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A serious mid-week question: If you were forced to pick who'll win straight-up for this week's game, who's your choice? Carolina or Atlanta? Pros for Carolina: finally, a home game. Carrying over some of the excitement from last week's last 5 minutes. Division rival, chip on our shoulder to prove we can win, etc. Cons: some key injuries, XL. And, well.... (waves hands around) all that other stuff Pros for Atlanta: uh, they won last week? (reason for the question: weekly office football pool has the matchup on the sheet and I'm debating which to go with)

Bills: had a bunch of horrible years Packers: were really really bad in the mid 80s Lions: historically bad, like, forever. Look at them now Dolphins: only team to go 16-0. This week? Bottom of the barrel New England: 132 years of wins under Bill+Tom. Since then, horrible Tampa: laughing stock until their uniform/stadium redesign point is that winning can be cyclical. We all wants wins NOW but we may have to wait for all the pieces to fall into place

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6602281/2025/09/11/nfl-backup-qb-inside-mentorship-jimmy-garoppolo/ Life as a backup NFL QB is a mental and emotional whirlwind by our old Panthers friend Jourdan Rodrigue. It doesn't mention Dalton, but it gives a better idea of what Dalton's role has been in working with Bryce and what the QB like is like week-by-week. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6584516/2025/09/02/nfl-first-round-quarterback-busts/ The bust files: How NFL teams break young quarterbacks Peyton Manning goes on to have comments about Bryce:

Apologies if this was posted already But SI has a fairly solid Stud/Dud list They like Bryce and TMac, for example https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/panthers-studs-duds-week-2-loss-cardinals-bryce-young-dave-canales-xavier-legette

Let’s prove them wrong

Read somewhere that Evero was going to be fired, but the reason to keep him was that he did the best he could with bad ingredients. It wasn't justified to fire him if what he had to work with was flawed. That's not the same story this year

The counter to this is there are only 32 Head Coach slots available in general, and a tiny number of those ever becoming available in a given season. Anybody with a career goal of being a HC (or being a HC again) has limited options. Why work for Tepper, even knowing you may get canned if he's unhappy? $5-10m/year guaranteed can ease a lot of pain for some people.

Posted this in 2021. Seems like it's still true today (tl;dr; "it starts with the owner") holding out hope that the appearances of Tepper being hands-off the football operations recently are accurate and that Dan/Dave are doing the best they can - with all the resources they can - to right the ship that they were given

Insane game in Carolina North

Stupid adidas commercial

Not a fan of the redesigned score bug on FOX can see they’re trying to not hide whatever’s behind the graphic, but still

half time was.... nice? (compared to other big national games where we never see the halftime show....)

had zero audio until I turned "surround sound" in the YT settings "off" blech

Making assumptions from your comment as the Twitter link is blocked by corporate overlords, that you're referring to this news? I'm assuming that the sites weren't run only off three laptops and four smartphones, but it'd be funny if that's all it took https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/streameast-shut-down-sports-piracy-site-raided-1236506024/

for Sunday afternoon games, the only option to watch ALL those particular games via a "single service" will be YouTube TV + Sunday Ticket Their multi-view option will utilize both the Sunday Ticket games and local broadcast stations available on YouTube TV Any other combination of Sunday Ticket standalone and your normal broadcast TV provider will require switching things back and forth to view games (update to earlier: somehow forgot Amazon Prime for Thurs games)

You can get it separate. They have annually been offering discounts to "new or returning" subscribers, which means you need to cancel your subscription at the end of each season to qualify. Don't do the auto-renewal.

Sunday Ticket is now offering a monthly subscription if you're not interested in subscribing for the full package Keep in mind that the full package will be less expensive than getting billed monthly for the same timeframe. But for a one-off month situation? Certainly an option to consider they also don't seem to mind if 2 households share the same Sunday Ticket login. If you call and ask for discounts, they kinda allude to "do you have a friend you can share the cost with" in the conversation

Watching ALL the games will require: Antenna or cable access to local broadcast partners to view the games of the local team. Due to blackout restrictions, the local games will not be available on Sunday Ticket. What this means is that you DON'T NEED Sunday Ticket to view those local team's games. All games for a local team will ALWAYS be available on a local broadcast partner, no subscription required I've had success streaming the evening Sunday and Monday national games directly off the NFL/NBC/ABC websites, no subscription required. That said, ESPN may require login via your cable provider account - but it's included in your cable fee, so have fun with that. NBC is available for free via antenna (or avail via cable, take your pick -- and ABC has been simulcasting the ESPN games, so that's also an antenna/free optio. The Peacock and Netflix exclusive games will require subscriptions to those services if the teams are not your local team YouTube will broadcast the Brazil game free NFL Network for those random thursday games that aren't your local team... until the ESPN partnership comes into play, in which case your ESPN subscription should give you access (lots of assumptions with this bullet) Everything else is pretty much Sunday Ticket or go to your local bar I may have missed one, but the general gist is above In short, don't believe the online influences who say you need to purchase a full-year subscription to a service to watch "all" the NFL games (ie full year of Peacock). Because you don't need a full-year sub. So no -- there is not a single service that will let you watch ALL the games Sunday Ticket will only cover you only for the sunday daytime games.

Those seasons, our offensive wasn't as good as it could have been because every play was basically, "give the ball to CMC" While CMC did perform well in that circumstance, he could have been so much better if giving him the ball wasn't 80% of our play calls

Disney Channel for $10/month in 1993? Disney+ (with ads) is $10/month today

don't blame the cable companies for high cable bills blame the networks/channels that are charging the cable company for the privilege of carrying that material. ESPN itself runs about $13/per subscriber AND there's contractual obligation to keep ESPN on the basic tier, regardless of whether the household watches it or not. The cable company ain't making money on the ESPN carriage fee there's a terrific book about the history of ESPN that goes into how they created their carriage fee ... and how cable companies were stuck having to pay it because that's what the customers wanted. Then again, when ESPN started it was just cents per subscriber, so didn't sound as painful as it is today All the carriage disputes that happen (like YouTube TV's upcoming FOX blackout, if the contract isn't signed) are because the cable company is trying not to raise rates for their customers, but the channels are saying "pay up"

Sunday Ticket was never intended for local viewers to watch the local team (local games are blacked out on the service) For out-of-town viewers who want to watch their favorite team? The price is on par (or cheaper) than going to a sports bar to watch their game, with the added bonus of being able to watch other games too it'd definitely be cheaper to offer a per-team subscription, but there are technology restrictions in figuring that specific subscription model out because it's not always the same network feed week after week That YouTube has determined there's interest for a monthly option, that's a step in the right direction that they're actively listening and trying to make things work without disrupting the base model

Could be a good thing IF you're looking for a single month. If you're looking for the full season, buying the full package instead of monthly is the better choice

revolutionary = Head Coach trying out for the Defensive team

The new (released today) FOX ONE app will allow you access to watch your Local FOX Station - similar to how the Paramount Plus app allows you access to watch your local CBS station It'll cost you $20/month for the privilege, but if you're having trouble accessing the over-the-air antenna for FOX, this could be an option to consider the new ESPN app will give you access to ESPN content, but not to the local ABC affiliate. A reminder: if you currently get ESPN via some TV provider (cable, satellite, youtube, etc) then you should be able to use the new ESPN app via your provider login, no additional payment required