Board 8 > NFL Offseason Discussion Topic

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It's officially the offseason now but the NFL news cycle never stops and there's still Super Bowl takes to be had, so here we are

Man I'd kill for my team to be in the position the 49ers are in. I'd rather be the Chiefs, obviously, but 49ers are in a pretty easy conference, have a fantastic team, and have made 3 super bowls recently. Some of us still haven't made one!

The best team to be a fan of is the Giants

Zero expectations ever and they still somehow manage to win a Super Bowl once a decade

Wild to think that the 49ers had that perfect 5-0 Super Bowl record with 17 touchdowns and 0 interceptions not that long ago and now they're suddenly 5-3

And Chiefs now suddenly breathing down their necks with 4 Super Bowls

UltimaterializerX posted...

It wasn't the taliban that won, yoblazer. It was wokeness, but thankfully that is massively falling flat on its face. Look at who companies are laying off first.

They don't even realize they are the ones that suffer under MAGA lmao

And ya the ads sucked. Too many celebrities', not enough funny.

Kingfrost posted...

Man I'd kill for my team to be in the position the 49ers are in. I'd rather be the Chiefs, obviously, but 49ers are in a pretty easy conference, have a fantastic team, and have made 3 super bowls recently. Some of us still haven't made one!

2012 is not recent.

We should have gone last year. And I recognize that being a contender is a fortunate position to be in, but that doesn't make the sting of defeat feel any better at the moment.

So many fantastic players have come together to make the Niners strong and I'm sad that they aren't getting a ring. Simultaneously I'm worried that it's going to be impossible to keep enough of the talent together next year with expensive contracts coming up.

Especially because THIS game was decided by a muffed punt off a random ankle as well as a missed extra point.

Shit sucks.

Elway handing us the trophy, that gave us more than the Broncos, winning it in the Raiders stadium.

pretty great feeling

Super Bowl commercials stopped being funny when the "I only watch for the commercials" trend started

A sad but (possibly) true irony

Football posted...

Elway handing us the trophy, that gave us more than the Broncos, winning it in the Raiders stadium.

pretty great feeling

With the Chargers being appropriately irrelevant, to boot

Football posted...

Elway handing us the trophy, that gave us more than the Broncos, winning it in the Raiders stadium.

pretty great feeling

And the Chargers are nowhere to be seen, as usual

as ender of many packers seasons I will always celebrate a 49ers loss

unfortunate the chiefs had to be on the other end but what can ya do

Leonhart4 posted...

Super Bowl commercials stopped being funny when the "I only watch for the commercials" trend started

Maybe, but SB commercials have been culturally relevant for ages, at least a quarter century. I remember teachers talking to us students about them in elementary school, which would have been mid-to-late 90s.

To broaden that topic a bit - every time I watch a big football game, I'm reminded why soccer will probably never become big here. Everything about football just perfectly ties into (and has probably influenced) the American traditions of consumerism and excess. Major US corporations probably shudder at the idea of soccer taking over, and suddenly being forced to pump their advertising through a sport where the games are shorter and ad breaks can only be done at halftime.

If it sounds like I'm being strange and edgy, it's because I am. I love the actual sport of football (played it in high school), but the culture that surrounds it often makes me feel gross and self-loathing, like my brain just ate a gigantic brain-donut or something.

YoBlazer posted...

Maybe, but SB commercials have been culturally relevant for ages, at least a quarter century. I remember teachers talking to us students about them in elementary school, which would have been mid-to-late 90s.

To broaden that topic a bit - every time I watch a big football game, I'm reminded why soccer will probably never become big here. Everything about football just perfectly ties into (and has probably influenced) the American traditions of consumerism and excess. Major US corporations probably shudder at the idea of soccer taking over, and suddenly being forced to pump their advertising through a sport where the games are shorter and ad breaks can only be done at halftime.

If it sounds like I'm being strange and edgy, it's because I am. I love the actual sport of football (played it in high school), but the culture that surrounds it often makes me feel gross and self-loathing, like my brain just ate a gigantic brain-donut or something.

no, soccer just generally sucks

Leonhart4 posted...

It was just the coincidence of it being 25 years since he won Super Bowl MVP

I haven't really been paying attention to Lombardi trophy presentations in recent years, but have they been doing that every year recently?

Also, didn't realize until now that Terrell Davis won their first one and Elway won the 2nd. Would have guessed without remembering that it was the other way around.

Aecioo posted...

no, soccer just generally sucks

That and their jerseys are all made up of logos of giant corporations plastered all over them anyway.

time to talk to SHINEbro about buying Super Bowl 59 tickets when they go on sale and just flipping them if Lions don't make it

theawesomestevr posted...

That and their jerseys are all made up of logos of giant corporations plastered all over them anyway.

Yeah, the only difference between soccer and football with ads is that football ads are loud and in your face. Soccer ads are subtle, but they're always visible.

Mewtwo59 posted...

Yeah, the only difference between soccer and football with ads is that football ads are loud and in your face. Soccer ads are subtle, but they're always visible.

I think most people find ad breaks - actual commercials - to be far more obtrusive and annoying than sponsored jerseys or background graphics. The average soccer game has about ten minutes of commercials, all during halftime. The average football game has about five times as much. The "only" difference is a very significant one in this case.

I find soccer uniforms atrocious to look at

I appreciate that the game is fast because just imagine if it was boring AND slow

YoBlazer posted...

I think most people find ad breaks - actual commercials - to be far more obtrusive and annoying than sponsored jerseys or background graphics. The average soccer game has about ten minutes of commercials, all during halftime. The average football game has about five times as much. The "only" difference is a very significant one in this case.

american football has ads so you can get up and get drinks and food

soccer only has times for you to get up during flopping

or hooligans storming the field to murder opposing fans

LeonhartFour posted...

I find soccer uniforms atrocious to look at

Yes, I agree. I don't even know what team I'm looking at. I think there's like three different Emirates teams and I can't tell them apart.

So the biggest free agent is clearly Chris Jones right

I dont even know who number two is, Barkley? Cousins?

as someone who hated the idea of soccer for a long time but got bullied into watching the premier league since 2018 (i chose west ham lol me) it's not as bad as advertised

it can be

but not all the time

FFDragon posted...

(i chose west ham lol me)

wow great choice, especially yesterday :) :) :)

ExThaNemesis posted...

wow great choice, especially yesterday :) :) :)

shut up we still went 2-1 against them this season

also we're still champions of Europe, bet you won't sing that

(but my god that transfer window was horrendous and if we didn't already have 36 points I would be very worried)

Also I've made it into the PL morning show

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e49e7b47.jpg

Apparently the 49ers players didn't know the playoff overtime rules and the Chiefs players did

They were also planning to go for 2 at the end had the Niners scored a TD. That would've been fun.

I mean, considering they were the reason the rules got changed I would hope they knew it.

That being said it is a catastrophic coaching failure not to have at least your captains know what the plan is.

Big Donovan McNabb energy.

This is why Shanahan will never win the big one

Purdy will never make it back to the SB

Chiefs already speaking the inevitable threepeat into existence.

why must we continuously count out those underdog chiefs

when will we learn

The only way to prevent the threepeat is for them to not make it. Lamar has to get over the hurdle. Bills ain't got it and Burrow will get injured somehow.

Leonhart4 posted...

Apparently the 49ers players didn't know the playoff overtime rules and the Chiefs players did

They were also planning to go for 2 at the end had the Niners scored a TD. That would've been fun.

Players didn't need to know. Shanahan and advisors knew and they were focused on being the first to get the ball in a proper sudden death if both teams scored the same # of points.

FFDragon posted...

coaching failure not to have at least your captains know what the plan is.

They did know the plan. The plan was to receive if we won the toss.

Leonhart4 posted...

This is why Shanahan will never win the big one

GranzonEx posted...

Purdy will never make it back to the SB

Awful takes.

They're correct takes until they're not...!

(Seriously though, the only person here who is serious about acting like Shanahan is a hack is Ulti, and the rest of us are just mocking him)

GranzonEx posted...

The only way to prevent the threepeat is for them to not make it. Lamar has to get over the hurdle

I'll allow it

FFDragon posted...

I'll allow it

As will I. I wanted the Christmas rematch, not the damn chiefs again. And especially not to lose to them off of some garbage circumstances. The muffed punt off the ankle is going to haunt my dreams, as well the missed PAT. People are calling it a block but it was a damn miss being kicked that low.

I gasped audibly at the ankle punt.

They can't keep getting away with it

Time for Trevor Lawrence to step up into the role of the prince who was promised!

...if only we could fire Trent Baalke and actually get an O-line that's not a turnstile.

Oregon C Jackson Powers-Johnson is getting mocked to the Jags by some. Its a bit high for a center but Fortner is such a disaster I wouldnt mind.

GranzonEx posted...

The only way to prevent the threepeat is for them to not make it. Lamar has to get over the hurdle. Bills ain't got it and Burrow will get injured somehow.

Funny, because at this time last year we would've said "Burrow has to get over the hurdle and Lamar will get injured somehow."

FFDragon posted...

shut up we still went 2-1 against them this season

also we're still champions of Europe, bet you won't sing that

(but my god that transfer window was horrendous and if we didn't already have 36 points I would be very worried)

declan rice is magic, he has a magic hat! He could've stayed at West ham, but he said nah fuck that
he plays it to the left, he plays it to the right, and when we win the champions league we'll sing this song all night OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH

It just occurred to me. If the clock would've rolled over at the end of overtime, why even have a game clock in playoff overtime? Just have it be like college overtime and only have a play clock.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

People are calling it a block but it was a damn miss being kicked that low.

I haven't looked at it again, but it looked like a shanked kick that would have been easily wide left if not for hitting a Chiefs player's hand so early.

Leonhart4 posted...

It just occurred to me. If the clock would've rolled over at the end of overtime, why even have a game clock in playoff overtime? Just have it be like college overtime and only have a play clock.

It gives the players a break, pretty sure they switch sides of the field, and IIRC, under the old sudden death rules, you get the two timeouts per OT period (not sure if that's the case now too or not).

They had three timeouts from the getgo. I don't know if they would've gotten 3 more had it gone to triple overtime, but I'd assume so with how they kept saying "It's a new game."