NFL 2015
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Official - The Rams are moving back to LA. They are moving immediately and eventually will move into a super-stadium in Inglewood.</span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Chargers have a one year option to decide if they want to move to LA and then if Chargers turn it down to remain in San Diego, The Raiders will have a one year option to move to LA. The Raiders and Chargers will both receive $100 million from the NFL if they remain in their home markets.</p>
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<p>Sucks for those St Louis fans who got to watch the "greatest show on turf" but LA is the home of the Rams. Can see Raiders heading back to LA and San Diego getting a new stadium.</p> -
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<p>Sucks for those St Louis fans who got to watch the "greatest show on turf" but LA is the home of the Rams. Can see Raiders heading back to LA and San Diego getting a new stadium.</p>
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<p>St Louis is a baseball city but they love their sports. The Rams haven't been relevant since Warner was QB. Neither have the Raiders in a long time either!</p> -
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<p>BTW, the Southern Bowl has been cancelled due to lack of ticket sales. I'm not surprised as I wasn't interested once I knew the teams would include players not good enough to be on a NFL roster.</p>
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<p>Of more interest will be the 'Sydney Cup' - the opening college week game between Pac-12 rivals Cal and Hawaii at Homebush in August. </p> -
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<p>BTW, the Southern Bowl has been cancelled due to lack of ticket sales. I'm not surprised as I wasn't interested once I knew the teams would include players not good enough to be on a NFL roster.</p>
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<p>I was keen to go but hadn't got around to buying tickets. </p>
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<p>I'd pay to see fringe players in NZ as a novelty. Pity that this fell over.</p> -
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<span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">BTW, the Southern Bowl has been cancelled due to lack of ticket sales. I'm not surprised as I wasn't interested once I knew the teams would include players not good enough to be on a NFL roster.</span></blockquote>
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<p>Read that on stuff - which seems to be currently moderated by gay men in their 30s and 21 year old blondes named Shavaugh (like OMG totes amazeballs) - and it doesn't surprise me as well. Would like to see University of Hawaii face University of Arizona at Eden Park if that scheduling was possible because of the large polynesian numbers on both rosters, but they tried that with the proposed Haka Bowl and it didn't get enough support either.</p> -
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<p>The 49ers have a new head coach - Chip Kelly. He won't have the same overall control as in Philly.</p>
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<p>That Eagles train wreck has been fascinating. YOU just never knew if he was a mad genius who would succeed, or (as it turned out), drive the organisation into the toilet.</p>
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<p>Hopefully he learns (like Hanson did) and tones down some parts of this personality to get the best out of elite athletes. NFL players are not college kids who can be controlled as tightly.</p> -
<p>Yeah I can see why Baalke made this call of Chip Kelly for the 49ers - this is his third and almost certainly last head-coach hire as General Manager - so he swung for the fences and went with the highest risk/highest reward option. Fair enough.</p>
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<p>Will be interesting what happens to Kaepernick - rumour is that Kelly has been on trading for him in the past and would have gone after him if he had got a head coaching gig anywhere else. It makes sense that they would at least give the partnership a year to see if he can get it to work with Kap.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="KiwiMurph" data-cid="552558" data-time="1452811178"><p>Yeah I can see why Baalke made this call of Chip Kelly for the 49ers - this is his third and almost certainly last head-coach hire as General Manager - so he swung for the fences and went with the highest risk/highest reward option. Fair enough.<br>
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Will be interesting what happens to Kaepernick - rumour is that Kelly has been on trading for him in the past and would have gone after him if he had got a head coaching gig anywhere else. It makes sense that they would at least give the partnership a year to see if he can get it to work with Kap.</p></blockquote>Baalke Kelly and Kaepernick are at risk with a big opportunity to redeem themselves. Hopefully Chip's offense and Kap's skill set turn into something special, Baalke needs to restock because the cupboard is bare -
<p>After watching his work in Philly (1st season good, rest not so much) I don't know if the Chipper is a good or bad hire.</p>
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<p>POSITIVES:</p>
<p>- The offence will be fun to watch</p>
<p>- CKap fits his style much better than Foles, Sanchez or Bradford.</p>
<p>- Despite what the experts say, the 49ers have a solid, young defence which means Chip doesn't need to over-haul it too much.</p>
<p>- No longer a GM which means he won't be trying those Madden 16-type trades which only work in Madden (and not in real life).</p>
<p>- It means Jim Tomsula can go back to being a oil rig diver or whatever the fuck he did.</p>
<p>- His name is Chip. </p>
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<p>NEGATIVES:</p>
<p>- Didn't we just get rid of a coach who was seen as a hard taskmaster?</p>
<p>- His defences in Philly (and in college) were shit. Needs to hire a good defensive co-ordinator if this is to work.</p>
<p>- A lot of holes on all three units but most are on the offensive side of the ball. RB, WR, TE, OL all need upgrades which can't be done just in the draft</p>
<p>- The black players in Philly went to town on the Chipper which may go against the 49ers when trying to attract free agents (tbf some of those Philly players were just whiny punks like Shady McCoy).</p>
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<p>Patriots going to the AFC championship game for the 5th year in a row.. Remarkable really, considering their run of injuries to key players..</p>
<p>With Big Ben hurt and Brown unavailable, it's pretty much a win to the Broncos..</p>
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<p>NFC is exciting cos all 4 teams could go to the Superbowl.. </p> -
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<p>Arguing over a coin flip.....</p>
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<p>Aaron Rogers shouldn't be disappointed, he still has one of the Olivias. Liking Arizona but it will come down to whether they can push past Seattle. The only way to beat the Pats is to shut down their passing game since they don't have a running game right now but teams seem to be struggling to do that. Maybe Denver can.</p> -
<p>The Panthers scored enough points in the 1st half to hold off the Seahawks 31-24.</p>
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<p>That was a great comeback from Seattle and showed why they've been to the last 2 Super Bowls. </p>
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<p>Carolina and Arizona haven't play eachother this season so the NFC Championship game will be interesting. </p>
