18 Game season?

[irishfanatic]

The Almighty Dollar rules and the product gets diluted.

 

[Scotty]

I just think the gap between the Super Bowl and the new season is too long. (Mind you I am not getting my body smashed all over the place and needing time to recover).

 

[Nehalem]

I agree with others that it was perfect before with 16 games and 12 playoff teams with 4 getting a bye.

It was dumb to add games with injuries being such a factor. They could have added an additional bye week and increased revenue with another week of nationally televised games while giving the players more rest.

16 games, 12 playoff teams, 4 getting a bye is real NFL.

Honestly I don't understand why they need to play around with thing trying to get marginal revenue increases. I would think that being an NFL owner is kinda like being the King of England, you are already part of an elite club, why do you need an extra $1m?

 

[PP2]

16 games, 12 playoff teams, 4 getting a bye is real NFL.

Honestly I don't understand why they need to play around with thing trying to get marginal revenue increases. I would think that being an NFL owner is kinda like being the King of England, you are already part of an elite club, why do you need an extra $1m?

That's the ungodly curse of being filthy rich. The more money you have, the more you want of it. It's a never-ending lust.

 

[Pape]

Agree with others here... 18 games in inevitable...

Not sure how many teams make the playoffs... That will depend on the math, which I don't want to do.. Figuring the NFL wants to give the top two teams in each conference a bye week... So whatever that works out to will equal the number of teams making the post season... it'll be just like hockey soon

 

[VectorPrime]

Agree with others here... 18 games in inevitable...

Not sure how many teams make the playoffs... That will depend on the math, which I don't want to do.. Figuring the NFL wants to give the top two teams in each conference a bye week... So whatever that works out to will equal the number of teams making the post season... it'll be just like hockey soon

I disagree, I think they're moving to eliminating playoff byes all together. Which again, will be incredibly stupid and make the regular season worth far less but they'll do it anyway.

 

[maust]

The folks wanting "symmetry" shouldn't have all that long to wait. The 17 games season only exists as a weigh station to evaluate the adjustments required for 18.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

18 game seasons and a 16 team playoff field are coming. This isn't a secret. And it'll suck and further dillute what makes this sport great.

The current CBA gave owners the unilateral option to expand the season to 17 games.

It does ?not give them the option to go to 18.

 

[VectorPrime]

The current CBA gave owners the unilateral option to expand the season to 17 games.

It does ?not give them the option to go to 18.

There’s always another CBA.

 

[SammyBlueCat]

I say bump it up to 31 games each. Let's just have every team play every other team every year.

 

[Tunescribe]

18 games is happening imo.

The season is way too long now. Teams are falling apart down the stretch.

Yup. Just look at the injury reports these last two weeks. If they must go to 18 games, do away with preseason games and scrimmage other teams during training camp, then have two in-season bye weeks.

Going to 17 games was a mistake. They should've just stayed at 16, it was perfect.

 

[crawhammer]

18 games is not happening anytime soon with all of the injuries, especially the concussions, and now of course with this tragic injury to Hamlin. The NFL will just look like insatiably greedy inhumans who couldn't care less about the well-being of their players. Which may be true, but considering how they would be perceived by the public will compel them to make certain decisions. So really, motivated by self-preservation.

Too me it looks like the 17th game was a big mistake that they should reverse. The 7th playoff team should also be removed.

 

[XLIX]

18 games is not happening anytime soon with all of the injuries, especially the concussions, and now of course with this tragic injury to Hamlin. The NFL will just look like insatiably greedy inhumans who couldn't care less about the well-being of their players. Which may be true, but considering how they would be perceived by the public will compel them to make certain decisions. So really, motivated by self-preservation.

The NFL doesn't care what the mediots on ESPN and talk radio say about them. They will keep doing business as usual so long as people keep watching - which we do so we only have ourselves to blame.

 

[crawhammer]

The NFL doesn't care what the mediots on ESPN and talk radio say about them. They will keep doing business as usual so long as people keep watching - which we do so we only have ourselves to blame.

For the time being, the pushback from many camps (media, fans, NFLPA, players past and present) would be too significant for the NFL to expand to an 18 game season.

 

[XLIX]

For the time being, the pushback from many camps (media, fans, NFLPA, players past and present) would be too significant for the NFL to expand to an 18 game season.

Pushback? What pushback? The only pushback the NFL cares about is ticket sales and TV ratings. For all the whining and complaining about 17 games, ticket sales and TV ratings are as strong as ever.

 

[crawhammer]

Pushback? What pushback? The only pushback the NFL cares about is ticket sales and TV ratings. For all the whining and complaining about 17 games, ticket sales and TV ratings are as strong as ever.

That's great. I'm saying now, with the Hamlin situation, the aftermath of that (which is entirely unknown at this point), and the quantity of injuries this season, especially the concussions. Yesterday, coupled with everything else I'm mentioning, will probably dissuade the NFL from pushing for 18 games. Right now, it's different, the NFL will look like gigantic a-holes making any sort of argument for more games for players to get horrifically injured.

 

[XLIX]

That's great. I'm saying now, with the Hamlin situation, the aftermath of that (which is entirely unknown at this point), and the quantity of injuries this season, especially the concussions. Yesterday, coupled with everything else I'm mentioning, will probably dissuade the NFL from pushing for 18 games. Right now, it's different, the NFL will look like gigantic a-holes making any sort of argument for more games for players to get horrifically injured.

The NFL will be pushing for 18 games come the next CBA, which is still quite a few years down the road but coming eventually. Nothing that has happened this past season will change that.

 

[A.C Vegas]

If they go 18 they already have the perfect set up for the schedule play every team in your conference and then your division 2 times.

If you have to switch and have non conference you swap a division out

 

[InRodWeRust]

Hey I thought of a great idea! Why not expand it to 162 games? If baseball can do it why not the NFL? MOAR GAMESZ = MOAR MUNIES RIGHT???

 

[ctpatsfan77]

18 games is not happening anytime soon with all of the injuries, especially the concussions, and now of course with this tragic injury to Hamlin. The NFL will just look like insatiably greedy inhumans who couldn't care less about the well-being of their players. Which may be true, but considering how they would be perceived by the public will compel them to make certain decisions. So really, motivated by self-preservation.

Too me it looks like the 17th game was a big mistake that they should reverse. The 7th playoff team should also be removed.

As I mentioned in another thread, back in 1905 over a dozen football players died in one year. Teddy Roosevelt threatened to ban football if it wasn't made safer. Among other things, it's why the forward pass is now legal.

I am not saying that what happened to Hamlin should prompt heightened scrutiny; it's more of a freak accident that can and does happen in other sports.

But I suspect, given the high profile of the game in which it happened, it will.

Will it prompt changes? Too soon to say.