Football season is here!!!

[KarateKen]

17 hours ago, sensei8 said:

Here’s a statement from the Raiders…

“The Baltimore Ravens have backed out of our trade agreement for Maxx Crosby. We will have no further comment at this time.”

Ouch!!

 

**Update just in: Ravens backed out of Maxx Crosby trade due to medical concerns from his physical!!

Double Ouch!!

 

 

Now the Ravens have signed Trey Hendrickson just after backing out of the Crosby deal.  Many people questioning the timing on that, saying it's possible that the Ravens learned they could get Hendrickson so used the physical as an excuse to back out of the trade.  This way they get a star pash rusher without giving up the draft choices.  You know how these online theories quickly pick up steam. 

Crosby recently had knee surgery, so maybe that was connected to the medical concerns the Ravens were having.

[bushido_man96]

On 3/6/2026 at 10:46 PM, sensei8 said:

Now, if my Cowboys would follow suit by getting rid of Dak Prescott, my life would be sweeter.

Who you going to get?

The Ravens backing out of the Crosby deal is kind of crazy.  Then they turned around and signed Hendrickson, and keeping their first round draft picks along the way.  It will be interesting to see what this does for Crosby's market now.

Pacheco signed with the Lions.  It will be interesting to see how that works out.  It could be that KC underutilized him.  Chiefs also lost LB Chenal to the Commanders.

Edited yesterday at 11:40 PM by bushido_man96

[KarateKen]

The NFL is now considering adding a game on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving.  The change could be as early as this upcoming season.  

Hard pass. 

This is a bad idea for a few reasons.  One is that the elements of scheduling it with short rest, and how that will work, since college football is still playing that Saturday.  Are two teams going to play on Sunday then on Wednesday night? Or is there going to be a bye week before, and two of the teams coming off the bye will play? Or one team off a bye and the other off the Thursday game the week before?  Where is player safety in all this? The NFL always talks about player safety but then they add games and shorten weeks. As usual, it is money before everything in the NFL.  

Even if all those questions had good answers, I still hope the answer is no.  It's too much.  We don't need an NFL game Wednesday night, three on Thanksgiving, then another game on black Friday, all in the middle of the week between full NFL days on Sunday's and the MNF game.  

The NFL continues to spread out the games over more dates and more different services.  Network TV, cable TV, and multiple streaming services.  It's simply getting too oversaturated for my liking, and too expensive.  It is likely that if the Thanksgiving Eve game were to happen, it will be on a streaming service.  Sometime in the next couple years the NFL will announce an 18-game regular season, with more games going overseas. The league has scheduled nine international games for 2026, with that number expected to grow in coming years.  When the NFL announces, they are going to an 18-game regular season, and they will, it is possible there will be a push for a 20-game regular season, possibly eliminating the preseason all together.  Why? Because the ratings and ticket prices for the regular season are much higher than preseason games. The quality of the product will go down while the revenue of the league goes up, which, in the end, is all the NFL really cares about. 

[sensei8]

19 hours ago, bushido_man96 said:

On 3/6/2026 at 8:46 PM, sensei8 said:

Now, if my Cowboys would follow suit by getting rid of Dak Prescott, my life would be sweeter.

Who you going to get?

 

I’ve no idea who to get to replace Dak but there has to be some QB somewhere that can be better than the choke artist Dak.

[sensei8]

14 hours ago, KarateKen said:

When the NFL announces, they are going to an 18-game regular season, and they will, it is possible there will be a push for a 20-game regular season, possibly eliminating the preseason all together.  Why? Because the ratings and ticket prices for the regular season are much higher than preseason games. The quality of the product will go down while the revenue of the league goes up, which, in the end, is all the NFL really cares about. 

Of course the NFL wants their revenue to grow because after all, the NFL is a business, and a business wants to make money; that’s why any business is around…to make money.

18 regular season games, and the NFL is wanting to push for a 20 game season?!? Money over the wellbeing of the players. Once again, practicality no longer exists whenever money is involved.