@uptonbell Is Ben in Paris? I am. No reason to cancel the game - stay away from the very small perimeter where protests were planned and are happening today. Otherwise Paris is fine.
@DavidPSamson I’ve been in Paris for days and it’s been great. Every local I’ve met is against looting but pro protesting (as we are in the US) and generally were very disappointed with what happened last weekend. Better prepared for today and yes there is hotel security.
@Datapleaz@DavidPSamson It’s about available resources - not politics. They don’t have enough for all games/matches plus the protests, so they prioritized the NFL game as good hosts. I’m in Paris for the game and it’s been great.
@steelersfrance@victorhull11@EaglesFR Let the US media make a firestorm all they want, it isn’t going to affect the NFL’s decision. It’ll be fine. Just landed in Paris!
@kjbrown234@dempsey_andrew@PeteSampson_ Ash ONLY turns it on in the second half. Can’t have a serviceable defense for half of every game and expect to win against good teams.
@amandacvance@KevinAdams26@_STEELHERE@NFL It’s like the rest of the world seeing video clips of protests in the US and thinking the country is falling apart - they aren’t going to move this game…
@dannykanell@JayTownAlabama The Big 12 (like other conferences) want to give a non-top 12 conference champion a chance to make the playoff. Thats the choice they had and they made. This isn’t hard
@SammyJdot@jaromjordan The conferences wanted to favor their conference champion game winner over higher rated st large teams. That was there preference and they made that trade off.
@DarlingtoJ81777@NicoleAuerbach It’s pretty easy to argue, actually. Top 12 should get in - period. Anything else is unfair by definition. The conferences want different rules to give their teams outside of the top 12 a chance to make the playoff. The trade off is that it means a top 12 team won’t get in.
@NFountotos@_willcompton Both games with an inexperienced first year starting QB (who has recently been far better than both Simpson or Mateer who are train wrecks) and brand new D cooridnator.. totally different team now