Best thing about this tourney is seeing the 72 Dolphins get bounced in the second round!
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NFL Off-Season |OT2| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Draft
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Best thing about this tourney is seeing the 72 Dolphins get bounced in the second round!
I'll take Rex's wins and his acting over Carroll's loses and RickRolling.
Competition carved out niches where you can get what you want out of cable news, so yes, it worked out well.
The NFLN is completely beholden to the league, as is ESPN because of the live game contracts.
Sean Payton stole drugs from his team, fired a guy who refused to lie for him and the league covered it up. It's well known that those are factual events and not in question. However, it would have cost either entity far too much to actual cross the league and cover that story. Hopefully a new news network which doesn't have live game contracts will have some balls. That is exactly the type of news story I would expect a Murdoch TV channel to dig in to.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
If Detroit had the cap room I can almost guarantee Samuels would already be a Lion.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Yeah I know, it is just annoying though. Especially considering that players like Cromartie will take that shit so seriously because he is a dumb ass. haha
Just the old saying, if you don't have nothing nice to say then don't say anything at all.
Ninja Scooter
Member
That's the nature of the industry. Yeah it sucks and ESPN leads the charge, but sports talk radio is like that. Listen to some of the trash (Loose Cannons) on Fox Sports Radio. Same shit. It's the 24 hour news cycle that creates the need for sensationalist coverage because there's only so much real news in a day.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
And I also Expect Murdoch sports to hire more questionable talent and lead every story with "Some people say" just so they can infuse their political beliefs with their reporting.
Considering that's exactly what ESPN is doing, I don't see how this would be any worse. Hell, maybe they will force ESPN into an MSNBC-esque shift, except instead of going socialist-left ESPN will hew to intelligence.
Or (more likely) eventually in the race for viewers we'll get topless Erin Andrews doing sportscenter.
Didn't you see Payton's interview yesterday? He has been truthful during this process! Why not believe him?
Let's go join Drew Brees as we had to NFL headquarters to demand to know what truly happened with Payton!
This cover up makes Braun's look innocent by comparison.
nfl network did cover that story, in fact, they addressed it again in detail when the penalties for the bounty program came out.
"unnamed sources say"
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
To the 2000 Ravens of all teams.
As far as I know, they only covered it after bounty gate and only lightly. If it were any other sport, NFLN would have Bob Costas and ESPN would have Bob Ley doing two hour long specials on the subject.
Since it's the NFL? Whitewash.
That's what Mark is doing and he is getting ripped for it. Right now there isn't much to talk about sport wise on ESPN. They stopped talking about NHL, there can only be so much LeBrick talk, the NFL is basically dead until the draft, and baseball is in an odd limbo with the regular season and preseason happening at the same time.
Tebow and the Jets are an easy topic to talk about.
They covered back then as well, and I wouldn't call it lightly, I was actually surprised at how matter of fact they presented it, very much like how you laid it out. That and other recent stories has made me wonder just how much control the NFL actually exerts over the network.
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
Either way we win!
Bolt Vanderhuge
Member
Name a single Superbowl winning quarterback better than Trent Dilfer. I DARE you.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Murdoch will hire FMT as their sports version of Glen Beck.
People in Wisconsin love his Scatboard.
Buckethead
Banned
I've never heard FMT speak in real life but if his speaking skills are anything like his ranting skills I say with 100% certainty that he would be the best color commentator in the history of the world.
TheLegendary
Member
Sounds like Nick Collins' outlook for returning is pretty positive. Scary injury to come back from though.
Buckethead
Banned
What happened/where are ya getting that from?
Was anyone just watching ESPN? Gronk and Revis were on and cracked me up. The lady was doing a rapid fire segment, and they were giving the first thought that came to mind after she gave them a word.
she said "Belichick" and Revis said "jerk"
she said "Tim Tebow" and Gronk said "starting quarterback for the Jets"
she said "Belichick" and Revis said "jerk"
she said "Tim Tebow" and Gronk said "starting quarterback for the Jets"
Buckethead
Banned
Is Gronk a Madden cover option?
Because drunk Gronk sandwiched by two co-eds is pretty much the best idea ever.
Because drunk Gronk sandwiched by two co-eds is pretty much the best idea ever.
TheLegendary
Member
Always wanted to try it out; but wouldnt want to take it from a big DOTA fan
Right now he's up against this:
Could somebody with photoshop "Maddenize" this for me?
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Glad the NFL had the sense to change the OT rule.
A great way to improve it though would be to allow the other team a chance to score a TD even if a TD is scored on the first possession. It'd be great to have the "shoot outs" continue on in OT.
A great way to improve it though would be to allow the other team a chance to score a TD even if a TD is scored on the first possession. It'd be great to have the "shoot outs" continue on in OT.
They should just play another quarter. Why change the rules of the game just because you're going to overtime?
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
"Is this the Tagliabue recovery?"
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
This is ideal but something something injuries
I'd be down for infinite quarters until the game is decided if the NFL agrees to limit the season size to 16 games.
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
Should do it NFL postseason style, 10 v 10 for the first quarter. 9 v 9 for the second..
Players reactions to bounties made it clear they give exactly zero shits about safety, so neither do I.
Buckethead
Banned
It's been really hilarious seeing McCarthy meet Wilde's questions about player safety with absolute distain and condescension.
07 Patriots would blow out every single one of those teams
athletes get better and stronger as time passes, these brackets are dumb. even the current jets would manage playoffs playing in those shitty leagues
if the 85 Bears played the 07 Patriots with 85 rules, they'd probably shut them out.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
We can include teams that were awesome in the regular season but couldn't win a Super Bowl?
By that logic, the 2011 Packers are the best ever.
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
You mean the '98 Vikings. '98 Broncos should be removed from discussion since they were very arguably the best team that year! They lost in OT to the Falcons because their kicker misses his first kick on the year. But we can't include any of those losers in the discussion when you have the '72 fins and '85 bears on the table.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Looking back apparently all of those teams were included.
For some reason, the 2000 Ravens beat the 72 Dolphins.
BLarry has to do something with his non-gaf free time. He spends it making proxies and voting for bogus teams in bogus internet bogus march madness style bogus brackets.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
:jnc
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Good one...If only we could have played the Packers, that would have been easy.
Anton Sugar
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