Interview with Clark about recent changes
 

Some interesting tidbits in here. Lots of acknowledging of SOC in the setup from Forbes, and a lot of talk about why he went with Andy Reid and John Dorsey.

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Damn it! Blocked at work.

You didn't miss much.

Talked about rebooting the franchise and then putting the NFL in Europe...

FYP

he said the key to winning the Super Bowl is to have a great Striker, and a solid Goalie.

damn I didnt know those ****s had a minority ownership in the bulls too

:spock:

What do you guys think of the NFL wanting to put a team in England?

what. sorry i dont keep up on every single thing chunt does with his dads money

ChUNT has nice hair.

That team is going to be continously jet-lagged. There was one study I saw that indicated that home field advantage was proportional to distance travelled. I really hate the idea.

I'd like to read that study. Link?

It's a horrifically stupid idea that needs to die in an AIDS forest fire.

"London Jaguars" or "Los Angeles Jaguars"?



:hmmm:

I agree, I think the time issue would be a difficult one. They already give the teams that play in London each year a bye. Imagine if you had a team there full time. Not sure how they'd work around that.

All of this.

If having the NFL in Europe is such a "thing", then bring back the NFL Europe developmental league.

It was Lamar that was one of the original owners of the Bulls...geez

I personally liked watching NFLE ball.

I wish it were still around.

Joekel strikes me as an international type of lad.

The NFLE obviously didn't work because even though the game was technically the same , there were no stars to hype. Maybe this will work when they can expand the league into europe. IMO, it's going to be really hard on any team going abroad and certainly for the transplant team.

I am sure that the players will love the tax rates over there. LMAO

:LOL:

I wouldn't be surprised to see it come back.

me too


If the NFL wants to have professional football in Europe then start and develop a european based league

then they can have teams from the NFL and NFLE play each other for an all-star game or something.

The problem is that there would be no question that the Euro players would be subpar compared to the ones playing here. It's kind of like the MLS, but in reverse: it's fun, but you know you're not watching the world's best.

Do they still play the annual Fire vs Galaxy game?

Zach is going to unleash a furious anger in your direction with comments like that.

Yea, but if they really commit to the league then the talent level will increase and the people of Europe will develop a connection to the players and teams. Soccer is getting more competitive in the U.S. and the same thing would likely happen with a NFLE league.

Has to be full commitment though

England: Thugs and murderers? Do not want.

get a league going where it's paid by how many games you win lol. or $ per game.

I doubt it. It's pretty much factual that, with a handful of exceptions, the best players in the world don't play in the MLS. They can make far more money elsewhere.

It is a ridiculously stupid idea with the only intention of making money instead of protecting the integrity of the game.

Which is why moron Goodell is probably going to do it.

Putting preseason games there isn't a bad idea. But keep that shit out of the regular season. No player is going to want to play there because they're going to have a terrible road record every single year.

Agreed. Same concept but put it here in the states in medium sized cities and the diehards like on here would go apeshit over it.
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I don't think there is any way in hell that you can, fairly, have one NFL team in a faraway outpost such as London or Tokyo or wherever. You'd have to get more than one team relatively nearby, probably by moving (or creating) an entire division.

Also, and I'm likely in the minority with this, I really don't see an eventual overseas Super Bowl as a travesty. It's never been a home game for anyone anyway, and it hasn't been about the diehard fans of either participant for some time now.

They could play half the season at home and half away, with every team that just played them a bye week.

Yup. The US teams goalie plays on Everton in Europe and has been over there since 2003. The US soccer scene blows dick compared to virtually anywhere else in the world. Whats our national team ranked at? Barely in the top 30? Pfffft.

The NFL would be fine in England. Its not even really Europe. Its like Diet Europe.

This crap about a team in London and a SB overseas is just stupid. :mad:

Focking stupid. The American Football Conference.

I think they are fooling themselves with the popularity of the NFL in England.

Just try it once and see the uproar. #Egypt

If this years SB isn't a blizzard in NY and more and more of these Northern Owners that have been in the league forever want and get a SB (Bears, Chiefs, Broncos, ect) kicked booted from a SB because of London?

Yea, I'd love to watch the most important game of the year from another country with fans in the stands, maybe not even sold out, who don't even fully understand the game, let alone the history of it. Cheering for the wrong reasons at the wrong time :shake:
I've waited 40 years to see the Chiefs in the SB and the NFL wants to tell me it's a good idea to promote the 'brand' to ship my ass on a plane to London to watch them in person for the championship instead of possibly hundreds of miles and a few short hours away? Are you serious?

And yes, you are the minority.

Yep, saw a stat last season about the abysmal winning percentage of West coast teams playing on the East coast in the early game slot (noon central time).

Can only be even nuttier when you add an additional 6 hours to your time change unless the London team would strictly play all their home games at night. Probably would have them do a stretch of 2 games at home and then 2 statesside to cut down on travel back & forth? Would definitely be an odd situation logisticswise... .

It was several years ago. You can find lots of studies if you google:


home field advantage distance traveled

Very interesting if London got a team. I can definitely see how the FA thing might get tricky, but really it is another team meaning 53+ more opportunities for guys to make a team and make bank. London is a huge city and even if 1/3 the populace supported the team, that's like 4 million people more than enough to support an NFL franchise.

NFL's first real problem though, is LA not having a team, to me that would bug the shit out of me if I were an owner or commissioner.

Seattle at London

NEXT ON CBS!!!

Seriously though, let's start bringing regular season English Premier League games over here and we'll see how much those blimey Brits like having their home field advantage yanked and moved to another country.

A team in London would be at a severe disadvantage to the rest of the NFL.

Only 8 other teams would need to make the long trip to London once a year, but the London team would have to travel to the US for 8 of their games. Those are long flights (8 hours each way to New York and about 10 hours to LA) and they would be making lots of them during the year and that would make everything harder to deal with, timewise.

The one thing Clark Hunt repeats himself in saying in interviews is his belief in building a championship team through the draft. Until we do that with a QB I'm going call him a liar. I want to believe we will draft a QBotf in next years draft with our first pick but I know we wont.

If West Virginia is struggling with constantly traveling to play their Big 12 opponents, I forsee some slight struggles with the travel to and from London.

BUT, if we want to Roger it up for a moment, what if the team in London played all of their home games in a row and all of their away games later in the season.

For example.

First Eight Games: LONDON

(Each U.S. team would have a bye after they play against the euros.)

BYE WEEK FOR TEH REDCOATS

Last Eight Weeks: Away Games in the TEH RED WHITE AND BLUE.

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Yes, I know this is a ****poor idea, but what can good ol' Roger really do here? Perhaps he could institute a second bye week, and the londoners first four games could be at home, the next eight away, and the last four at home as well?

(To ensure that the home crowd doesn't lose interest in a league an ocean away, of course.)

TL;DR: Roger's available options to make this idea happen are TERRIBLE, but he'll do it anyways. Only naturally would such a thing be so natural.

But they would kick ass at home. Perennial 8-8 team. Clark is probably all for moving there.

The next two years will be D-line, LB, and DB picks. Bank it. The ONLY exception to that will be if some stud receiver emerges. Then again, these idiots could possibly take a TE or FB in the first round...

Botom Line:

You will see no first-round QB picked by this franchise until Smith is gone and the other clowns on the QB roster have fallen short. And even then, the grand tradition of taking "a proven number 2, and giving him a shot at starting" will continue to be the preferred method.
Abandon hope, all ye' who enter here.

I think it's a great place for the Broncos and the giant forehead as well as horseface.

NEVER will happen.

It's inevitable that the expansion of the league will push the product into other countries. Only a matter of time.

I just hope they don't try to put one of those teams in our division.