NFL

There should be no defensive or offensive pass interference calls at all. Make it a free for all.

AR and JF are busts as QBs and Bagent will be a season MVP.

Expand the playing surface because guys are too big and fast to reduce injuries any other way without eliminating hitting and ruining the game.

Legalize intentional grounding so QBs can protect themselves- if they want to burn a down then so be it- then get rid of all the ticky tack touching calls that ruin the game.

Tanking in the NFL is a terrible idea. A team dooms its fans and players to an atrocious year, only to earn the right to destroy a young QBs career by inserting them into the most talentless team in the league. It usually just signals the start of a half decade of incompetence and mass firings.

The league has audio of Mason Rudolph insulting Myles Garrett.

Or they threw it into Lake Erie

John Harbaugh is the best head coach in the NFL. Every other HC out there, including the greats like Reid and Belichick, eventually falls to recycling the same failures and nepotism hires in their coaching staff, out of loyalty or just familiarty. But Harbaugh is constantly reinventing his staff and his schemes to best suit his players' talents. He doesn't try to fit a spare peg into a round hole.

He also managed to outcoach Belichick multiple times when it comes to stuff like special teams and rule fuckery. If that isn't impressive, I don't know what is.

The only time I feel he's legitimately choked has been 2019. Every other year, he's been screwed by injuries.

Interceptions are not always indicative of a bad QB. Being accurate is fantastic and obviously necessary in terms of offensive production, but there's a flip side to the coin in that the defensive side of the ball is filled with paid professionals to the tune of many millions of dollars who's sole purpose is to find a way to snag the ball out of the air and take it away from the offense, or at bare minimum prevent a catch from happening. Making passes easy tosses is definitely one thing, but it's another entirely when defenders are just really damn good at their job.

3 screens in a row is one of the best ways to catch a defense off guard.

CB should have the right to maintain momentum in whatever direction they are going without turning their head and it not being PI . Under thrown ball and the CB trucks the WR that had to stop? Should be totally fine. If the WR doesn’t want to get interfered with they should get more open.

The FullBack position should be brought back.

Hard hits on high passes, and passes over the middle should be legal.

Offenses used to not call plays like this because they were playing against a hard-hitting SOB who owned the middle of the field on D.

Players getting injured going up for balls, or going across the middle when there's a known hard-hitting Safety used to be extremely rare -- explicitly because they were afraid of getting lambasted and risking injury.

Call me old school, but as someone who grew up watching Ronnie Lott, Steve Atwater, John Lynch, and even Chuck Cecil...I miss seeing the middle of the field being taken away from an offenses game plan because of a generational defensive player.

I prefer to see an intensely physical, hard-hitting, 14-13 game over a high-scoring game where yellow flags are just as impactful as the players on the field.

Not sure how unpopular this is, but I hate how quickly a lot of people are to judge draft picks. Just because mock drafts didn’t have your team picking a certain player doesn’t mean it was a bad pick. At least wait until a few games are played lol.

Buffalo sucks

As a fan of a team in a division where we all hate each other’s guts, I don’t know how NFL fans can enjoy fantasy football so much. There’s just no chance I would ever root for Dak Prescott or Devonta Smith or the Commanders defense to have a good game because I drafted and started them to win some money. I hope they fail at everything they do.

FF popularity booming is also a reason the league has stacked the odds against defenses and I may or may not have used that phrase to mean two things.

Being lucky doesn’t mean you’re not good. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

Tom Brady has been one of the luckiest players in the league when you consider his injury luck and the situations in football that have helped him (think of the Malcolm Butler pick).

This doesn’t mean he’s not the GOAT. You don’t get to where he’s been without talent and discipline. But you also don’t reach the absurd heights of his career without a little luck going your way.

Russell Wilson is the most underrated QB in the modern era and gets unwarranted hate for being perceived as “ corny” and his recent decline if any other player had his resume this sub would be heavily advocating for them into the HOF.

In the draft process and eventual judging of players based on draft process/capital, not enough thought goes into the human aspect of the game. It becomes too much of a numbers/stats/model/analytics/film thing (of course those are all important) and then when the guy fails to pan out it’s “BUT HOW WHAT HAPPENED WE MUST HAVE MISJUDGED HIM AS A PLAYER.” I honestly believe that many times, he was misjudged as a person.

Look at all the Johnny Footballs, the Jamarcus Russells, the Kyler Murrays, or even the Tom Bradys and Hunter Renfrows. Work ethic, maturity, passion for the game, all of it goes into the pick. Don’t be surprised or aDjUsT yOuR mOdElS because a guy failed. People are not statistics and there will never be a formula for human nature.

Every QB that throws way short of the marker on 3rd down with no chance of getting the 1st should be ejected from the game.

Commentators aren't biased against your team or for your opponent. Fans just need to grow up.

I don't give a shit about my team benefitting from a bad call. Every fan point out hundreds of times their team has been screwed by a bad call. I'm not gonna feel bad that we got one in our favor. I saw a bunch of Steelers fans saying they feel bad or didn't want to win with the bad spot call on sunday. Fuck that a win is a win and as long as my team didn't like intentionally cheat to get it I don't really give a fuck how we came by it.

Offensive PI should be the same as defensive PI in that if the foul occurs for example 30 yards down field, it should be a 30 yard penalty on the offense.

I’ll go with an actually unpopular opinion: by and large, sports journalists (especially the national sports journalists, not as much the beat reporters) know way more about football than the vast, vast, vast majority of fans. Many of them watch tons of film, spend their professional lives talking to the smartest football minds in the world, they scour all available data points to build arguments, are constantly debating amongst others who do the same thing.

The median fan barely knows enough about football to form what you could consider a legitimate opinion, even when it comes to their team that they watch every second of. Most people think of the game far too simply and do not understand at all why plays do and do not work

So when these journalists get snide and pissy with the moronic fans who assail them with personal attacks every day for daring to criticize their favorite player, I sympathize with them

The Lions will be first round exits.

The NFL will never exist outside NA as anything more than an extremely niche sport. The way the sport is custom built as an advert delivery service will never fly in other countries beyond a small core of fans. The pace of the game is glacial to the absurd and there's no reason to pick a worse product over more entertaining, more local offerings. And no one in the UK cares about the jags, don't even start with that shit.

Certain flags shouldn’t automatically be first downs

Holding should not be a 10 yard penalty. It should be a spot foul and loss of down. If it occurs beyond the first down marker, it’s a spot foul and is 1st and 10.

I just really dislike the mindset that all the rules favor the offense when they changed the rules to take out crack blocks and high/low blocks. HUGE difference maker for defenses and I think was the smart thing to help with injuries.

Also random AF but wish they'd wear a big soft helmet instead of a giant heavy metal helmet. Would encourage players to tackle properly when the equipment isn't going to save them.

Asking a defensive player to tackle properly does not equal football becoming flag.

Big hits are a fundamental part of the game, we should educate and inform players of the risks they face. However, we should not be removing the physical nature of the game because if it's inherent danger.

Playoff seeding should be record based and not Division winner auto home game

as to point 1- achane.

There shouldn’t be a salary cap. All these owners are billionaires. Let’s have a true free market.