What Would NFL Commissioner Belichick Do To Fix NFL?

[ChessToCheckers]

With NFL ratings declining, universal fan displeasure, a corrupt, incompetent 345 Park Place, and a Game that is drastically changing before our eyes, the NFL appears to be headed in the wrong direction. If Bill Belichick, the greatest football mind of all time, were to be installed as Commissioner, what would he do? Could he make changes that would turn this around? Times have changed. More medical information is known. More technology is available.

What changes do you think NFL Commissioner Belichick would make? Would The Game be better off?

Your thoughts?

 

[RobertWeathers]

As much as I love BB, I'm not sure I'd want him to be commissioner. You need a sales and marketing guy in there who can play the politics that is ETHICAL and HONORABLE (which is BB). Hes above that job IMO.

I'd like to see BB have complete control (or final say) over a combo of Troy Vincent's job and the competition committee. Gameday ops, officials, rules, dicipline, etc.

I think BB would focus on making sure calls got right.

I think BB would focus on safety and finding a way teams and players can partner on health but trying to practice more.

I think BB would stop the nonsense of the NFL trying to be the moral compass on matters pertaining to DV, drugs, etc and be like the NBA and MLB and let the law sort out those issues.

With BB running that side of the house, the game would most certainly be better off no question

 

[PrairiePat]

Well I suppose we'd get goal line cameras and a reduction in the # of required press conferences

 

[Pats2000]

He would stand up there and say football to any questions asked

 

[ChessToCheckers]

As much as I love BB, I'm not sure I'd want him to be commissioner. You need a sales and marketing guy in there who can play the politics that is ETHICAL and HONORABLE (which is BB). Hes above that job IMO.

I'd like to see BB have complete control (or final say) over a combo of Troy Vincent's job and the competition committee. Gameday ops, officials, rules, etc.

With BB running that side of the house, the game would most certainly be better off

Excellent point, Robert! So, as a condition of taking the job, he convinces the owners to give him that power. He then brings in the appropriate team of people which would include someone to become the "Face Of The NFL".

 

[RobertWeathers]

Excellent point, Robert! So, as a condition of taking the job, he convinces the owners to give him that power. He then brings in the appropriate team of people which would include someone to become the "Face Of The NFL".

Well, I think someone else needs to run the business side of things. The league needs another Pete Rozelle.

I firmly believe that Goody and his band of marketing and operations hacks are dictating to the competition committee and game day ops people how the game should be played and officiated and they are making it as aesthetically pleasing as watching a dog puke.

At its very core, football (my opinion) is the greatest mixture of power, violence, strategy, speed and grace of any sport. If played properly and at a high-level, it is art and beauty combined..... and sells itself.

BB knows this and would do everything he can to make the game flow, be fun to watch, competitive and have systems in place that were quick to remove failures and correct mistakes.

 

[PatsDeb]

He'd implement his ideas of cameras at the goal line and allowing coaches two challenges to any call during the game (penalties included). He'd demand full-time refs and meaningful training so that they all call penalties the same. He'd apply the rules fairly and evenly across the board. You deflate footballs, you get a fine (like it says in the rulebook). You commit domestic violence - you are gone 5 games (like it says in the rulebook), and the league will investigate whether you should gone permanently, cause we don't put up with crap like that around here. On the other hand, he'd get rid of dumb, ticky tack rules like 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct for celebrating a TD.

 

[The Brandon Five]

1. Goal-line and sideline cameras and lasers
2. Less dumba$$ery
3. Seattle!

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Bake sale and car wash to raise money for those sideline cameras...............

 

[qbno12]

Remove coaches like Jeff Fisher from Competetion committee. He know jack s*** about football. It boggles my mind why he is on the committee.
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe Bruce Arians and John Elway are also on the committee now. Not good for NFL

 

[everlong]

Pink slip party for Pash, Kensil and Vincent.

 

[PlanB]

DPI = 15 yds, not spot foul

 

[Froob]

He'd do what's best for the football league.

 

[The Gr8est]

First, he'd give the Pats their stolen draft picks back.

Next, penalize the Ravens and Colts for bringing unsubstantiated charges against another team.

Penalize the Colts for sticking a needle in the Pats' ball on the sidelines.

Impose a rodent tax on the Rats, meaning they are required to pay a tariff to even play on an NFL* field. The reason? Because **** the Rats!
What you subsidize you get more of and what you tax you get less of.

Sell Roger Goodell and Mike Kensil to ISIS.

Institute a "loser pays" policy in regards to accusations against other teams. If you do not have a provable case, then the accusing team will be sanctioned and punished, as if they were the ones committing the offense that they leveled against another team.

The Broncos must relocate their field to a lower altitude to be consistent with other teams, thus removing their unfair home field advantage.

OK, maybe BB wouldn't do that, but I would.

 

[chasa]

BB as commissioner would do things as follows:

1.) Refs would become full time employees

2.)Cameras on the goal line

3.)Keep challenges at 2 per team, but allow for EVERYTHING to be challengable

4.)Domestic violence cases would be handled differently. Any charge would result in the player being put on an exempt list, While on this exempt list the players paycheck will be placed into an escrow account until the player is cleared legally. If the player is cleared by law enforcement the player will get his money plus interest, however should a player be found guilty of domestic violence 50% of the money will be given to the woman(or women) involved, and the remaining 50% given to local women's shelters in the state that the player is a resident.

5.)excessive celebrations will only be penalized if they exceed the amount of time it takes to get the kicking teams in position to kick the extra point, these penalties will not be enforced on the kickoff, instead being enforced on the post touch down attempt.

 

[tasmlab]

Total guess, but I think he would loosen up practice restrictions so the practice season was longer, days could be longer, more padded practices, give teams more time to install systems, more training, more fundamentals, more physical conditioning, etc.

This might make the league over all more competitive.

I could see him wanting smaller rosters, forcing teams to be really careful about depth and valuing multi-faceted players. Fewer specialists.

(I can't support this with anything I've actually heard from BB himself, unlike goal-line cameras)

 

[Galeb]

BB would implement a system where young talent is brought in, groomed in a variety of different areas and rise to the top of the areas in which they excel the most. It would be an adaptive system that keeps huge amounts of relevant data and self-audits every year. League employees would be held accountable, and those that don't meet the standards would quickly be unemployed. The integrity game would be one of the top priorities though you'd rarely ever hear the term from the NFL FO. NFL films would be expanded and get greater access.

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

Of course this is a pipe dream. If we could get a Pete Rozelle type that had BB first on his speed dial, that would be as good as it gets.

 

[RayClay]

Roll the ball out there and let them play. Get an experienced ref to head that office.

 

[fnordcircle]

Ban all fans and media from games because, really, we just ruin it for Belichick.