NFL Thread: 2025-26 Season

While I was trying to get myself to take another break from the Internet (it’s still not working, send help), I stumbled upon this last week.

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(Snapshot taken from the ESPN mobile app)

Ignoring the hilarious statistic that is Ashton Jeanty having negative rushing yards- isn’t preseason football just the greatest?- this game is notable for two reasons. For one, Pete Carroll was out on the field having 2016 flashbacks at the end of the last game. Preseason doesn’t have overtime, so this and also the Dolphins/Bears game both ended in, and I quote, “ties”. But that’s not the funniest part.

The funny part at least to me is that the Raiders always seem to be getting into situations like this. Just a few years ago you had AFC West fans hoping the Chargers would tie their Week 18 regular season game so both teams would make the playoffs, which would have been the first time in NFL history a tie game would have done that. Mind you, the large majority of fans usually don’t want ties at all in this league. After this the Raiders would keep being among the teams with the most overtime games per season, getting as many as four of these in one season.

As luck would have it, the Raiders’ last preseason game last season also ended in a tie after regulation. Again, no overtime. But look who they’re just happening to play this week. Not only have the Raiders technically gone 0-0-2 in their past two preseason games, which is already wild to think about, but this team has a chance to do something really freaking funny and become the first team since 1973 to, technically, have multiple ties in the same season. To my knowledge, no team since the introduction of overtime in 1974 has done this- the Browns got really close in 2018 though- even with preseason games taken into account.

So my end question is. Is it possible to sports bet an NFL game to tie?
 
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bdt2002 said:
While I was trying to get myself to take another break from the Internet (it’s still not working, send help), I stumbled upon this last week.

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(Snapshot taken from the ESPN mobile app)

Ignoring the hilarious statistic that is Ashton Jeanty having negative rushing yards- isn’t preseason football just the greatest?- this game is notable for two reasons. For one, Pete Carroll was out on the field having 2016 flashbacks at the end of the last game. Preseason doesn’t have overtime, so this and also the Dolphins/Bears game both ended in, and I quote, “ties”. But that’s not the funniest part.

The funny part at least to me is that the Raiders always seem to be getting into situations like this. Just a few years ago you had AFC West fans hoping the Chargers would tie their Week 18 regular season game so both teams would make the playoffs, which would have been the first time in NFL history a tie game would have done that. Mind you, the large majority of fans usually don’t want ties at all in this league. After this the Raiders would keep being among the teams with the most overtime games per season, getting as many as four of these in one season.

As luck would have it, the Raiders’ last preseason game last season also ended in a tie after regulation. Again, no overtime. But look who they’re just happening to play this week. Not only have the Raiders technically gone 0-0-2 in their past two preseason games, which is already wild to think about, but this team has a chance to do something really freaking funny and become the first team since 1973 to, technically, have multiple ties in the same season. To my knowledge, no team since the introduction of overtime in 1974 has done this- the Browns got really close in 2018 though- even with preseason games taken into account.

So my end question is. Is it possible to sports bet an NFL game to tie?
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Dang. That sucks. We were a 59 yard field goal made as time expired away from seeing this actually happen. First it was that Week 18 game, then it was the 3-0 game from last year against the Vikings, and now this. What is it with the Raiders and field goals preventing history from being made? And they weren’t even the ones who kicked it this time!

Slight correction: That 3-0 game was in December 2023, not the 2024 season.
 
adjectivenoun said:
I mean, they have won playoff games during the Dak era. Most recently, they beat the Bucs to finally drive the last nail in Brady's coffin. They've just never come close to living up to the yearly cries that they're going to the Super Bowl.

I put the Cowboys in my LOL tier back when I made my prediction tier list because I think this is finally the year when the bottom completely falls out for that organization. Jerry Jones is a meddlesome, ineffectual owner who has been an anchor on his own team for going on three decades because he would rather lose his way than win anyone else's way. He may have extended an olive branch to Jimmy Johnson, but he's still the guy who fired Jimmy Johnson because his ego wouldn't let him share the credit for the Cowboys dynasty with anyone else. He's not a serious owner, and they're not a serious franchise; they've been buoyed up by talented draft picks for years, and they only get so much love from the media because they're a legacy franchise that captures a massive market share no matter how dire they are as a team. When he hired Brian Schottenheimer as his new head coach, I knew they were properly cooked. Now, he's beginning to totally alienate the talented players that have kept his worthless franchise in the spotlight for so long (even when he probably extends Parsons, is Parsons gonna give everything he has to this team?), which only cements my belief that the Cowboys are going to be at the absolute bottom of the barrel this season. I, for one, cannot wait. The Cowboys embody unearned haughtiness and arrogance; watching them get taken out back and shot by the Eagles (by the way, fuck Saquon Barkley, too) to open the regular season will provide me with ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude, as will every subsequent disaster they will no doubt face on those primetime games they keep shoving their way into at the expense of vastly more deserving franchises.
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Update: Are you fucking kidding me?
 
adjectivenoun said:
Update: Are you fucking kidding me?
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All that work just for Micah Parsons to get hurt in practice or some other thing that screws over millions of bets around America. I think Dallas won this trade, but that’s not because Ol’ Jerry is suddenly competent or anything. I think Dallas won the trade because I think giving up first round picks from consecutive is a stupid decision regardless of the context. I almost don’t want to pick Green Bay to win the division now because it feels too obvious, you know? You ever see something and you just get that feeling it doesn’t seem right? I still think their offensive core could be decent and maybe win the division but I do expect the results of this trade to be made apparent to Packers fans sooner than they might like, especially with that massive overpay likely making him want to stay in the state of Wisconsin.


Somewhat unrelated to this thread but also kind of related depending on who you ask: college ball’s guilty of this too. It’s not just the pros. Feels like everyone and their mother’s picking Texas for that “College GameDay” game tomorrow but with how much they and the Ohio State community is hyping up Lee Corso and ESPN even though Fox is the one carrying it for cable viewers but that’s beside the point this has all the makings of a game that can and will be a game that’s going to be rigged in favor of one team for the sake of making money off of sports bettors. (ESPN Bet’s about to have a freaking field day milking Lee Corso’s legacy like Activison milking yearly video game series to their literal deaths.)

As for what any of that has to do with the NFL and this NFL season; I generally view the NFL as both more competitive and a better product to watch these days, and I don’t think that teams should misuse their draft picks when they do have them. I mentioned earlier in the offseason that I thought it was incredibly stupid Jacksonville didn’t draft a defensive tackle… at all, especially since Cleveland got the guy I hoped they would take anyway, ironically, but putting this nicely I’d rather stick a rock in my eye than put my stock into the Jaguars, Travis Hunter, and a fresh, new young guy that butchered “Duval” so badly I think he actually did it on purpose. Stay tuned for my next post to get my real, full picks and standings for every team in the league. I would do this tonight but I have work tomorrow and I need to get some sleep.
 
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