NFL 2024 season - v. Greatest Pats...and 31 other cool teams

[hefdaddy42]

I don't expect him to be good at it at all.

[faizoff]

Leaks of the 2024 schedule indicates Netflix is getting the Christmas games.

Reportedly paying 150 million per game. That's kinda crazy.

[faizoff]

Schedule officially out, Bucs get 4 prime time games.


Chargers social media team at it again posting the schedule as Sims characters... so many easter eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gt0v7iW890&ab_channel=LosAngelesChargers

[Stadler]

I don't expect him to be good at it at all.

I just hope he brings his knowledge to the game and doesn't try to be a "personality".  It's a fine line, and some don't balance it right; Romo started off by bringing his football acumen; now he's trying to be a "personality" and Jim Nantz is sucking him down the toilet.

[faizoff]

Romo was so much fun to listen to in the first couple of years.  I guess they all have to "evolve" into something more boombastic to stay current.

[El Barto]

I just hope he brings his knowledge to the game and doesn't try to be a "personality".  It's a fine line, and some don't balance it right; Romo started off by bringing his football acumen; now he's trying to be a "personality" and Jim Nantz is sucking him down the toilet.

By and large a I agree, but Romo was always walking that line. Even when he just started off, and all of that football knowledge was on display, there were plenty of times when I just wanted him to STFU. He tried like hell to ruin the Pats/Chiefs playoff game, and he wasn't even lusting after Mahomes at that point.

[Dream Team]

Wow the Steelers last half of their schedule is legit the toughest I've ever seen. They play ALL 6 of their division games in the last 8 weeks of the season with 2 Super Bowl teams being the other 2 games (Chiefs, Eagles). They better go about 7-2 over their first nine or bye-bye playoff hopes.

[bosk1]

The Eagles are a Super Bowl team?

[hefdaddy42]

The Eagles are a Super Bowl team?

I mean, they HAVE BEEN in the Super Bowl before.  Maybe that's the only metric being used?

In that case, the Panthers are also a Super Bowl team!  Yay!

[bosk1]

I'm not sure a majority of their players or fans know how to spell Super Bowl.


EDIT:  Eagles, not Panthers.

[hefdaddy42]

I'm not sure a majority of their players or fans know how to spell Super Bowl.


EDIT:  Eagles, not Panthers.

I would also have accepted Panthers.

[KevShmev]

By and large a I agree, but Romo was always walking that line. Even when he just started off, and all of that football knowledge was on display, there were plenty of times when I just wanted him to STFU. He tried like hell to ruin the Pats/Chiefs playoff game, and he wasn't even lusting after Mahomes at that point.

Romo's problem, allegedly, is that he is lazy and doesn't do his homework.  That worked when he had first retired and started broadcasting because he was familiar with most of the players still, but most of the guys who were in the league when he was playing are now retired as well, so he is clueless about a lot of them, not to mention that he doesn't know when to shut up.  Him yapping non-stop after the Chiefs winning TD in the Super Bowl broke a cardinal rule of announcing.  In a moment like that, you let the play-by-play announcer make the call and then don't say anything for a good 20-30 seconds at least; let the moment speak for itself.  Go back to Auburn/Alabama when Auburn scored that winning TD off the missed FG. There was literally a minute of silence by the announcers as they let the moment and the roar of the crowd do the talking.  Romo is like the kid in school who always gets in trouble because he never knows how or when to keep his yap closed.

[El Barto]

In a moment like that, you let the play-by-play announcer make the call and then don't say anything for a good 20-30 seconds at least; let the moment speak for itself.

Or, spend the next five minutes badmouthing the other coach for his play call. 

My take on Romo is a bit different. It used to be that he had a wicked sharp understanding of defenses and play calling. The aforementioned Pat/Chief's game was a prefect example. Hoss Y Juke is well known now, but he was catching it in real time in all its variations. He was watching the game from Brady's perspective and knew what all the routes would be and which D player it would hinge on. I don't see that dissection of the game from him anymore. I'm wondering if that's the familiarity with the game that has passed him by. In any case, he does seem to be leaning more on his personality than his analysis, like Stadler said.

[Dream Team]

The Eagles were in the SB 2 years ago and were 10-1 last year when the wheels mysteriously fell off. Everyone says they still have the best roster in the league. They’ll be in the hunt for the SB again. But heck, fine, let’s call it a cakewalk game for the Steelers then. 

[pg1067]

It'll be interesting to see how much Jason Kelce's retirement affects the Eagles' offense.

[Dream Team]

Wow the Steelers last half of their schedule is legit the toughest I've ever seen. They play ALL 6 of their division games in the last 8 weeks of the season with 2 Super Bowl teams being the other 2 games (Chiefs, Eagles). They better go about 7-2 over their first nine or bye-bye playoff hopes.

Sorry guys, I meant to type Super Bowl CALIBER teams  . Usually proofread better than that.

[King Postwhore]

The best division in the NFL.