JSn

I'm starting to think there may be a strong movement for a shorter pre-season with more emphasis on rookies and acquisitions and maybe an extended camp period (game 17... are you kidding?).

The list of seriously injured vets this year is getting frightening.

Rob0729

The preseason will be shortened in a year or two or three, but because of the move to a 17 or 18 game regular season. I don't know if that will do anything to help minimize injuries though.

Halifax_Pats_Fan

Hot of the press...

BB is no dummy.

Leave Brady where he is, on the sidelines. Pre-Season means nothing. 0.

The only people that care about the pre-season are the teams that have to deal with injuries as a result of it.

The sky is not falling, so Brady and other Pats are not playing or playing as much nowadays. Woop-D-Do

Count me as one fan who is quite happy as a result of it.

Onwards and upwards to KC and week 1....two stupid weeks away...

Jimke

I agree with you. Leave Brady on the sidelines until the regular season

starts. Perhaps by then the offensive line situation will be resolved.

Pats726

I don't think it's any worse this year than many..someone will need to find stats to back that up..there are injuries of course, but I think it'll be far worse with more reg season games. And rookies and younger players will get the bad end of that deal..doesn't make a lot of sense..there will still be injuries..maybe more as there will be more stress strain on players..It misses the point..4 is fine..

patchick

I tend to agree. Right now, much of the heavy lifting in the preseason falls to the rookies and camp filler. I can't imagine that increasing the veterans' workload with something like a 2-18 split would make for fewer injuries to vets.

Plus, I think the perception that this preseason has been filled with injuries is a little skewed by the fact that several major stars -- Manning, Brady, Merriman -- are grappling with unrelated injuries.

Wildo7

I'd like to see the preseason get cut down to two games and have the regular season remain 16 games. 17 or 18 games is too long and you're going to see possibly even more injuries that way as players go harder for the same amount of games.

Not to mention that a team like the Pats, who have played much more than almost any other team in football from going deep into the postseason every year will be severely punished by this. 16 games is fine, and I don't need to see a half-injured team drag itself across the finish line at the end of every year just because the networks and ownership want additional revenue. It won't be good football.

Gunnails

I been a proponet of shortening the Preseason for quite a while now.

My plan would be to shorten the preseason to 3 games, 1 home, 1 away, and 1 at a nuetral site. What do you guys think?

patchick

I like it fine, but I'm betting that the teams -- which get to charge for preseason games as if they were real -- will have some problems with it!

Pats726

For one..if they shorten the preseason they will extend the reg season NO WAY they cut out games..owners I also think do not like this neutral site situation.. I hope they leave the preseason alone..