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NFL 2015-2016 Season - Maybe extra points actually ... matter? What?

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Maybe two or three years, iirc. Although that list is per year, so it doesn't change anything.

I don't know if I'd put them as the best team ever, but damn were they fun to watch. We're talking Marshall Faulk, Kurt Warner, and many others. I'm more familiar with the 2001 team because they beat my team, but even their defense was solid.
 
The 1999 Rams were a great team. There's no question about that.

Still, even I wouldn't chose them at #1.

I would pick the '89 49ers, and '85 Bears ahead of them.
 
"Greatest Super Bowl Champs", seems to me, should mean most dominant Super Bowl preformance, or at least most dominant playoff performance including Super Bowl.

This list seems to be a ranking of regular season performances among SB winners. The '79 Steelers were dominant in the regular season, but their SB win over the Raams was hardly dominant. Same could be said for the '99 Rams who barely squeaked by the Titans in the SB.

Maybe list should have been called "Greatest Regular Season Teams Who Also Won SB's".
 
Use of Time said:
I feel like Detroit has stolen the will to play from two all time greats.
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There's going to be an interesting Hall of Fame debate around him.

Points in Johnson's favor:
- The receiving yards in a single season record
- 6 Pro Bowls
- 3 All-Pros
- His peak was pretty incredible
- A killer nickname everyone knows
- NFL record for consecutive 100-yard games
- Tied with Irvin for most 100 yard games in a season
- Led the NFL in yards and TDs in two seasons each
- Fastest WR to 10,000 yards

Points against him:
- There is a massive logjam of receivers eligible for the Hall and it's only getting worse right now
- No rings, nor even a playoff win (so he holds no playoff records)
- He's only #27 on the career receiving yards list
- #22 all time receiving Tds
- Stafford has been in offenses well-known for throwing the ball way too much; would Megatron have done so well had Stafford not thrown like 40 passes every game?
- Played on the worst team in the modern era
- No longevity

He's arguable, but probably not first ballot, which means that either he'll get in 10 years from now or everyone will just sort of forget about him during the same time frame as other receivers put up crazy numbers in the modern game. Although, that being said, retiring early could help him in a weird, backwards, "what he could have been had Detroit not crushed his soul" way.
 
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-england...ions-in-2015-spot-checks-but-questions-remain

Don't know why this should shock me, or make me any more mad about it, but still pisses me off. Know the PSI results that the NFL was collecting all year, and was rumored to be releasing soon? Guess they didn't help the NFL look any more competent, so the story has shifted. They were just doing 'spot checks', and despite the refs being required to submit all their results, Goodell is now claiming the NFL either didn't save them or just wasn't interested in the results. Nothing to release, nothing to see here. Any more blatant admission that the whole thing was bullshit, and that the numbers would just finish tanking their case in court?

He says there were no violations this year. Which is basically impossible if they did the checks they said they did. If they can inflate balls to 12.5, and then go play with them outside in cold weather, it's physically impossible for those balls to be 12.5 when they check at halftime. What he had to have MEANT was that they now know that the balls will do that naturally, so there were no penalties as a result of intentional deflation, which makes sense, other than that one tiny outlier penalty for the same thing last season. Of course, when it got out that the backup balls for the Minnesota playoff game would be kept indoors and swapped out at halftime, it sorta already admitted that they finally understood what was going on. Otherwise, why do that? I hate that d-bag...

And once more for the record, I don't think the Patriots were doing nothing, couple of those texts didn't look great. But I don't believe that anyone was randomly letting a ton of air out (in home games only) to make things softer or easier to catch or whatever. Reading the OTHER info in that hackjob report, seems that the refs would sometimes be assholes and pump in extra air, despite the balls being legal at check in. For example, the one ball at a Jets game that measured 16 PSI AFTER the game. I think after that nonsense, the Pats decided that when they had that happen, they'd have their guy put them back to the right level to start. Still not right, but not the scandal Goodell wants to hang Brady over. Not an exact thing, so maybe they got to 12.3 or whatever sometimes, but looking at how the refs were doing it (squeeze test more often than gauge anyway, and the two gauges were off by almost half a bar of PSI anyway, so it was never an exact thing they really cared about, until they did. My best guess that seems to line up with both stories...
 
Timby said:
There's going to be an interesting Hall of Fame debate around him.
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Points against him:
- There is a massive logjam of receivers eligible for the Hall and it's only getting worse right now
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Paging Isaac Bruce!

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Jedi_Master said:
I read that story last night and my first thought was "@Scout101 going to be ranting about this" :lol:

Typical Goodell performance. What a dope.
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I mean, is there any other appropriate response? Just beyond a joke, and while he's doing this, going ahead with the lawsuits, Pats still aren't drafting in the 1st (or 5th) rounds, out 1M, and it'll be used as more proof of the 'pattern of cheating' if anyone every has another conspiracy theory. Just such a blatant railroading that it's frustrating that everything stands and never getting overturned or going away. If the numbers helped the NFL, they'd have come out. So that they put them in the shredder and want to retroactively claim they never even collected them, doesn't that sorta tell you the whole story?

If you're doing time in prison for murder, and the guy you 'killed' shows up to visit you regularly, kinda annoying to be stuck there and not getting anyone to acknowledge the fact that you didn't actually kill the guy...
 
It's been pretty spectacular how bad he manages to handle these things. As good as he seems to be on the business end of the NFL is how bad he is at the rest. But since he's just printing money for the owners right now, they're not inclined to rock the apple cart.

But the guy is a moron. Reading transcripts from the Brady hearings, it's just painful. And that they've screwed up things even a layman would know to avoid, I mean...
 
NFL won't pay man who has most of SB I on tape. Story
No full recording of the original broadcast of Super Bowl I exists because in the 1960s networks rarely saved their tapes. But one man owns what is believed to be the closest thing to a full recording, tapes his late father made of most of the game, minus commercials, some plays that came right after commercial breaks, halftime and some of the third quarter.
That man, Troy Haupt, asked the NFL for $1 million for his dad’s old tapes. The NFL replied that it would give him $30,000. When Haupt spurned that offer, the NFL stopped talking to Haupt entirely, other than to warn him that if he sells the tapes to a third party, he’ll be violating the league’s copyright and the NFL will go after him.
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No surprise the NFL would threaten him about selling the tapes to anyone else, but wouldn't a private sale be protected?
 
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