2025-2026 NFL Season Thread

[BizCat]

Just have a full on command center that watches every single game - these guys call into the on-field refs whenever something should have been called, or not called. Make every play reviewable. I don't care how long it takes a game to be completed if I KNOW it's going to be absolute fair and does not change the outcomes, or has any impact.

Simplify the rules.. get rid of this possession catch BS.

Or allow coaches as many challenges as they want so they can challenge penalties, or lack of, without losing a timeout.

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

Thought everyone in Minnesota went to White Castle.

White Castle has sloppy Joe’s now.

[Moviefan1203]

I wouldn’t mind laser technology for first downs and touchdowns.

[RageATL]

Originally Posted by Bigdog

Not a chance, Goodell for once is trying to get out ahead of it. I can see rule changes being made but no chance we see any part of Sundays NFC championship replayed.

It's logistically impossible, but kinda fun to entertain during Pro Bowl week.

[RageATL]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Darren McFadden was arrested for DWI and resisting arrest after being passed put drunk in a fast food drive through.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...ted-drive-thru

"Hamberders."

[RageATL]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

I wouldn’t mind laser technology for first downs and touchdowns.

Nah, let's have a buncha old white guys run around and try to keep up with world class athletes. Seems legit.

[Moviefan1203]

Originally Posted by RageATL

"Hamberders."

Good grief.

[Tony208]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

I wouldn’t mind laser technology for first downs and touchdowns.

A first down marker and goal line cam

They can just attach it to the poles the people carry around

[Samus Aran]

Rex Ryan rumored as a potential DC replacement in KC.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by RageATL

Nah, let's have a buncha old white guys run around and try to keep up with world class athletes. Seems legit.

Realistically we won't really need referees in most sports in the not too distant future. Technology will render them obsolete. Honestly, in MLB a robot could probably already call balls and strikes with 100% accuracy. Problem is sports leagues will always lag technology. That and referee unions will fight tooth and nail to keep those jobs.

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Realistically we won't really need referees in most sports in the not too distant future. Technology will render them obsolete. Honestly, in MLB a robot could probably already call balls and strikes with 100% accuracy. Problem is sports leagues will always lag technology. That and referee unions will fight tooth and nail to keep those jobs.

Baseball is a sport where some of the officials believe they're above the game.

Basketball is the sport that's easiest to rig via officials.

[imsounoriginal]

Purists won't let the human element go away. I'm all for modernizing the games wherever possible, but the idea of going full-on tech doesn't sit well with me either.

[West E]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

I wouldn’t mind laser technology for first downs and touchdowns.

I prefer index cards myself

[DragonOfTheBlackPool]

Put lights in the end zone pylons and a small device inside the footballs that cause them to flash when the ball crosses the line (can do the same thing with first downs). The NFL is a Billion dollar business for f***'s sake, they have the resources to figure something out.

[Moviefan1203]

Hard to picture Rex working under Reid.

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by DragonOfTheBlackPool

Put lights in the end zone pylons and a small device inside the footballs that cause them to flash when the ball crosses the line (can do the same thing with first downs). The NFL is a Billion dollar business for f***'s sake, they have the resources to figure something out.

A billion dollar business that doesn't want to pay the (majority of) players or the officials.

[DragonOfTheBlackPool]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

A billion dollar business that doesn't want to pay the (majority of) players or the officials.

Eh, you're going to have a hard time convincing me that most players are underpaid.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

Purists won't let the human element go away. I'm all for modernizing the games wherever possible, but the idea of going full-on tech doesn't sit well with me either.

Why not? Believing we need a "human element" to officiating is patently absurd. If a better technology comes along in the business world that reduces errors and increases productivity it is adopted almost overnight, even at the cost of human jobs. That's how the real world works.

Trying to argue that we "need officials for the human element" when automated technology can and does virtually eliminate mistakes human being make all the time is like trying to argue self driving vehicles shouldn't be allowed (an inevitability), just because it's going to put cab drivers or truckers out of a job. Trying to stymie technological improvements has never and will never work for very long.

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by DragonOfTheBlackPool

Eh, you're going to have a hard time convincing me that most players are underpaid.

Compared to the average salary of a US citizen, no. But compared to other sports leagues and what they're putting their bodies through, yes. The NFL players union is weak.

[BizCat]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Compared to the average salary of a US citizen, no. But compared to other sports leagues and what they're putting their bodies through, yes. The NFL players union is weak.

Meh