TheFunPolice

They should merge the XFL with USFL and put together a good product, IMO. They need to spend $$ on some names sports fans have heard of before. If there's going to be a pro wrestling match, the Rock vs. Brock Lesnar is going to get a lot more attention than John Smith vs. Tommy White. Find some recently retired NFL QBs or guys who have been on the margins of the league and pay them some serious cash to QB a team. Find either older NFL HC's or up and coming guys and pay them to be the HC. If there are HC/QB combos worth watching people will tune in and the leagues will do well.

This approach to spring football is odd to me. Years of planning and hype seem to be followed by about 5 weeks of football before the leagues give up and go out of business. Then, a couple years later TWO MORE SPRING LEAGUES! Let's try to see if ONE can survive first maybe, instead of two leagues at the same time, competing for a limited number of players, sponsorships, TV time, fan attention, etc.

I feel like no matter how many years go by Star still has 4-5 years left on his deal and it's "next year" when he can be cut for any type of cap savings.

EVEN WITH the defense we played, if we killed 4 seconds on this kickoff it's a W for the Bills.

Just the idea that Andy Reid and Mahomes had some master plan for the Super Bowl, but then Bienemy bursts in and tears it all to shreds and gives everyone their marching orders is hilarious to me

The idea that Andy Reid would just stand there helpless will his OC called crappy plays and ripped the star QB apart because it was "in his (EB's) contract" is a complete and total joke. The HC ALWAYS has the final say, or he isn't the HC anymore. Now, I could see Reid letting EB pretty much run the offense as he is trying to help the man develop his career and all, plus Reid is trying to be more of a CEO type HC. OK. But this idea that it's all Bienemy's fault and poor Andy Reid just has to stand by and watch because of language in Bienemy's contract is a joke, and these writers should be ashamed. Also, IF this was all true I don't think EB coming back would be in the cards.

LOL, which is why it's hilarious to me that so many are "outraged" over the Ross story...

In no particular order, I would rank these AFC QBs ahead of Burrow: Allen Mahomes Jackson Herbert

Probably true!

I have no need to see head smashing Steve Atwater type hits. I want to see the best players playing in the league. Football is still plenty physical, and there are ways to play the game with physicality that don't involve purposely inflicting head trauma to your opponent. I'm already looking forward to the NFL free agency period, draft, etc.

I wonder though... Everything I posted was things that Flores did that many people said made no sense at the time. But maybe it was his way of trying to make that (losing) happen? He certainly didn't stand up and say something at the time. A HC "trying to lose" would actually be pretty hard to do, especially not making it too obvious. Like I said, the assistant coaches making peanuts who are trying to work their way up the ladder are not going to go along with it, nor are the players.

49ers/Rams makes a lot of sense, being a rematch of the NFC Title game, a game that will happen twice, and a nice rivalry game.

But how could a HC lose a game on purpose? I listed some possible ways in my response to another poster below, but that's not Flores... Unless....

LA is such a weird team on offense. They disappear for long stretches in most games I watch of theirs.

I think he makes it in if he commits to it and goes 100%. If not, you're at the 2-3 yard line. Go for it on 4th down there.

Being paid to throw a game... that's tough to pin down exactly. Look at Flores' case: how could HE throw a game? His players are not going to not try to win. His assistant coaches are not going to sabotage their careers. Pretty much the only thing a HC could do to try to lose would be to jerk his QB around by taking in and out of games, constantly churning through assistant coaches, doing bizarre things like hiring 2 OC to be "co offensive coordinators," alienating everyone in the building, not even communicating with his coaching staff anymore, and doing everything he could to kill the confidence of his QB... Oh wait

That's the plan supposedly

When did tanking become a federal crime? Fraud? What fraud? Were you somehow promised in writing that your team was doing all it could to win? In that case, any team that rests its starters is breaking the law. It's a Pandora's box. And now fans are supposedly outraged? LOL Please. Fans WANT their teams to lose and get the #1 pick when they are awful. Now we're going to pretend that's not true? Just watch YouTube videos of when the Jets won to cost themselves the #1 pick. Fans were going crazy because they won and missed out on Trevuh. Weren't Sabres fans all into the tank, making it a whole event? You actually had fans cheering like crazy when the Coyotes beat the Sabres in Buffalo to keep them ahead for the best chances in that draft. Of course, we know what happened. They got the #2 pick and it was a disaster. Maybe it's Karma. I get "not coming out and saying it" but the idea of tanking (or just not going all out to win) is pretty well known and talked about often. One could argue that it's actually playing the long game to WIN BIG. If the next Peyton Manning is sitting there as a reward, and your franchise just needs to lose 1 more game to GUARANTEE the chance to draft him #1 overall, while the next guy is a tackle or something, it cannot be denied that losing that game: 1) HELPS your team get what it needs to have a chance to contend for 15+ years 2) Makes your fans happy

Good thing Russell Wilson doesn't have Spain's attitude, or he could have taken to twitter after the Seattle/NE SB and said "I throw ONE interception all game and people act like NE did something!"

the way NY State works they already spent that $70 million 4 times before it was earned.

LA fans 5 minutes after the game ended: cool! toss it on the pile of titles! What else is on? Meanwhile, here in WNY we would remember it for the rest of our lives. You'd see people 20 years from now wearing the Bills SB champion shirts from this SB. I know I would be crying like a blubbering seal with a mixture of sheer joy, disbelief, and more sheer joy. I'll bet Rams fans high fived each other and went to the beach or something.

I think a big part of the NFL's popularity is that most games are on Sundays. It allows for things like fantasy football, Sunday Ticket, Red Zone, etc. to dreally thrive because it OWNS the day and you've got fans glued to the action all day long. The more you dilute that the more it get spread out. Suddenly Sunday Ticket and Red Zone (both of which make the NFL big $$) are less meaningful because a good number of that week's games are on national TV anyway. Other sports can play all nights of the week because there are a gazillion games each season. NFL teams only play 17 games, so it's tougher to spread out without Sundays feeling light.

It is eerily silent on the stadium front, which worries me. We heard a lot more a few months ago, now that their Jan 1 artificial deadline has passed it's total silence. I'm a Buffalo sports fan. If the Bills were up 18 points with 5 minutes to go in the Super Bowl I would be the guy saying "it's still only 2 TDs, 2 2 point conversions and a FG at the end...."

Not really? That is a terrible idea!

Here's a weird stat: Burrow's Bengals are 0-4 vs the Browns