Hitman Stan
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@XotesSol @fentanylbrownie OP lives in Minnesota where the football stadium is surrounded by urban development and not a giant parking lot.
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@fentanylbrownie They want the stadium surrounded by high density Gov subsidized housing where all the residents hate the stadium and constantly campaign to get it removed.
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Enough! Make it stop! Yes, a stadium adjacent to the nation’s largest city and financial capital that can seat 82,500 people has a big parking lot! What’s your fucking POINT? What’s so “bleak”??? It’s a parking lot! Why do you care????
Arif Hasan, but NFL 🏈@ArifHasanNFL
this shot is so bleak lmao
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The NFL has changed a lot in the last 6 years. Wonder when the pendulum will swing back
Steven Kriz@skrizPO
Remember that time Peyton Manning averaged 342 yards a game for a whole season…
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Not a 6–7 joke:
From 2023–25, OL6 averaged 408 offensive player-snaps per season; OL7 averaged 256.
OL6 and deeper combined for 1,008 per team—versus 698 for WR2.
Inspired by @RossTuckerNFL
Offensive line depth isn’t a luxury. It’s a full-time starter-sized workload.
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@himbopresident A team that moves every single year would be a cool idea if you could work out the scheduling.
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European takes on American sports are always so bizarre, when I lived in London I routinely had people tell me that they thought American sports franchises relocated every single season. And don't even get them started on college sports
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@SKOLPopLife He can eat with JJ and they won't roll with JJ if he cant
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Two main reasons I want JJ to start:
1. Only 23, potential, and most rookies don't start great. Need to find out what you have and if he sucks you can draft a QB in 27.
2. Dont want to give Kyler 45+ mil and end up in QB purgatory again. Also don't think Kyler is much of a leader
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@RyanPaganetti The chunk gain on first down is analogous to a “knockdown.” Now, as the aggressor, the number of offensive options available to you is wide open.
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@RyanPaganetti I’ve often thought of playcalling similar to the mind games that happen in fighting games (like street fighter). The best players condition their opponents to expect a given move, and then they break tendency.
2nd and short is kind of like “okizeme.”
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No NFL play caller this century has treated 2nd & short like a free shot more aggressively than Ben Johnson.
Among 68 play callers with 70+ games since 1999, Johnson ranks:
1st in 2nd & 1 pass rate: 48.2%
1st in 2nd & 1-2 pass rate: 47.7%
1st in 2nd & 1-3 pass rate: 47.5%
No current projected 2026 play caller is even within 17 percentage points of him on 2nd & 1.
Clip below: Chicago using 2nd & 1 exactly the way Johnson wants to.
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There’s been a lot of dumb takes from Americans recently, but this is also an ignorant and frankly stupid thing to say. American Football is the most tactically intensive/complex sport, I don’t think you can even really argue otherwise.
It’s like a chess match, the degree and sheer number of patterns/instructions/adjustments that are planned, practiced, accounted for on every single play for every player on the field at the highest levels is incredible, there’s not a single point during a game where that stops.
Just because it involves feats of athleticism and big guys hitting each other doesn’t mean it’s unrefined.
This discourse has become very silly on both sides.
Erik Dale 🇳🇴@EuroDale
Frankly, I doubt it. Football is far more complex than eggball. Just because you managed to master an 11 minute turn-based game of brute force and scripted plays doesn't mean you could excel at a continuous, flowing one that demands elite touch, vision, stamina, and IQ from every single player for 90+ minutes. The same way dominating Monopoly doesn't make you a potential real estate mogul. If the US thinks it can compete, build a grassroots football culture, an open league system, and clubs capable of attracting and challenging the best youngsters. It would take decades, but it's feasible if you stop wasting energy on games no one else wants to play or watch. Good luck 🤞
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@manelferriol96 @NobletStrength Yes. American football is a sport where athleticism is a much bigger piece of the pie than soccer. I wouldn’t disagree.
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@TheHitmanStan @NobletStrength Still, they thought someone that had never played a second of american football until then, could maybe earn a spot in one of 32 teams. That would be like AC Milan offering Landry Shamet a trial
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Soccer is not like other sports. It's a special unicorn sport that functions through rainbows and leprechauns.
SuperiorUSMNT@EinSchwarzwelt
This sport is not like other American sports, you're too late by the time you're a teenager trying to learn the sport for the first time. And IMG are frauds anyway.
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@starsnstripesfc Maybe it works for soccer, but I struggle to watch most college sports because they aren’t “beautiful” at lower levels the way the professional leagues are.
Elite pitchers and elite QBs are the reason those sports interest me.
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Most of the crowd who only support a Premier League club are saying “The quality is bad, I only want to watch the best”
First off admitting to glory hunting is crazy.
Secondly if you truly love this sport you should be able to watch lower lever games. People in England pack out Non-League games where I assure you the quality is much lower than MLS.
yimbyman🌎@yimbyman
What’s up with Americans wanting to support a team from England instead of your local team? The Premier League is great, watch it, but pick your own local MLS team, go to the stadium and have a good time. Soccer isn’t going to grow here if you just watch foreign leagues
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@burr3276 @JahangirAsgha10 Personally, I’m thrilled when there’s international stars in American sports leagues. I just want to see the best athletes possible.
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A quick reminder , the United States heavily subsidizes its youth sports programs….
It’s also a big reason why we excel at the Olympics both winter and summer
It’s why we excel at a lot of different sports
Our training, regiment and facilities are the best in the world. It’s also why mini athletes from around the world come to the United States to train
People keep confusing, our shortcomings in soccer for a bigger problem….
Ayodelie@ayodelie
Americans have this interesting habit of claiming that things that are free or heavily subsidised almost everywhere else in the world, cannot be free or heavily subsidised in the USA.
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@manelferriol96 @NobletStrength I don’t think you understand how meaningless that offer was.
He was given the opportunity to TRY OUT to maybe be one of 90 players on 1 of 32 teams. After training camp, that group of 90 gets cut to 53.
Most years, only 1 or 2 people of the many tryouts make the initial 90.
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@NobletStrength You can't start playing soccer at 15 and have any success, tall basketball players surely can start late, in football, if you're fast and can change directions you only need to learn to catch the ball. NFL teams made offers to Adama Traoré at 20yo, who had never played the sport
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@Joeyrandomguy @nikicaga I think he could’ve gone to the NFL after one year in college, like how basketball players spend one year in college.
But he’s the exception. Extremely rare example.
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I am up in the air on that one. He is amazing no doubt but I am always skeptical of the high school to NFL arguments. You can’t just physically dominate in the NFL. You have to pick up some skills.
But damn, Smith is as good of a counterexample as you can get. You could be right.
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American college sports are so funny
4 of your prime years wasted in essentially a lower league if you're good
Nothing more than a way to avoid paying absurd higher education costs for the vast majority
Rob Cassidy@Cassidy_Rob
Everyone has rocks for brains. Brother if you are not already at a club by 20 years old it’s over.
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@Joeyrandomguy @nikicaga There are some rare cases where college football players are “wasting” maybe a year or two. Currently, Jeremiah Smith probably doesn’t need to be playing in college, he could be in the NFL already.
But it’s also definitely not his prime years.
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For basketball, draft eligibility is 1 year (the player must be one year removed from their projected high school graduation. Diploma not needed), for football 3, and for baseball you can play at 18.
Basketball’s rule is just there to protect college programs. You can definitely play at age 18 if you are good enough like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Kevin Garnett. Baseball playing at 18 in the majors is rare but not against the rules. Football has the rule that a player must be three years removed from their high school graduation to play in the NFL and have a diploma.
Prime years are usually 24 to 29. That is when you have a more developed body, acquire a decent set of skills, and have a few years under your belt in the league.
In short, you are not playing in inferior leagues during your prime. If you are good enough, they will come knocking.
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@TheeJonFields @Lapapahorse @ochocinco It’s mixed. Some people do say this.
The sane version is like, “if the thousands of Trindon Holiday/Pop Douglas size players had been devoted to soccer from age 6, the USA would have better players.”
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@TheHitmanStan @Lapapahorse @ochocinco i dont think this represents the argument at all. I recognize that there is a miscommunication but nobody is saying that.
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Absolutely not, it takes more than athletic ability to dominate, you take our best athletes & put them in the favelas or European infrastructure from 4 years old we would be able to compete & look like we belong, dominate is a bit far fetched.
Romeo P@B0rnLeader951
@ochocinco I have a legit question for you. You’re the perfect person to ask because you played both footballs. Would America dominate soccer if the athletes we had playing American football played soccer
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@Lapapahorse @TheeJonFields @ochocinco Fair. There are many ignorant people who think basketball players could succeed in soccer with a few months training.
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@TheHitmanStan @TheeJonFields @ochocinco You’re probably right. He wouldn’t be one of the best.
I’m tired of arguing with Americans who disrespect other countries and sports, so I probably stoop to their level from the start. That sometimes includes people like you, who are actually reasonable. My bad.
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@TheHitmanStan @TheeJonFields @ochocinco So we’re actually on the same page. What are we even arguing about?
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@Lapapahorse @TheeJonFields @ochocinco I never said it was impossible. But YOU said that Traore would “for sure” be “one of the best.”
That’s an insane statement.
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@TheHitmanStan @TheeJonFields @ochocinco What are you trying to say? Just the pure fact that in this draft the Eagles selected Uar Bernard tells the whole story. They give players a chance purely because their athletic because they know that there is a chance that they’ll be great
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@Lapapahorse @TheeJonFields @ochocinco There’s a chance some identical body to JaMarr Chase could make it. But it’s absolutely not guaranteed.
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@TheHitmanStan @TheeJonFields @ochocinco Because that’s how it is. Just be fast, agile and not injury prone and you have a chance.
So you’re saying if Ja’Marr Chase had the exact same athleticism but never played football until age 20, he couldn’t make the NFL? Athleticism is what matters most. Catching can be learned.
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