It works mathematically as a way to add a game. But of course you're right; it's just stupid.Can't work. Because the worst team from last year would likely pick the second worse team from last year. So that team wouldn't get to pick. And so on and so forth. Half the teams in the league wouldn't get to pick opponent, and of those 16 teams, 8 of them would likely be in the bottom 16 of the previous year's standings.
Yep---they'd be eliminating a preseason game if this happened--and opening day on Labor Day weekend would be pretty nice.Isn't it more likely that it stays the same, but the regular season just starts a week earlier (Labor Day weekend)?
Yes and no. I kind of enjoy that Labor Day weekend is the last weekend of summer (unofficially).Yep---they'd be eliminating a preseason game if this happened--and opening day on Labor Day weekend would be pretty nice.
Neither one of those people is from Miami.
Latin flavor.Neither one of those people is from Miami.
Does that come with hints of Colombia or the Bronx?Latin flavor.
The NFL has a lot of issues, but out of all the sports leagues it has the best season length and playoff format. It is pretty much perfect and I wouldn't change a thing about it.
Awesome. Although just Shakira would be preferable. If Pats are in this one, I'll actually be there, if prices are reasonable. (Anything resembling last year or the Falcons or the Panthers ones)Ugh.
SSS.I'll be honest, when the Pats are in the Super Bowl I don't even watch the halftime show. Too busy hyperventilating and/or getting food since it's hard to eat when stressed. This goes all the way back to XXXVI, and then in person at XXXVIII.
No shit. Halftime is for workin’. Food ain’t gonna prepare itself.I'll be honest, when the Pats are in the Super Bowl I don't even watch the halftime show. Too busy hyperventilating and/or getting food since it's hard to eat when stressed. This goes all the way back to XXXVI, and then in person at XXXVIII.
I take your meaning and think it’s an interesting question with respect to how long a break is needed for recovery to a degree that it lessons risk of injury.Would a 17 game schedule with an extra bye week actually be beneficial to player health in comparison to a 16 game schedule with one bye week? Obviously players would be playing more football with an extra game, but an extra week of rest and recovery could lead to fewer injuries while playing.
The NFL has a lot of issues, but out of all the sports leagues it has the best season length and playoff format. It is pretty much perfect and I wouldn't change a thing about it.
That seems far too logical.Why not add a bye week, but keep the 16-game season?
Players get an extra week of rest, owners get an extra week of TV revenue (which is the real cash cow here, not game tickets and concessions).
Too obvious.Why not add a bye week, but keep the 16-game season?
Players get an extra week of rest, owners get an extra week of TV revenue (which is the real cash cow here, not game tickets and concessions).
Once again the NFL with it's finger on the pulse of what their fans want to see...
NFL already tried an 18 week season with 2 byes for each team in 1993. Everybody hated it.Why not add a bye week, but keep the 16-game season?
Players get an extra week of rest, owners get an extra week of TV revenue (which is the real cash cow here, not game tickets and concessions).
Part of the issue in 1993 was it was very poorly implemented. Some teams had byes separated by only 3 weeks with both early in the season. Assuming some reasonable rules for scheduling, that issue could be eliminated. Having 32 teams instead of 28 helps as well since you wouldn’t end up with weekends showing barely any games. Of course, there’s still some random chance you end up with a bunch of crap games with all the good teams on bye in a given week, but that’s already a bit of an issue today. You can try to guess what will be a good game, and then end up with a lot of prime time Cleveland Browns early in the year...NFL already tried an 18 week season with 2 byes for each team in 1993. Everybody hated it.
Granted, the fact that people in 1993 hated it probably shouldn't matter a whole lot to the people of 2019. But that's the hand-wavy reason people always give: "They already tried that once and nobody liked it."
I think most NFL fans today would be pretty okay with an 18 week, 16 game season.
While I'm not excited on the players' health aspect of the proposal, having lots of neutral site games around the country and/or around the globe isn't a bad way of spreading the NFL gospel. And it's not *that* difficult to tweak the scheduling formula to add an extra game in a relatively balanced way - e.g.: schedule one more inter-conference game against a team that finished in the same place in its division as you did in yours (so, e.g., maybe this year the Pats would have played last year's winner in the NFC North or South or West in addition to everyone in the NFC East). As long as they also cull at least one exhibition game - and possibly two - from the schedule, I'd be OK with this. Because I do actually like football, and wouldn't mind seeing the season start up a week earlier...or better yet, end a week later.
The season is already a battle of attrition. Why exacerbate that aspect of it?
NFL: We're serious about having fewer injuries!
Also, NFL: We want to add more games, which we know will increase the number of injuries. Football is family!
If they expand the season, and even if they don't, I've long believed they should expand the gameday rosters. Say 6 additional players per team, which would allow for better rotations in the lines and more specialty type players. I don't think you can cap the number of plays a guy can play per game but more players on the roster would allow coaches to be more protective of the rest of the team.As though injuries don’t already have an outsized effect on who wins.
If we add enough games, we can just make it like The Long Walk and the last team able to actually field a complete starting lineup wins.
Like you, I'm guessing more fans have grown to appreciate the physical challenges associated with playing a 16-game season in 17 weeks a lot more in 2019 than they appreciated in 1993. Maybe only sophisticated snowflake fans give a shit about the long-term effects on player health, but I bet everybody would like to have more opportunities to see their entire roster available to suit up on a weekly basis. An extra bye week gives players more time to recover from things like bruised ribs and low-grade sprains and reduce the chances players miss games.NFL already tried an 18 week season with 2 byes for each team in 1993. Everybody hated it.
Granted, the fact that people in 1993 hated it probably shouldn't matter a whole lot to the people of 2019. But that's the hand-wavy reason people always give: "They already tried that once and nobody liked it."
I think most NFL fans today would be pretty okay with an 18 week, 16 game season.
Edit: After writing this, I remembered reading an article not too long ago that mentioned the infamous 1993 double-bye season. It was earlier this year on The Ringer. The author lays out a good argument that it's worth re-visiting an 18 week, 16 game schedule. It's also worth mentioning, as the article does, that the first season to even have one bye week was 1990. The concept of your team having a week off in the middle of the season hadn't become fully embraced by NFL fans as the new norm. A lot of people hated having bye weeks at all, let alone two. Times have changed.
It's the Carson Palmer Bowl!Bengals / Cards - no one cares
Maybe part of the objection was that it made for shitty games on even more weeks when you've got some of the good teams sitting out on their byes? Not sure.Like you, I'm guessing more fans have grown to appreciate the physical challenges associated with playing a 16-game season in 17 weeks a lot more in 2019 than they appreciated in 1993. Maybe only sophisticated snowflake fans give a shit about the long-term effects on player health, but I bet everybody would like to have more opportunities to see their entire roster available to suit up on a weekly basis. An extra bye week gives players more time to recover from things like bruised ribs and low-grade sprains and reduce the chances players miss games.
It’s going to make fantasy more annoying.Maybe part of the objection was that it made for shitty games on even more weeks when you've got some of the good teams sitting out on their byes? Not sure.
You gotta love this bit:Here is an article with video of the play:
https://sports.yahoo.com/josh-gordon-patriots-facemask-penalty-finger-fine-004102760.html
The injury doesn’t seem likely to affect Gordon’s availability for this Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. Gordon is not currently listed on the Patriots’ customarily extensive injury report.
gotta be the Chiefs?The Jaguars could have had two first-round picks from one club, according to a league source, but believed those selections would end up too close to 32nd overall for their liking.
Most likely.La Canfora claims an elite team offered two first round picks for Ramsey.
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jaguars-intend-to-keep-jalen-ramsey-after-passing-on-offer-of-two-first-round-picks-during-ongoing-trade-saga/
gotta be the Chiefs?
He is appealingJust got it on my phone but Burfict is suspended the rest of the year for his hit on Doyle yesterday. Have to imagine that is going to be appealed.
Yeah, I'm not sure whether he falls more into the Gordon mold (guy who truly wants to better himself but just can't help himself) or the AB mold (utter, irredeemable headcase), but either way he probably needs to seriously consider retirement at this point, as much for his safety (some of those hits are as dangerous to him as to the player he is targeting) as for that of the rest of the league.He simply cannot stop himself. The penalties have done nothing to curtail the behavior. He can appeal but, man, I hope he loses it. That hit yesterday was really awful. It would have been awful in 1980. In 2019, it's beyond the pale. Him running off the field yesterday, smiling and laughing, is just proof that nothing can stop him IF he's on the field. He will head hunt.