2024 NFL Off-Season thread

[Lineker]

 

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[Krabby]

UGH is it football season yet? or at least the draft? Can we get a freakin trade at least?

I know it's been less than 24 hours since the season has ended but football is one of the things that keeps me mentally stable nowadays lol

[Maxx]

UFL kicks off March 30th!

[LL!]

Can't wait to see Jalen hit the field!

 

 

Jalen Morton that is. 

[RazorsEdge]

Some action for you @Krabby

Steelers have cut QB Mitch Trubisky, OL Chukwuma Okorafor and P Pressley Harvin.

Only a year after they signed Trubisky to a 2 year deal.

[LL!]

10 hours ago, RazorsEdge said:

Some action for you @Krabby

Steelers have cut QB Mitch Trubisky, OL Chukwuma Okorafor and P Pressley Harvin.

Only a year after they signed Trubisky to a 2 year deal.

Got a reduced sentence for good behavior. 

[The Buscher]

There's a belief that a big to-do for the league this year is to try to work with (aka ultimately bully) the union into an 18-game schedule this offseason with an eye toward beginning it in 2025.  They'd need to work out the logistics of how to handle it.  An idea I've heard often is stretching the regular season calendar to 20 weeks with 2 byes per team, cutting down to 2 preseason games and maybe early season expanded rosters.

People have always joked that the day after the Super Bowl should be a national holiday.  If the league can set the schedule in a way to make the Super Bowl be the third Sunday in February, it finally would be.

[gunnar hendershow]

The 2 byes will drive CBS and Fox mad with all the primetime games also going on. Huge number of weeks where your marquee 4:25pm game is between the 6-7 Falcons and 7-6 Titans or something.

[The Buscher]

59 minutes ago, gunnar hendershow said:

The 2 byes will drive CBS and Fox mad with all the primetime games also going on. Huge number of weeks where your marquee 4:25pm game is between the 6-7 Falcons and 7-6 Titans or something.

Yeah they'd have to re-configure the network agreements I'd guess.  NBC has a lot of power with being able to pull any game except for one of FOX and CBS' protections but now you've got Monday night flexing and Amazon in there too and I'm sure it all just really comes down to who is willing to pay the most for better bumping rights.

Maybe in a 20-week schedule you give each of the 5 networks (Fox, CBS, NBC, ESPN, Amazon) 4 weeks where they get a guaranteed locked in pick for games.  4 weeks where they get the #2 choice, etc.  The NFC on FOX/AFC on CBS thing quietly got shunted to the side a few years ago so maybe it'll be a free for all.

Of course, knowing the NFL they'd put execs from all 5 networks in a room and make the game selection its own special broadcast on the NFL Network.

[gunnar hendershow]

Aren't they toying with more Friday night games? And Tuesday?

And then there's the international games that kick off in the morning here.

The classic model of the 1pm games is definitely going to the wayside, maybe in most weeks you'll get 6 total games at that time?

[The Buscher]

I could see that.  For whatever it's worth, Scott Hanson has said that he thinks 5-6 games is an ideal RedZone window.  He knows people love the idea of the Octobox or even 9-10 games but 5-6 games still gives you a lot to flip to without it being too overwhelming for the producers, plus they're less likely to just totally ignore a game like they are when there are a lot on at once.

[Your Mom]

Twitter is upsetting me today  Apparently the odds of Fields going to the Steelers went up and all their fans are way excited

[gunnar hendershow]

3 hours ago, The Buscher said:

I could see that.  For whatever it's worth, Scott Hanson has said that he thinks 5-6 games is an ideal RedZone window.  He knows people love the idea of the Octobox or even 9-10 games but 5-6 games still gives you a lot to flip to without it being too overwhelming for the producers, plus they're less likely to just totally ignore a game like they are when there are a lot on at once.

From the standpoint of being an out of town fan 5-6 is perfect. You probably don't need to pay for Sunday Ticket in order to see most of your favorite team's 1pm game.

[THE Kansas Kid]

Confirmed yesterday, I believe, but Mike Zimmer is returning to Dallas as the DC

[The Buscher]

If you're into futures bets, the odds for the Chiefs to make it a threepeat at +750 look pretty tempting.  For a Super Bowl champion team they have pretty limited cap issues, the biggest impeding free agent they have to keep is Chris Jones and it's tough to imagine they won't eventually be paying him and possibly tagging Sneed.  Mahomes has also signaled he'd go the Brady route of contract restructuring if he has to.  Figure in the draft they'll get Mahomes another weapon and then shore up the defense for anyone they couldn't keep. 

There's never been a Super Bowl threepeat but no QB has ever looked as automatic in big spots as Mahomes has.  The game seems to slow down to Easy mode for him when they're down late.  If ever a QB was built to make history it's him.

It's tough to give money to the sportsbooks a year in advance but if you believe the Chiefs are unlikely to have as lackluster a regular season as they did by their standards, you're not going to get better odds on them than right now.

[Your Mom]

This seems dumb to me but I'm by no means an expert

 

[Szumi]

I hate this country. Really hope no one was killed.

 

 

[Your Mom]

Just saw this too. Latest I saw was 8-10 people shot but no fatalities yet. Fucking hell

[Szumi]

Just absolutely reprehensible that this is continued to be normalized and allowed in this country 

 

[Szumi]

It's now being reported 22 injuries, and 11 are children. I don't even know what to say at this point.