And it’s time to start this new thread as it is also for this breaking news via the reputable and well-connected Jay Glazer of Fox Sports today, which in many regards is not really news, but hey, here we are now:
Hopefully they don’t sign Jordan Love in 14 years. Favre didn’t work out for them either.
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So long as the Eagles can find a way to resign Baun and Becton, that is all I care about. , I do not care about Rodgers…
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NFL game scheduling for TV is changing for the 2025 season, and as I am paywalled as might be you, here’s also the free copy.
Of course whatever happens to the feed on US TV carries over to your options in Canada.
- The league is entering the third season of 11-year, $110 billion media-rights deals that didn’t include traditional requirements for CBS and Fox airing a certain number of AFC and NFC games, respectively.
In the last part of the article are more tea leaves for what we already know - more games as streaming exclusives, including Netflix and of course what we already have via Amazon on Thursday nights.
Oh well, I am not fan of streaming-only options, but at least we can hope they don’t regress to the trash that is Peacock or ESPN+, which the NFL did move away from in 2024 after a game in week one on Peacock aired from Brazil, so as to throw for the road I figure to those bojacks at Comcast and their homers here in Philadelphia, where they still operate the regional sports network NBC Sports Network that has always sucked even when people did pay for cable.
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Yes! Open the off season with an Aaron Rogers post…AR, the soon to be Player Head Coach of the raiders…
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From the bottom paragraph in this excerpt from the article, I would infer that a ton of money was wagered on the Chiefs and was lost.
There’s a reason those buildings in Las Vegas are so big and bright and full of money: the sportsbooks win and they win a lot. So when you hear that a Super Bowl generated record-setting revenue for the state of Nevada, you should take notice.
And Super Bowl LIX apparently did just that. According to David Purdham of ESPN, Nevada sportsbooks hauled in a state-record $22.1 million during the Eagles 40-22 beatdown of the Chiefs.
That total beat out the previous best sportsbook win of $19.7 million when the Seahawks beat the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII. Those two games being the top drivers of revenue isn’t a coincidence: in both cases you had a high-flying offensive team largely stifled and blown out by an elite defensive team in a game that only saw a handful of offensive touchdowns relative to the high score.
What makes this even more shocking is the handle (aka the amount wagered on the game) was actually way down from last year, with “only” $151.6 million being wagered, compared to the previous year’s Super Bowl which saw $190.0 million wagered on the matchup between the Chiefs and 49ers.
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In my opinion, before training camps open in mid-July, the biggest key dates are as follows:
March 12
New league year: At 4 p.m. ET, the 2025 offseason officially gets underway, meaning any negotiated contracts or trades can be finalized and processed. Any free agent or trade discussions that begin after this point can be finalized immediately.
March 30-April 2
Annual league meeting: NFL owners will gather in Palm Beach, Florida, to discuss proposed rule changes and other league matters.
This means we can spend much of March bantering about free agents and trades and proposed rule changes.
April 24-26
2025 NFL Draft: Teams will select college prospects in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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It’s official! The only question is which team he will plague next.
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A great article on where Myles Garrett might land next season:
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All eyes on Minnesota a la Brett Farvreve.
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He is going to look great in Eagle Green as the rich get richer.
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The author thinks it’s going to be Washington. We’ll see.
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more on Tucker 
Seven more massage therapists have accused Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker of sexually inappropriate conduct, the Baltimore Banner reported Sunday.
The news website says a total of 16 massage therapists from eight Baltimore-area spas have now shared accounts with the Banner. All said Tucker’s actions occurred between 2012 and 2016.
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Oh well, it was only a matter of time whenever we hear such reports on a player, for where there is smoke, there is fire, and well, Tucker looks to be on a sordid Deshaun Watson ambition tour here, with no doubt more victims to surface with reports from over his long career.
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My question is why not? Jameson Williams has been a problem child since Day 1, already having gambling and PED related suspensions under his belt.
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A bizarre but interesting story about the Atlanta Falcons “birdlady”, whom I had never heard of until now.
She is a world class grifter and fraud artist of Trumpian proportions and was recently arrested in her Atlanta Falcons seat after conning one too many people I suppose.
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Another huge rise in NFL salary cap.
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Matthew Stafford will be on the move and is >>>>> than that damn Aaron Rodgers too.
How about, instead of the in-fighting currently at hand, the Steelers just ditch them both?
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This is common off-season filler, but this article includes great detail and I think is on the whole on the mark.
The suspects include unsurprisingly the Chiefs, Cowboys, and Eagles.
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For anybody out there today with about $900 million sitting around or tucked away in a tax haven and/or that they can raise from investors or creditors - more private equity is coming to the NFL:
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