Mike Love wore in the ‘70s?

 

Mike Love is a little corny and kind of egotistical, but there have been many, many, MANY worse human beings in the history of rock music. 
 

-Jim Morrison 

-Ted Nugent 

-Chuck Berry

-Gary Glitter

 

…and that’s just off the top of my head. 

[Sec19Row53]

13 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Regarding the Guardian caps, is there any advantage / disadvantage to making your head extra huge? Like a DL taking up more space when trying to fill holes? Or a RB grazing a defenders shoulders due to the cap and losing balance or being otherwise affected?

You're more likely to be in the neutral zone at the snap, so that's a strike against them.

[Dynasty]

3 hours ago, tBBP said:

It might not survive the preseason...recall the "cannonball streaks" on the Alarm Clock Buccaneers' helmets that didn't even make it halfway through the preseason 2013? 

 

So there is hope...

 

This is new to me I think. I can't find Buccaneers cannonball streaks online, unless they go by something else.

[Silver_Star]

5 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

Hey, at least it means they haven’t officially ruled out socks that contrast with the pants. 

 

Well, there you go. At least Denver has done so much to make their look much more exiting and matches every type of color than anything else.

[oldschoolvikings]

8 minutes ago, Dynasty said:

 

This is new to me I think. I can't find Buccaneers cannonball streaks online, unless they go by something else.

 

Super hard to find pictures for... they didn't make it out of preseason IIRC. Look on the front of the helmet curving back over the top.

 

 

 

 

What a dumb idea.

[MCM0313]

28 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

 

Super hard to find pictures for... they didn't make it out of preseason IIRC. Look on the front of the helmet curving back over the top.

 

 

 

 

What a dumb idea.

Poor Gerald McCoy. He was a fantastic player, but he spent most of his prime looking like an ass-clown because of some designers with no restraint. 

[ManillaToad]

2 hours ago, mmejia said:

 

WTF happened to football aesthetics

[TenaciousG]

Is there a way to get logos on the guardian cap?  That may be the difference between them catching on or not. 

[burgundy]

3 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Now I’m picturing a scenario where all the great QBs of the past wear caps instead of helmets. What hats would they wear? 
 

You would have to think that Mahomes wears a 59Fifty with a stick straight bill. Maybe a slight turn of the cap to the right, for style (not Pedro Stroop style turned, but just a little bit). 
 

Peyton Manning is for sure gonna wear one of those low profile caps with a very curved bill and a Velcro back. He might have a pair of Maui Jim’s on the bill for, like, the Pro Bowl or games in Miami. 
 

Tom Brady, well, Tom started wearing his cap backwards after the Falcons Super Bowl Win. It’s technically against NFL rules, but who’s gonna tell Tom Brady what to do? 
 

Josh Allen goes a little wild and wears a beanie/toque, but the league still has a pretty strict rule about hats needing bills, so he wears one of those hats with the wool earflaps you can pin up instead. 
 

Aaron Rodgers started wearing the same, sad, floppy straw hat he got during a stay a few years ago at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville. It’s falling apart, and everyone keeps telling him that, but he just shuffs it off like he’s smarter than anyone else wearing hats made out of petrochemical materials sourced by the big banks. 
 

Daniel Jones has a hat, but it keeps falling off. 
 

Russell Wilson is for sure rocking a golf visor with the words Let’s Ride! Steelers Nation on it. 
 

Kyler Murray went missing a few weeks ago and the Cardinals were really worried about him. Turns out he was there the whole time, but his hat is WAY too big and everyone just mistook it for an old hat lying on the floor. 
 

Terry Bradshaw would’ve for sure worn one of those Gillian/Fishing style hats. 
 

Brett Favre also wears an old floppy hat, but he takes it off after every single play and holds it until like two seconds before the snap and it stresses out the coaches big time. He also stole that cap from the State of Mississippi’s public food bank. 
 

Joe Montana would wear a cowboy hat, and even as a 49er and also as a goofy white dude, still pulls it off so damn well. 
 

Troy Aikman wears an old deflated basketball. It’s all that will fit his huge melon head. 
 

Kurt Cousins always has a new hat, and it always seems WAY out of his price range, but he always inexplicably gets someone else to pay for it. 
 

Gardner Minshew wears one of those old fancy velvet top hats. Because wouldn’t seeing Minshew huck tuddies in a top hat just be so wonderful? Attached Monocle for red zone trips. 

Joe Burrow doesn’t wear a hat. His hair is far too cool. Also, technically against NFL regulations, but viewership triples when those golden locks are out flowing. 
 

Speaking of golden locks, Trevor Lawrence has been required by his employer to wear a hair net. It just causes too much of a health hazard otherwise. 
 

Got any more? 

 

 

Flip Bradshaw and Montana. Bradshaw definitely would have worn a cowboy hat.