Okay it’s Black Friday and there’s no way I’m going out into that mess so let’s do a Q&A. Ask me any serious question you have about the NFL and I’ll answer it as best I can
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At some point in the next 10-20 years the NFL will expand internationally. Will teams relocate or will they add two new divisions? If so, where are teams going? (Or, where would you put them?)
No they won’t. They aren’t going to have teams travel across Earth. Also, they had a NFL Europe league which was like a minor league for the NFL. I could see them bringing that back.
How do you think the matchups for the new 18th game will be decided? E.g. how with the 17th game, the criteria became the matching seed from the opposite conference. That seemed like a pretty clean way to do it, but what are some sensible criteria for 18? Maybe geographic cross-conference rivalries?
Which random sideline game staff person would you most like to be for one Sunday? The "K Ball" guy? The dude holding the parabolic mic for the network? The security guard who always has to have his back turned to the action on the field? Chain gang member? The "Get Back" coach?
If you were an NFL owner (of, say, the Jaguars or Bears), would you fire your coach mid-season even if the season was lost, or would you just stand pat and do the firings in the off-season?
A few years back, you put forth the idea, either in a Jamboroo or on a pod about having an NFL season with alternate conference weekly play. I still think this is a fantastic idea which could give us higher quality play, and give more recovery time to the players.
How long before the city of Jacksonville puts Doug Pederson and co. on trial in the town square for this criminal mismanagement of a playoff caliber team?
What are the most realistic options for the Jags at HC and GM, should Khan finally make a change? Everyone wants Ben Johnson but I don't see him wanting this mess.
Does beating the not-ready-for-primetime Commanders and hopeless Giants save McCarthy's job? Is he a dead man walking or is there a number of wins over the rest of the season that will convince Jerrah to keep him?
Are yall outside of caring about Houston still high on him? I’ve always been interested in the discrepancy of opinions on him between fans and not. The fandom itself wanted him gone even last year, and 6 games with no 2nd half TD hasn’t helped this year.
Oh there’s a fuckload wrong with the team either way lmao. I was just curious. I like hearing non-fan opinions. Might be less intimately familiar, but less bias too.
He’ll make a big show out of his decision but I just don’t see the upside for any team signing him off the scrap heap (yes, Vikings included; those jokes are older than the Tonight Show)
Question: theoretically, in order for a team to get into the Super Bowl, they have to play a game against the shadow versions of themselves and win like the Zelda games where Link has to fight Shadow Link.
Which teams are least likely to win this and which are most likely to lose this?
Will the Patriots be able to build anything around what seems to be a pretty talented QB in Drake Maye before the current lack of competence gets him maimed?
Don’t think Berlin has the stadium. Union is better but they’re historically a small team, Hertha’s ground only fits like 50k. They only do Munich because Bayern is the big team there.
I'm pretty ignorant about football (and NFL politics) but here in Chicago the feeling among a lot of Bears fans has been that the last few games were "good" losses because the L's can be hung on the coach(es) and not the players. Would you say that's true, or is there more to it than than?
You should go. Vibe both in and out of the stadium is the closest thing I’ve encountered to Washington games at RFK Stadium, which were a great experience
Do you ever see NFL stop rewarding mediocre division winners with home playoff games? Vikings and Packers are much better than whatever is coming out of NFC South and West.
Some people have said the Bears won't fire Eberflus because doing so would likely not result in any more success. Do you think that's true and isn't to the potential for improvement better than the certainty of continued ineptitude?
One of my teenagers and I had an argument about how good one can ever truly judge a rookie qb, not even through one season, to be. Other than Marino, are there other qbs whom have truly come out during a rookie season and established career dominance?
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a football team and dominate the NFL?
No questions, I guess.
Red Zone is a product that competes with Fox and CBS, (less so Amazon, NBC, and ESPN) so why use a term that is effectively advertising?
The REAL question is why they don’t just call it the Danger Zone and be done with it.
Which teams are least likely to win this and which are most likely to lose this?
At the end of the season?