2025-2026 NFL Season Thread

[Bucky]

Originally Posted by supersix4

Would love to see HeyBay with a real qb

Would not mind seeing him with the Ravens, not sure if they want another speed guy since they already have Smith and Jones but it would be pretty awesome to have Joe throwing at three Terps.

[StereoMike]

Raiders signed LB Kevin Burnett...

[Navster]

Originally Posted by StereoMike

Raiders signed LB Kevin Burnett...

Nice, happy with the addition

[Love Blu-Ray]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

yep....saw that yesterday or the day before.....can't remember when.

stupid vikings taking the Packers leftovers....again!!!

Vikings fan here, yeah but I can not say I blame the Vikings for taking the Packers leftovers

Darren Sharper, Ryan Longwell, and Brett Favre played well for the Vikings except for Brett's last season

I think Jennings will play well with the Vikings but that depends on how Ponder plays this season

I am not too happy the Vikings overpaid for Jennings but signing Jennings and getting 3 draft picks in return from the Harvin trade, I would take that!

I am looking forward to seeing Jennings kill the Packers for a change but that is only if Ponder can throw the ball to Jennings

[Love Blu-Ray]

Originally Posted by June585

after reading the articles, its looking like a strong possibility that nfl is done for for at least 1 season

What does that mean?

[sycro]

Originally Posted by Love Blu-Ray

What does that mean?

It's just a spammer.

[StereoMike]

Jake Long agrees to terms with Rams

It’s a four-year deal, with a base value of $34 million, for an average of $8.5 million annually. With incentives, the deal can reach $36 million.

The deal has $16 million fully guaranteed, with another $4 million that will become fully guaranteed in 2014.

Good luck Jake, you're going to need it, you're breaking down. Both knees, shoulder, biceps, triceps, back...

[Blu-Benny]

Originally Posted by Love Blu-Ray

Vikings fan here, yeah but I can not say I blame the Vikings for taking the Packers leftovers

Darren Sharper, Ryan Longwell, and Brett Favre played well for the Vikings except for Brett's last season

I think Jennings will play well with the Vikings but that depends on how Ponder plays this season

I am not too happy the Vikings overpaid for Jennings but signing Jennings and getting 3 draft picks in return from the Harvin trade, I would take that!

I am looking forward to seeing Jennings kill the Packers for a change but that is only if Ponder can throw the ball to Jennings

since the Vikings only have Jennings to throw to, it shouldn't be to hard to cover just him.

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by StereoMike

Jake Long agrees to terms with Rams

Long has got to be disappointed with that deal. During the season there was talk that he wanted a deal comparable to Joe Thomas' seven-year, $84 million deal. While he was never going to get a deal near that size due to his injury history I would have thought he'd at least be able to get a deal averaging $10 million per year. The free agent market has been incredibly weak this year. Players expected teams to overpay but there really haven't been any crazy contracts outside Flacco's deal, and he had a ton of leverage. Greg Jennings and Cliff Avril are two players who turned down deals before free agency that greatly exceeded the contracts they ended up receiving.

[fatediesel]

A scheduling conflict could force the Ravens to open the season on the road.

The Ravens are in conflict with their MLB neighbors the Orioles, who are supposed to host the White Sox on Sept. 5 at 7:05 p.m. Given the proximity of the Ravens’ and Orioles’ buildings, they can’t play both at the same time.

Jeff Zrebeic of the Baltimore Sun reports that Commissioners Roger Goodell and Bud Selig have discussed the topic, but haven’t come to a resolution yet, and that playing the game on Wednesday, Sept. 4 was declined because of Rosh Hashanah.

Given that the baseball schedule is already set, Selig has the opportunity to exert some leverage here. The easy fix is for the Orioles to play an afternoon game, but there’s no reason for them to volunteer to make less money at the gate unless there’s something in it for them.

It's highly unlikely the NFL and MLB don't make an agreement that gets the Orioles game moved to the afternoon. The NFL usually releases their schedule in mid-April so they'll want to have a plan finalized with MLB by that point.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-open-on-road/

[Love Blu-Ray]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

since the Vikings only have Jennings to throw to, it shouldn't be to hard to cover just him.

You are right unfortanely!

[SleeperAgent]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

A scheduling conflict could force the Ravens to open the season on the road.



It's highly unlikely the NFL and MLB don't make an agreement that gets the Orioles game moved to the afternoon. The NFL usually releases their schedule in mid-April so they'll want to have a plan finalized with MLB by that point.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-open-on-road/

I don't see why they couldn't play the game on Sunday like everyone else. I never liked these early games in the middle of the week.

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by SleeperAgent

I don't see why they couldn't play the game on Sunday like everyone else. I never liked these early games in the middle of the week.

They could potentially have the Ravens up open at home on Sunday night rather than Thursday if a deal couldn't be reached (and a deal will be reached), but NBC has contractual rights to open the season so there has to be a game on Thursday. I love having the season start on a Thursday. It's a great way to kick the season off. I'm not as big a fan of Thursday games all season long when players are injured and fatigued by the short week, but love it in week 1 when everyone should be healthy.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

A scheduling conflict could force the Ravens to open the season on the road.



It's highly unlikely the NFL and MLB don't make an agreement that gets the Orioles game moved to the afternoon. The NFL usually releases their schedule in mid-April so they'll want to have a plan finalized with MLB by that point.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-open-on-road/

Its enough of a madhouse when one is going on. I couldn't imagine them at the same time They're literally right on-top of each other and use each-others lots for games.

[dcowboy7]

Originally Posted by SleeperAgent

I don't see why they couldn't play the game on Sunday like everyone else. I never liked these early games in the middle of the week.

Because there already is another game scheduled for sunday so why would nbc only want 1 game with a monster rating when by having a thursday & a sunday they can have 2 ?

Also they usually announce the kickoff game during the owners meetings going on now so we should get a resolution by wednesday.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by dcowboy7

Because there already is another game scheduled for sunday so why would nbc only want 1 game with a monster rating when by having a thursday & a sunday they can have 2 ?

Also they usually announce the kickoff game during the owners meetings going on now so we should get a resolution by wednesday.

Yeah right after the 12:15 meeting on how to hold the cowboys and skins down another few years. The NFL would have worse ratings than the NHL without the redskins and cowboys the league should be blessed to be in our company.

[fatediesel]

Patriots owner Bob Kraft said today that he thinks if the NFL is able to convince MLB to move the Orioles game then the Patriots will play the Ravens in the season-opening Thursday night game.

[dcowboy7]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Patriots owner Bob Kraft said today that he thinks if the NFL is able to convince MLB to move the Orioles game then the Patriots will play the Ravens in the season-opening Thursday night game.

Well hes got a 50-50 shot of being right since the packers or ravens are the only 2 choices.

Cant be the steelers since they are on the road weeks 2-4 so they must be home week 1 & the other 5 teams arent enough of a tv draw for this game.

[StereoMike]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Long has got to be disappointed with that deal. During the season there was talk that he wanted a deal comparable to Joe Thomas' seven-year, $84 million deal. While he was never going to get a deal near that size due to his injury history I would have thought he'd at least be able to get a deal averaging $10 million per year. The free agent market has been incredibly weak this year. Players expected teams to overpay but there really haven't been any crazy contracts outside Flacco's deal, and he had a ton of leverage. Greg Jennings and Cliff Avril are two players who turned down deals before free agency that greatly exceeded the contracts they ended up receiving.

Long's injury history was really a major red flag. He was kinda pissed that Ireland low-balled him, but then realized Miami's offer was not that bad.

Market is so weak that a few players would rather take a 1 year deal in hope of a bigger payday next year.

[sycro]

Originally Posted by supersix4

Yeah right after the 12:15 meeting on how to hold the cowboys and skins down another few years. The NFL would have worse ratings than the NHL without the redskins and cowboys the league should be blessed to be in our company.

Maybe you shouldn't have ignored your collusion.