8 Teams Eligible For Hard Knocks

[Mister Sin]

http://www.turfshowtimes.com/2014/1/7/5283376/hard-knocks-2014-teams-rams-bills-steelers-cardinals

I would LOVE this. This is one of my favorite things to watch. How do y'all feel about it?

 

[BigRamFan]

Would absolutely HATE it! Way too much distraction, particularly for such a young team. I much prefer Coach O's camp reports that this circus sideshow.

 

[PhxRam]

I enjoy watching other teams train wreck.

This teams primary focus should be on details.

If Fisher needs to take this team to Siberia to work out like Rocky, then let it be so.

 

[Mister Sin]

I just like to see inside of it all. I would much rather see it, then read some dudes report personally. Different strokes for different folks. I love the raw all accessibility of it.

 

[-X-]

They don't pull enough pranks now? Wait until they know the cameras are rolling.

 

[Selassie I]

Maybe the added exposure would actually help our young team grow up faster? I don't know.

I tend to believe it would be a distraction though, but who knows.

It would certainly be must watch TV for this guy. So there is a little bit of me actually hoping that the Rams get selected.

 

[BigRamFan]

I just like to see inside of it all. I would much rather see it, then read some dudes report personally. Different strokes for different folks. I love the raw all accessibility of it.

Don't get me wrong, I'd add HBO to my TV package as soon as it was announced and watch every minute. I just don't like it from the distraction for the team point of view.

 

[PhxRam]

Maybe the added exposure would actually help our young team grow up faster? I don't know.

I tend to believe it would be a distraction though, but who knows.

It would certainly be must watch TV for this guy. So there is a little bit of me actually hoping that the Rams get selected.

Is it a selection process or more of a volunteer process?

 

[PhxRam]

Ok I read the article.

Kind of fucked up to force a team to participate though.

 

[A55VA6]

Young team + Hard Knocks = Distraction and failure.

Pass.

 

[Mister Sin]

They don't pull enough pranks now? Wait until they know the cameras are rolling.

I could only imagine. But as long as they are focusing at practice, I don't care.

 

[-X-]

Hard Knocks seasons and the team's season record after the fact:

2001 - Ravens: 10-6 (lost div)
2002 - Cowboys: 5-11
2007 - Chiefs: 4-12
2008 - Cowboys: 9-7
2009 - Bengals: 10-6 (lost wc)
2010 - Jets: 11-5 (lost conf)
2012 - Dolphins: 7-9
2013 - Bengals: 11-5 (lost wc)

I see no clear correlation between that show and the team's relative success (or lack thereof)

 

[BigRamFan]

Hard Knocks seasons and the team's season record after the fact:

2001 - Ravens: 10-6 (lost div)
2002 - Cowboys: 5-11
2007 - Chiefs: 4-12
2008 - Cowboys: 9-7
2009 - Bengals: 10-6 (lost wc)
2010 - Jets: 11-5 (lost conf)
2012 - Dolphins: 7-9
2013 - Bengals: 11-5 (lost wc)

I see no clear correlation between that show and the team's relative success (or lack thereof)

And I would not expect there to be one. I just feel that for "this" team, at "this" stage in their development the additional exposure would have a high possibility of interfering with the progress.

I don't have the time (or am too lazy) to look into the relative ages of the teams who participated in the past but I think that may be an interesting piece to this question.

 

[Mister Sin]

I don't either, I think Fisher would handle it well.

 

[tonyl711]

too young of a team to have the distractions. hell I say send them back to some backwoods town so their minds are on nothing but football.

 

[Mister Sin]

They are an up and coming team, it may be good for them. If they are going to be a big named team like we hope, they need to get used to the cameras. Plus, it will help us get more coverage

 

[Selassie I]

Sooner or later we will apparently be forced into it. Glad to see that there doesn't seem to be a correlation with being on the show and then sucking.

 

[-X-]

And I would not expect there to be one. I just feel that for "this" team, at "this" stage in their development the additional exposure would have a high possibility of interfering with the progress.

I don't have the time (or am too lazy) to look into the relative ages of the teams who participated in the past but I think that may be an interesting piece to this question.

Ask and ye shall receive.

2001 - Ravens: 10-6 (lost div) [28.0 yrs]
2002 - Cowboys: 5-11 [25.6 yrs]
2007 - Chiefs: 4-12 [27.3 yrs]
2008 - Cowboys: 9-7 [26.8 yrs]
2009 - Bengals: 10-6 (lost wc) [26.4]
2010 - Jets: 11-5 (lost conf) [26.1 yrs]
2012 - Dolphins: 7-9 [25.7 yrs]
2013 - Bengals: 11-5 (lost wc) [25.8 yrs]

2013 - Rams: 7-9 [25.1]

 

[Sum1]

I think the "distraction" argument is very much an overblown media built argument.

The Jets made it to the AFC Championship with that distraction...not to mention with the "distraction" of a Revis holdout, Rex Ryan as coach, being in NY to start with, a young QB, etc, etc, etc.

I think it would be fun.

 

[PhxRam]

Has any team been forced into it yet?