NFL will pick a Hard Knocks team if no one offers

[ChrisPozz]

League will pick a Hard Knocks team if no one offers | ProFootballTalk

Colleague Albert Breer added that teams with new coaches, or teams which made the playoffs two years in a row could decline.

Arians would fight effort to force Hard Knocks onto Cardinals | ProFootballTalk

 

[shouldakepowens]

Of course they will why wouldn't they?

 

[ChrisPozz]

Eddie Borsilli:

I've worked at SiriusXM for close to 7 years. Bruce Arians is the realest head coach ever to grace the SiriusXM airwaves. #Truth

He comes off as very real to me too. Very down to earth. I love the guy. I'm posting this because if you're into football and you like learning about people involved in the game, take the opportunity to listen to him talk on just about anything if you can. He's a great listen.

 

[DoobieKeebler]

The NFL can do this? I can't believe there really is an NFL rule that states "All teams must make themselves available for HBO slo-mo montages during OTAs and the Pre-season"

 

[erckm510]

The NFL can do this? I can't believe there really is an NFL rule that states "All teams must make themselves available for HBO slo-mo montages during OTAs and the Pre-season"

Isn't the NFL really the owners? If the owners agree to this that's all that matters. Coaches and players can hate it all they want.

 

[DoobieKeebler]

Isn't the NFL really the owners? If the owners agree to this that's all that matters. Coaches and players can hate it all they want.

Soooo.... then.... why does HBO have such an annual problem of finding teams that want to agree to it? Is this basically Russian Roulette with 32 Chambers?

Is it the GMs/coaches who are approached by HBO? If so, I'd imagine many owners would have no problem overriding a refusal in the name of money/recognition. It can't be to deflect anger, either, because no matter how you look at it it was the owners who all voted this deal through. For instance, Bidwell can't tell Arians he had nothing to do with a league decision, because he did.

 

[erckm510]

Soooo.... then.... why does HBO have such an annual problem of finding teams that want to agree to it? Is this basically Russian Roulette with 32 Chambers?

Is it the GMs/coaches who are approached by HBO? If so, I'd imagine many owners would have no problem overriding a refusal in the name of money/recognition. It can't be to deflect anger, either, because no matter how you look at it it was the owners who all voted this deal through. For instance, Bidwell can't tell Arians he had nothing to do with a league decision, because he did.

Y! SPORTS

Perhaps each individual owner didn't want to force a GM/coach who was opposed. But by the owners setting a united front the GM/coach's opinion doesn't matter because the owners agreed that every team should be part of this.

The link post something interesting since it says only 4 teams would have qualified for Hard Knocks last year because of the stipulation that teams that have a new coach or made the playoffs 2 years running are exempt: Raiders, Rams, Bucs and Titans.

 

[BINGO]

Jim Harbaugh talks Hard Knocks - Niners Nation

 

[ckhokie]

Welp, glad I could catch the Bengals when it was our team. Any fan of a team in a smaller market is SOL with hoping they'll ever be getting Hardknocks.

 

[JDM]

Absurdity.

 

[TobyTyler]

I hope they pick the 49ers. I'd watch it.

 

[Abeka]

The NFL can do this? I can't believe there really is an NFL rule that states "All teams must make themselves available for HBO slo-mo montages during OTAs and the Pre-season"

Pretty messed up really....

 

[spacedoodoopistol]

You have to realize, to the NFL league office the sport on the field is secondary.....at best. Marketing and promotion of the sport come first and foremost in almost every circumstance. Thursday games, regular season London games.....none of this stuff is good for the players beyond some small marginal short-term economic benefit. Its all about growing the league longterm and getting more lucrative TV deals for the owners and league. Players and team personnel pay the unnecessary price for the league's excessive ambition.

 

[threelittleturds]

It is unfortunate they ruled out 1st year coaches. I thought the Dolphins Hard Knocks was the best one in a long time because it introduced us to Coach Philbin and the new regime and it was neat to see the change in the atmosphere for their team. It gets you to root for their success a little bit.

 

[numone9er]

I love watching the show. It's great to get a closer look at how teams run their own training camps, so naturally I would obviously love to get a closer look at the 9ers training camp, but at what cost?

 

[David_son]

The NFL can do this? I can't believe there really is an NFL rule that states "All teams must make themselves available for HBO slo-mo montages during OTAs and the Pre-season"

Its probably not written with those exact words but Im sure that it states teams will have to participate in growing the came or all teams are ambassadors to the league and will act as such something like that.

 

[SY8goat]

49ers should volunteer to be on the show for 2014 season to show off the new stadium.

 

[ChrisPozz]

49ers should volunteer to be on the show for 2014 season to show off the new stadium.

I don't think the stadium would get much coverage since almost all of the filming would be around team headquarters.

 

[CalamityX11]

well this sucks for me...

both games better be available for me!!!!

 

[MHSL82]

It is unfortunate they ruled out 1st year coaches. I thought the Dolphins Hard Knocks was the best one in a long time because it introduced us to Coach Philbin and the new regime and it was neat to see the change in the atmosphere for their team. It gets you to root for their success a little bit.

It even made a fan of Kaepernick.

It tempted Alex to sign with them.

Harbaugh thought about going there for the chance to be in the media. :rollseyes: