On 7/6/2023 at 3:44 PM, eagle45 said:

I like the full 7 game series.  But the playoff field needs to be cut down.  And something needs to be done to more heavily incentivize seeding.  

The NFL is gradually going down this path with a larger playoff field and only one top seed with the bye.  

That will go away as soon as they add the 8th playoff team and then 50% of the teams will make the playoffs.  🤦‍♂️

 

16 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Whoa, 1989 was the last time the Browns had a better record that the Steelers. Pete Rozell was still the commissioner

Wow. 

Nerd fight!!!!

 

 

36 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Nerd fight!!!!

 

 

I think another competition that's coming is called Blue Sky

3 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

The casuals like you that answer shorter seasons I don't care at all about appeasing.

 

7 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Shortening the season yes but best of 5 F no

I mean you agreed with me when it comes to shortening the season.

Come......join me as a casual.

2 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Nerd fight!!!!

 

 

 

The timing of the data scraping, twitter's response and the launch of Threads is actually pretty suspicious / convenient. 

TL;DR

What a coinkydink!

2 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

That will go away as soon as the add the 8th playoff team and then 50% of the teams will make the playoffs.  🤦‍♂️

 

At that point, a stacked team ought to rest their starters for the month of December.

4 hours ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Whoa, 1989 was the last time the Browns had a better record that the Steelers. Pete Rozell was still the commissioner

Technically, that team became the Ravens. So it's a great big "never" for the Browns 2.0.

3 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Nerd fight!!!!

 

 

5 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Nerd fight!!!!

 

 

Giant Dewsh vs Turd Sandwich! 

3 hours ago, brkmsn said:

 

The timing of the data scraping, twitter's response and the launch of Threads is actually pretty suspicious / convenient. 

TL;DR

What a coinkydink!

Twitter was in the news every other day for their decision making. It was begging for someone else to come in and fill the space they’re destroying. 

Tomorrow there will be news.

2 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Tomorrow there will be news.

Re-signing Carson Strong? 

2 hours ago, brkmsn said:

Technically, that team became the Ravens. So it's a great big "never" for the Browns 2.0.

By nfl history, the ravens are the expansion team. Only 96-98 were the browns absent

2 hours ago, WentzFan11 said:

Twitter was in the news every other day for their decision making. It was begging for someone else to come in and fill the space they’re destroying. 

Big surprise about the news. Out of respect for the title of the blog, that's all I say. 

Personally, I'm curious to see what Musk's final product will look like. But as a person that doesn't actually have a twitter account, I definitely don't care for these temporary measures. I've already lost the ability to search twitter without an account. Now I can't even open tweets from people I like to follow (unofficially). 

2 hours ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

By nfl history, the ravens are the expansion team. Only 96-98 were the browns absent

NFL history is perverted then. All the players that were on the 95 Browns that didn't get cut, retire, or leave in free agency were on the 96 Ravens. That team moved to a different city, changed it's name, colors and uniforms, but it was still the same team. It was no different than the Houston Oilers becoming the Tennessee Titans. Their history involved a move and eventually a name change, but everything before that is still that team's history. 

20 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

NFL history is perverted then. All the players that were on the 95 Browns that didn't get cut, retire, or leave in free agency were on the 96 Ravens. That team moved to a different city, changed it's name, colors and uniforms, but it was still the same team. It was no different than the Houston Oilers becoming the Tennessee Titans. Their history involved a move and eventually a name change, but everything before that is still that team's history. 

You might think that but the league says otherwise. Jim Brown never played for the Baltimore Ravens, and their history does not include him. 

6 hours ago, brkmsn said:

NFL history is perverted then. All the players that were on the 95 Browns that didn't get cut, retire, or leave in free agency were on the 96 Ravens. That team moved to a different city, changed it's name, colors and uniforms, but it was still the same team. It was no different than the Houston Oilers becoming the Tennessee Titans. Their history involved a move and eventually a name change, but everything before that is still that team's history. 

The Titans, justifying the use of throwback Oilers jerseys, point out that they played in Tennessee as the Oilers.  Of course, that was one season in Memphis and one at Vanderbilt.  They became the Titans when they moved to their newly built stadium.  At least, Modell left the name when he moved.  Nothing more nonsensical that the LA Lakers except possibly the Utah Jazz but the Tennessee Oilers comes close. 

Even if you stay in the same city and choose to rename/rebrand the franchise, you've lost that history as far as I'm concerned.  

The baseball team in Cleveland is the Cardigans now (Guardians; I thought they were saying Cardigans at first).  When Washington became the WFT, then Commanders -- they've given up the rights to brag about past Super Bowls.  Those franchises are defunct.  You've started anew, from scratch.

 

9 hours ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

You might think that but the league says otherwise. Jim Brown never played for the Baltimore Ravens, and their history does not include him. 

It's a convoluted situation. One team went from year A  to the next season with the same owner, same roster, same FO (minus the usual turnover), was responsible for all the personnel under contract, and carried on business like usual. The other appeared a couple years later with the old name, colors, and city, but was clearly an expansion team and as such was given an expansion draft (where they picked players from other teams) and given the 1st pick in the draft and all that. 

As a condition of the Browns move to Baltimore, the city would retain "the history." But basically they're telling all the fans to make believe that this is somehow the same Browns team as before. It is not. Only the name, colors, and city are the same. The owner, FO, and personnel are all different. 

If you were a diehard Browns fan at the time all this happened, which team is really your team? The NFL and the city of Cleveland did everything they can to sell a false perception to the old Browns fan base. History is not something you can just pretend never happened or award to someone else. It happened or it didn't . The new Cleveland Browns never won anything regardless of how the NFL and Cleveland try to spin things. It was all about selling a product to a specific market. It was all based on  pretense.

51 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Even if you stay in the same city and choose to rename/rebrand the franchise, you've lost that history as far as I'm concerned.  

The baseball team in Cleveland is the Cardigans now (Guardians; I thought they were saying Cardigans at first).  When Washington became the WFT, then Commanders -- they've given up the rights to brag about past Super Bowls.  Those franchises are defunct.  You've started anew, from scratch.

 

Washington was pressured to rename. It wasn't something they even wanted to entertain and they fought that for years. 

 

 

Tampa Bay is unveiling their creamsicle and orange throwbacks on 7/12. I'm more inclined to think tomorrow could be the day for the Eagles Kelly Green. 90th anniversary makes sense and don't you think they'd love to surprise the NFL and take some of the thunder away from TB.

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

Tampa Bay is unveiling their creamsicle and orange throwbacks on 7/12. I'm more inclined to think tomorrow could be the day for the Eagles Kelly Green. 90th anniversary makes sense and don't you think they'd love to surprise the NFL and take some of the thunder away from TB.

I'd be surprised. It would almost be a news dump to do it on a Saturday in the summer. 

I'd bet they give it at least a days notice teaser before unveiling to get people excited to maximize $$$.