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Yup, if independence was easy, Notre Dame wouldn't have halfway joined the ACC.

I think they'll be back eventually. College football goes through cycles and changes, and sometimes it can be slow. But I really feel like we're going to see the Power 5 consolidate down to a Power 2 or 3 -- The Big 12 is really throwing a monkey wrench in my predictions here. I think we'll...

I can only hope to be so lucky. They signed a crap TV deal and Grant of Rights in a bit of desperation. Because they've always been a basketball first conference, they've been slow to move in the football world, and have consistently been behind the other conferences. It also didn't help that...

We are. I just wish the team had a better name. I understand that Redskins is gone and not coming back, but it's taking a long time to get used to Commanders. It just doesn't feel like it fits with the other NFL team names.

I don't know if you've followed this team at all, but they even suck at tanking. They always manage to win just enough games to put them out of range of both the playoffs and good draft picks. As for the QB, it was a lot of bad timing all around. They weren't going to go for a big name like...

Who is the "they" here that will be tanking? It can't be the new owners. They're not in place yet. It's not Snyder. He's just trying to stay out of jail, or at least court. He's checked out of football operations. It's not Rivera. Regardless of the ownership change, he's on the hot seat...

For a three week stretch starting at Thanksgiving, neither the Jets nor Giants have a road game. The Giants have a bye in the middle week, and the other two weeks see the teams played on different days (Jets get a Black Friday game, and the Giants end that stretch on MNF). Not counting the...

It's against a team in the opposite conference, in the division that you don't play in the current, previous, or following year, and based on the finish from the previous season. To continue your AFC West example, their rotation of NFC divisions is East in 2021, West in 2022, North in 2023, and...

Seems like the delay of game issue could be solved by just eliminating the need for the official to turn their head from the ball to the clock back to the ball. Like adding some sort of audible signal to the play clock.

The AFC Championship Game is only in Atlanta this year if it's Chiefs vs. Bills. If it's any other combination of teams, normal rules are in place. So if the NFL was making contingencies for the AFC Championship and the Ravens/Bengals game, why not make any for the Bills/Bengals game this...

I was only referring to the seeding and team selection. I'm actually quite annoyed by NFL scheduling in early January, because they take up all of the good Saturday primetime slots forcing the college national championship to be played on Monday nights. I'd prefer that they put the Saturday...

Depending on how the wild card games go, the winner of the 4/5 game could potentially face any seeded team in the second round. So the only way for this scenario to work would be to put both of the other games from that same conference on Sunday. That gives us a schedule of Conference X...

Even if the seeding was purely based on record, Dallas would have been #4 and still playing in the Monday night game, because they've established that time slot as a 4/5 game. Might want to take a look at the teams and records in the NFC. There's only two teams that missed the playoffs that...

There were only 7 NFC teams with winning records this year. So if you ignore divisions and bump Tampa Bay (with a record of 8-9) out for the actual 7th best team, you're replacing them with the 9-8 Lions.

From the Ravens' point of view: Lamar is potentially high risk, high reward. They had to completely build a specific offensive philosophy around his skill set, so they have to be sure that he's going to be the guy because it's gonna take some effort to pivot to another offensive system. He's...

Not just this situation, but it definitely would have helped with Covid, and there's been plenty of games rescheduled due to weather. If nothing happens during the season, that's great, and all of the teams gets a week off. Hopefully the extra rest can lead to an even better playoff product...

No, it's not clear, and it's a straw man argument. Because baseball is less dangerous, they have more flexibility in scheduling. They can play on consecutive days and double up on some days. But baseball does have a few extra days built into the schedule at the end of the season to allow for...

As someone who is basically a secondary Ravens fan, I'm gonna say the Ravens hosed themselves. They blew a 9 point lead against the Jaguars, played like total crap against the Browns, and then crapped the bed against the Steelers on Sunday night.

I have, and you've never actually answered that question or elaborated on that point, other than saying all 30 other teams are getting hosed, or hinting at your weak "wear and tear" excuse. Because college teams are sure to make up every single cancelled game ever?

Then please elaborate on the larger point. How are teams like the Texans or Bears who have been eliminated from playoff contention for weeks affected by the lack of outcome in this one game? It can't be draft order. The four main teams affected by this - Bills, Bengals, Ravens, and Chiefs -...

Probably from my experiences tracking college football where there's a lot more variables, I'm used to taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture. So I want to see exactly what kind of swings we're dealing with based on what could have happened on Monday night. There were three...

So in your quest to be fair to the other 30 teams, you want to put the extra screws to the two teams that had to endure this trauma. If they go with the option to play the Bills/Bengals game in "week 19", you'll have the two teams go through a very emotionally traumatic experience which...

I feel like you are completely dismissing what football players do during the week between games.

I think it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to have a week off between week 18 and the wildcard round as a buffer for events such as this. It would allow an option for games that have to be cancelled due to weather, covid, or weird stuff like this. But I don't think it's going to happen this...

How do you figure they get an extra bye week? They still spent all last week game planning for last night. If anything, they get less time. Most teams get one of the two days after a game off, and I'm sure these players won't be able to fully relax and mentally recover.

I don't have an issue either, because I know that the NFL had to look at the bigger picture and juggle a lot of plates. But one thing I've noticed a lot over the last few years is that society in general seems to have a problem with looking at the bigger picture. They only see what's...

Only that it took that long.

Freaking officiating, and I think it's only going to be getting worse as the NFL jumps even more on the sports betting train. Talking Commanders vs. Giants here. I still don't know what they flagged to take away the 2 point conversion. (Of course, I'm getting so tired of seeing point chasing...