NFL Football

[PolkaDot]

That makes no sense at all. Another reason why I ask the question. Maybe since @PolkaDot is back I should just turn the whole lot of you over to her. She will not be sweet and tolerant like me

You are correct and also please don't.
Now I'm in the football thread!?!? ewwwww. I watched the Usher concert -that was enough football for the year. I'll politely step out.
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[Up All Night]

       All that's left, is for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to appear with Snoop Dogg, in a Will Cotton inspired Music Video directed by Mathew Cullen....   

[Zetaspeak]

The Superbowl was watched by a lot of people. The NFL semes to know what they are doing

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[PB]

The Superbowl was watched by a lot of people. The NFL semes to know what they are doing

There are a few tailwinds.  With on-line gambling in full swing, it's been driving the NFL ratings more and more the past few years.  Then there's the Taylor Swift fans.  And for the first time in a few years no one is worried about covid, so social functions like Super Bowl parties are back to normal.  This was an appealing season, good close playoff games with new young stars, and Patrick Mahomes getting more and more name recognition as perhaps the Goat.

[PB]

Football comment first: How under any circumstances would you want the ball first under these overtime rules. I get that the 49ers were on defense a lot during the end of the 4th and might want the extra rest, but the advantage of having the ball second and knowing exactly what you need to either tie or win a game is so HUGE that I can't even think of any scenario you wouldn't want the ball second. The old rules (TD on first drive ends the game) makes sense to go first but these new rules that everyone has to have a full turn with the ball, it's not even a hindsight thing, you just go second know how much you need to do to tie or win...

I'm with you, if you're behind and a FG won't tie it, you know you have to go for it on 4th down.  It's like having an extra down.

When asked the SF coach said they'd talked about it before the game, and if there was a tie after each team had had the ball he wanted it that third possession.

... Non Football comment: It a bit of a sight to see Conservatives cheering against a Midwest team from a ruby red state with a possible unwoke/offensive team name, because a white football star with a short haircut is dating a popular white chick who looks like a lead cheerleader. I swear if I would have wrote erotic fiction for Conservatives, this would be the scenario  If that's not enough they start cheering for cities like Detroit, Baltimore and SAN FRANCISCO lol it's like Fox News' axis of evil cities.

I don't think that's how football fans or Conservatives choose who to root for.

And she sure as hell doesn't look like a cheerleader.  Maybe they should show more of them instead. 
 

[PB]

Speaking of Taylor Swift - and again this is someone I know who she is but couldn't name a single song she does - I don't think most people have anything against her, they just don't want to see her on camera during a game as much as they've been showing her, and they're tired of it. 

She has nothing to do with the game.  Typical media overkill, we just want to watch the game.

[PB]

The local talk show boys are already lining up scapegoats in case the 49ers lose to the Lions.  The rankings seem to be, in order, DC Wilkes... 

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as the clock shows 0:00, whether it's Sunday or in two weeks, win or lose, the DC should be fired...

Has a defensive coordinator ever been fired in game?

I can't take this guy's defense schemes anymore.

... The 49er defense can't take a quarter off like they did against the Pack, and can't wait until the 2nd half to get it going like they did against Detroit.  If they do, they lose...

Well, that was a waste of time.  Their incompetent DC had to be overruled by the head coach the second time he had the D lined up in a giveaway formation on that final Chief's drive.  At midseason this guy was so bad Shanahan publicly ripped him during a presser the next day following a loss he caused, yanked him from the booth, and told him to stay on the field.  Should have replaced him then.  They just love hiring minority coaches so they can get extra picks when someone else hires them away.  May have cost them a SB...

"This morning I relieved Steve Wilks of his duties," Niners coach Kyle Shanahan said in a conference call Wednesday that was scheduled just 10 minutes before it happened. "[We're] going to end up making a change here at defensive coordinator. A really tough decision, because [it] really says nothing about Steve as a man or as a football coach. I mean, he's exactly what we wanted as a man. He is a great football coach.

"But just where we're going and where we're at with our team from a scheme standpoint and things like that, looking through it all throughout the year to these last few days, I felt pretty strongly that this was a decision that was best for the organization."


... "I think he does a great job with the back end, and obviously we had some issues this year throughout the year," Bosa said.

But not the front seven, Nick?


https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39525673/49ers-fire-d-coordinator-steve-wilks-one-season

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1757853631833886744

[sean92008]

"This morning I relieved Steve Wilks of his duties," Niners coach Kyle Shanahan said in a conference call Wednesday that was scheduled just 10 minutes before it happened. "[We're] going to end up making a change here at defensive coordinator. A really tough decision, because [it] really says nothing about Steve as a man or as a football coach. I mean, he's exactly what we wanted as a man of color. He is a great football coach as a black man.

"But just where we're going and where we're at with our team from a scheme standpoint and things like that, looking through it all throughout the year to these last few days, I felt pretty strongly that this was a decision that was best for the organization."


... "I think he does a great job with the back end, and obviously we had some issues this year throughout the year," Bosa said.

But not the front seven, Nick?


https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39525673/49ers-fire-d-coordinator-steve-wilks-one-season

FIFY. It's what they really meant.

Maybe they will have a black Super Bowl with their own anthem and everything. Along with the Xs and Os, they have checkboxes as well.

[Bart Ell]

FIFY. It's what they really meant.

Maybe they will have a black Super Bowl with their own anthem and everything. Along with the Xs and Os, they have checkboxes as well.

Is one of your kids taking a BBC in the butt or is this an issue that dates further back?

[KSM]

Is one of your kids taking a BBC in the butt or is this an issue that dates further back?

No, he's right about this. The stupid fuckers insist on segregating themselves like the victims they are so content to be. They're not from America, they're from Blackland so they need their own anthem. Have you heard the song? It's GD horrible.

Based black folks cringe at this shit. < I have first hand knowledge of that, tell you what!

[sean92008]

"The league installed a new rule to motivate teams to develop minority coaches and executives in 2020, rewarding any team with two third-round compensatory picks if a minority candidate is hired away from their franchise to become another team's head coach or GM. If a team has candidates hired away for both positions, it receives three total picks.

Since its inception, five San Francisco candidates have been hired for head coaching or general manager positions. By the end of the 2024 draft, they will have received a league-high eight third-round compensatory picks in return for losing those coaches and executives.

"I try to hire people that I've worked with that are prepared for it and fortunately, that's worked out well for me," San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan said about the league's minority hiring issues when asked three years ago. "I've got a Muslim coordinator; we've got a Black coordinator. We have a lesbian on our staff. We have everything, and it's not just to show people that we're trying to be diverse. It's just because I've been around these people, and they are really good at what they do. We can't win without these people and that's just how it works out."

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/49ers-have-benefited-from-diverse-hiring-practices-but-nfl-needs-more-progress

[Bart Ell]

No, he's right about this. The stupid fuckers insist on segregating themselves like the victims they are so content to be. They're not from America, they're from Blackland so they need their own anthem. Have you heard the song? It's GD horrible.

Based black folks cringe at this shit. < I have first hand knowledge of that, tell you what!

It seems both of you have been humbled by a BBC, Falkie jail style.

[Up All Night]

Emmitt Smith receives the 2023 Doak Walker Legends Award

https://fxtwitter.com/DoakWalkerAward/status/1758303466840109254

https://fxtwitter.com/DoakWalkerAward/status/1758324141482979643

[Bart Ell]

"The league installed a new rule to motivate teams to develop minority coaches and executives in 2020, rewarding any team with two third-round compensatory picks if a minority candidate is hired away from their franchise to become another team's head coach or GM. If a team has candidates hired away for both positions, it receives three total picks.

Since its inception, five San Francisco candidates have been hired for head coaching or general manager positions. By the end of the 2024 draft, they will have received a league-high eight third-round compensatory picks in return for losing those coaches and executives.

"I try to hire people that I've worked with that are prepared for it and fortunately, that's worked out well for me," San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan said about the league's minority hiring issues when asked three years ago. "I've got a Muslim coordinator; we've got a Black coordinator. We have a lesbian on our staff. We have everything, and it's not just to show people that we're trying to be diverse. It's just because I've been around these people, and they are really good at what they do. We can't win without these people and that's just how it works out."

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/49ers-have-benefited-from-diverse-hiring-practices-but-nfl-needs-more-progress

When caught, try to make it about hiring practices and pretend this was not also part of it -

Maybe they will have a black Super Bowl with their own anthem and everything. Along with the Xs and Os, they have checkboxes as well.