NFL Offseason – 2026 Edition

[TheSportsPredictor]

Joe Thomas' turn:

 

[qtlaw]

Joe Thomas' turn:

Take a guess at who is doing all the labor in his farm; isn’t all citizens.

 

[TigerVols]

When you are a Titans fan you have plenty to complain about, so unis should be at the bottom of the list. Yet complain I will! After following coverage of their OTAs, I’m bummed they have gone 100% back to their Houston Oilers color scheme. I get the need to refresh. I even get owner Amy’s my-bat-my-ball need to return to the good old days of her childhood. But couldn’t you have included some color-coded shout-outs to the past 25 years? Some of that cool navy blue maybe?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

When you are a Titans fan you have plenty to complain about, so unis should be at the bottom of the list. Yet complain I will! After following coverage of their OTAs, I’m bummed they have gone 100% back to their Houston Oilers color scheme. I get the need to refresh. I even get owner Amy’s my-bat-my-ball need to return to the good old days of her childhood. But couldn’t you have included some color-coded shout-outs to the past 25 years? Some of that cool navy blue maybe?

Was kinda wondering about that, too. Well, short of Bum Phillips roaming the sidelines in western gear.

Can anyone picture Robert Saleh trying to do the same?

 

[dixiehack]

If Vrabel could pull it off …

I too am bummed about the full time Oilers cosplay, as well as stripping the flames off the logo. It wasn’t the coolest but it was ours. And I always liked the lighter electric blue and felt it should be the base color. The Oilers are that pale Columbia blue that everyone says they want because retro everything is cool now, but by next season people will be burnt out on it.

At least we get white helmets back.

 

[wicked]

Kinda how I feel about Flying Elvis.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

When you are a Titans fan you have plenty to complain about, so unis should be at the bottom of the list. Yet complain I will! After following coverage of their OTAs, I’m bummed they have gone 100% back to their Houston Oilers color scheme. I get the need to refresh. I even get owner Amy’s my-bat-my-ball need to return to the good old days of her childhood. But couldn’t you have included some color-coded shout-outs to the past 25 years? Some of that cool navy blue maybe?

She only did this because the University of Houston rolled out some baby blue throwbacks last season.

 

[dixiehack]

She only did this because the University of Houston rolled out some baby blue throwbacks last season.

No

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

 

[dixiehack]

Oh yes, they had them. But the Titans had their own plans for the throwbacks in the works for a good long while before UH announced their version. They had also worn Oilers throwbacks (complete with blue helmets!) in the 2009 Hall of Fame Game to celebrate the anniversary of the AFL’s founding.

 

[wicked]

Has Dianna Russini started a Substack/found a new job? Training camp opens in six weeks.

 

[HanSenSE]

Wow. Only 36. No details yet, but way the eff too young.
Aldon Smith, ex-49ers star and franchise's single-season sacks record-holder, dies at age 36

 

[MileHigh]

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Is Sorsby betting on this decision to be overturned?

 

[micropolitan guy]

The Bills did a ribbon-cutting at the new Highmark Stadium today. From videos I've seen, etc., it is going to be spectacular. Quite a step up from the Rockpile and the Ralph.

NFL owners get a raft of grief, much of it justified. But the Wilsons and Pegulas have been great owners of the Bills over the past 66 years.

The franchise is in the smallest market of any privately-owned NFL team (Packers are publicly owned, can't ever be moved). I'm sure they've had numerous overtures thrown at them to move, but they never have.

Al Davis ****ed Oakland fans twice. Modell ****ed the Browns fans, Bud Adams ****ed the Oilers fans, Charger fans got ****ed, so did the Rams fans, first in LA and then in St. Louis, Cardinals fans got ****ed, Colts fans got ****ed, and I'm probably forgetting somebody.

Not totally familiar with their regional geography, but I suspect the moves by the Chiefs and the Bears are going to inconvenience thousands of their fans.

Yes, Pegula probably got a good deal on the new stadium. But he could have gotten a better one in San Antonio or Austin or some other place desperate for NFL football. The Bills stayed put.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Dan Wetzel:

As morality police go, the NFL is compromised, like all sports leagues and media partners that have their own similar business ties to sports betting.

Still, even the league understands the danger in empowering players who get caught betting on their team's own games by offering an easy off-ramp.

If nothing else, the NFL had little interest in being handed this mess or pretending that a 35-day in-patient treatment session and a pinkie swear to never do it again meant everything was cool.

"Your Petition does not ... demonstrate accountability for your conduct or indicate whether, or how, you would adhere to the League's rules and policies governing the integrity of competition," the letter from the NFL reads. "Instead, even after receiving notice of the NCAA's decision rescinding your college eligibility in May, you sought to avoid the consequences of that determination through litigation rather than accepting responsibility for your actions."

Here's hoping instead that the NFL's decision stands, if only for who else might hear it. If betting on your own team isn't a third rail kind of issue, then everyone is in trouble.​

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...emental-draft-brendan-sorsby-gambling-message

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The Bills did a ribbon-cutting at the new Highmark Stadium today. From videos I've seen, etc., it is going to be spectacular. Quite a step up from the Rockpile and the Ralph.

NFL owners get a raft of grief, much of it justified. But the Wilsons and Pegulas have been great owners of the Bills over the past 66 years.

The franchise is in the smallest market of any privately-owned NFL team (Packers are publicly owned, can't ever be moved). I'm sure they've had numerous overtures thrown at them to move, but they never have.

Al Davis ****ed Oakland fans twice. Modell ****ed the Browns fans, Bud Adams ****ed the Oilers fans, Charger fans got ****ed, so did the Rams fans, first in LA and then in St. Louis, Cardinals fans got ****ed, Colts fans got ****ed, and I'm probably forgetting somebody.

Not totally familiar with their regional geography, but I suspect the moves by the Chiefs and the Bears are going to inconvenience thousands of their fans.

Yes, Pegula probably got a good deal on the new stadium. But he could have gotten a better one in San Antonio or Austin or some other place desperate for NFL football. The Bills stayed put.

The Bills aren't that small a market if you include Ontario in their market circle. Lotta Bills fans up there.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

???

 

[PCLoadLetter]

???

Wrong thread. DeWitt owns the St. Louis Cardinals.

 

[wicked]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...jim-kelly-says-recently-had-stroke-feels-good

This guy’s been dealt a bad hand since retiring.