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18 game season concept
I was thinking about the inevitability of the 18 game season. Like most ideas it has good aspects and bad Clearly he worst part of it would be the increased injuries the longer season would bring as well as the long term wear and tear on a player's career. Here are 2 possible solutions
1. You increase the roster to 55 men, and the game day roster to 50
2. You mandate that every player can only play in 16 games a season. That way they don't get any extra wear and tear, and it might actually help by giving them now 2 weeks more each season to recover.
Think about the strategy implications. Do you rest the QB and hope you have 2 meaningless games he can miss at the end of the season, or if you do that do you wind up having to play a 2nd QB in the most critical game of the year. In some sense the 2nd guessing would be fun for the fans.
THe owners get their 18 games along with the extra revenue. The union gets more jobs without beating up their members bodies any more than they are now
THe fans get the intigue of the strategy that would go on trying to make sure that players got their 2 games off, as well as losing 2 totally meanless and boring preseason games.
Depth would be even a more critical factor and a true measure of a team
If you think its too draconian What about a 19 games season where the players have to have one game off a year instead of 2 as a compromise?
What do you think
I was thinking about the inevitability of the 18 game season. Like most ideas it has good aspects and bad Clearly he worst part of it would be the increased injuries the longer season would bring as well as the long term wear and tear on a player's career. Here are 2 possible solutions
1. You increase the roster to 55 men, and the game day roster to 50
2. You mandate that every player can only play in 16 games a season. That way they don't get any extra wear and tear, and it might actually help by giving them now 2 weeks more each season to recover.
Think about the strategy implications. Do you rest the QB and hope you have 2 meaningless games he can miss at the end of the season, or if you do that do you wind up having to play a 2nd QB in the most critical game of the year. In some sense the 2nd guessing would be fun for the fans.
THe owners get their 18 games along with the extra revenue. The union gets more jobs without beating up their members bodies any more than they are now
THe fans get the intigue of the strategy that would go on trying to make sure that players got their 2 games off, as well as losing 2 totally meanless and boring preseason games.
Depth would be even a more critical factor and a true measure of a team
If you think its too draconian What about a 19 games season where the players have to have one game off a year instead of 2 as a compromise?
What do you think
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