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NFL 2017 Season
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I hope the 49ers win at least 6 games. If they do that I will be impressed. Slow signs of improvement is a good thing.
In terms of my super bowl prediction, it's Oakland vs. Green Bay.
In terms of my super bowl prediction, it's Oakland vs. Green Bay.
And then they turn around and complain about the stadium they're playing in.
Seahawks O-Line finally showed some signs of life this preseason after a couple mediocre seasons. I just hope they FINALLY got some guys talented enough to protect Wilson. He doesn't need another injured season like last year. Surprising that they traded away local boy Jermaine Kearse, but he hasn't exactly been a reliable receiver for Russ. Also surprising that they put Boykin on the Practice Squad and brought in Davis as their back up.
After last Thursday I have to agree that Oakland definitely looks like a contender for the AFC. I'm ever optimistic that the Seahawks will make it back to the big dance again, but we'll see. Away at Green Bay is a tough way to open the season next weekend. We'll see how I feel after that.
After last Thursday I have to agree that Oakland definitely looks like a contender for the AFC. I'm ever optimistic that the Seahawks will make it back to the big dance again, but we'll see. Away at Green Bay is a tough way to open the season next weekend. We'll see how I feel after that.
We start at home against the Luck-less Colts. That should be a win.
Hopefully this season the Rams are going to score a few points once in a while. They won only 4 games last year, and in 2 of them, they didn't score a TD (Seahawks 9-3, Jets 9-6). That's just stoopid.
Hopefully this season the Rams are going to score a few points once in a while. They won only 4 games last year, and in 2 of them, they didn't score a TD (Seahawks 9-3, Jets 9-6). That's just stoopid.
Bucs/Dolphins take a hit right out of the gate. Hurricane Irma is forcing them to postpone their opening game, and they are making it up during their week 11 bye week. Takes a nice bye week spot and eliminates it, now they get no rest during the season to heal up from anything. Not sure either team was going anywhere, but that would have been a big loss if they had aspirations. 15 straight weeks of football is a tall order...
Also going to mess with Fantasy Football, and people that drafted based on the bye schedule. Or that had Bucs/Dolphins players they were counting on this week.
Also going to mess with Fantasy Football, and people that drafted based on the bye schedule. Or that had Bucs/Dolphins players they were counting on this week.
It really sucks that these two teams have now lost thier bye week. Was there really no way to make up these games any other time. Was there even a discussion about playing in week 11 but having a double header Thursday night. Have the dolphins and bucs play that Thursday night and then they get like a mini-bye week.
Gets into TV rights, I'm sure, and no one is going to crack that nut. They had also talked about a neutral site game instead, but guess that didn't pan out? local fans weren't going to make it there, probably couldn't get enough randoms to come to a game they don't care about on a couple days' notice, didn't want to play to an empty stadium (or lose the revenue from 1 of their 8 home games), etc. Easier to save the money and screw over the teams, I guess.
Yeah, this was very clearly Stephen Ross and the Glazers not wanting to lose TV revenue, parking lot revenue and concessions / gate revenue, and Ross is one of Goodell's inner-circle buddies. So the teams will play sixteen straight games, and then the league will tell the union, "Look, no one's head fell off and no one contracted cancerAIDS, now why won't you give us an eighteen-game season?"
In this era of concussions the NFL still doesn't care. And with that said I will still watch it. Kind of feels self-hypocritical.
And this is why the NFL still doesn't care.
Pretty much. The league knows that people will continue to watch, because no one cares enough about concussions or injuries or domestic issues to actually make it a national headline for more than a day or two.
I mean, everyone knows that the television broadcast rights for sports is going to be a cursed hellscape when the contracts re-open in 2021, but for the next four years, the league and its members will continue to laugh as the billions roll in from Fox, CBS, NBC and ESPN, even as the networks themselves grouse about declining viewership (and I bet you ESPN has had lawyers spending thousands of man-hours every month looking for any way to get out from the MNF contract, but the league knows that they have everyone by the balls).
Trubisky is the Bears #2 QB. How many bad games by Glennon before he's starting?
A big comeback by the Chiefs. When NE went up 27-21 I was thinking [Reagan]Well, there they go again[/Reagan]
I'm trying not to watch but it is difficult. I know the feeling or something like it.
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