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?
 
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