NFL players to the Olympics in Flag Football?

[GASabresIUFan]

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-owners-vote-to-permit-players-to-participate-in-2028-summer-olympics-flag-football

 

Can you imagine having to play flag football against Josh or Lamar?

[Walking Tall]

I’d make them look like fools.

[Orlando Buffalo]

I realize it is flag football so I was trying to figure out the "dream team" since it won't be full contact. Without picking any Bills my definite list includes:

Lamar Jackson

Christian McCaffery

Justin Jefferson

Jamar Chase

Not sure how to pick defense since the ability to tackle is so integral who I think is good 

[Doc]

No one of any importance would risk it. 

[Kirby Jackson]

Peterman could qb the US to a gold

Edited 18 hours ago by Kirby Jackson

[Buffalo ill]

Nobody (who matters) cares about flag football.  Nfl players take so many PEDs that they pop tendons enough already.

[Doc Brown]

Since there's no tackling involved our defense would pry be really good at grabbing a flag.

[Captain Hindsight]

34 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

Since there's no tackling involved our defense would pry be really good at grabbing a flag.

Flag football is soft. The dolphins are probably the best to represent the US

[eball]

I think a lot of NFL players would get a huge kick out of this and will be interested.

 

[HaldimandBills]

https://www.thescore.com/nfl/news/3288796

 

USA walks away with Gold. Comfortably

 

Canada walks away with Silver. Comfortably.

 

Not sure what the point is? Is it to grow a sport? Or watch NFL players grind the other countries into dust as NBC laughs hysterically at the profits?

 

The only reason to add NFL talent is so casual fans go, "ohhhhh I know those football players. Me watch." It certainly serves no purpose in actually growing the game to a wider audience. 

 

or maybe it does.

 

Other countries basketball programs have exploded even though America destroys them on the court. Maybe China, Brazil, Japan, Nigeria, Mexico, and France will be OK losing by 100 points? 

 

 

 

 

[DJB]

I’m putting my life savings on Uganda to win it all 

[SoCal Deek]

And now for the poster who says it’s all about Owner’s greed. Three…Two….One….

[dgrochester55]

9 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:

Peterman could qb the US to a gold

 

Agreed. Peterman's reaction time and throwing style made him too prone to interceptions to be effective in the NFL, but he was productive in college and has looked decent in preseason garbage time. Succeeding in Olympic flag football against rosters with little or no NFL talent is something he could easily do. The NFL could roll out practice squad players and preseason cuts and still win a gold.

Edited 9 hours ago by dgrochester55

[Kirby Jackson]

4 minutes ago, dgrochester55 said:

 

Agreed. Peterman's reaction time and throwing style made him too prone to interceptions to be effective in the NFL, but he was productive in college and has looked decent in preseason garbage time. Succeeding in Olympic flag football against rosters with little or no NFL talent is something he could easily do. The NFL could roll out practice squad players and preseason cuts and still win a gold.

Lol, to be clear I wasn’t talking about how his skillset would translate well to the flag football world. It was simply, “he’s the worst football player that I’ve ever seen and the gap from the US to the rest of the world is so wide that it doesn’t matter if he’s the QB. They will still win.”

[Mango]

10 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

I realize it is flag football so I was trying to figure out the "dream team" since it won't be full contact. Without picking any Bills my definite list includes:

Lamar Jackson

Christian McCaffery

Justin Jefferson

Jamar Chase

Not sure how to pick defense since the ability to tackle is so integral who I think is good 

 

I could be wrong but I think players have to play both sides of the ball.

[RobbRiddick]

Imagine if Tua played and still got concussed 

[GASabresIUFan]

31 minutes ago, RobbRiddick said:

Imagine if Tua played and still got concussed 

Doesn’t he get concussed getting up in the morning?

[zow2]

There's probably so many awesome flag football players that aren't in the NFL, the USA really could smoke every country with amateurs and college guys. 

 

Any NFL players would certainly give the event some extra status, but in my opinion wouldn't make the level of play that much higher.  

[The Jokeman]

2 hours ago, eball said:

I think a lot of NFL players would get a huge kick out of this and will be interested.

 

Hopefully they got good insurance because you get injured in the Olympics you won't get paid by an NFL team unless had some kind of guaranteed money but may not qualify being they got hurt outside a NFL game. 

[Matt_In_NH]

The NFL approved this 32-0....wonder how the contracts will be interpreted regarding taking risks with outside recreational type activities....for players that have that type of language in their contracts.