Jet fans will sue, then someone will remind them they weren't tanking, they just sucked
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
i personally don't see why match-fixing is illegal -- joke's on you if you're betting on games, honestly -- but yeah the rest of the world disagrees. particularly when the leagues now have such close relationships with gambling apps
― mookieproof, Wednesday, February 2, 2022 2:47 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
well yeah, you kinda answered your own question there. if a team is deliberately trying to lose it's not just a rogue decision from the coach, and if several people know then in the gambler's mind that means HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE KNEW and deliberately FUCKED YOU OVER, which is just bad PR for sports betting all around
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
The fun thing about this is that it’s coming right as a No. 1 overall pick took a 2-14 team to the Super Bowl in 2 years so you could easily argue the Browns were actually right to do what they did
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
i need these tanking teams to drop little bread crumbs for Week 1 games from now on so I can clean up and retire
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
i gotta say it is weird that nashville got to the superbowl in their first year actually in the city, teeing up years of .500 futility and a lot of early exits in the playoffs and somehow also a rabid tennessee fanbase that wasn't that into the game until they came thiiiiiiiiis close to a championshipprobably just a coincidence
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 February 2022 01:57 (two years ago) link
Posnanski has an article up about this and he mentions something I had totally forgotten about - when Hue Jackson got fired, he was notably pissed about it, which drew a lot of mockery because he only won 3 of his 40 games...but looking back it makes total sense, cuz the implicit agreement must've been that they were gonna actually start trying in Year 3
also makes the point that Hue was probably not literally paid $100k per loss, but rather that there was some clauses in his contract that rewarded him for doing dumb shit like starting Kizer every game
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
lol
Doug Pederson will need 3 wins to move into 5th place on the Jaguars all-time wins list, replacing current 5th place HC Urban Meyer.— Benjamin Allbright (@AllbrightNFL) February 4, 2022
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 February 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
due to the nature of football as a sport the NFL hasn't had a major tanking problem but if they really want to eradicate the incentive to tank they're going to need to implement a lottery and some of the stuff the NBA has instituted. in the year that flores was allegedly offered money to tank, the dolphins would have been able to draft joe burrow had they actually tanked. burrow will end up being worth billions of dollars to the bengals if he plays a full career, and i think any dolphins fans would say it would've been worth all the losses, flores suing the team, the owner being thrown out of the league etc to have him. of course flores would probably still have his job if they had tanked for burrow. the browns main problem was not paying their coach to tank but tanking in a year where no elite QB was available (the year they took myles garrett) and then tanking for baker mayfield
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 February 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
NFL to eye diversity efforts in wake of Flores suit
well that's sorted
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 February 2022 04:50 (two years ago) link
Kyler Murray just threw a pick six in the Pro Bowl
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
and now Kirk threw one
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
well ok not a pick six, but a pick
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
Lol now Russell Wilson did too.
This is execrable but I'm bored
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
“Herbert. Throws. It is caught. Second touchdown of the day for Andrews.”
I’ve never watched the Pro Bowl before. It really is as bad as everyone says.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 6 February 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
Yeah it doesn’t work at all for the same reason there’s not really a such thing as “pick up football” the way there is basketball and baseball (if you have enough people)
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 February 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
a. will the texans demand that lovie smith put josh mccown on his staffb. how long before the latter replaces the former, because jesus
i mean i guess it's cool that lovie's getting paid
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 06:35 (two years ago) link