2025 worst year ever in the NFL

Discussion in 'National Football League' started by JetsVilma28, Jan 30, 2026.

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Can it get back to old school football in 2026?

  1. Probably not

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  2. Yes yes

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  1. JetsVilma28

    JetsVilma28 Well-Known Member

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    • Gambling through the roof
    • Rigged games
    • Bad calls
    • More global, less national
    • Money money money
    • Rule changes, loose application of rules
    • Too much Tom Brady
    • Kraft likely part owner of 3 teams (las Vegas, Tampa Bay, New England)
    • Bill belichrjcs granddaughter gf
    • Jets share a stadium with the giants in New Jersey
    • The list goes on and on and on
    The profit lines must be great, but the product was shit. Can it get back to old school football?
     
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  2. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Old school everything is dead. Enjoy the new, it is soulless, unentertaining and driven by anything but sports.
     
  3. Dierking

    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    Lost Nick Mangold
    Mark Sanchez lost his mind
    Just off the top of my head.

    Kraft likely owner of three franchises? Someone hum a few bars of that one for me
     
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    NYGalPal Well-Known Member

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    The 2026 NFL has an Epstein scandal brewing. Let’s see whether the NFL actually addresses the Steve Tisch situation, or if this just becomes another case of a wealthy dirtbag facing zero real consequences.
     
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  5. Hemi

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    Today's average sports fan is a sucker and the leagues know it. You pay a license for a seat, for the right to buy tickets to sit in the seat. Then you pay to park at the venue. One drink and a hot dog will see you back over 20 bucks....and so on. Then you get to watch a shit product in the freezing cold. Like the Jets
     
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  6. Snoopdogg

    Snoopdogg Well-Known Member

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    Almost everything on that list was true every year from 2014 onwards. I guess they all did suck for us Jets fans.

    And why are you allowing Hoodie's cradle snatching to live rent free in your head? The amount of time I spend letting that shit affect my life is less then the time it took me to write this.
     
  7. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    This country belongs to the ultra rich more than it ever has in its existence. Unless he's made to be one of the few scapegoats that feels any heat, I bet nothing happens.

    Though he could get punished and then pardoned the next day.
     
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    Snoopdogg Well-Known Member

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    Nothing will happen. He isn't even an interesting scapegoat. Can't gin up outrage about somebody who most people in this country couldn't even pick out of a lineup.
     
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  9. Snoopdogg

    Snoopdogg Well-Known Member

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    For what it's worth, most sports products are entertaining. Outrageously expensive, yes, but entertaining. As Jets fans we have gotten used to crap. But Knicks games are crazy fun now (win or lose, but mostly win).
     
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    Amen. Even weather games are on their way out. Most cold weather teams are moving to domes - Chicago, KC, Denver, Cleveland... Comfort for casual fans who pay more is the mantra of the business.
     
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    I have said it many times but I honestly think that one of the main problems is the focus on the QB position - with the rule changes the league is now basically split between teams with a good QB who can pretty much guarantee getting into the playoffs each year and the teams without one that are just treading water until they somehow manage to land one - the QB has always been important but not to the extent it is now where almost nothing else comes close to the level of impact of that single individual
     
  12. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Now it's garbage.

    Edit: Fck YouTube. I guess go watch it if you like. :mad:
     
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    GREG Well-Known Member

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    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    They want their money back
     
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    BrowningNagle 1992 Rookie of the Year

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    Somehow they are going to try to play a regular season NFL game in Melbourne Australia. The Jets in the "Jet-Lag Bowl"??
     
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    All of the character was sucked out of professional sports decades ago. It's all corporatized slop now. Good luck expecting anything to change.
     
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    I will say that every 5 minutes during the SB we were reminded we should be gambling. Pretty sad.
     
  19. JetsUK

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    I wonder how much of it is that the NFL now sucks or it feels like it sucks because the Jets have been so bad for so long
     
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  20. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    The first guy that comes to mind is Jerruh Jones. If only some dirt came out on Woody Johnson, but sigh, I don't think so. He's so tone deaf in general that from being dumb as a stick I'm thinking he became "smart" by default on this one.

    He was too busy playing with Tonka trucks on the terrazzo floor of his mansion to notice. "Vroom, vroom!", as the Jets continued to lose week after week, year after year, with the game droning on his 90" TV in the background.

    I have a source. He knows a guy who knows a guy that its true. OK, it's Jimmy, The Hedge Guy. Not Hedge Fund Guy, unfortunately.
     

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