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Goff throws a 2 yard pass like Favre trying to thread the needle

Andy Reid is a legitimate GOAT candidate as HC

Go Lions! I love how they have a give zero cares attitude and just roll

Fair enough, I guess I just remembered that game entirely wrong!

silly question maybe, but who decides on the weekly uniform combos? Is it Beane or McDermott? Pegula? Someone in PR/marketing? I like the combo, just curious.

This is worrisome to me because last year after the Titans game Hyde suddenly had an injury and then he was done for the year when nobody seemed to even realize he was hurt. We need Hyde for the playoff run.

Pat McAfee did an entire segment on how Burrow's playoff stats are almost identical to Kirk Cousins playoff stats. Burrow is great no doubt, but his playoff success has everything to do with the fact that the Bengals play a physical, tough style of football that is a matchup nightmare for the Bills and Chiefs. In fact, last playoff run the Ravens with their backup QB pretty much dominated the game until Huntley fumbled the game away at the 2 yard line with the game tied in the 4th quarter. Ravens score 7 there and it's lights out for Joe Cool and company and the Ravens advance. But that's how narratives are written. Burrow has the "it factor" because the Ravens backup QB fumbled the ball at the Bengals 2 yard line and it was returned for a TD. All game the Ravens defense basically shut him and the Bengals offense down. Chiefs and Bills have never really had a game like that where they shut the Bengals down, because the Ravens are a tough as nails team that will stop the run and can run the ball themselves. Bills and Chiefs are high flying teams that score a lot of points and rely on that to beat you.

Hit a home run on the QB pick and you're a winner and a great GM. It's not really that simple but it's that simple.

Look on the bright side... Sal Capaccio will be working overtime tomorrow to make it sound like it was a great game, so driving to work will be entertaining. My takeaway is it's preseason. Nobody really cares about these games except the fringe players trying to win a roster spot. All these games are is 3 more chances for guys to get hurt.

The Rodgers experiment in NJ will either go great or it'll be an unmitigated disaster. I don't see an in between case. I think Rodgers is going to be very good there. As far as trading for Bahktiari I just don't see the point. They guy is never healthy and if he manages to get through a game he's out the next 8 weeks.

I don't follow college football that closely, so although I knew he was a star in college I guess I never realized how big of a star he was. To me, he comes off as an unlikeable tool even in this film. The part about him not enjoying his NFL stint was interesting. I can only imagine inserting an obnoxious entitled party dude with an enormous ego and absolutely zero work ethic (and seemingly proud of it) into a room of competitive professionals who basically live work and breathe football wouldn't go over very well. He wasn't happy in Cleveland, almost right away. Poor kid had to actually go to work for once, and his teammates didn't worship him for doing keg stands. It was a little hard to take, honestly.

especially when with 53 players on a team, plus coaches, there is always some narrative the league can celebrate

If there was a dome included you can be sure the cost overruns would be even bigger

I think the Bills new stadium is perfect for WNY. Football belongs outdoors.

Sadly, the Bills got dominated in the Washington and first Dallas Super Bowls. Refs weren't really a factor. Those teams were like going up against a Pro Bowl squad that cared about the game.

Rodgers could very well have an MVP type season. Same with Allen, though. I could see the Bills and Jets being the teams from the AFC East in the playoffs. I think it's going to become quite clear that Green Bay's recent success was largely due to Rodgers. He had mediocre (or worse) coaching his entire time there and an openly hostile GM who seemed bent on messing with him and not building an offense. Not to say Rodgers isn't a weird guy, but things got personal there and pride got in the way. Green Bay is about to be bad for a long, long time, and it will be hilarious to watch, not because of the fans, who are great overall, but because of the arrogance of the organization.

Rodgers is going to be very good on the Jets, but it might take 5-6 games for them to get clicking on offense.

This could be a dumb question, because I don't follow the thumbtacks. Is that Titans stadium actually trying to look like a turntable because of the music city theme?

I don't believe there is any league-wide conspiracy. If there was, the Bills would have been scripted to win a Super Bowl at some point, probably #4 vs Dallas. That said, NFL refs, more so than any other sport, have incredible power to swing a game and have it at least be debatable if they were so inclined. A team might score 24-30 points, split between 4-5 scoring drives. the rest of their possessions are punts or turnovers. All it takes is a timely holding call on offense (which can at least be debated as to whether it's ticky tack but there's always enough there to say "well, he did hold"). It doesn't even need to be on a scoring play. An 8 yard gain early in a drive on 2nd down becomes 2nd and 18 instead of 3rd and 2. That can wipe out a drive. Suddenly those 24 points a team would have earned become 17. Maybe the penalty happens in the first quarter and nobody even remembers it. But it could be enough to swing a game, especially between 2 great teams where the games are so close.

That's pretty crazy actually! Time flies... Except the month of February.

Florio has been losing his mind every winter at the absolute travesty it is that EB doesn't have a HC job. Congressional investigations, revisiting the anti trust laws, forced sale of teams, it's all on the table until the NFL comes down to earth and makes this right. I would trust Florio before I would listen to a bunch of players who worked with EB on a daily basis. All this means is that his players are also in on the giant league wide conspiracy.

Belichick is a great coach, but having Brady for 20 years made him seem like he was head and shoulders above everyone else when really he's "just" a great coach. Turns out, he isn't smarter than everyone else in the league after all. If Sean Payton or Andy Reid had Tom Brady for 20 years he would have won 6 rings also. Maybe more, who knows. It was over a 20 year span. Bruce Arians won a SB with Brady at QB. Other coaches would have won a lot of games and a lot of rings too. Now, that's not to say Belichick isn't great, he is. Or that just (insert name here) would have had the same success with Brady. Give a McVay coffee fetcher like Lefleur Brady and he might not even have played in a Super Bowl. Would Dick Jauron have won a ring with Brady? Maybe, if given 2 decades... Still, Belichick's defenses won the first couple of Super Bowls for that dynasty. He deserves a ton of credit, and it wasn't "all Brady." But he could basically do anything he wanted and as long as the game was close Brady and the refs had it handled in those last 2 minutes. It's how it goes in sports. Belichick has the hardware, but is he really the greatest coach of all time? He's the guy who put Matt Patricia in charge of the offense to "help" his young QB after all.

It's better than not having the kickoff at all. Still, with the way it is now the kickoff is almost pointless. Every kick goes into the endzone and gets touched down. As far as the 1, 2, or 3 points after a TD, words cannot express how much I hate that idea. It cheapens the game, IMO.

90's throwbacks with red helmets would be cool to see, for sure! Generally, I like the throwbacks that teams have, but I would hate to see teams end up having a handful of different uniforms and color schemes that they constantly shuffle between. Tampa's throwbacks are awesome! I have no idea why they ever changed. They were unique. Plus every team doesn't need a black uniform when it's not in their color scheme. The Cardinals and 49ers are the worst offenders in this. It's one thing if the Saints, Ravens, Falcons or Steelers do it, because it's part of the team colors already. When you're the Cardinals and your colors are red and white you don't need to copy Atlanta's uniforms.

I don't think Rodgers is in decline at all. Green Bay kept adding to the defense and relied on rookies for WR last year. Plus I think he just wanted out Lefleur, like McCarthy, are HC because of Rodgers.