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NFL 2024: Chiefs Kingdom Targets a Three-Peat

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Sadly I wouldn't be surprised if they did add a dome, or at least a retractable roof. Makes it easier to get Super Bowls.
 
BillJ said:
I don't think they'd be able to do a complete renovation and add a roof for $800 million. That is probably $1.2/1.3 billion territory right now
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My comment was mostly sarcastic, what with the actual morons that got frostbite and amputations from sitting through that playoff game. I mean, team spirit is great but.....
 
Lions release CB Cameron Sutton amid the Florida police trying to find him over a domestic violence case.
 
Dak Prescott is in a contract year but not getting a new deal (he and the Cowboys have a "mutual understanding of his contract situation," whatever that means), so it sounds like he'll be hitting free agency in 2025.
 
Aragorn said:
Dak Prescott is in a contract year but not getting a new deal (he and the Cowboys have a "mutual understanding of his contract situation," whatever that means), so it sounds like he'll be hitting free agency in 2025.
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I approve of this from the Cowboys' side. Until he shows up and plays elite football in a playoff run, I wouldn't want to be paying him elite money.
 
I'm not sure how I feel about the hip drop tackle rule, but I think the new kickoff rules are horrible.

Specifically because it requires teams inform the other side that they're going to do an offside kick. Why the hell would you take away such an important strategic tool? I'd rather every single regular kickoff end in a touchback than take away the excitement of an unexpected onside kick.

And I say this as a fan of a team whose most iconic play is a kick return.
 
Isn't the formation a dead giveaway that an onside kick is happening? I feel like a surprise onside kick occurs on something like 0.1 percent of kickoffs. I'm still deciphering the new kickoff rules but as I understand them, I generally like them.

Banning the hip-drop tackle is unambiguously A Good Thing. Knee injuries should be reduced wherever possible (though, in reality, tackle football should be banned, given the damage it wreaks upon players' bodies and brains).
 
This new kickoff was one of the best things about XFL 2.0 and I'm glad the NFL are finally adopting it (with their own modifications). Kickoffs had become all but pointless over the last decade, to the point where you might as well have just spotted the ball on the 35 yard line after the other team scored a touchdown. This new rule will bring excitement back to the kickoff (and add a lot more strategy) while probably reducing injury rates because you won't have guys sprinting down the field with 40 yards of momentum slamming into each other.

Onside kicks became less and less of a thing after the NFL changed the rules so that run-ups were banned and teams had to have an even number of players on both sides of the ball. In the 2023 season, only about 5% of all onside kick attempts were actually recovered, and there only two surprise onside kicks, which both failed.
 
CB Vontae Davis, probably best known for retiring at halftime of a week 2 game when he was with the Bills, has reportedly died two months short of his 36th birthday. Investigation is under way but foul play is not suspected.
 
The Arizona Cardinals have to pay former executive Terry McDonough $3 million for "false and defamatory" statements made about him to the media. Apparently the organization is so dysfunctional that no one is surprised by this.
 
Bills are reportedly trading Stefon Diggs, a 2024 fifth and a 2025 sixth to the Texans for a 2025 second.
 
Texans loading up for a run. Are the Bills waving the white flag?
 
BillJ said:
Jackson County, Mo. voters reject money for Chiefs/Royals stadium upgrades.

https://www.profootballrumors.com/2024/04/voters-reject-chiefs-stadium-measure
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Good. And I think this is an important element of it:

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The Royals’ effort to move downtown relegated the Chiefs’ stadium situation to a secondary matter; the MLB club’s stadium switch would have brought major changes to a popular area in Kansas City. The Chiefs effectively attaching their renovation plan — which would not have taken effect until 2027, after the 2026 FIFA World Cup stops through Arrowhead — to the Royals’ potential move certainly hurt the NFL team’s chances Tuesday.
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It sounds like the Chiefs would have had better luck not trying to go in with the Royals.
 
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