2025 NFL Off Season Thread

I'm so sick of these NFL pundits bloviating against banning the tush push. If the Chiefs ran it like the Eagles do, they'd ALL have been SCREAMING to ban it for years.

Always the victim huh

Was bloviate on your word of the day calendar?

Chiefs haven’t caught a break in years man. Must really suck to be so victimised

Still 100% true. The pundits were losing their minds over iffy roughing calls in the playoffs that the league said were valid. Joe Buck just had a grand mal seizure on air over it. Every show led with it the next week and just went on and on and on.

Pats beat the Chiefs in OT when the Chiefs never get the ball, no complaints from the media. Chiefs beat the Bills the same way, everyone loses their minds and the rule gets changed the next year.

Chiefs beat the Bills on a ridiculously close spot. Look what happens.

If the Chiefs beat the Bills on a bunch of tush pushes, you know damn well the pundits would never shut up about it until the rule got changed.

The endless ref hysteria took a lot of the fun out of being a fan last year. I think it finally got to the players too.

Not everybody wants to embrace being the villain. It's not that fun unless you're already a complete ******* like Bill Romanowski, Bill Laimbeer or AJ Pierzynski.

Because you made me curious.

I guess this recent one hasn't been indexed yet.

It's always hilarious when Suzzer comes in with "but...but...but the Chiefs never get a break!" argument. All while conveniently having amnesia for all the "Touching the Mahomes" penalties called each year.

I don't have amnesia about them, I'm saying you guys lost your minds over a lot of ticky tack calls and ignored anything that went against the Chiefs. NARRATIVES!

Someone's mad. But I do find it funny that the Bills having rules go against them during playoff games against the Chiefs have caused major procedural changes.

This Hawkeye thing is also absolutely nothing. It doesn't change how the ball is spotted. All it does is electronically measure close first down calls rather than have it done manually. There are very few instances where the closeness of a measurement actually comes into play.

I wanna know how to get one of those jobs sitting on the sideline holding half of a 30-foot chain. Jim Sorgi probably already has his application in.

how many pages of the nfl rule book are chief fans able to fold in half before available surface area is unable to contain the remaining occular moisture

That was my favorite volunteer job when my son played peewee. Especially because when I held the trailing marker while the other team had the ball, I could place it about a foot further downfield than the ref spotted the ball on a first down, so it would be just a little harder for them to convert lol.

You have valid points for most everything else, but this is wrong. It was easy to hate on the Patriots in 2019, and this was a lightning rod example.

Back when the Chiefs were likable, lol.

Seems so long ago.

I watched all the (Bristol-centric) pundit shows after both OT games. Barely mentioned after 2019 AFCCG and wouldn't stop going on about how unfair it was after Chiefs/Bills 2022.

There's a reason the rule changed in 2022. The Chiefs actually proposed to change it after 2019 and the league was like "nah, we're good." Then the Bills lose the same way and IT'S NOT FAIR! Well, you could have listened when the Chiefs proposed it.

RJ! Is that you?

😀

I do think the Bills are a pet NFL team tbh. Not sure why

Because Josh Allen is fun and people are sick of seeing the same team in the Super Bowl every year, especially since the Chiefs became a dink-and-dunk ball-control team in 2022.

Hell, I want to see Josh Allen in the Super Bowl. I wouldn't have been that bothered if the Chiefs had lost the AFCCG this year. I'd have felt like 1% as bad as I did after 2019.

I'm obviously no GM, but making a guy who only had 2 receiving TDs last season, the highest paid TE in history is a certainly a choice.

can see why you're no GM then

Geno 2-75/66 extension.

Really impressive re-generation of a career from him. He's not a top 10 guy but not many people could have predicted the money he's made and the games he's started 4/5 years ago when he'd been scratching round the League and was then Rus's backup for 2 years.
He threw 4 TDs between 2015 and 2020 inclusive and he'll have made $175m most likely by the end of the 2027 season with the opportunity to earn more.

it's a nice story

lol

Isaiah Likely, his team's TE2 had more TDs last season than McBride has in his 3 year career.