The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

Funny, it was my first thought as well as to how often this would correspond with Conference Championship Sunday. But unfortunately as you say the answer seems to be 'never'. At least we can stay up and enjoy the Pro-Bowl !!

I'd have thought (possibly wrongly) that the 17th game would be supported by the majority of the players. Obviously not the high-profile ones admittedly. But for the low-tier players who earn $150K a game it seems to be a no-brainer, and these players outnumber the $40M players.

It's even better for the players a level below that, practise squad and free-agency flotsam - it gives them an extra chance of stepping up to be a starter or get some minutes.

As for the networks being as happy with 16 games spread over 18 weeks, I think you are wrong there. The 17th game leads to some very sexy match-ups which otherwise wouldn't happen. Looking at next season there's potential SB rematches like Bills@Rams, Chiefs@Bucs and Titans@Packers. Even if they aren't SB re-matches these games look very likely for late game Sunday slots.

Yeah it probably doesn't matter much to the NFL that the wild card games were so one sided, people are going to tune in for them anyway. Any NFL game is insanely profitable so they'll only ever do more

Yea there's no way the NFL are getting rid of any extra game - either in the playoffs or regular season. It's money for jam. There'll sooner be more games than less.

Rodgers to Tampa Bay?

Definitely has the OL to "do a Brady"

Flores has put in some chaos into the NFL. 3 main allegations I can see.

Ross tried to get him to interfere with a qb from a different team. Presumably Watson, which would contrary to the stories the Dolphins have put out since Flores departure.

Ross offered him money to tank. They had an obvious tank season and Flores won a few games with them. This would have massive waves in the betting businesses who represent a lot of cash.

Finally that the Giants job had been decided on before his interview showing that were not following the Rooney rule. This had some texts from Belichek congratulating Flores, presumably someone mentioned Brian to him and he got mixed up? I have not seen evidence for the other 2 yet but we will see were this goes.

Belichek will have to say what he meant to text. It was obviously a mistake but Bill had to be mistaken that the job had been decided on for it not to be an issue.

You have to give massive kudos to Flores for turning down both the chance to recruit Tom Brady, and to be rewarded financially for securing the first overall draft pick.

You'd like to think all coaches would do the same, but it's very unlikely. His morals seem concrete.

Sounds like an XFL team now

I have to say, I quite liked the Football Team, but that was never going to sell merchandise.

Yes, the Washington Commanders has a terrible ring to it. Quite USFLish.