2020 NFL Thread v. Tom Brady aging better than Mila Kunis

[Cool Chris]

A local NFL reporter who frequents the radio sports talk station I listen to said that if the NFL is able to pull off a full season without significant issues during this pandemic, it will be the greatest accomplishment in the history of sports. He recognized that was a bold statement, but he still stood by it.

[El Barto]

Significant issues are already taking place. Hasn't the preseason already been cancelled? Half the cities will prohibit fans from attending. Roster sizes are being reduced. Training camps and preseason conditioning will be highly lacking. His bold statement seems pretty late, really.

I'm not sure why they don't operate a Club Med type of system for each team. Once the players report they're there for the next 21 weeks, or until they're done for the year. That applies to the catering, the cleaning staff, and anybody else associated with the compound. Someone leaves they're quarantined for a week when they return. There are two nice hotels within walking distance of Gillette Stadium. Welcome to your new home, boys. As far as I know they all operate their own charter flights, so contact at away games will be minimal. It'll suck, really, but when the minimum salary for these guys is over a million/yr, they can suck it up.

What bums me out about it is that we were going to see one of the great experiments in the NFL play out this year. Brady without Belichick and Belichick without Brady. How often does something like that come up? And certainly never in such a magnitude. Now it'll be tainted, and that's bad for all football fans.

[TAC]

What bums me out about it is that we were going to see one of the great experiments in the NFL play out this year. Brady without Belichick and Belichick without Brady. How often does something like that come up? And certainly never in such a magnitude. Now it'll be tainted, and that's bad for all football fans.

It won't be tainted.

Speaking of experiments, none are more interesting than Brady with the Bucs, or Cam Newton in New England. These two developments are going to be fascinating to watch.

[El Barto]

What bums me out about it is that we were going to see one of the great experiments in the NFL play out this year. Brady without Belichick and Belichick without Brady. How often does something like that come up? And certainly never in such a magnitude. Now it'll be tainted, and that's bad for all football fans.

It won't be tainted.

Speaking of experiments, none are more interesting than Brady with the Bucs, or Cam Newton in New England. These two developments are going to be fascinating to watch.

They'd have been a helluva lot more fascinating in a normal season. This season will be anything but.

[TAC]

Yeah, I guess, but we will see who is really mentally tough. Lots of obstacles to overcome.

Everyone is in the same boat, so to me, it's all the same.

[King Postwhore]

It's not when a team like KC has everything set.  Same system, same coaches, same QB.  N.E. could have used the preseason to work that new system with Cam at the helm.

[TAC]

Aawww boo hoo Patriots fan..

[King Postwhore]

I'm not crying.  Just stating facts.

[TAC]

This guy, whoever the hell he is, didn't even put the Pats on his list.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/what-11-nfl-teams-will-be-hurt-by-no-preseason-games/ss-BB171L3B?li=BB15ms5q#image=12

[King Postwhore]

I'll assume he has a high regard for Bill Belichick.  I understand that. Still, Tom Brady and Cam Newton are 2 polar opposite QB's so this will be a whole new offense and with no training camp and no preseason it has to affect them.

[TAC]

Well, I don't think it matters. They weren't overtaking the Chiefs for the 1 seed even with Brady. With Newton, they're at worst the #3 team, behind the Ravens.

[King Postwhore]

Well, I don't think it matters. They weren't overtaking the Chiefs for the 1 seed even with Brady. With Newton, they're at worst the #3 team, behind the Ravens.

1 game playoffs.  Anything can happen.

[TAC]

Yeah, but it's only the 1 that gets a bye? Is that right. They weren't getting that anyway.

By the time the Pats get to the playoffs, they'll have it figured out. Like I said, I don't discount them at all with a healthy Newton.

[Stadler]

Yeah, I guess, but we will see who is really mentally tough. Lots of obstacles to overcome.

Everyone is in the same boat, so to me, it's all the same.

'Mental toughness"?  Well, that rules out the Cam Newton scenario.  I am so not happy about that.  Still stewing about it, in fact.   ANYONE but Cam Newton.   

[Stadler]

Yeah, but it's only the 1 that gets a bye? Is that right. They weren't getting that anyway.

By the time the Pats get to the playoffs, they'll have it figured out. Like I said, I don't discount them at all with a healthy Newton.

There's the $64,000 question, right there.   

[TAC]

So, Stadler, how do you really feel?

[Stadler]

Can Newton is the Winger of the NFL. 

[TAC]

Now you're speaking my language brother!

[King Postwhore]

 

Yeah, I'm not too thrilled either.

[hunnus2000]

And this just in - they are going with - The Washington Football Team.

Granted, it's temporary but still - WEAK! 

[El Barto]

Reminds me of NE Coach from Madden.

[King Postwhore]

Reminds me of NE Coach from Madden.

I forgot The Hoodie isn't part of the NFLCA.  Only him. 

[lonestar]

The Washington Football Team....


The internet is going to have a fucking field day with this one. It's kind of marketing genius though, they can sell a shit ton of this name's merch, which will get gobbled up due to the novelty of it, then they'll re-up the sales next year when the new team name is announced.

[El Barto]

The Washington Football Team....


The internet is going to have a fucking field day with this one. It's kind of marketing genius though, they can sell a shit ton of this name's merch, which will get gobbled up due to the novelty of it, then they'll re-up the sales next year when the new team name is announced.

That's an interesting theory. I'm not sure I buy it, though. Merch is part of the shared revenue. Lil Danny's 1/32nd share of the novelty gear won't be enough to offset what changing names twice will cost him. It actually would be a pretty cool jersey to own, though.

[lonestar]

The Washington Football Team....


The internet is going to have a fucking field day with this one. It's kind of marketing genius though, they can sell a shit ton of this name's merch, which will get gobbled up due to the novelty of it, then they'll re-up the sales next year when the new team name is announced.

That's an interesting theory. I'm not sure I buy it, though. Merch is part of the shared revenue. Lil Danny's 1/32nd share of the novelty gear won't be enough to offset what changing names twice will cost him. It actually would be a pretty cool jersey to own, though.

True that, it'll be an interesting story to follow nonetheless.

[DragonAttack]

I thought of it, I've heard people on the radio and ESPN who mentioned that, with the initials 'WFT' one needs to be careful not calling them the 'WTFs'.

I'm sure plenty of DC fans have said 'WTF' during Snyder's reign of hell. 

[Stadler]

I actually kind of like it.  It's old school.   Remember "The New York Football Giants"?  (If I remember correctly, the legal entity was never changed and is still that.)

[El Barto]

I actually kind of like it.  It's old school.   Remember "The New York Football Giants"?  (If I remember correctly, the legal entity was never changed and is still that.)

Didn't know that. I figured it was just something that blowhard Berman started saying.

[King Postwhore]

Yeah but it still has the word "Giants" in it.

The equivalent is The New York Football Team."

It sounds like someone who doesn't know sports talking about sports. 

[Cool Chris]

I actually kind of like it.  It's old school.   Remember "The New York Football Giants"?  (If I remember correctly, the legal entity was never changed and is still that.)

Didn't know that. I figured it was just something that blowhard Berman started saying.

Huh, me too!

[pg1067]

Remember "The New York Football Giants"?  (If I remember correctly, the legal entity was never changed and is still that.)

Chris Berman (and, before him, Howard Cosell) won't let anyone forget that name (and yes, it's still the team's corporate name).

Frankly, I think the New York Giants' trademark registrations (along with those of the Jets and the MLB Angels) should be cancelled because they are primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive.  15 U.S.C. section 1052(e).

[hunnus2000]

The San Francisco Giants were originally based in New York. Thus the distinction.

[bosk1]

The San Francisco Giants were originally based in New York. Thus the distinction.

Winner.

[DragonAttack]

^
There have also been pro teams in the same baseball cities known as the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, Boston Braves, most recently St. Louis Cardinals......to somewhat feed off of baseball's popularity because the NFL needed the publicity long ago (though St.Louis moved from Chicago).  Times certainly changed. 

[pg1067]

The San Francisco Giants were originally based in New York. Thus the distinction.

Ummm...duh.  But I think most folks are aware that the baseball team moved to San Francisco 60+ years ago, thereby rendering the distinction unnecessary.

Does Berman still refer to the Cardinals as "the St. Louis Baseball Cardinals"?