Arena The Official NFL Discussion Thread (Now Featuring Time's Person of the Year, Taylor Swift!)

Chargers still seems hilarious.

 

Maybe Rodgers needs a discount double check.

 

DO NOT COME AT MY HUSBAND

But for real, Rodge isn't stupid. He has $0 guaranteed remaining on his contract, he's the MVP being paid on the scale of Jared Goff, and his team just picked a QB in the first round last year.

He's forcing the org to show their hand-- commit to him (and by extension, to continue to contend vs. rebuild...Aaron Jones is a FA) or not.

 

Your fantasies of ever seeing the Kraft rub and tug videos has been killed.
https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/26/robert-kraft-sex-spa-videos-to-be-destroyed-judge-orders/

 

Inaugural poet to perform at the Super Bowl.

 

https://variety.com/2021/digital/ne...-favre-robert-horry-postcast-one-1234879032/\

What do you even call that show? I heard one commentator say "The Unsolicited". That fits.

 

I'd have some interest in what Horry has to say.

 

Texans have hired a (white)coach.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...re-ravens-david-culley-head-coach-sources-say

My favorite passage from the article.

Culley, 65, who has spent the past three seasons in Baltimore, just completed his 27nd season as an NFL coach. Along with serving as the team's assistant head coach, Culley was Baltimore's passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach. The Ravens finished the 2020 season ranked last in the NFL in passing.

 

Uh - huh.

 

Witten's retired (again).

 

Hahaha why did I think he was white? Time to ring the bells.

 

I am both glad we will get to keep Bienemy and sad for him that he may never get to be a head coach.

 

I'm fine with all the praise Mahomes gets, its deserved and I've seen worse. Its amazing how quickly people forget how much praise was showered on Brett Favre. Madden loved Brett Favre and used to call a ton of his games. Favre used to kill the Bears and Madden used to call a lot of those games so it was a double whammy as a Bears fan. Even when Favre used to get picked off there was never any criticism they just called him a "gunslinger" or said he was "just out there having fun." I wonder if younger fans know that Favre is the leader in career interceptions by a lot. Heck Frank Caliendo got a gig on ESPN for his Madden impression slobbering over Favre.

So Green Bay shoves Favre out of the way for Rodgers and he's even better. A smarter QB who's not as reckless. He doesn't turn the ball over. Although he doesn't get the praise that Favre does. Rodgers still doesn't take deserved criticism. Every year it was something different, Aaron needs a better D, Aaron needs a better coach, Aaron needs new receivers. Rodgers had chances to beat the Bucs but he missed passes and made some poor decisions. Even if they scored a TD and got the 2pts could they have stopped Brady when all they needed was a FG?

Now I see a lot of Rodger fans complaining that GB should have used their 1st round pick on a receiver. Rodgers led the league in TDs and QBR, and was top 10 in all other passing categories, how many more balls was a new receiver going to catch? He's 1-4 in NFC championships and this year he had essentially everything he was so called "missing." As amazing as he is there has to be a level of disappointment to his career with only 1 Super Bowl.

I'm looking forward to the game because we'll get to see the NFLs 2 best QBs going head to head. The winner is going to get a lot more hype next year.

 

In minor Super Bowl news...

Bucs have officially decided to wear white over pewter. Making for a much easier on the eyes Super Bowl.

 

Thanks Bucs for letting us wear red and look cooler. Y'all should have worn pewter though.

 

Teams aren’t allowed to wear alternates in the playoffs without special permission from the NFL. Not sure how or why some are granted. But from recollection you have the 94 Niners in the 75th anniversary throwbacks and the Chargers in powder blue in the playoffs.

The Rams were officially granted full season exception to wear the throwbacks during their Super Bowl season.

edit: random uniform statistics
Brady is 4-1 in white jerseys and 2-2 in color (although Tampa is 1-0 in red) so it might be a reason why they chosen white. On the other hand Chiefs are 2-0 in red and 0-1 in white.

If the Chiefs win they will be the third team to win back to back Super Bowls in the same uniform, after the '78-79 Steelers and '92-93 Cowboys

 

And the first since to go to back to back Super Bowls since the Seahawks.

In other news, Watson has officially requested to be traded.

 

Yes Watson, now please go to the NFC there are too many good young QBs in the AFC thanks.

 

The Bears have gone through how many drafts without a top tier drafted QB. I would Hershel Walker the hell out of Watson.

 

Seahawks went back to back superbowls in 2013, 2014, Patriots went back to back superbowls in 2016, 2017 and 2018


Question for Patriot haters, if the Pats had gone to the superbowl this year, what would of been the lesser of 2 evils for you? Brady getting his 7th title or Patriots getting their 7th title?