Official 2025 NFL Off Season Discussion!!!

I don't understand how folks would pay to watch NFL games in this day and age. When I lived in FL, I thought about paying for NFL Sunday ticket to watch my BILLS but never did due to the amount of online sports streaming services.

Now that I'm back home, haven't tried streaming a game on an online source in years, since there is no need.

I love the NFL but damn, you really must be a football fiend if you're going to pay for all that.
If no one paid, they would stop all streaming and your free streaming would go away too.
 
Growing up in nyc we basically got to see only 2 teams most time.. giants and them shitty jets.. cbs would broadcast jet games and unless it was a team I really liked that they were facing I would avoid most jet games like the plague.. so most times outside Monday night games , Sunday night games, every now and then doubleheader, it was giants, giants, giants.. than this internet thing introduced me to seeing every team , every game , at anytime.. no way I could ever go back to being limited to only watching a few games each week.. internet spoiled me and there’s no going back.. free99 forever.. these young people have no idea how good they have it.
Man...back when justin.tv and atdhe.net were first introduced.......lolz I know a missed others but those old streaming sites where the shit in 2007-2011
 
Oh I know it won't happen. I was just saying you need the people that pay to keep the free stuff afloat.

Also, I'll reiterate, nothing is ever free. People are getting the stuff they want from you in exchange.
It's great to have options because not everybody has to pay for things with all this new technology and multiple ways to watch things for free streaming it.

But you still have to pay for the internet to watch all those free streams which I understand your point when you say nothing is ever free.
 
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NFL cancels a 2025 diversity program 3 months after Roger Goodell said policies would be ‘consistent’ from Biden to Trump presidency​


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From the New Orleans locker room during Super Bowl week, Roger Goodell was steadfast. Despite the change in presidential administration and the political voices weighing in loudly on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the NFL would not change.

“We got into diversity efforts because we felt it was the right thing for the National Football League,” the NFL commissioner said, “and we're going to continue those efforts because we've not only convinced ourselves, I think we've proven ourselves that it does make the NFL better …

“We see how it's benefited the National Football League, and so I think we'll continue those efforts.”

On at least one front, they are not.

The NFL has canceled the coach accelerator program it had scheduled for May 20 and 21 in conjunction with league meetings in Minneapolis, a league spokeswoman confirmed.

The accelerator plan remained up on the official league calendar as of Tuesday afternoon. But the program, including its May coaching track and December front-office track, will not take place in 2025.

“We have decided to hold the next iteration of the Accelerator in May 2026,” NFL executive vice president and chief administrative officer Dasha Smith said in a statement. “This will allow us to reimagine the program, reflecting on the feedback and engaging with stakeholders so we can ensure a successful program in the future.”

Smith did not mention political currents in her statement, instead attributing the cancellation to the league’s annual offseason review of its programs' effectiveness and “ways to make them more impactful.”

The league is interested in combining coaching and front-office programs to intermingle candidates — an iteration that multiple diverse coaching and front-office candidates have told Yahoo Sports they would prefer.

“We’re steadfast in our commitment to strengthen our talent pipeline and create an environment that reflects the diversity of our fan base,” Smith said in her statement. “The NFL strives to be a unifying force, and we are confident the next evolution of our efforts will take us one step closer to that goal.”

Whether related to political tides or not, the timing of the cancellation will raise eyebrows.

The cancellation news broke during the league’s highly publicized schedule release rollout. It broke just one week before the accelerator was scheduled to begin. A May 1 email inquiry from Yahoo Sports about the acceleration program went without response until now.


The NFL held six accelerator programs for coaches and/or front-office manager from May 2022 to December 2024.

The NFL women’s forum at the scouting combine continued in February. The general manager forum and quarterback coaching summit, which last year was held in partnership with the Black College Football Hall of Fame, is expected to again be held this summer.

Goodell said the NFL would not change diversity policies to appease corporate partners.

“We don't make policies for our sponsors or any of the corporations or networks or partners that we deal with,” he said.




The league continued to implement the Rooney Rule this hiring season, requiring minority candidates to be interviewed for openings at head coach, general manager, coordinator and quarterback coach.

Goodell spoke in support of the Rooney Rule then, noting that widening the talent pool is “a very strong hiring practice” and not the league’s only effort.

“The Rooney Rule is a part of that process and an important part of that process,” Goodell said. “There's more to it. It's only one aspect of our policies.”

With the cancellation of the 2025 accelerator programs, the league will implement one fewer policy toward diversity efforts this year.

“We've talked to the diversity committee several times in the last six months or so, and we are incredibly confident of that,” Goodell said. “But we also believe that we're doing the right thing for the NFL.

“Our policies are consistent with the current administration as well as the last administration.”

 
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Well at least the eagles won the superbowl using it.

But this won't stop the eagles at all banning the Tush Push.
 
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