2025-26 NFL Thread

[Pakuni]

Curious wby they would move touchbacks to the 35. Wouldn't that encourage teams to kick short and have more returns, thus more injuries?

I think they believe that with the new setup, kickoff returns will result in fewer injuries. The days of players sprinting downfield 40 yards and colliding are over.
And they're tired of kickers blasting it through the end zone (64% of kickoffs resulted in touchbacks last year), depriving games of the potential for exciting plays.

[The Sultan]

Curious wby they would move touchbacks to the 35. Wouldn't that encourage teams to kick short and have more returns, thus more injuries?

They want more returns.  That was the point of changing the kick off to begin with. Theoretically there are less full speed hits between the tacklers and blockers, which is where most of the injuries occurred.

[Dish]

St. Louis Bengals?

[tower912]

St. Louis Bengals?

Now that (stuff) would be funny.

[GB Warrior]

I think NFL ties are fine actually?

I don't know I have a problem with them. My thoughts might change if you have a team with 2 or 3 in a year (I still think it's exceedingly unlikely). The strategy around who receives the kickoff will be interesting because of that time constraint

[Uncle Rico]

St. Louis Bengals?

I could be wrong, but I have my doubts Hamilton County will hold the bag again like they did last time

[The Sultan]

St. Louis Bengals?

This will really test the limits of how much leverage an NFL team can have over a city. Because if a sad-sack franchise like the Bengals can pull it off...

[Uncle Rico]

This will really test the limits of how much leverage an NFL team can have over a city. Because if a sad-sack franchise like the Bengals can pull it off...

The county paid for basically all of it in the late 90's.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-stupid-sports-stadium-clause-thats-screwing-you-over/

[The Sultan]

The county paid for basically all of it in the late 90's.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-stupid-sports-stadium-clause-thats-screwing-you-over/

Right. I just get the impression that things may have changed in the meantime...perhaps not.

[GB Warrior]

All things considered the Bengals might be the saddest franchise in the NFL

[MU82]

The Athletic's Dianna Russini thinks the NFL will ban the tush push.

Roger Goodell does not like the play. He thinks it's ugly. He doesn't think it's a football play. ... The fact that this was tabled (at the league meeting) tells me that they're going to ban the tush push. ... They're gonna find a way to get it out of football. ... Some (owners) want to be in line with Roger Goodell. I think some believe it's an ugly play. And I think, whether or not they'll admit it, if you can't beat it, ban it.

[Uncle Rico]

The Athletic's Dianna Russini thinks the NFL will ban the tush push.

Roger Goodell does not like the play. He thinks it's ugly. He doesn't think it's a football play. ... The fact that this was tabled (at the league meeting) tells me that they're going to ban the tush push. ... They're gonna find a way to get it out of football. ... Some (owners) want to be in line with Roger Goodell. I think some believe it's an ugly play. And I think, whether or not they'll admit it, if you can't beat it, ban it.

I don't think she's a very good reporter

[Pakuni]

I don't think she's a very good reporter

Chicks shouldn't be reporting on football anyhow.

[Uncle Rico]

Chicks shouldn't be reporting on football anyhow.

Hallelujah, brother

[GB Warrior]

The Athletic's Dianna Russini thinks the NFL will ban the tush push.

Roger Goodell does not like the play. He thinks it's ugly. He doesn't think it's a football play. ... The fact that this was tabled (at the league meeting) tells me that they're going to ban the tush push. ... They're gonna find a way to get it out of football. ... Some (owners) want to be in line with Roger Goodell. I think some believe it's an ugly play. And I think, whether or not they'll admit it, if you can't beat it, ban it.

The number of times he had to watch his Jets QB run into the ass of his lineman would make me want to ban the play too

[Dish]

George McCaskey is the home plate umpire for my son's freshman baseball game this morning.

[WhiteTrash]

George McCaskey is the home plate umpire for my son's freshman baseball game this my.

Rally the troops for a "Sell The Team!" chant.

[cheebs09]

George McCaskey is the home plate umpire for my son's freshman baseball game this my.

Scouting for a QB?

[Jockey]

Hallelujah, brother

Absolutely. They should be rooting on their men. Short skirts - lotsa cartwheels.

[Jockey]

Hooray! Head bashing will be back in vogue this year. The Pope just cut funding for the study of CTE.

If we ignore it, it will go away.

[MU82]

Tucker is 35, was one of the NFL's worst kickers last season, and makes too much money. And the Ravens used a draft pick on a kicker.

Cutting Tucker would make sense even if he didn't have a bunch of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

But those allegations do exist, so moving on had to have been a fairly easy decision ... despite the GM being kind in public and saying how difficult it was.

[dgies9156]

George McCaskey is the home plate umpire for my son's freshman baseball game this morning.

You live in Libertyille?

[MU1in77]

Derek Carr retiring due to shoulder injury. Do the Saints go after Roger's?

[Jockey]

Derek Carr retiring due to shoulder injury. Do the Saints go after Roger's?

will anyone care either way?

[MU82]

Derek Carr retiring due to shoulder injury. Do the Saints go after Roger's?

Drew Brees is available.