YoungSteele830

I totally get why they have a bye week in between the conf champ games and Super Bowl. For the purposes of the game itself, I’m all in favor of giving the teams a bye to try to get to full health for the Big Game. Some years a team makes the Super Bowl and hasn’t had a bye since October.

But holy frick, there’s nothing I hate more than these two weeks. So many ridiculous takes, there’s only so much you can say about one game. I feel like all the angles and storylines are exhausted before you even get to the true Super Bowl week. Then there’s the nothing burger that is “Super Bowl opening night” next Monday night (media day.) Radio Row. NBA is meh. College baseball still yet to come. MLB far away. Sometimes I wish it was just one week in between games. Get football behind us quicker and move on to NFL draft season. Only so much you can say about one game. At least there’s still some coaching stuff to sort out I guess

In reality, nobody has a clue how hard or easy ND’s schedule will be. This is just people getting their excuses warmed up because they know ND is usually pretty good and this past year might have been an anomaly. Even if their schedule ends up a lot harder than it looks people will still stand by the “easy schedule” narrative because they simply refuse to give Notre Dame any credit whatsoever.

Notre Dame Derangement Syndrome is real. “Haven’t won anything since 1988” and yet people hate them like they’re the Bama dynasty.

Bad news for the “natty should be on a weekend” crowd. Guarantee a Friday/Saturday night natty would not get this many viewers because casual fans wanna go out on weekends. Everybody at home doing nothing on Monday night = largest possible audience

“With Bo Nix out and Jarrett Stidham at QB, the Bills would be favored over the Broncos by double digits on a neutral field. Also, think of the crazy amount of eyeballs Josh Allen would draw next week. Despite the outcome on the field today we will be substituting the Bills in the Broncos place.”

Please tell me I’m not the only one who thought of that play on that big Broncos pick. Took the ball right out of his hands

First of all - I’m willing to be wrong on this. If this doesn’t happen I can take the heat. But I really think this is what the NFL wants.

Reasoning? Where do I start? Josh Allen “finally” winning the big one much like Peyton did in ‘06. NFL wants Mahomes vs Allen to be the new Brady vs Manning. So they need Allen to win a title to keep the rivalry alive and not have it be so one-sided.

Two starved, crazy, loyal fan bases. This matchup guarantees a long drought will end, just like Cubs vs Indians in 2016. Bills have never won a SB. Bears haven’t in 40 years. Btw it’s the 40-year anniversary of the famous ‘85 Bears, what better year to have the Bears in the Big Game?

Hot young QB. Hot young head coach. Big market. Big fanbase. The Bears are a sleeping giant that the league would love to wake up.

It’s been said over and over how this generation of QBs isn’t as good as the last, well the league needs to elevate new stars to build up the young generation of QBs, and Caleb is the perfect guy to give a big push to, just like Burrow was 4 years ago. Much more exciting, in terms of “a new star is born” than guys like Darnold or Stafford. He has lots of supporters and lots of haters, he’s a great option to take to the next level, he’s provocative, he’ll get the people talking.

Finally, both of these teams are making huge investments in the league with new stadiums, and this Super Bowl will be a “Thank You Gift” to these two franchises. Just like the two Rams Super Bowls in recent years.

The AFC East and NFC North are paired up next year, so the Bears and Bills will play in the regular season, in Buffalo, according to the NFL schedule rotation. If my SB prediction is right this likely means that the Week 1 opening night game next year, on the Thursday after Labor Day, will be a Super Bowl rematch between the Bears and Bills, in the first game in the Bills new stadium.

I absolutely agree with the no committee part, just use the AP poll or something like that, don’t try to manufacture storylines or matchups, just straight seed the teams by their ranking.

Frick the BS weekly rankings shows. They’re just a manufactured TV product. Absolutely no need for them other than to generate more ratings/ad revenue.

I think what most people are missing about Notre Dame’s big gripe this year, the first committee rankings this year, in early November, both ND and Miami had two losses, ND was 10 and Miami, fresh off a loss to unranked SMU, was 18. The AP poll had the exact same thing. Miami then proceeded to jump 8 spots over the next month, while ND fell a spot behind Miami, despite the fact that ND rolled through November playing their best ball of the season, despite the fact that the AP had ND higher on selection day. Notre Dame seemed safely in until there was this big push by ESPN in the final week before selection day for there to be a ND-Miami debate, when for weeks it didn’t seem like there was one. Seemingly the committee’s decision had more to do with ACC politics or caving to pressures from the many ND haters. Or maybe the fact that Miami resides in the ACC, which has an ESPN deal, while Notre Dame is an NBC product.

Countless examples of things like this over the years, the committee making decisions for TV purposes, political purposes, serving ESPN’s agenda, satisfying the conferences, whatever. Anything but just ranking the teams.

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Or spreads if you’re not feeling that aggressive. We just saw how much of a disadvantage the bye teams are at. OSU 9.5 point favorites and yet lost by 10. Vegas isn’t accounting for the rust from a long bye, that’s an edge to exploit.

Also ESPN wants to expand to a 16-team playoff, 4 more playoff games means 4 more big games worth of ad revenue. They will use the poor performance of the bye teams as justification for expanding next year. Look for refs to be crazy biased against Georgia and Indiana

6-6 Penn State, 5-7 Auburn, and 7-5 LSU all fired their coaches this season.

They also are all ranked above James Madison and Tulane in the FPI. And people tried to tell us that Tulane and JMU were among the 12 best teams??

LSU played Ole Miss close. Tulane had TWO shots at Ole Miss - and got blown out in both.