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NFL 2013 Week 8 |OT| - Hail To The Chiefs

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FrenchMovieTheme

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Bowser said:
Can't believe Ginn let a sure 73yd TD go right through his hands...smh...
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that's the teddy ginn i came to know. great punt returner and if he had hands he would be an incredibly dangerous receiver. i don't think he would be one of the top WR's even if he had hands because his route running is poor and he is easily misdirected but there aren't many WR's in the league that are as fast as him
 
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RBH

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This is what attendance looked like in Tampa 20 minutes before kickoff.
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grandjedi6

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The NFL should force the Jags and Bucs to play a best of 3 series to decide who gets to stay and who gets moved to London.

And then move the other to LA
 
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Bowser

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Don't like that we let the Bucs hang around. Ginn dropped the killshot and things seemed to grind from there. Keek uncharacteristically missing tackles and the front four isn't getting as much pressure as I thought they would. Hope Cam and the offense can come out with another long drive to start the 3rd.
 
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RBH

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NFL officials say they still have not decided whether to make a new package of Thursday night games available to a cable channel in the next few years. And network execs say they still have not seen any plans --­ either formal or informal --­ about such a package. But sources with the networks and league believe there eventually will be a package of at least eight games starting with either the '15 or '16 season. Such a package could bring in as much as $700M per year, sources say.

Starting next season, NBC will pay an average $950M per year through '22 for its primetime package, and ESPN will pay an average of $1.9B for "MNF" through '21. While there has been no agreement on what that package will look like, the most popular idea so far appears to be adding three games to NFL Network's schedule to give it 16 games, then splitting that package. The NFL would keep eight games on NFL Network and shop the other eight games to interested networks, which include Turner Sports, NBCSN, FS1 and others. The possibility exists for some of the late-season games to be on Saturdays, sources said. A new package could also include a valuable Wild Card playoff game, sources said. Earlier this month, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said adding two teams to the postseason is a priority for the league's competition committee. Any playoff expansion would come in '15. Previously, it was believed that any new TV package would only be created if the NFL expanded its schedule to 18 games. But sources said the NFL will be able to create a new package without expanding the season. By contract, the league could take games from its Sunday afternoon broadcast partners, CBS and Fox, to fill out the schedule.

NFL NETWORK WOULD KEEP SOME GAMES: Even if it shops a new package of games, the league is certain to keep live games on NFL Network. This year, the league has put an all-time high 14 games on the net, including the late Sunday night Chargers-Raiders game on Oct. 6 that had to have its game time switched because of a conflict with the MLB playoffs. Starting last season, NFL Network committed to carry 13 games per year; prior to that, it carried 8 games. Distributors pay the league a license fee of more than $1.30 per subscriber per month for NFL Network, according to SNL Kagan. Without live NFL games, the license fee would drop significantly, sources said. "I don't envision a scenario where there won't be games on NFL Network," NFL Network President Steve Bornstein said. "What we do with Thursday is really being discussed and considered right now." Bornstein was open about the league's desire to build up its Thursday night programming, though he reiterated that the league has not made firm decisions on how it would do that. He flatly denied reports that the NFL was looking into putting two games on Thursday nights, saying there was "no truth" to it. "We're trying to make Thursday a very strong NFL night, similar to what we've done on Sunday and for over 40 years on Monday," he said. "We're discussing it today. We haven't come up with any conclusions of what to do. We're considering different alternatives to make the night much more of an NFL night."

FUTURE OF SUNDAY TICKET UNKNOWN: The more pressing concern for Bornstein, who is leaving the NFL following the Super Bowl, is the Sunday Ticket out-of-market package. The NFL and DirecTV currently are negotiating to renew that deal, which expires after next season, and Bornstein said talks "are going well." "The timing of all this stuff is not anything I want to comment on because I honestly don't know," he said. NFL officials have spoken with alternate platforms, like Google, about the out-of-market package. But Bornstein dismissed the idea of a company like Google competing for existing rights. "To me, 'compete' is not the word; it's 'complement,'" he said. "We believe that the network package, along with the two cable packages that we have currently, along with what we do with our out-of-market package and how we¹ve developed the RedZone, is all complementary to the experience and rises all boats."
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http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2013/10/24/Media/NFL-Thursday.aspx





FUCK NO @ the idea of adding teams to the playoffs.
 
manfestival

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Zee-Row said:
It would be full if the team was winning , Florida isn't like sucker Northern States where people will waste their money on bad teams in the name of loyalty and because they have nothing better to do.
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my poor friend chad... hes a browns fan and goes to every game
 
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Syrinx

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Zee-Row said:
It would be full if the team was winning , Florida isn't like sucker Northern States where people will waste their money on bad teams in the name of loyalty and because they have nothing better to do.
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Citi Field can get fairly empty.

I know. :(
 
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Pimpwerx

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Phins attendance is never that bad. Maybe during the first preseason game, but if nothing else, we'll put opposing fans in the seats. LOL! PEACE.
 
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Zee-Row

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Pimpwerx said:
Phins attendance is never that bad. Maybe during the first preseason game, but if nothing else, we'll put opposing fans in the seats. LOL! PEACE.
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The Dolphins do the same trick that the Bucs do where the owners buy the unsold tickets to avoid the blackout. Florida NFL football is just a debacle right now, nobody in the state should be happy.
 
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Avon Barksdale

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Zee-Row said:
The Dolphins do the same trick that the Bucs do where the owners buy the unsold tickets to avoid the blackout. Florida NFL football is just a debacle right now, nobody in the state should be happy.
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The Dolphins have struggled with attendance for a long time. Even during the Marino years.
 
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Syrinx

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Zee-Row said:
I just reflect on 2007 and think to myself that we let Gruden go for going 9-7. The standards were so high back then.
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That was '08, and to be fairl, that was after they lost the final four games of the season. But yeah, in retrospect, that was probably a bad move. At the very least they should have fired him earlier than they did so that they could have hired somebody instead of relying on Raheem Morris, who just wasn't ready.
 
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Zee-Row

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You know whose fault it is for the Bucs getting to this point? Lane fucking Kiffin , if it weren't for him taking his dad away from the Bucs to coach his shitty College teams they probably never would of gotten to this point.
 
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h1nch

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Zee-Row said:
I just reflect on 2007 and think to myself that we let Gruden go for going 9-7. The standards were so high back then.
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What's crazy is that Raheem was a head coach candidate for the Broncos before the Bucs fired Gruden.

Not that McDaniels was much better, but I still would have rather had him than Raheem the Dream.
 
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Zee-Row

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Syrinx said:
That was '08, and to be fairl, that was after they lost the final four games of the season. But yeah, in retrospect, that was probably a bad move. At the very least they should have fired him earlier than they did so that they could have hired somebody instead of relying on Raheem Morris, who just wasn't ready.
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Hiring Raheem was a knee jerk reaction because the Glazers though they had the next Mike Tomlin and got nervous when Denver was interviewing him. Raheem could be an excellent DC but he just wasn't ready to coach. It didn't help that he and Josh Freeman were drinking buddies at clubs around Tampa during off days.
 
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