America's favorite dystopian pastime - 'out of the darkness' NFL 2023-24

rule proposal: “The player kicking a field goal or extra point must be a player who played in the offensive team line-up in one of the preceding plays in the current set of offensive downs.”

Good lord this would absolutely spice the game up real quick. Sign me up!

Also, perhaps the Urban Meyer coaching technique of physically kicking his kicker should be considered by Reid this summer during training camp

The Chargers always do the best ones:

should we REALLY make our schedule release video in the sims?

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hfs that’s a lot

a recipe for disaster, i hope

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40158448/nfl-executive-explains-jets-heavy-early-prime-schedule

The New York Jets landed a record number of prime-time games over the first three months of the 2024 season because the appeal of four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers was too great to ignore, the NFL acknowledged Thursday.

"Yes, it's an awful lot of prime-time games early in the season, but, obviously, I feel like Jets kind of owe us one," Mike North, the NFL's vice president of broadcast planning, said on a video conference with reporters.

The Jets have six night games in the first 11 weeks, the most for any team since the 1970 merger, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The NFL and its TV networks went big on the Jets last season -- five games in prime time -- but it backfired when Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles tear in Week 1.

"When we had this conversation a year ago, we were -- all of us -- all-in on the Jets, and for that guy to last four plays was disheartening for many of us," North said. "I feel like we could run it back, and certainly our broadcast partners, when they came to us early in the process talking about what storylines they want to focus on early in the season, obviously Aaron Rodgers' return was a key one for everybody."

'all-in' on a 7-10 team with a 40yo QB coming off an achilles rupture

much respect to the (patrik) elias sports bureau for knowing that The Jets have six night games in the first 11 weeks, the most for any team since the 1970 merger tho

Bengals (& Harvard)’s Pat McInally who was a WR/P and Danny White Qb//p for the Cowboys were really the last kickers that played on the field much.

Tom Tupa was also a backup Qb but primarily was a punter.

McInally did not play WR much later in his career but did play some early on. White was of course Roger Staubachs backup before replacing him.

Hatcat great Qb Joe Theismsnn returned punts early in his career, which I always thought was kind of novel.

Turn on ESPN radio and they are talking about Aaron Rodgers and the Jets Super Bowl chances. Ha.

https://www.tmz.com/2024/06/14/bill-belichick-dating-24-year-old-ex-cheerleader-jordon-hudson/

According to one of Hudson's former cheerleading teammates, Hudson first met the 72-year-old on a flight from the Boston area bound for Florida way back in 2021 ... and bonded over a philosophy project the student-athlete had been working on.

We're told they swapped contact information after landing, and stayed friendly through the ensuing months ... discussing her school work and the X's and O's of her cheerleading routines.

bill!!