2025-2026 NFL Season Thread

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by BizCat

Crazy thought..........

I really wish the NFL would just give all teams the same bye week, like in Week 7 or 8.

Never do that, they want football straight through to the Super Bowl.

[walruswarrior]

Greg Hardy found with cocaine on Sunday. He's toast

[BizCat]

Originally Posted by walruswarrior

Greg Hardy found with cocaine on Sunday. He's toast

trash*

[jwerk]

Originally Posted by BizCat

Crazy thought..........

I really wish the NFL would just give all teams the same bye week, like in Week 7 or 8.

A whole week off with no revenue in the middle of the season? They would never do that.

[dcowboy7]

Originally Posted by BizCat

Crazy thought..........

I really wish the NFL would just give all teams the same bye week, like in Week 7 or 8.

Yea that is crazy.

Especially those wks with baseball playoffs going on & let them then get all the publicity.

[BizCat]

Well even between 2-3 weeks.

[dcowboy7]

Originally Posted by BizCat

Well even between 2-3 weeks.

Again the problem is tv.

Even now its so thinned out when theres only 9 or 10 afternoon games during certain bye wks - this would knock it down to only 7 games.

+ theres always some blowouts so would really be bad for tv.

[fatediesel]

Monday Night Football got a little over 8 million viewers last night. That's the lowest viewership ever for a Monday night game by over 400,000 viewers. The previous low was also a Saints/Falcons game in 2007. It clearly got clobbered by the first presidential debate. The NFL will be going head-to-head with the third debate on October 9th as well when the Packers host the Giants.

[dcowboy7]

Considering:
those 2 teams arent national draws
espn in less homes than previous yrs
game wasnt close till the end

to me 8m isnt really that bad.

[Waboman]

This is almost as golden as seeing Cam getting sacked 8 times. 8 times! I love it. See you Monday night OBJ.

[TitansFan4Life]

Just saw the Panthers signed Michael Griffin. Good god I hope he doesn't actually get any playing time. Well actually I hope he does so that every NFL fan gets to see just how bad he sucks. Worst safety in the league... but our organization kept him around and gave him top 5 safety money.

[sycro]

Originally Posted by dcowboy7

Considering:
those 2 teams arent national draws
espn in less homes than previous yrs
game wasnt close till the end

to me 8m isnt really that bad.

It was affected by the debate more than anything. I work with a Saints fan that watched the debate instead.

I watched both at the same time

[TitansFan4Life]

RIP to JJ Watt's career.

Texans dumb organization rushed him back and now he's never going to be the same. Idiots.

But roids will have this effect on the body, so it was only a matter of time.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by TitansFan4Life

RIP to JJ Watt's career.

Texans dumb organization rushed him back and now he's never going to be the same. Idiots.

But roids will have this effect on the body, so it was only a matter of time.

Yeah it's a shame and why defensive end is a much more punishing position than most people think it is.

[Batman1980]

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter 2m2 minutes ago
Giants C Weston Richburg, the 1st player ejected for two unsportsmanlike penalties, fined $12,000 for taunting, per source. He is appealing.

Source - Twitter

[Giant Machine]

I wish I watched the debate instead. Trash performance by the Saints. Sean Payton was eager to pin the defensive problems on Rob Ryan. Sean completely forgot about 2013, where Rob Ryan turned that defense around completely. Strangely, the defense tanked in 2014 and 2015, and Rob Ryan was fired last season. Well, the defense is still as bad, if not worse. Dennis Allen was trash in Oakland, and hasn't done anything to help in New Orleans.

I don't know what possessed the front office to extend Sean Payton's contract. He's still riding off that 2009 season. What have the Saints done since? 2-3 in the playoffs, and back-to-back 7-9 seasons. We're well on our way to another 7-9 season, if not much worse. Even Jim Mora eventually had his day, and received a pink slip. Sean's time is coming, too. I hope our next head coach is primarily a defensive mind, because our current coach doesn't have a clue about defense.

[TheForce8686]

Originally Posted by Giant Machine

I wish I watched the debate instead. Trash performance by the Saints. Sean Payton was eager to pin the defensive problems on Rob Ryan. Sean completely forgot about 2013, where Rob Ryan turned that defense around completely. Strangely, the defense tanked in 2014 and 2015, and Rob Ryan was fired last season. Well, the defense is still as bad, if not worse. Dennis Allen was trash in Oakland, and hasn't done anything to help in New Orleans.

I don't know what possessed the front office to extend Sean Payton's contract. He's still riding off that 2009 season. What have the Saints done since? 2-3 in the playoffs, and back-to-back 7-9 seasons. We're well on our way to another 7-9 season, if not much worse. Even Jim Mora eventually had his day, and received a pink slip. Sean's time is coming, too. I hope our next head coach is primarily a defensive mind, because our current coach doesn't have a clue about defense.

Payton isn't the problem. The GM is the problem. I heard a stat that they have like 40 million in dead money on the salary cap and the least amount of players drafted by them on their roster in the whole league. You can polish a turd all you want but it is still a turd.

[Giant Machine]

I can't argue with the GM issue. Is Peyton Manning ready to be an GM yet? We need someone.

[Filmasong]

Well,my team[Skins]finally got a win[miracles do happen]but we still got no defense so no playoffs this year.

[West E]

Love that we signed Osemele away from the Ravens last Spring. He's transformed our entire offense. One of the meanest offensive linemen I've seen in a while. He's already talking shit about messing up his old teammates in Baltimore

That's going to be a good one this Sunday.