18 games season concept

[juny]

The core problem has been charging fans insane prices for preseason games.

The solution to this, is NOT to add 2 more regular season games.

Roger Goodell is on a hot streak of poor judgement and bad decisions.

:agree:

Fans are about evenly split on this issue, so there is no overwhelming reason from that end.
Players are overwhemingly against the issue, since they know firsthand on the toll of a football season.

Unless NFL owners are bleeding money like NHL owners were, why are they trying to tinker and possibly maim the golden goose?

 

[Pats726]

I agree. I stopped reading at that point.

I am really surprised at how much negativism there is about the prospect of an 18 game schedule.

All I have heard for many years are comments like these...

Man, I hate pre season

They have a nerve charging full price for a pre season game

I wont waste my time going to a pre season game to see players play that aren't going to make the team

Pre season football sucks

It isnt worth risking an injury in a game that means nothing...

And many more.........

Havent all of you said some of those things once in a while?

Well....I am sure u have HEARD these things...BUT Not from me..nor many fans of football...MAYBE season ticket holders..DO say that....but they as a whole are in a minority..small minority if u look at the base of football fans in general....BUT the answer is NO!!!!!!!!!!! I am sure some have said things...BUT those who know about the game KNOW how an 18 game schedule will change the game..MORE is not better...THAt is a fallacy..and they THE NFL will end up ruining a good thing and then wonder what happened...If it AIN'T broke don't fix it....

 

[Wolfpack]

1. You increase the roster to 55 men, and the game day roster to 50

A roster increase is a good idea, and I think we will see it.

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.

No way this gets implemented, which is good because it would be an absolute disaster.

 

[Wolfpack]

IF this is going to happen, the I would offer that the easiest way to schedule it would be in three 6-game units.

Every team plays 6 games, then gets a bye week. Then they play the next 6 games, with another bye week, then the final 6 games. that gives each team an extra week to rest up players.

Those two bye weeks would be league-wide, so every team would be off on those two weeks. The NFL could use those times to have some sort of NFL/Local Team experience at the venues. Family days to visit the stadiums, tour the clubhouse, see the "NFL Experience" maybe meet players or retired players, stuff like that. Plenty of time for NFL Network to replay the previous games, etc. In other words, rest the teams and keep the fans engaged through new PR outreach programs.

Regardless, a season made up of three 6-game segments could work very well, and certainly make those last few weeks even more interesting for all involved.

Respects

There's no need to give every single team the exact same bye week. It would just be throwing money away and I doubt true NFL fans would want an entire week off without games (I know I sure wouldn't).

 

[Wolfpack]

I was trying to work out how the schedule would work, if it carried on the way it is.

It's an extra home and away game per season; but who would them teams be?

I had an idea about that. You add 2 conference games against teams in the divisions you are not playing who finished near you the previous year.

Yeah, I know that made no sense so let me give an example: This year the Patriots had 14 fixed games: 6 in the division, all 4 AFC North teams and all 4 NFC North teams.

Since the Patriots were #1 in their division last year, the other 2 games are against the #1 teams from the AFC South and West. You can just add the #2 teams from those divisions as well and voila: 18 game schedule. This year it would be Denver and Houston. Similarly, the #3 team in the AFC East would play #'s 3 and 4 from the AFC South and West.

 

[Wolfpack]

Outside of this board, which seems very much (although not universally) opposed to the 18 game schedule, I've spoken about this with well over 100 people, of varying levels of football devotion (it's the party season, and it comes up in conversation). Not one person has spoken in favor of going to an 18 game regular season.

Over 100 people and not one single dissenting opinion?

Bullcrap.

 

[Wolfpack]

Two viable QB's would be impossible in a league where half the teams don't have one...

The folly in the 18 game season beyond increased injury is you will end up with those two meaningless or uncompetitive games one way or another, most likely in the last two weeks of the season, something the league has been moved to attempt to mitigate recently already.

Some teams will have meaningless games at the end of the season. Some teams will go all the way to the wire and decide their division (or wild card or HFA or whatever) on the final weekend.

More total games will give us both more meaningful ones and more meaningless ones. It ain't like 100% of the new games are going to be meaningless.

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

My position is imple, perhaps simplistic. MORE REVENUE IS GOOD FOR THE OWNERS AND THE PLAYERS. It is ALWAYS better to be negotiating when the revenue pot is increasing. Do you disagree?

So with that way of thinking, why not have 0 preseason games and 20 regular season games? Why not expand it to 22? Wouldn't that be even more revenue which is good?

 

[mgteich]

I think the teams NEED a couple of preseason games, although scrimmages could do the same thing if worked right.

So with that way of thinking, why not have 0 preseason games and 20 regular season games? Why not expand it to 22? Wouldn't that be even more revenue which is good?

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

I think the teams NEED a couple of preseason games, although scrimmages could do the same thing if worked right.

Well my post was meant as sarcasm but I agree that teams need some preseason games.

My point is that I don't want to see this simply because I don't see a problem with the system we have. I don't see a problem with "just" 16 games.

What if they move to 18 games and it does give the owners the extra money they want? What will stop them from eventually wanting 20 games?

I love how football doesn't drag on like other sports. I don't want to see it become that and I don't want this to be the beginning of that happening.