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Yahoo
23-05-2025
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- Yahoo
1st & North: Vikings schedule analysis
Is the NFL International Series unfair for some teams? | Inside Coverage Yahoo Sports' Jason Fitz, senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss the league's release of the upcoming season's international games - which includes the Minnesota Vikings having to play overseas on back-to-back weeks in two different countries. Hear the full conversation on 'Inside Coverage' - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. 2:17 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
21-05-2025
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2025 NFL rule changes: Lions scrap playoff-reseeding proposal ahead of vote due to lack of support
The NFL playoffs are staying the same ... for now, at least. The Detroit Lions scrapped a proposal that would drastically alter how the playoffs were seeded ahead of a league vote Wednesday, according to multiple reports. Could NFL shift playoff format in future? Yes. League office strongly interested in making late regular-season games make meaningful ahead of selling next media rights support for current proposal not there. Playoff structure stays for 2025 season. — Jori Epstein (@JoriEpstein) May 21, 2025 Detroit did not have enough support for the proposal, and opted to take it off the table before team owners voted on it. The proposal aimed to change how the NFL seeded the playoffs. If the Lions' proposal was accepted, the teams with the best records would get the highest seeding in the playoffs. That's a massive change over the current format, where division winners get the top-4 seeds in each conference. Wild-card teams are then seeded based on their records. The Lions' proposal sought to reward teams with better regular-season records. Under the current playoff-seeding system, a division winner with a 10-7 record would be seeded higher than a wild-card team that went 14-3. Despite having a better record, that wild-card team would have to go on the road for its first playoff game. That's exactly what happened last year, as the wild-card 14-3 Minnesota Vikings had to go on the road to play the division-winning 10-7 Los Angeles Rams in the first round of the playoffs. The Vikings lost that contest. The Green Bay Packers would have faced a different road in the playoffs under the Lions' proposal. Despite winning 11 games last season, the Packers were the No. 7 seed in the playoffs. The team had to go on the road to face the No. 2 seed Philadelphia Eagles in round one. Under the Lions' format, the Packers would have been the No. 5 seed. The team still would have gone on the road for its first-round playoff game, but would have faced an easier opponent. While the Lions' opted to scrap their proposal ahead of Wednesday's vote, it's possible the idea gets revived in the future. The proposal could draw more interest if the league adopts an 18-game schedule in the future, per Ian Rapoport. An 18-game schedule is not on the table Wednesday. Team owners were expected to vote on the Lions' playoff proposal and a proposal that would ban the tush push Wednesday. While the playoff-reseeding proposal is off the table, team owners are expected to move forward with the tush-push vote. On Tuesday, team owners voted to approve a measure that will allow NFL players to take part in flag football at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Reese Olson strikes out Bo Bichette
Will the New York Jets show some progress in 2025? | Inside Coverage Jason Fitz, Jori Epstein, and Frank Schwab break down the biggest offseason changes for the New York Jets and what to expect from them heading into the 2025 season. Hear the full conversation on 'Inside Coverage' - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. 1:56 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
14-05-2025
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Is the NFL International Series unfair for some teams?
Is the NFL International Series unfair for some teams? | Inside Coverage Yahoo Sports' Jason Fitz, senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss the league's release of the upcoming season's international games - which includes the Minnesota Vikings having to play overseas on back-to-back weeks in two different countries. Hear the full conversation on 'Inside Coverage' - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript The Jags became sort of the joke of the international series because nobody went to see Jacksonville games. Advertisement You've got real teams that are in their Super Bowl window losing home playoff or home games. If I'm a Minnesota Vikings fan, I want every single home game I can get for a team that won 14 games last year. To your point, Frank, if I'm a Chargers fan, like, I want home games. Like this is the moment against the Chiefs. Like that's your biggest game of the year. Literally your biggest game of the year is the home game against the Chiefs. gave it away. It's such a slap in the face to everything that happens for fans that wait and wait and wait for the opportunity. I, I can only imagine if you, if you're a, a Browns fan and this turns out to be a magical year and suddenly your team opens up undefeated and Shatour is lighten it up, and then it's like, great, now we lose a home game to London. Advertisement Like, these are, that, that's just the chances that they take in this process that I think is so unfair to the fans that get kicked in the no, no places year in and year out. For their fandom. And this is the reward they get. Now you get to travel internationally to try to watch your favorite team. Yeah, and it's only going to get worse because the NFL has approved going up from 4 international games in addition to the standing Jacksonville game at Wembley to 8 international games in addition to the standing game at Wembley. And so we're only going to increase that slate, and their goal, I believe, is to have every single team play an international game every year. Advertisement I mean, we have the Vikings playing. Two international games back to back this year. So I mean some of this stuff is crazy. I feel like that's Woody Johnson being like after you embarrassed me abroad with the Vikings beating us, you have to make them play 2 games abroad. 2 weeks abroad in different countries. You don't think that takes a little bit out of you? And this is a team that won 14 games last year and should come back and feel like we could take the next step with a Super Bowl. And now, like that, I think that's going to mess with their their season for a little bit. That's gonna tire them out. Advertisement Like this is. You're, you're spending two weeks in Europe, like, uh, I just, again, these, these kind of things and it's, it's probably my schedule nerdom and nerdom and uh OCD and all that, but I'm like, this is not fair to 1 out of 32 teams. None of the other teams are dealing with this. Why are the Vikings dealing with this?
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Derek Carr Retires…Is Tyler Shough the Saints' NEXT Starting QB? + AFC East Preview
Who will be the starting QB for the New Orleans Saints in Week 1? Jason Fitz, Jori Epstein and Frank Schwab discuss where the Saints go from here after Derek Carr's retirement announcement. Is Tyler Shough the QB of the future for the NFC South team? Then, they move on to discuss the biggest storylines ahead of the NFL's 2025 schedule release and finish with an AFC East preview for another edition of Rise, Repeat or Retreat. Are the New England Patriots the second-best team in the division behind the Buffalo Bills? We're discussing that and more on this episode of Inside Coverage! (3:05) - What's next for the post-Derek Carr Saints? (24:30) - NFL schedule release: biggest storylines (41:05) - Rise, Repeat or Retreat? AFC East 🖥️
