2025 Week 4

I hate new kickoff rules. I swear now days teams can receive the ball, make 1 or 2 chunk plays, and be in field goal range with modern kickers and their unlimited range
 
I have to say, I also don't like the new overtime rules. Sudden death was the best. I never understood the complaints about the losing team's offense not getting a chance to score. Football is not a procedural board game where offense is a separate team that takes precedence. A team's offense and defense are different units but part of the same team. If your defense can't get a stop, your team doesn't deserve to win. Period.
 
I went to bed at halftime thinking it was gonna go to the under but woke up to check that the Maddenesqe NFL ended in a 40-40 tie. Of course between the loathsome commercial breaks and CF's BQBDS I had had enough of it all. If we ever get over the hump of actually being for ourselves I think we will do ok, till then the echo chamber of "niggerkikingspiccing" shall continue. Man I miss FUBO where I could FF thru the commercials, and the back in the day useless kickoffs. I do not recommend YouTube TV but we have to have it since all the NASCAR races are on it versus the other providers that don't.
 
footballenthusiast said:
I have to say, I also don't like the new overtime rules. Sudden death was the best. I never understood the complaints about the losing team's offense not getting a chance to score. Football is not a procedural board game where offense is a separate team that takes precedence. A team's offense and defense are different units but part of the same team. If your defense can't get a stop, your team doesn't deserve to win. Period.
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For me, there are a couple of issues with using sudden death - first, the modern NFL's rules heavily favoring the offense makes it unbalanced rather than having offense and defense be equally important units. And second, the use of a coin toss - I just don't like the result of a game being influenced too much by the flip of a coin.
 
jacque said:
I hate new kickoff rules. I swear now days teams can receive the ball, make 1 or 2 chunk plays, and be in field goal range with modern kickers and their unlimited range
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I agree as well. I miss the days when a team started with the ball on their own 20 and had to drive 50 yards to get a decent shot at a game-winning field goal. It made it feel like it meant something, that a team earned that win. Now, it's too easy and honestly getting a little boring.
 
jacque said:
I hate new kickoff rules. I swear now days teams can receive the ball, make 1 or 2 chunk plays, and be in field goal range with modern kickers and their unlimited range
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I dunno, the only significant change from last year is that the receiving team will get the ball on the 35 rather than the 30 if the kicking team fails to kick the ball into the 0-20 "landing zone". This was done because last year many teams just booted it through the end zone and took the 30 yard line spot. The NFL wanted more returns so this was the change.

A few teams out there have figured the best way to approach it is to knuckleball line-drive kick it into the zone. Nobody can move until the returner touches it anyway so it doesn't help to have hang time. The Chiefs were doing this against the Ravens causing them to have relatively poor field position since this kind of kick is hard to handle and if it reaches the end zone it's spotted at the 20.
 
footballenthusiast said:
I have to say, I also don't like the new overtime rules. Sudden death was the best. I never understood the complaints about the losing team's offense not getting a chance to score. Football is not a procedural board game where offense is a separate team that takes precedence. A team's offense and defense are different units but part of the same team. If your defense can't get a stop, your team doesn't deserve to win. Period.
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Agreed. At least last year if the team getting the ball first scored a TD the game was over. Now it's playoff rules all around. Glad I didn't stay up to watch the end of the NFL HBCU game last night.
 
This is the play mentioned earlier about Adonai Mitchell of the Colts. It's too good to not watch a couple of times!!

 
So far it looks like another encouraging injury report coming out of Week 4. Ricky Pearsall exited with a knee injury, likely the same one he had last week but which didn't prevent him from playing, and linemen Joe Alt and Brian O'Neill both left their games. Other than that I'm not aware yet of anything more serious.
 
Don Wassall said:
So far it looks like another encouraging injury report coming out of Week 4. Ricky Pearsall exited with a knee injury, likely the same one he had last week but which didn't prevent him from playing, and linemen Joe Alt and Brian O'Neill both left their games. Other than that I'm not aware yet of anything more serious.
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And the bozo WR from the Colts cost them the game so once Pierce is back his position as a starter should be even more solidified.
 
Luke McCaffrey has had just six targets over the last two games but he's turned it into a very impressive 5-77-2. And he had just short of 200 return yards yesterday.

Jayden Daniels will likely return for Week Five, someone needs to tell him to start throwing Luke's way just as Mariota did to a modest degree. But when McLaurin returns from injury Luke will probably go right back to irrelevance. Like a lot of White players he needs a change of scenery but is stuck where he is for now.
 
Leonardfan said:
And the bozo WR from the Colts cost them the game so once Pierce is back his position as a starter should be even more solidified.
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I'll be surprised if Danny Dimes doesn't start throwing to him even more when he returns. Would love to see Pierce have a thousand yard season and then cash in with either a big contract from Indy or another team. He's been underused his entire career but now he has a pro caliber QB throwing to him.
 
Don Wassall said:
I'll be surprised if Danny Dimes doesn't start throwing to him even more when he returns. Would love to see Pierce have a thousand yard season and then cash in with either a big contract from Indy or another team. He's been underused his entire career but now he has a pro caliber QB throwing to him.
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Agreed. Colts offense with Warren and Pierce is a lot of fun to watch.
 
Good to see the NFL took my advice. Since they are ending racism with their majestic end zone statements, then why not “intercept cancer” on the sidelines. Great job, NFL, you’ve done so much for humanity.
 
icsept said:
Good to see the NFL took my advice. Since they are ending racism with their majestic end zone statements, then why not “intercept cancer” on the sidelines. Great job, NFL, you’ve done so much for humanity.
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The NFL singlehandedly ended racism and cured cancer. Everyone clap! *farts*
 
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