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WHat's Wrong with the NFL?

Bucky said:
A good qb is available. Colin kaepernick. Heard of him?
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Good? Before defenses learned how easy it was to contain him he was...
 
I love football. The instant replays are great too...
 
faithful_servant said:
It's gotten boring.
The same teams wining all the time.
Just doing the bare minimum to win.
Personal efforts being put ahead of team success.
Too many players depending on hitting and not tackling.
Too much reliance on instant replays to review the plays.

I'd love to see the NFL and the NCAA go to a more rugby style of tackling, where you have to actually take hold of the player and bring them to the ground instead of just dropping your shoulder trying to knock them down.
Get rid of the hard helmets and facemasks and go to a rugby style soft helmet.
Make kick-offs interesting by moving the kick-off point to the 40 yard line and if the ball goes through the uprights, you spot the ball on the 10, if it goes through the end-zone (without going through the uprights) it gets' spotted on the 35, all other kicks are live balls and you have to return them.
Make punting more interesting by not allowing any cover players to go downfield until after the ball has been kicked and bring an end to fair catches, but use the CFL rule of giving the returner a buffer. All punts are live balls, so you either catch the punt and run or the other team gets it.
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Rugby sucks.
 
As I said in another thread

Zyphlin said:
So much **** is ****ing them right now.

Product on the field. The Television product itself. High costs of stadium games. The rise of fantasy football and greater focus on all games rather than one by the viewer. The ease in which information is gathered about the game in methods other than TV in real time. The whole concussion issue. The whole protest issue. The whole domestic violence thing. The changing of rules and "wussifying" of the game. The over saturation issue

They're still king, and are likely to be for some time, but it's definitely not in as healthy of a spot as it was a few years back.
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calamity said:
Hint: it's not players kneeling during the National Anthem. Nope. It's ****ty games because of cheap-ass owners--or is that greedy-ass owners or, perhaps, I should say, prima donna owners?

Oh, did I mention that the Owners are what is wrong with football?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...ls-woes/ar-BBETgqu?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

Why do I blame the owners? Simple--did any of you watch a game yesterday?

Let's look at the clown show in Denver last night, a game which was supposed to be the marque match-up of the week. It was anything but. The starting QB from a supposedly Superbowl ready team was a reject from Cleveland---yeah, that Cleveland, the 0 and whatever Cleveland Browns. How the hell is a guy who cannot even stick to the roster of the leagues worst team supposed to be the starter on one of it's best? Who the hell made that call? And, one has to ask. Why the hell does Denver not have a good QB?

I'll tell you why. Money. Call it the system of cheap which does not allow a team, like the Broncos, to go out and buy a good QB on the free agency market. Nope. the owners made sure that no such competitive system would ever be allowed in the NFL. So, you have hard caps and rights of first refusal and mandatory compensation via draft picks and franchise tags instead of two good teams playing each other on Prime Time Sunday broadcasts. WTF?

But, hey. Let's blame it on players taking a knee. I know some still will.
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i thought you swore off watching the NFL
 
Bodhisattva said:
It is like you litefally have no idea what GMs do or how few good QBs there actually are...
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Right because each NFL team is not facing a hard cap and thus has no depth.
 
justabubba said:
i thought you swore off watching the NFL
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Not just the NFL, football in general. But...

It's a tough habit to break. I had to watch the Buckeyes play Penn State. And, I've tuned in to a quarter or two of the big boys, but I have not been impressed.
 
Seems like a good place to put this:

Why People in Mississippi Have to Watch the Giants NY Times, today

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CBS generally broadcasts the American Football Conference, while Fox broadcasts the National Football Conference. When there are interconference matchups, like the Chiefs versus the Giants, the conference of the road team determines which network gets the broadcast. But some matchups are “cross-flexed” onto networks they wouldn’t normally be on.

In Week 11, this means the Buffalo at Los Angeles Chargers game — between two A.F.C. teams — is on Fox. Therefore, CBS has three games in the early window and two in the late window.
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And what about that portion of Mississippi that will be served Chiefs-Giants? Giants quarterback Eli Manning starred at the University of Mississippi, and CBS believes that a lot of people in the state still want to watch him play.
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Five cities, comprising about 9 percent of the country’s population, will not get any N.F.L. game at all on CBS at 1 p.m.: Minneapolis, Chicago, Houston, New Orleans and Miami.

The N.F.L. long maintained strict blackout rules to compel fans to fill stadiums; until 2014, games that were not sold out were not broadcast at all in their home markets. But those rules have all but withered away. The last important rule remaining is that no N.F.L. game can be broadcast opposite a home team in its primary market.

At 1 p.m. Sunday, the Vikings, the Bears, the Texans, the Saints and the Dolphins are all playing at home — those games will be broadcast on Fox — so CBS cannot broadcast a game in those areas. Similarly, Fox will not be broadcasting games in New York, Green Bay or Cleveland.
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Bucky said:
Maybe peyton becomes the coach next year and they trade for eli as the qb?
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That would be a dumb move because Eli sucks.
 
calamity said:
Hint: it's not players kneeling during the National Anthem. Nope. It's ****ty games because of cheap-ass owners--or is that greedy-ass owners or, perhaps, I should say, prima donna owners?
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I disagree. I think it's mostly the Anthem and other politicization in the sports. NFL is a fine example of demonstrating that the country isn't nearly so left as it's passed off as. It's just most people don't vote.
 
code1211 said:
I don't know that the Black QB Ban story holds water after Doug Williams. Zimmer indicates that Bridgewater will start this year. The Vikes are in first place without him. If Black QB's were banned, that seems to be an odd decision.

It seems like if the Devil could win a Super Bowl, Most GM's would be on the first trolley to Hell to sign him.

CK is radioactive and it has zero to do with him being Black.

The wins for the 49'ers seem to be declining year after year since their SB appearance.

From 2013 to 2017 YTD, their seasonal wins are: 12, 8, 5, 2, 1.

This shows pretty clearly that CK's presence or absence is not the reason they currently suck. However, it also shows he's not the answer to their problems.

Does Newton know that he should not be allowed to play under the bias you think exists?
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In 9 games Tyrod Taylor threw 3 ints and was benched in favor of his white counterpart, Nathan Peterman.

Nathan Peterman completes 6 passes and throws 5 ints in one half.
 
Bucky said:
In 9 games Tyrod Taylor threw 3 ints and was benched in favor of his white counterpart, Nathan Peterman.

Nathan Peterman completes 6 passes and throws 5 ints in one half.
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The nfl is down this year

We have a lot of bad qb’s leading teams....

Very few good qb’s are coming out, and 32teams is just too many

Then get a few hurt, and you have bad play....

hopefully it is just an aberration and it gets better next year

I don’t think we can make the rules any easier for offense....but who knows
 
Bucky said:
In 9 games Tyrod Taylor threw 3 ints and was benched in favor of his white counterpart, Nathan Peterman.

Nathan Peterman completes 6 passes and throws 5 ints in one half.
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Who do these people play for?

Are either one on their way to the Hall of Fame?
 
gdgyva said:
The nfl is down this year

We have a lot of bad qb’s leading teams....

Very few good qb’s are coming out, and 32teams is just too many

Then get a few hurt, and you have bad play....

hopefully it is just an aberration and it gets better next year

I don’t think we can make the rules any easier for offense....but who knows
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The NFL needs a D-League. You can't just pull a starting QB out of the announcer booth when the first string guy goes down. And, they are too cheap to carry two veteran starters on one roster. Best you get for a #2 is a guy on his rookie contract who can play. Most teams have crap journeymen as their backups.
 
calamity said:
Hint: it's not players kneeling during the National Anthem. Nope. It's ****ty games because of cheap-ass owners--or is that greedy-ass owners or, perhaps, I should say, prima donna owners?

Oh, did I mention that the Owners are what is wrong with football?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...ls-woes/ar-BBETgqu?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

Why do I blame the owners? Simple--did any of you watch a game yesterday?

Let's look at the clown show in Denver last night, a game which was supposed to be the marque match-up of the week. It was anything but. The starting QB from a supposedly Superbowl ready team was a reject from Cleveland---yeah, that Cleveland, the 0 and whatever Cleveland Browns. How the hell is a guy who cannot even stick to the roster of the leagues worst team supposed to be the starter on one of it's best? Who the hell made that call? And, one has to ask. Why the hell does Denver not have a good QB?

I'll tell you why. Money. Call it the system of cheap which does not allow a team, like the Broncos, to go out and buy a good QB on the free agency market. Nope. the owners made sure that no such competitive system would ever be allowed in the NFL. So, you have hard caps and rights of first refusal and mandatory compensation via draft picks and franchise tags instead of two good teams playing each other on Prime Time Sunday broadcasts. WTF?

But, hey. Let's blame it on players taking a knee. I know some still will.
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Consider the Broncos were considering trading for Kap last year.

They had Brock, and decided he wasn't worth the money. The Texans were so fed up with him they gave away a draft pick to just get rid of him. He was cut by the Broncos and all of a sudden he's a better option than Kap???
 
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