NFL Playoffs Expansion with a Potential 17th Game

Do you like the expanded playoffs?

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NortheasternPJ

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reggiecleveland said:
The league simply won't cancel the preseason games nobody wants. They want those datesm that $. Now to make people care they are going to go to 18 regular season games. The theory is to just add a bit more cannon fodder to the rosters.
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I know it's cool to bash preseason games but unless you're a season ticket holder, who cares? Just don't watch, it's August. They're not going to start any earlier, so all losing that preseason game means is another week into January you could have a home game. The Pats have cut their Season Ticket prices so much they're easy to get rid of anyways. I used to watch every preseason game and i don't think I've watch much of any of them in the last 3-4 years.They could have 16-17 regular season games and 9 preseason games or all I care.
 
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NortheasternPJ said:
I know it's cool to bash preseason games but unless you're a season ticket holder, who cares? Just don't watch, it's August. They're not going to start any earlier, so all losing that preseason game means is another week into January you could have a home game. The Pats have cut their Season Ticket prices so much they're easy to get rid of anyways. I used to watch every preseason game and i don't think I've watch much of any of them in the last 3-4 years.They could have 16-17 regular season games and 9 preseason games or all I care.
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Why do you think the league wants 17 regular season games then? They have to have figured out the money they can make is worth paying a few more players and practice squad guys.
 
NortheasternPJ

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reggiecleveland said:
Why do you think the league wants 17 regular season games then? They have to have figured out the money they can make is worth paying a few more players and practice squad guys.
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I'm sure the NFLPA cares and the NFL. As a fan, i really dont care. If they have a game on 8/1 vs 8/7 and end on 8/28 and kickoff 9/2 it makes no difference. I know why the NFL wants to do it.

I take it back, if i was running a bar / sports bar I'd care as well. That's another week of real revenue.
 
DJnVa

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Russell Wilson and Maurkice Pouncey have come out STRONGLY against.

To quote Mr. Pouncey: "Fuck that shit."
 
bankshot1

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Are these the new benefits the players get under the new CBA?

1- a 17th pay check for playing a 17th game

2- three new roster spots (that will pay the minimum salary).

Is that about it?
 
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bankshot1 said:
Are these the new benefits the players get under the new CBA?

1- a 17th pay check for playing a 17th game

2- three new roster spots (that will pay the minimum salary).

Is that about it?
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Revenue share goes from 47% to 48%, and 48.5% if the league gets it's 17th game.
 
nattysez

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ESPN now reporting that multiple owners don't like the proposed cba and think "they can do better if the players reject the deal." Feels like more owner-driven propaganda from ESPN.
 
MuppetAsteriskTalk

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I haven't been following this closely. If the player reps agreed to move forward on 26-Feb and present this to all the players for vote, why has it not been voted on yet?
 
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MuppetAsteriskTalk said:
I haven't been following this closely. If the player reps agreed to move forward on 26-Feb and present this to all the players for vote, why has it not been voted on yet?
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Players get 7 days to submit their vote. Deadline is the 12th.
 
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The deadline got pushed back to tomorrow I think. Either way I wonder if the panic will influence the players to accept the CBA.
 
SMU_Sox

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On mobile but the latest on twitter is that the draft will be postponed until May.
 
luckiestman

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I can’t figure the when. Is expanded playoffs this upcoming season or the following?
 
DeadlySplitter

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Volin is claiming the 17th game will likely be interconference and flip home/away every year:

The new CBA states that NFL owners have the option of increasing the regular season schedule to 17 games as soon as 2021, but it possibly won’t take place until 2022. With an odd number of games, half the teams will get nine home games, and the other half will get eight.

The likeliest solution is for the NFL to do it by conference. One year, the entire AFC will get nine home games, and the entire NFC will get eight (and that 17th game would be an NFC team at an AFC team). The next year, it will be flipped.

The increase in regular season games will coincide with reducing the preseason from four to three games. Teams that get nine home games will only get one home preseason game, and teams with eight home games will get two home preseason games. NFL owners were adamant that each team still get 10 home dates per season.
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Crazy the owners insist on their 10 home dates vs. 16 neutral-site games, but money!

So I guess a rotating separate NFC division, same-place finish? By that I mean we're due to play the NFC West this season, but they'd choose NFC North/South/East's 1st place team to play us, that NFC division's 2nd place team to play BUF, etc. (not that it's happening in 2020, just an example). It's how they do the remaining 2 games on the current schedule that are not intradivision, AFC division you play all of, and NFC division you play all of.
 
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DeadlySplitter said:
Volin is claiming the 17th game will likely be interconference and flip home/away every year:



Crazy the owners insist on their 10 home dates vs. 16 neutral-site games, but money!

So I guess a rotating separate NFC division, same-place finish? By that I mean we're due to play the NFC West this season, but they'd choose NFC North/South/East's 1st place team to play us, that NFC division's 2nd place team to play BUF, etc. (not that it's happening in 2020, just an example). It's how they do the remaining 2 games on the current schedule that are not intradivision, AFC division you play all of, and NFC division you play all of.
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Yeah I think that makes sense although it further penalizes first place teams, but that would result in more parity which the league likes anyway
 
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Good thing 17 games isn’t going into effect until 2021. Imagine adding @ Saints to the Pats 2020 schedule.

It would have been fun if the 9th home game was determined by the Super Bowl winner from the previous year.
 
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Final tally was 1019 to 959, so if one player per team switched from yes to no, the vote would have failed.

I'm guessing the vote goes the other way if not for COVID-19 anxiety. If you're a player who was on the fence a week ago, I have to think the events of the past few days would tip you toward a yes vote.
 
DJnVa

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How will that 17th game work---like, we know the formula for the 16 games (2 in division, playing one division in other conference, etc.), where's the 17th come from?
 
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