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Even better: Both teams.Just wait until a team decides to rest all of its star players in a marquee game on a Sunday night to prove a point. I'm sure the league would LOVE that
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Even better: Both teams.Just wait until a team decides to rest all of its star players in a marquee game on a Sunday night to prove a point. I'm sure the league would LOVE that
I can't even comprehend the roster management challenges that would come from this.
More complexity benefits the Pats. BB does complexity better than the rest of the league. Nevertheless, this idea stinks on ice.
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As far as the fans go, I think it would be fascinating to talk about the rosters going into each game. Who plays and doesn't would make for great discussions as well thinking about the 20-2o hindsight thought after the game.
Bottom line- line Turkeyneck made an excellent point. If this idea went through it would ratchet up the complexity of the game as well as putting a premium on good coaching, 2 areas when the Pats EXCEL. Building a deeper roster filled with a lot of mid level quality players would become more important and that's what the Pats have been doing for YEARS I'm fine with any changes that give the Pats an advantage.
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Just some crybabies trying to figure out how to (once again) level the playing field between the Pats and the rest of the NFL. When your team has the games greatest player of course the losers want to devise a rule to get him off the field. Duh....
Lol! can you imagine almost every team resting their best players against the Patriots. Would be too funny.
Edit: @PatsDeb beat me to it!
League's attepmt to slow brady down. Brady wont ever sit healthy.
Hi folks, I just returned to file a report from Planet Sensible, which exists in an alternate universe. There, the NFL has a 16-game regular season and preseason games have been replaced by controlled scrimmages open to the public free of charge as part of training camp. Rules emphasize balance between offense and defense. There is no Thursday Night Football. Also, the head custodian at Met Life Stadium in the Meadowlands is a guy named Roger Goodell.
League's attepmt to slow brady down. Brady wont ever sit healthy.
I think that could be called EXHIBITION GAMES! The owners objective is more money. That's all they focus on.If this idiot scheme actually happens, I could see basically conceding your first two non-conference games by playing all scrubs to get it all out of the way. Then you can play the other games with the players you want playing as opposed to probably always having at least some person out you don't want to be out.
It took 3 pages of posts before one enlightened poster begins to uncover the owner’s true intentions..... offer a plan that expands the pie but doesn’t share the extra slices and then let human nature take its usual course.Do I get it right, the owners want to increase the revenue by making it a 18 game season but still want to pay the players for 16 games only?
Like, "Yes, we want to earn more but don't want to share it with those earning us the money"?
Yeah great idea
On the other hand why sit out players early when they might end up missing games due to injury?If this idiot scheme actually happens, I could see basically conceding your first two non-conference games by playing all scrubs to get it all out of the way. Then you can play the other games with the players you want playing as opposed to probably always having at least some person out you don't want to be out.
This is not accurate.It took 3 pages of posts before one enlightened poster begins to uncover the owner’s true intentions..... offer a plan that expands the pie but doesn’t share the extra slices and then let human nature take its usual course.
I give these owners lots of credit.... they operate like shrewd business men utilizing every bit of leverage and psychological warfare they possess.
Sweating the details of such a nonsensical plan misses the big picture of what the owners are trying to ultimately accomplish:
Dangling extra income opportunities (2 extra real games) then telling players they can’t have any is cruel and brilliant. Like dangling a juicy steak over a pit of starving hyenas and then waiting for an impulsive action.
The players and more importantly their greedy agents who represent a workforce whose careers average 4 years have choices to consider:
Play 4 meaningless preseason games and 16 regular season games ...aka... status quo.
Play 2 meaningless preseason games and 16 of 18 regular season games without additional financial benefit.... except for the additional players hired to fill empty slots.
Play 2 preseason and all 18 regular season games at a negotiated boosted wage.
Factor in the reality that more players will need to be paid in the 16 out of 18 scenario thereby reducing average wages of the top 53 (more players same size pie)
I see this expanded season concept as an attempt by owners to change the narrative and let player/agent greed naturally take hold. History has shown player union members don’t like giving up paychecks and they also don’t like ceding money over to newcomers just arriving in the league.
OT: owners are displaying heavy leverage tactics right now vs NFL officiating as well....terminating full time officiating positions just as negotiations begin.
Ruthless and brilliant
This is where I'm at too. Why sit a player early on when they could get hurt the next game & be done for the year?On the other hand why sit out players early when they might end up missing games due to injury?
The smart move would be to use the first half of the season to sit out players who are less than 100% giving them a recovery week, especially taking matchups into consideration.
Teams that mismanage this will end up sitting players early who end up missing even more games later at a point when they have to sit other players because if the rule and/or are decimated for the last month of the season.
But then your healthy players end up sitting out key December games with playoff implications.This is where I'm at too. Why sit a player early on when they could get hurt the next game & be done for the year?
I think playing the full 16 is what the majority of teams, if not all will do.
Its an awful idea. Thursday night games, London, this... NFL isn't about the player or his safety.But then your healthy players end up sitting out key December games with playoff implications.
It’s just a terrible, terrible idea.
The players will be paid for the extra games.Do I get it right, the owners want to increase the revenue by making it a 18 game season but still want to pay the players for 16 games only?
Like, "Yes, we want to earn more but don't want to share it with those earning us the money"?