NFL rumored to be considering 14 game season starting in October

ViperGTS said:

I get that sentiment, but man. No fans? Doubt the players would ever get up for the games like they usually do and that would make for some poor football. All the communications would be heard loud and clear. There are so many pitfalls.

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I don’t think a single player cares

Patsgofor4 said:

How about a sad trombone sound effect, when Brady throws a back-breaking 4th quarter red zone pick?

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This one is much more appropriate, IMO.

Steve:Section 102 said:

Yeah, I agree with @XLIX. Gimme a 12 game season, I am good.

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So some team goes 15-0, does that make them the same as the 72 Phins? Better? Worse? Irrelevant?

Nah, too many issues arise records wise, season wise. If you play a 12 game season, is the SB winner really the SB winner? Attrition in the NFL is as big as any factor. How about byes? No byes? It isn’t as easy as just saying lets play 12.

ViperGTS said:

Remember this? Players weren’t a fan.

2015 White Sox–Orioles crowdless game - Wikipedia

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Yes I remember that. What’s your point? This is an entirely different situation today than they had back then.

Steve:Section 102 said:

You'll be able to hear players on the field, so that might be fun.

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Most importantly, we'll be able to hear all the regretful self-talk by overmatched Jets QBs in real time.

ViperGTS said:

So some team goes 15-0, does that make them the same as the 72 Phins? Better? Worse? Irrelevant?

Nah, too many issues arise records wise, season wise. If you play a 12 game season, is the SB winner really the SB winner? Attrition in the NFL is as big as any factor. How about byes? No byes? It isn’t as easy as just saying lets play 12.

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I doubt terribly many fans consider Super Bowls 17 and 22 any less legit. One season had only 9 regular season games and the other had 3 full weeks played by replacement players.

ViperGTS said:

So some team goes 15-0, does that make them the same as the 72 Phins? Better? Worse? Irrelevant?

Nah, too many issues arise records wise, season wise. If you play a 12 game season, is the SB winner really the SB winner? Attrition in the NFL is as big as any factor. How about byes? No byes? It isn’t as easy as just saying lets play 12.

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I don't care about any of that. It's not like the numbers are storied... like 3000 hits or 714 HRs. Those aren't really a thing anymore, either. 100 years from now, people will compare it to the 1918 flu pandemic.

XLIX said:

I think the players would act like professionals. They understand the situation as well.

I don’t see how not having fans would make a player run slower or throw the ball worse in the heat of the moment. If anything, we’d see fewer false start penalties. You’ll never see anyone upset over watching a game with fewer flags.

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I think it would absolutely neuter the home field advantage of places like KC and Seattle and Buffalo. Not that it’s a bad thing for the Pats since they’re supposed to play road games there.

lancerman said:

I don’t think a single player cares

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I mentioned in another thread that no fans in the stands would probably be beneficial for a young QB in his first year as a starter (mainly road games) even if it is only for the first portion of the season....not naming any names.

sb1 said:

I think it would absolutely neuter the home field advantage of places like KC and Seattle. Not that it’s a bad thing for the Pats since they’re supposed to play in both places.

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Yes, certain home fields with loud crowds would lose the advantage that comes from playing at home with a loud crowd. To me, that’s not even remotely a reason to cancel the games outright.

In fact, I think people need to come to grips with the concept of something potentially going on this season which might be fundamentally unfair to some teams. For example - and I’m just spitballing here - maybe some teams can have fans but others can’t.

PP2 said:

This is completely ridiculous, and totally ignorant of how this pandemic will function. This pandemic will comes in waves and there will be varying hotspots that emerge from time to time, for a very long time to come. How do you navigate around that? Cancel games? Move to a different stadium? Just dumb.

Best just to televise games in empty stadiums.

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It likely will come in waves.

What we have in regards of being able to treat cases by the fall will be the ultimate dictating factor though.

Are there any details on the TV contracts and what happens/what is owed in the event of a canceled season?

sb1 said:

But behind the scenes, teams have been modeling out shortened seasons. One particular scenario that has taken hold, according to team sources, is a 14-game schedule that would start in October and result in the Super Bowl being pushed back just one week to Feb. 14. Under this scenario, the two games that would be cut would be cross-conference matchups. The week off in between Championship Sunday and the Super Bowl would be removed, which would include the cancelation of the Pro Bowl.

If they're going to cut 2 cross conference games then no Seahawks or 49ers please. Lol

Edit: Correct that - no Seahawks or Rams and therefore no west coast trip. 49ers can come to Foxboro. Though that would give the Patriots more home games so that probably won't happen.

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I want Garoppolo vs his old team.

XLIX said:

Yes, certain home fields with loud crowds would lose the advantage that comes from playing at home with a loud crowd. To me, that’s not even remotely a reason to cancel the games outright.

In fact, I think people need to come to grips with the concept of something potentially going on this season which might be fundamentally unfair to some teams. For example - and I’m just spitballing here - maybe some teams can have fans but others can’t.

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The draft would be interesting if there’s a cancelled season. Obviously the same order from 2019 would be absolutely unfair. Would have to be a lottery of some kind.

XLIX said:

Yes, certain home fields with loud crowds would lose the advantage that comes from playing at home with a loud crowd. To me, that’s not even remotely a reason to cancel the games outright.

In fact, I think people need to come to grips with the concept of something potentially going on this season which might be fundamentally unfair to some teams. For example - and I’m just spitballing here - maybe some teams can have fans but others can’t.

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Even if there are no fans for most of the season, the games should be played, if the protocols that they put in place prove to be safe for the players. The disciplined, focused and mentally tough teams will be able to adapt to the lack of fans and will be able to overcome the inability to use their home crowds to their advantage.

There is much more potential for chaos and bitterness if the season is scrapped and they have to come up with a system for the 2021 draft. There would be no way to make the draft order fare for all 32 teams.

Elijah said:

Yeah, I don't understand all these decisions to shut things down in a few months when we have no idea what the situation will be like by then. The dates being set seem so arbitrary; there's absolutely no guarantee things will have blown over by the time reopening dates come around. It's also just as possible things will have been over for quite a while by then and they overshot the target. Why not just wait until we have more information to definitively decide when things will open?

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Money is far more important to some people than being patient and waiting until we get a realistic grasp of how this pandemic will play out.

As if they weren't rich enough already.

I told you all that there would be an NFL season.

In about 3 months, only the hypochondriacs will be talking Corona virus. The rest of us will be chugging down Corona beer and getting ready to go to the games.

sb1 said:

The draft would be interesting if there’s a cancelled season. Obviously the same order from 2019 would be absolutely unfair. Would have to be a lottery of some kind.

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And the Patriots win the #1 pick and select Trevor Lawerence

Going to the KC game with my cousin.

Chief fans are the worst in the NFL and they take it up a notch when they are on a win streak like now.

Triumph said:

Going to the KC game with my cousin.

Chief fans are the worst in the NFL and they take it up a notch when they are on a win streak like now.

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Make sure to remind them that their head coach and their franchise have never beaten NE in the postseason.