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 by ramsman34
4 weeks 3 hours ago
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United States of America   Back in LA baby!
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Great stuff ZN. That’s insane.

 by PARAM
4 weeks 2 hours ago
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Barbados   Just far enough North of Philadelphia
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Don't look now but there are only 7 teams in the NFC with a better record than the Rams. An eighth, Chicago has the same record and owns the tiebreaker since beating the Rams. But they still have to play Minnesota, Green Bay and Detroit twice! Throw in Seattle and San Francisco and they have a daunting schedule. There's a very good chance the Giants, Saints and Panthers won't have a better record than the Rams. Dallas too. Tampa is 4-5 and their schedule doesn't look bad. As always, the best path to the playoffs is by winning the division and the Rams are in the thick of that. They simply have to keep winning. Particularly within the division. One certain way to contend for the division and postseason if they don't capture that is win their conference games (5 remaining) and one of the 3 games vs the AFC. Or lose only 1 conference game and win 2 of the 3 vs the AFC. A tall order but get healthy and either is a distinct possibility. It starts with Miami this week!

 by Elvis
1 week 1 day ago
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United States of America   Los Angeles
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PARAM wrote:I heard a great discussion on Sirrius. They were talking about NFL games/replay/number of cameras at games. Said 'they need to make it a uniform number of cameras and if the NFL needs to subsidize the cost for networks....since they already pay millions for the rights....then so be it'. They were saying on some games there may be a dozen cameras but the 'big games' where the #1 crew or #2 crew is on assignment, there might be 18 cameras. It's not right because it compromises the ability for replay angles. There should be a camera down each sideline and each goal line. And probably one on the end line of each end zone. That's 6. Put another 10 on the field plus that one on wires. That's 16 plus 1. If you're gonna have replay, then each and every game should have the same quality of angles to work with. After all, each game is important whether it's between two 10-2 teams or two 2-10 teams because of strength of schedule, tie breakers, etc. It's a multi-billion dollar business so treat it like one across the board.


You probably saw but this came up yesterday. And i was think this is probably how it would go, only use cameras every stadium has for replays to level the field. On the other hand who really cares? It's an inexact science. Should we only use bad refs since it's unfair that some games have better refs than others? It's inherently unfair and inexact, at least to some extent.


 by actionjack
1 week 1 day ago
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United States of America   Sactown
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Elvis wrote:You probably saw but this came up yesterday. And i was think this is probably how it would go, only use cameras every stadium has for replays to level the field. On the other hand who really cares? It's an inexact science. Should we only use bad refs since it's unfair that some games have better refs than others? It's inherently unfair and inexact, at least to some extent.




The NFL is a money making machine, no reason at all that all stadiums cant have these cameras.

 by Elvis
1 week 1 day ago
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United States of America   Los Angeles
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Sofi is one of the laggards? Not cool but these line cams are, apparently, brand new:



We mobilized to get more information. Per the league, the rollout that began in Week 5 now has goal line, sideline, and end line cameras in all stadiums except New York, L.A., Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, and Miami.

The NFL anticipates that, by the end of the calendar year, all stadiums will have them.

Even when the league-owned cameras (12 per venue) are present in all stadiums, their use will not expand to coaches’ challenges and replay assist this season. Next year, they will.

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