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If Payton was stll with the Saints, this would bother me a lot more. Since he is not, all I can say if we get the right qb/player combination, we should be ok.

The beatings, I mean cuts, will continue until morale improves.

Lots of comments about OSU qb lack of success. But given the Bears luck or lack thereof with qb's, they will trade Fields, pick Young, and then Fields will become a star while Young will be a bust.

There are several hundred college football teams. How could anyone possibly know that?

I think Sam Darnold has a solid NFL career ahead of him. As a backup QB.

How much of Payton's "system" was because he designed his offense around what Drew Brees could do? And does he have the ability to adjust his "system" to another qb. Fwiw, Payton made Teddy Bridgewater and Jameis Winston look better, albeit it short stints. Can he do the same with Wilson? I guess we will find out.

Well, at least one NFL owner hired a high school coach.

Compared to Saturday, Rhule was over qualified.

If memory serves, Carroll actually spent some time as New England's head coach before Bill B took over.

Yeah, the list of college coaches who made a successful transition is very low. In the modern day, its essentially Jimmy Johnson. I suppose you could argue that Barry Switzer did, but he essentially took over a team that was already built.

I was wondering this morning how many of the people making the NFL is rigged claims, bet on the Bengals. That might explain some of the obsession with the result.

They could easily have whistled the Cowgals to the NFC championship game, but they didn't.

They make the same amount of money regardless of who goes. So there is literally no reason for them to rig it.

If we win, its only because Tepper paid the refs. If we lose, its only because he didn't. The players, coaches, etc... are completely irrelevant. lol

Greedy does not equal rigged. Can you prove that getting the Chiefs in the SB over the Bengals would somehow get them more money?

I would say 99.9%. That call was correct or at least consistent with how those plays are normally called. The grounding call was correct. Most of the calls were correct. One can argue that more penalties should have been called against the Chiefs, but that is an argument that could be made in a lot of games.

The NFL is rigged, space aliens are real and being kept in a tank in rosell Roswell, the moon landings were fake, and Elvis is still alive.

Uh, ok. They can live without Mahomes, Burrow, Hurts, Brady etc... They make money hand over fist regardless. But a cowboys eagles NFC championship game followed by a steelers cowgals SB would be a ratings bonanza. That is what they would want if they were going to rig things.

Agreed. I will say that the possibility exist that a ref could be influenced by gamblers. It has happened in the past, and could happen in the future. Maybe even two could be influenced. But this was just another game with some questionable calls. Nothing else to it.

If the NFL was rigged, Steelers and Cowboys wouldn't have the Super Bowl drought that they do. They are the two most popular franchises and would get the highest ratings.

You are talking to a guy who thinks that Duke and UNC get all the calls. But in the end ref's are human. They make mistakes, and I do think on occasion that they get influenced by the crowd, or other factors. And in the case you are referring to, they screwed up. They admitted they screwed up. They are probably going to get ripped by the NFL for it. But to suspect that there is some ulterior or on the take over that call or the others is baseless.

You guys are amusing with this tinfoil hat crap. I look over it when we are playing, figure its just fans taking things hard. But when its two random teams? Wow. NFL doesn't give a crap who wins. They make a boat load of money off of either team. The ref's didn't cheat the Bengals. They didn't score when they had the chance. Most of the penalty calls were legit, but there were a few that were questionable. Always are.

Both feet out of bounds, better not touch the runner. Well, all up to Butker now. Makes it. KC wins.

I don't really care who wins, but at least its a close and entertaining game.