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I'd add the possibility of the Raiders. Literally zero chance the Saints would swap Shough for Bryce and if they would I'd leave Bryce in N.O. on Sunday.

I don't care that they're sitting out the bowl game. Yeah, I'm gonna make fun of them for it but I honestly don't care. What I care about is all the special status treatment they get from everyone from the CFP to the ACC to the media. fug all of that. Just treat them like every other team in the country and if they don't like it then tell them to go fug off. The rest of college football holds way more power combined than ND, it's not even close but they act like ND holds the cards. If the rest of college football told them to fug off and stopped scheduling them it would cause minimal overall drop off to college football as a whole while ND football would die very quickly. What are they gonna do, play community colleges? All the real players are gonna hit the portal and ND would be fielding a team of Rudy's in short order, viewership would fall off because no one wants to watch Rudy's play community colleges, the TV contracts would disappear and ND football would be dead. That's exactly what needs to happen. The rest of college football needs to band together on this one and tell them stop, no more of this bullshit. No more special treatment. The same standards that apply to everyone else apply to you and if you don't like it then you can just stomp off and take your ball and go home... again. Just forever this time.

I love college football and generally enjoy it even more than the NFL but it is undeniably a mess right now with this NIL and transfer portal stuff and the whole ND thing is just beyond absurd. I know NFL fans bitched about the Pats for years and then the Chiefs for years about how they got special treatment but honestly most of that was just about the media and announcers dick riding them and a perceived friendly call here and there. They didn't get to not have to play in a conference, have their own special individual rep to lobby in their behalf when no other team does, nor literally get special clauses just for them to create a different standard for qualifying for the playoffs versus the standard for everyone else. And ND fans really have the nerve to take about a bias against ND? Well, no poo. If you don't hate ND you're not paying any attention.

I'm saying imagine the passing numbers that the Eagles' offense would be putting up with Dak at QB, not directly trying to compare the skill position talent between the two teams. The Eagles are 21st in the league in passing yardage and 30th in passing TDs with damn good skill position talent. The Cowboys are 1st in both. I don't think there's a huge gap in skill position talent between the two rosters but there's a huge gap in passing production and it's due to the QB position. There's a reason those Eagles WRs are starting to bark. They know the QB position is holding them back. It's gonna be a struggle holding that offensive locker room together with the receivers already frustrated and them on a three game skid with Hurts just having a disaster of a game with 5 turnovers including the back breaker.

He's better than half the starters in an offense that tailors to his limited skill set. I mean, I'm gonna be honest here... I honestly think the Eagles would be better off with say a Dak Prescott. They'd be a fuging PROBLEM with a Dak Prescott. Imagine Dak throwing to those receivers leaning on Saquan and that defense. The Eagles' D has definitely tailed off a bit this year compared to recent years but they're still the #7 scoring defense in the league vs. #31 that Dak and company have to try to offset every week.

Yeah, I've always viewed Hurts as a borderline top 10 type of QB. He's not bad but elite? Yeah, GTGOH.

Riding dominant defense and running game. In '22 when they lost the SB they were 5th in rushing yardage and 1st in rushing TDs vs. 9th and 14th in passing yardage and TDs with the #3 defense in yardage and #8 defense in scoring. Last year when they won the SB they were 2nd in the league in both rushing yards and rushing TDs vs. a whopping 29th in passing yardage and 12th in passing TDs with the #1 defense in yardage and #2 defense in scoring. The passing game has been the weak link of the Eagles for the entire Hurts era and when they likely ban the tush push this coming offseason his rushing TDs are gonna fall off a cliff.

What a disaster of a game for Hurts. I mean, just an absolute fuging disaster.

Yep, just felt it coming. OT we go.

This poo show has OT written all over it. Just seems like 60 minutes isn't enough shittiness.

Now ND social media groups are floating the idea of whefher or not they should leave the ACC "current arrangment" due to this grevious offense of the ACC CFP rep actually pushing for ACC football teams to be included in the playoffs. These guys literally expected not only their personal CFP rep while every other team is relying on a general conference rep but they actually expected the conference they refuse to join foe football but use to house their other shitty teams they expected THAT rep to also lobby for them ignoring the teams that actual represent the conference in football. Absolutely unreal. This is how ND chooses to repay the conference that saved their season by letting them play a one off full conference schedule in COVID? I bet the ACC deeply regrets not using their leverage in that moment to tell them they're in or out. No more half stepping. Want a season? You're in. Demand on remaining independent? Fine. You don't have a football season and the rest of your teams can go find a new home. The ACC needs to get ahead of this and throw them out. Problem solved.

A missed FG is an appropriate end to that poo show of a half. LOL

What's the record for turnovers in a half? How many had their been so far tonight? 6?

5 turnovers in 11 plays HAS to be a record.

Holy poo what a turnover fest. LOL

The Eagles better put in Sam Howell.

Throwing an INT and losing a fumble on the same play is a truly amazing accomplishment of asshattery.

Yep, was about to come post this. They keep raising the bar on delusional entitlement. They really expected the ACC to push for them - a non-football conference member - over Miami which is a full conference member? Cmon ACC, man the fug up and just throw them out. Tell them to go get fuged.

Yeah, upsets are a lot easier to come by in basketball. If a team is shooting hot anything can happen. You can't just physically dominate and bully a team as easily with sheer physical dominance like you can in football.

It happens when the best QB in the game's team sucks, another MVP caliber guy in Burrow misses most of the year, last year's ROY misses most of the year, etc. Everything in the game goes in waves. Right now defenses are largely focusing on a bend but don't break approach trying to limit big plays and bowing up in the redzone so offenses are adapting and focusing on trying to get the ball out fast and play small ball because those plays are largely going to be there as long as they can have a credible downfield threat.

I know people hated the BCS system but a lot of that was due to the limitation of only two teams. There are always going to be more than two teams that are capable of winning it all. But there has to be some sort of concrete system in place to rule out fugery. Just like the NFL playoffs. The winner of a bad division might have a worse record than a team missing a wildcard slot but it is what it is. Them's the rules. Nobody changed them and everyone knew what it was going in. It is what it is. There needs to be the same type of system for the college playoffs. But the reality is that ESPN has paid a ton of money and they want the drama. It drives viewership.

I don't know how anyone isn't in the "fug ND" camp. So, now not only do these douchebags have their own personal board member on the 11 CFP board whike everyone else is represented by a conference representative, but now they have a special clause to protect only them? I mean, what in the fug??? It's beyond past time to tell ND to just go fug themselves. Your rep is off the CFP board and you can either join a conference or you can fug off. Your special status is over. We're not doing this poo anymore. If you want to be considered for the playoffs moving forward you can join a conference like everyone else.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. made hundreds of millions off realizing this. He was an exciting boxer in his early days but watching his dad and uncle struggle with the effects of taking thousands of punches to the head he realized he was skilled enough to good guys without putting himself at risk and he'd just wait for other elite guys to lose a step before facing them. The whole WWE-esque "Money" persona was built around the realization that it doesn't matter if they're watching to see you win or watching hoping you'll lose, all that matters is that they're watching. Force them to love you or hate you, just make sure they care enough to tune in. We had a similar situation with Cam. Everyone felt some kinda way about Cam. You couldn't find many NFL fans who were neutral on Cam Newton. It was love or hate but either way it was must see TV.

Bryce ain't it but going after Shedeur as the answer? LOL! Good lord... If he continues to play well he's not gonna be available and if he doesn't then why would we want him anyway?

I can't stand ND and this is basically me watching all this unfold