Let’s hear it! Give me your most unpopular opinions so far this season. I know this sub can be a hive mind echo chamber sometimes where people all arrive at certain assumptions and conclusions based on small sample sizes or bias’.
Here’s a few of my unpopular (to this sub) takes:
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RBs aren’t a “luxury” pick in the first round of the draft, you just have to accept that the pick won’t be as “long term” as other positions. Drafting guys like CMC, Travis ETN, Bijan, etc. aren’t “wastes” or “luxuries”. Those guys can really aid an offense, especially in the current era where we’re coming back around to ground attacks. The big issue is the second contract, but you’ll still have a stud weapon on the cheap for 4-5 years. More specially, I don’t see anything wrong with the Gibbs pick. People think he’s a bust or a waste bc he hasn’t been a 20-25 touch guy 6 games into his career… I think he can be a huge contributor for them for 4 seasons or so. If he helps them in big playoff games, then the pick is worth it, even if he’s not a guy who’s around for 6-10 seasons.
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A QBs ability to process info and remained poised is far more important than athletic ability. Everyone is looking for the shiny athlete like Josh Allen or Lamar, but honestly guys like Brock Purdy, Kirk, Goff, etc. are way more attainable and way safer. They can process info and deliver accurate passes. Obviously the gold standard is a freak athlete who’s an elite processor, but I think some teams try to find the athletes first then try to teach the mental aspect. While it’s true that you can’t teach athletic ability like Fields has, or the arm talent Wilson has, it’s not so easy to teach the mental component either.
What’re your guys’ hot takes and unpopular opinions?
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It’s not as hard as people think to get refs to fix a game. It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy any bigger than the league and a relative handful of part-time employees.
They get compensated by gambling, and everyone stays quiet.
especially in the current era where we’re coming back around to ground attacks
This is patently false. The NFL would rather get rid of the RB position all together than allow it to revert to what it used to be. The NFL is an entertainment business and running is “boring”.
Christian Mccaffey is the only runningback who should have a 2nd contract
Everyone else is replaceable by a day 3 pick
Devin Hester is not a hall of famer. He was a career special teamer because he wasn’t good enough on offense or defense. Other elite returners brought value outside of special teams so they were taken off returns.
And no I’m not saying ALL special teamers don’t deserve the hall. Specialists like kickers and punters obviously can’t contribute in other areas.
QB draft prospects are impossible to judge 98% of the time
I don’t know how really “unpopular” it is, but the cozying up to corporate gambling will be massive problems for the NFL, for all the reasons that the owners used to point out, particularly the NFL’s refusal to change officiating practices–the NFL is the only league that refuses to use any kind of technology to provide actual data to aid in making calls on the field.
another one the 49ers won’t make the championship game and purdy begins to unravel
The Jets get too much shit for passing on Dan Marino.
Ken O’Brien had an objectively better career than Tony Eason and Todd Blackledge, but no one really shits on the Pats or Chiefs for their picks.
It’s not Zimmer’s fault he lost the locker room. Most of the team leaders refused to get vaccinated and Zimmer saw that as not trying as hard as you can to win and called them out on it. And rightfully so. Sure he wasn’t all roses and unicorns, but the idea he all of sudden turned into some evil prick when COVID hit is ridiculous.
AR and JF are busts as QBs and Bagent will be a season MVP.
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.
Particularly in the playoffs and beyond, referees are generally making a choice (or being directed) to ignore holding on pass protection, likely in order to make for higher scoring game.
Stop penalizing teams that have a good pass rush and throw the fucking flags.
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.
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.
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.