AndyJohnson

The Lock Out kept the NFL in the news all off season.
Now, they will compact months of Free Agency into a few furious days, and preseason games will start right after, putting more attention than ever on preseason games to assess all of the recent signings.
Discussion over which teams improved or declined and preseason predictions will also be condensed to a month and a half.
There will be more interest in Free Agency and in the preseason than ever before.
Ultimately, the lock out was a very positive thing for the league.

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Bill B.

I think you will see the veterans getting more playing time, with rookies playing minimally, at least in the first half of the season. There is too much playbook to absorb for a rookie to make much of an impact especially when they haven't had any real contact with the coaching staff and time in the OTAs. I think the exception will be rookie running backs, as this is usually the easiest position to learn in the NFL. Hmm... You think maybe that Belichick took this into consideration when he drafted 2 RBs?

TheSolderKing

the lockout suc ked b/c it stunted player development mostly in rookies and 2nd year players. They could NOT use Patriot Training facilities and that is bull-****. Our rookies took a huge beating. I don't care about other teams FYI so don't throw out they were effected as well

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IndyKen

I think the lock out was terrible p/r for the league. Instead of an off season chock full of talk about F/A & UDFA signings, mini camp discussions, etc. - it was filled instead with lawyer talk and contract negotiation speculation - highly boring stuff. I dearly hope we can soon put this nauseating past 4 months in the rear view mirror very, very, quickly!

37Harrison

I think the lockout was bad, very very bad for the nfl. As the solder boy said, it stunted player development, it caused the players and owners to fight and probably caused mistrust between the two. Fans had to watch while million and billionaires fought over money in an economy that has over a 9% unemployment rate. While everything after will be fast and furious, it hardly means that the lockout was a good thing.

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Sciz

It's very very good relative to the NBA, though!

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Frezo

The best thing about the LO is that the new CBA will stabilize the NFL for the foreseeable future.

AndyJohnson

There is going to be so much frantic attention in the next 60 days that any negatviity will be forgotten.
They stayed in the headlines, they won't miss a game. The draft happened, FA will be followed more closely, and the preseason will draw more attention. The ESPNs and NFL Networks will have more news than they can handle and the league will get more attention than ever.
As negative as the attention was, it was attention, and ultimately that becomes a positive.

AndyJohnson

I am talking about from a popularity and attention standpoint.
By opening weekend the NFL will be more popular and will have gotten more attention than it there had been an offseason of labor peace.

AndyJohnson

I mean the end result was that the league will end up more popular because of the lockout than if it had never happened.
Player development, mistrust between owners and players and seeing a dispute that ultimately was resolved before any consequences occured wont have near the negative impact that being in the news all off season and an artificially created FA frenzy will add to the popularity.