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11-13-2019, 09:48 PM #1
17-game season more likely
Washington Post's Mark Maske reports there is "positive momentum" that a new NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement will be agreed upon before this postseason is completed.
One of the big discussions of the new CBA is the schedule, and Maske reports it "is increasingly likely to include a 17-game regular season". Adding another game to the regular season has been viewed as a big deal by the players for safety reasons, so the NFLPA will be receiving other benefits in return if a 17-game schedule is agreed upon. Other issues with the CBA include the revenue split, player punishment, rookie contracts, and the franchise tag. There should be more reports on those issues over the next couple of months.
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11-13-2019, 09:58 PM #2Regular 1st Stringer
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I was thinking the league might offer a 2nd bye to appease the NFLPA. I would assume that another week off would be a positive for the players (although I could be wrong). Plus a second bye would make it easier for the league to schedule 8 London games a season.
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11-13-2019, 10:29 PM #3Hall Of Fame Poster
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I don't like the idea of extra games because the season long stats as we are accustomed to them would change. Records get broken ( albeit with an asterisk) and it just changes the what is normal and expected performance wise. Don't get me wrong being able to watch an extra ravens game would be great but I'm a traditionalist in many ways
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11-14-2019, 11:54 AM #4Regular 1st Stringer
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That's happened all throughout NFL history though. We've had a 16-game season since when? 1978? Think about all the records that got displaced that were set pre-78 when they went from 14 games to 16 games. I don't think a little shakeup is a bad thing and allows for a new era of stat leaders.
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11-13-2019, 10:41 PM #5
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16/4/1 being replaced by 17/2/2 could be interesting and might not be too hard to get passed by players(regular season games/preseason games/bye weeks).
The 17th game’s biggest hurdle is likely the odd home/road split which does offer an “unfair” variable. At a minimum, that would have to have a bit of a gate sharing component AND especially a tie-breaker priority change to reflect the huge advantage of having an extra home game.
Nope, here is the solution. Split gate at international games. Every team plays in 1 international game, with all bye weeks taking place before and after. International “month” is Basically November. Week 7, 8 teams get a bye, then play week 8 abroad(London, Berlin, Mexico City, Toronto, for example), then get a week 9 bye. This continues a quarter of the league at a time until week 12. Cities can rotate, but each city gets a month of games in a row. This is a plan that can literally benefit everyone.
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11-13-2019, 11:02 PM #6
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11-14-2019, 09:17 AM #8
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11-14-2019, 11:49 AM #9Regular 1st Stringer
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Yep. This is a big part of the equation: extending the season deeper into winter means NFL dominates story lines even more. February is there for the taking (NBA all-star break doldrums, before March Madness) and the NFL wants it. Pushing back the Super Bowl via a longer season is a great way to do it.
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11-14-2019, 09:19 AM #10
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11-14-2019, 09:27 AM #11Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
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The scheduling and the tiebreaking procedures are crystal-clear and as fair as they could possibly be. No doubt that's one of the reasons Greedell wants to fuck with them. Then there's the NIH (Not Invented Here) factor - you get a bunch of young assholes in the league office who think they can do it better. Which they can't, but that won't prevent them from breaking the system as they fumble* around. (* See what I did there? )
You could've stopped after the first 5 words - that's really all Greedell & his Barely Men (& for that matter most of the owners) care about.
IMHO one of the disastrous consequences of end-stage capitalism-run-riot is how corps will gleefully fold, spindle & mutilate any product line, no matter how beautifully structured and profitable and pleasing to its customers, if some geenyuss convinces upper mismanagement they can squeeze out a few more pennies for the schlockholders (&, not incidentally, bigger buck$ for upper mismanagement). And shamelessly trade on "brand loyalty" to retain customers long after said brand bears no resemblance to the one that won that loyalty in the beginning.
But hey, that's just me......If yinz ain't vaxxed & boosted by now, ain't nuffin' I say gonna change yer mind. Just don't drop dead on my lawn.
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11-14-2019, 12:34 PM #12
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