That's weird because he only says nice things about you

According to Spotrac the Niners had a full practice squad, still inorder to elevate someone from the practice squad you need to make them inactive from the regualr squad as you can only have 53 or whatever players.

Had they cut or reserved Jimmy G, they could have signed another QB and put him on the squad, they had no intentions of doing that. As they played basically the entire season with only 2 active QBs.

I wasn’t suggesting letting non-professionals play NFL QB, just professing my love of randos playing NHL goalie. You are right, it would be criminal to have some dude with two years of NAIA QB experience drop back against NFL edge rushers.

The chances of a regular Joe getting carted off playing goalie is wayyyy less than the average Joe getting carted off playing QB. That is not to downplay goalie, it is insanely hard. They’ll let up a shit ton of goals and probably get hurt, but there’s a good chance the average person is permanently injured or disfigured playing QB.

In my opinion it is the greatest moment in sports every single time a regular Joe is forced into an NHL game to play goalie.

Watching the Leafs lose to their own Zamboni driver was simply incredible.

49ers are being bigger babies dealing with their own lack of planning than the saints were a few years ago and the saints at least got legitimately screwed.

They could have cut a PS player, signed a QB to the PS then elevated him to the roster & activated him for the game without cutting any of their active players. Or, you know, not tried to block a prolific pass rusher with a 3rd string TE on an island. Twice.

Unique players on the field in all phases would total 25; 11 offense, 11 defense, 1 kicker, 1 punter, 1 long snapper. The remainder of the spots are backup or rotational players.

No the rule was you would dress 45 with the flexible QB who would come in if a QB was inactive. An example I remember was the Eagles, many times when they had a healthy lead they'd inactivate McNabb and bring on his backup to save him getting hit. Because the dressed backup QB for the Eagles was Coy detmer who couldn't throw a 15 yard out because he had a noodle for an arm, but was David Akers' preferred place kick holder. Instead the rules changed and let you dress 46 no need for an emergency QB

Niners had 3 QBs on their active roster in the playoffs, Jimmy G just didn't dress

Wentz has a cannon arm. Heinicke has a wet noodle. If Heinicke had Wentz' arm I don't think Washington would be looking for a QB.

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It’s not like the other finals are even closer. I acknowledged my mistake, I’m sorry for throwing that stat but that doesn’t change the fact that Argentina’s win was bigger than anything else in football last year.

The rule used to be you got a 52 man roster plus one emergency 3rd string qb that could only be activated if the other two were injured. Then teams wanted the flexibility to have more position players so they changed the rule to a 53 man roster of any position. Teams still have every right to carry 10 qbs on their roster. The 49ers just chose that they would rather have a 3rd string DE than a 3rd string QB. Personally, if I’ve already lost 2 starting QBs going into a playoff game I’m carrying 3 qbs into that game

Lmao I love the confidence did you just make up a stat and then say “my point stands”

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As I understood the Niners issue it had to do with Roster space. Had Jimmy G been inactive they could have signed another QB but they had a full active roster. They would have needed to cut someone. And they had no QBs on the practice squad as well.

As I understand there's nothing stopping someone from dressing 3 QBs right now. Just that teams elect to dress other players and gamble on the QBs not getting hurt.

IMO whenever a player is declared out for the game you could be allowed to activate an inactive player. But that's just my opinion.

Figure there's more to this than the article lets on, if this is a chant that's being heard around the stadium and only one arrest has been made then I highly doubt they just picked out the guy who was singing it closest to a police officer or whatever.

Don't think someone should be arrested for chanting and I think it is pretty... unpleasant how certain groups and certain chants get condemned whereas others just kinda get left, it's an ugly line to be drawing, but I'd be amazed if all this guy was doing was joining in the chant.

He was Yellow too

This is finally payback for years of Chris Martin at 11.

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If they don’t call this the “Designated Survivor” rule I might start to worry about the state of the leagues meme skills.

How come games last so long?

You’re right, it was 1.5B but my point stands, that’s still like 5 times the American population. There was nothing bigger than that sport-wise in 2022, not even the Champions League Final in 2022. Also Argentina lost their first match so it wasn’t the favorite all the time. France had a better team with the best bench in the tournament. It was the best setup and it delivered a great match after the 2nd half of the game.

11 players/team on the field at one time. 22 starters, 22 backups/depth, 2 kickers suited up for the game.

There are a few factors that make the roster size, necessary, if not a little lower than it should be.

Gridiron football is pretty unique in that the positions are wildly different from one another so you can’t typically have one backup covering multiple positions, which means you need an almost 1-for-1 starter/back up ratio.

There are a handful of positions that carry skill requirements, but are infrequent enough and/or risky enough to not want to assign a starter to it (gunner, long snapper, etc.)

Some positions essentially require 4-6 players to ensure that you can field different personnel packages.

Wear and tear. It’s an intentionally violent and dangerous game. People are almost certainly going to get injured, and barring that, many players will need to cycle out for rest.

All that being said, it is definitely a game of a lot of excess.