Toomers

No. You gave a vague point of view on a game where there was absolutely no reason for anyone in the NFL to care who won. That proves you’re correct to yourself. Please explain why the league would want Brady to win over their new “face”. Did the league want a beat down for viewers?

You mean the NBA official. The one that we absolutely know was bent. Who else you got?

so an example would be? What would be influencing without rigging. “Try to let Chiefs win, but don’t try too hard.”

And that difference is…?????

Where are these examples of NFL refs being bent? And just because they can affect a game, doesn’t mean they are, or have. Intentionally. These are the same accusations as there were in the 1970s and it’s never been shown to be true even once. That’s a lot of people to keep quiet. The rest is just whatever scenario you have made up in your mind with little to no knowledge of how the NFL works. What tech was needed? How many games have you called or even played in? You have a theory. That’s adorable. But it’s nowhere close to factual or even true. I’m just glad they made your wife happy?

If there is any sort of action/discussion taken to influence an outcome it’s cheating. You can’t do one without the other being true.

Same question. How does someone influence without rigging? What kind of risk is involved to the entire sport to “influence” a game so they can get your wife to watch? When has the NFL had a cheating ref. This isn’t the NBA. And he was in business for himself not the league.

I did. You claim there is a difference between them. I asked for one example of how a head ref can “influence” a game while not rigging it? How do you cheat just a little. Surely you have numerous examples to choose from.

So what would be an example of influencing and rigging? Where is that line?

Influencing is rigging. Doing something intentionally, for a certain outcome, is rigging. I guess Mahomes wasn’t “face” enough last year when they let a 2nd year QB take his place. Were they “viewers” absent then?

So because your wife heard of Kelce, from you, that proves the NFL is rigged? And is she listening to his podcast or watching the game? Is the NFL rigging games for podcast clicks? What storyline is going to make a person who isn’t watching the game as of today, suddenly want to watch? And why not last year if it is this year? Fans have complained about the “fix” for my entire life. Yet not one shred of proof in my 52 years. I’m sure every person ever involved in this rigging has kept silent.

Then those people weren’t watching no matter who plays? Where are they going to hear these storylines? Anyone who watches ESPN, NFL Network or searches for NFL info is a fan that is watching anyhow. But this league that is completely based on every team having the same resources, is rigging games for a couple extra viewers during one game. And why didn’t they put KC in last year? Easily a bigger draw than an unknown Bengals team.

What casual fan even knows Reid’s background? Or even who Jason Kelee is? Why would they care? Casual fans watch for commercials and halftime. Not which teams are there. But it makes sense to rig a game, only in a certain year, for people who don’t care anyhow. OK…

No one who wasn’t already going to watch the SB cares about Reid/Eagles or a brother’s podcast. That’s weak at best. What extra money is created by KC being there this year as opposed to last year? Where is this magic influx of new fans that are created from this scenario?

What story line? Why didn’t they take out the Bengals last year when they were a plucky underdog? Wouldn’t Mahomes against Rams been more attractive then? The machine? Eyeballs? LOL

What’s their preference? KC and CIN are very similar markets. Both had elite QBs. Both were in SB recently. In a league set up for every team to finish around .500, what’s the preference?

Yep. The NFL should hire all new “replacement” refs and fire all the current ones. It worked so well the last time they tried that.

Hard to say with any certainty, given his situation. I thought highly of him, and the Colts, until they blew their playoff shot last year against a JAX that was going through motions. That was a complete disaster that he has to take some part of the blame. Other than that I think he could do a good job given the chance. Much better than the alternatives that were discussed.

Two of them helps. If they are good they will be hired away anyhow. Since the NFL implemented its diverse rewards policy in 2020, the San Francisco 49ers have been front-runners. The Niners were awarded five compensation draft picks in the third round for developing Martin Mayhew, Robert Saleh and Mike McDaniel. They’ll receive two more for Ran Carthon and another if DeMeco Ryans becomes a head coach this offseason. Five other teams have been awarded a total of 10 compensation picks for the rest of the league combined.

The first 3 years were, and still are, some of the best TV ever produced.

A coach has to be with an organization for two years before any comp picks are awarded for being hired by another team.

What about that round table where they decided to give Sam his 5th year option? Was Rhule even there? It was confirmed that Bridgewater was a Hurney issue by reliable sources but we have seen that was never true. What does the cap guru do? Why were either hired? Let’s make this easy. Please list all the moves that Fitt was responsible for since he got here. Or is the organization rolling with a GM with no experience running a team beyond an interim basis?

What was Fitt doing? Hiding in the closet, peeking through the door at Rhule handling his business. Who gave him the 19M so they could “treat him like a rookie”?