2024-2025 NFL Thread: Get Ready For Some Football

[hashtagdaley/JudasDay]

Sept 3, 2024 10:13:15 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

Sept 3, 2024 8:54:02 GMT -5 hashtagdaley/JudasDay said:

Trent Williams is back. Now with all the offseason weirdness gone, March back to the Super Bowl and just hope someone else takes out KC.

Won't be my Ravens.

Then I have no use for you and your stupid team!!!

[A Little Doo Doo]

Sept 3, 2024 12:47:05 GMT -5 hashtagdaley/JudasDay said:

Sept 3, 2024 10:13:15 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

Won't be my Ravens.

Then I have no use for you and your stupid team!!!

I don't either.

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

FINAL-ish PREDICTIONS:

AFC East: Dolphins (4)
AFC North: Ravens (2)
AFC South: Texans (3)
AFC West: Chiefs (1)
Wild cards: Bengals (5), Raiders (6), Colts (7)

NFC East: Eagles (3)
NFC North: Lions (2)
NFC South: Bucs (4)
NFC West: Niners (1)
Wild cards: Packers (5), Rams (6), Bears (7)

Bengals over Dolphins
Ravens over Colts
Texans over Raiders
Lions over Bears
Rams over Eagles
Packers over Bucs

Chiefs over Bengals
Ravens over Texans
Niners over Packers
Rams over Lions

Chiefs over Ravens
Niners over Rams

Chiefs over Niners

Worst team is Carolina, sorry Panther fans.

[Sicho100]

Here are your season spoilers:

AFC North:
Ravens (2)
Bengals* (5)
Steelers
Browns

AFC East:
Jets (4)
Bills* (6)
Dolphins
Patriots

AFC South:
Texans (3)
Titans* (7)
Jaguars
Colts

AFC West:
Chiefs (1)
Chargers
Raiders
Broncos


NFC North:
Packers (3)
Lions* (5)
Bears* (7)
Vikings

NFC East:
Cowboys (1)
Eagles
Giants
Commanders

NFC South:
Falcons (4)
Bucs
Saints
Panthers

NFC West:
49ers (2)
Seahawks* (6)
Rams
Cardinals

Playoffs:

AFC:
Wildcard Round:
(2) Ravens over (7) Titans
(6) Bills over (3) Texans
(5) Bengals over (4) Jets

Divisional Round:
(1) Chiefs over (6) Bills
(2) Ravens over (5) Bengals

AFC Championship:
(2) Ravens over (1) Chiefs

NFC:
Wildcard Round:
(2) 49ers over (7) Bears
(3) Packers over (6) Seahawks
(5) Lions over (4) Falcons

Divisional Round:
(5) Lions over (1) Cowboys
(3) Packers over (2) 49ers

NFC Championship:
(3) Packers over (5) Lions

Super Bowl:
Ravens over Packers

MVP: Probably Mahomes, I guess
OPOY: Cee-Dee Lamb, Dallas
DPOY: Micah Parsons, Dallas
Coach of the Year: Brian Callahan, Tennessee
OROY: Caleb Williams, Chicago
DROY: Dallas Turner, Minnesota

[jm]

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Sept 4, 2024 22:46:32 GMT -5 jm said:

Yeah idk, maybe don't ever do this again

Maybe also don't make it a f***ing streaming exclusive so not only are the players pissed, the whole world is pissed at you.

[BRV]

The trip to Brazil has not exactly received a ringing endorsement from the players, according to ESPN.

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41121715/sao-paulo-beefs-security-nfl-historic-game

"We had a meeting with a whole bunch of 'don't do's.' So, I'm just trying to go down there, win a football game and come back home," wide receiver A.J. Brown told reporters last week.

He said players were advised not to walk on the streets holding cellphones.

"Week 1, I'm looking forward to it, I can't wait," Darius Slay Jr. said recently on his "Big Play Slay" podcast. "But man, I do not want to go to Brazil, you want to know why? I'm here to tell you why. They already told us not to leave the hotel. They told us we can't do too much going on because the crime rate is crazy.

"... I'm like, NFL why y'all wanna send us somewhere where the crime rate is this high and we out the country? You know, the first thing people are thinking is like some terror could possibly happen. I told my family do not come down there because I'm not going to be nowhere to be found. I'm going to be in the hotel chilling, minding my business, playing my game after a long 9½-hour flight."

Also, a rumor circulated on social media that fans were advised not to wear green to the stadium on Friday because Corinthians is the stadium's traditional home club, but their rival Palmeiras wears green, which means green as a color is "customarily banned" from the stadium, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. But exceptions have been made in the past, most notably for the 2016 Summer Olympics, when Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Iraq all wore green for games at the stadium. That said, it doesn't really help the cause when the Eagles - the designated home team for Friday night - opted to wear a uniform combo they've never worn before, one that removes all traces of the color, as they'll be wearing black helmets, white jerseys, and black pants.

[Ben Wyatt]

Sept 5, 2024 8:39:40 GMT -5 BRV said:

The trip to Brazil has not exactly received a ringing endorsement from the players, according to ESPN.

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41121715/sao-paulo-beefs-security-nfl-historic-game

"We had a meeting with a whole bunch of 'don't do's.' So, I'm just trying to go down there, win a football game and come back home," wide receiver A.J. Brown told reporters last week.

He said players were advised not to walk on the streets holding cellphones.

"Week 1, I'm looking forward to it, I can't wait," Darius Slay Jr. said recently on his "Big Play Slay" podcast. "But man, I do not want to go to Brazil, you want to know why? I'm here to tell you why. They already told us not to leave the hotel. They told us we can't do too much going on because the crime rate is crazy.

"... I'm like, NFL why y'all wanna send us somewhere where the crime rate is this high and we out the country? You know, the first thing people are thinking is like some terror could possibly happen. I told my family do not come down there because I'm not going to be nowhere to be found. I'm going to be in the hotel chilling, minding my business, playing my game after a long 9½-hour flight."

Also, a rumor circulated on social media that fans were advised not to wear green to the stadium on Friday because Corinthians is the stadium's traditional home club, but their rival Palmeiras wears green, which means green as a color is "customarily banned" from the stadium, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. But exceptions have been made in the past, most notably for the 2016 Summer Olympics, when Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Iraq all wore green for games at the stadium. That said, it doesn't really help the cause when the Eagles - the designated home team for Friday night - opted to wear a uniform combo they've never worn before, one that removes all traces of the color, as they'll be wearing black helmets, white jerseys, and black pants.

One would think at some point the NFL would get too greedy and hit an oversaturation point, but they keep adding games: This Friday,  Black Friday, Christmas and having games on 57 different streaming services and nobody is batting an eye. Nobody likes TNF, but thats clearly not going away either. 

[A Little Doo Doo]

There's no reason for me to believe the Chiefs won't three-peat.

[Fundertaker]

I'm here for Chaos, This Week In Sportsball (with return of Days Of Our Steelers?) and see how the Falcons bungle under Kirk "It's A Private Matter" Cousins.

[XIII]

Sending teams to Brazil is some of the dumbest shit imaginable. They’re going to have to travel to the game via armored bus with an army guard. LMAO.

[XIII]

As for the season.  I’ll probably be wrong but I have a feeling that KC is going to drop off a bit this season.  Just a gut feel there so we’ll see.

Teams to watch:

Chargers(Jim Harbaugh is a winner and they’ll be much improved)
Commanders(if Daniels stays healthy anything can happen in the NFC East)

I like the Texans to make a run.

either way I’m ready for the chaos

[BRV]

Sept 5, 2024 8:58:23 GMT -5 Ben Wyatt said:

One would think at some point the NFL would get too greedy and hit an oversaturation point, but they keep adding games: This Friday,  Black Friday, Christmas and having games on 57 different streaming services and nobody is batting an eye. Nobody likes TNF, but thats clearly not going away either. 

Bill Simmons on his podcast said that the NFL always had an unspoken agreement that they wouldn't play games on Friday nights, because that is a sacrosanct day for high school football around the country. The league shattered that norm. Christmas Day always used to be the NBA's big single day on the calendar. The NFL went ahead and said, "Nope, that's our day now."

There is an NFL game on every day of the week except for Tuesday in the 2024 season. The only reason they haven't gone to a regular Saturday night game isn't because they'd be in direct competition with college football, but because they know Saturday night is a dead zone for TV ratings.

Sept 5, 2024 8:59:34 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

There's no reason for me to believe the Chiefs won't three-peat.

There's no reason for me, either. From a pure talent perspective, they're the best team in the league, and no one in the AFC has really made a concerted effort to get on their level.

Yet I still picked the Ravens to beat the Chiefs in the playoffs, if only because the vibes out of Kansas City have been so awful this off-season. Players are getting arrested left and right, the kicker is putting himself on the front lines of culture war issues, the star quarterback's family can't help themselves from regularly f***ing up.

[jm]

Sept 5, 2024 9:20:07 GMT -5 XIII said:

Sending teams to Brazil is some of the dumbest shit imaginable. They’re going to have to travel to the game via armored bus with an army guard. LMAO.

Just remember though: the NFL really seriously with all of their heart believes in player safety.

[jm]

Sept 5, 2024 2:26:11 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Sept 4, 2024 22:46:32 GMT -5 jm said:

Yeah idk, maybe don't ever do this again

Oh my naive friend. This is the NFL we're talking about. If the money is enough, they will go play in North Korea if they want to. The only thing that the NFL listens to is dollars.

[sfvega]

Sept 5, 2024 10:38:22 GMT -5 jm said:

Sept 5, 2024 2:26:11 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Yeah idk, maybe don't ever do this again

Oh my naive friend. This is the NFL we're talking about. If the money is enough, they will go play in North Korea if they want to. The only thing that the NFL listens to is dollars.

NFL announces new Ukrainian border series for 2025!


The NCAA is downright evil and the NFL makes them look like a humanitarian effort by comparison. I LIVED for the NFL from the 90's to the early 2010s, but man does it feel like you're supporting an incredibly bad organization when you watch an NFL game. They make money hand over fist and it'snever enough. Now you need 17 games, soon to be 18 games. You need to send them off to grow the game on less developed nations (comparatively), because despite dwarfing their operational costs in TV rights deals alone they need more money. Because getting a few more billion dollars is always the most important billions, everyone knows that.

[BRV]

Sept 5, 2024 11:44:45 GMT -5 sfvega said:

Sept 5, 2024 10:38:22 GMT -5 jm said:

Oh my naive friend. This is the NFL we're talking about. If the money is enough, they will go play in North Korea if they want to. The only thing that the NFL listens to is dollars.

NFL announces new Ukrainian border series for 2025!


The NCAA is downright evil and the NFL makes them look like a humanitarian effort by comparison. I LIVED for the NFL from the 90's to the early 2010s, but man does it feel like you're supporting an incredibly bad organization when you watch an NFL game. They make money hand over fist and it'snever enough. Now you need 17 games, soon to be 18 games. You need to send them off to grow the game on less developed nations (comparatively), because despite dwarfing their operational costs in TV rights deals alone they need more money. Because getting a few more billion dollars is always the most important billions, everyone knows that.

They've yet to cross the Rubicon of holding a game in Saudi Arabia, but doesn't it feel like we're kind of close to that point? If the Saudi government writes a big enough check, the unscrupulous owners and league office wouldn't turn it down, and they'd defend it by saying they're expanding the game to a nation that is progressively growing both socially and culturally, or whatever line WWE was force-feeding its fans several years ago.

[chrom]

Goodell would sell his grandmother to Somalia Pirates in exchange for pocket change

[sfvega]

Sept 5, 2024 12:25:40 GMT -5 BRV said:

Sept 5, 2024 11:44:45 GMT -5 sfvega said:

NFL announces new Ukrainian border series for 2025!


The NCAA is downright evil and the NFL makes them look like a humanitarian effort by comparison. I LIVED for the NFL from the 90's to the early 2010s, but man does it feel like you're supporting an incredibly bad organization when you watch an NFL game. They make money hand over fist and it'snever enough. Now you need 17 games, soon to be 18 games. You need to send them off to grow the game on less developed nations (comparatively), because despite dwarfing their operational costs in TV rights deals alone they need more money. Because getting a few more billion dollars is always the most important billions, everyone knows that.

They've yet to cross the Rubicon of holding a game in Saudi Arabia, but doesn't it feel like we're kind of close to that point? If the Saudi government writes a big enough check, the unscrupulous owners and league office wouldn't turn it down, and they'd defend it by saying they're expanding the game to a nation that is progressively growing both socially and culturally, or whatever line WWE was force-feeding its fans several years ago.

The over/under on a Saudi game has to be 2 years. It's definitely down the line.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

gonna be crazy to see the indianapolis colts go undefeated