HumanCockroach wrote:Wouldn't be difficult to get it to work, add a second bye week, have only the first game on Thursday, then not until after week four and only teams coming off said byes participate, have multiples, play Saturday instead of Thursday... plenty could be done, but ultimately they don't give two squirts about players safety, no matter what they profess, they care about one thing, and one thing only.... same as it's always been.
Largent80 wrote:They already tried adding a second bye week. in 1993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_regular_season
They need to ditch these games except for Thanksgiving, and for the Thanksgiving games it would be wise if they rotated the home teams. The Dallas and Detroit crap sandwich has gotten very stale.
HumanCockroach wrote:Why pre tell would they "have to eliminate" the bye week before the SB or a preseason game... it isn't complicated... if they want to keep both, and can't move the SB, start preseason a week earlier, have everyone play the same week as the HOF game... those two could actually reduce wear and tear by only playing 4 games in preseason like everyone else. You're making it far bigger than it is... the SB could be pushed back ( same as it's been numerous times) preseason could be brought forward. Logistically speaking, it's not only doable, but EASILY doable. If I can figure out possibilities, than a multi billion dollar company should be able to figure it out...
HumanCockroach wrote: If baseball has an issue, so what? NFL is America's game, has been for decades.
HumanCockroach wrote:You're attempting to find flaws were there aren't any, and arguing for argument sake. It isn't rocket science, and you're attempting to make it so. Pretending like he 4 days difference between HOF game and the first regular preseason game is some sort of line in the sand is pretty funny, truth is during August both Baseball and Football is pretty much low rating irrelevant to the vast majority of fans, why it's referred to as the "doldrums of the baseball season" hell, the world fricken series is played DURING the regular season, so save it.
As for pushing the SB back a week, spare me there too, it simply isn't as big of a deal as you're professing, and they've done it as you pointed out NUMEROUS times, pretending like once more is going to be the straw that broke the camel's back seems more like a personal issue with it, no more.
Truth is, players would be 100% in the corner of it, baseball wouldn't give two shakes if there was more football 4 or 5 days earlier, it would eliminate the necessity for DANGEROUS LY ignoring player safety, AND allow the NFL to continue to cram a third timeslot in each week.
I ain't got all the answers, nor do I NEED to have them, I'm not running a multi Billion dollar company, and am not PAID to come up with those answers. However, if the best you can do is baseball won't like pushing up games a handful of days, and they can't move the SB cuz they moved it several times, I'm not sold on you're reasoning for why it just can't be Donne. It CAN be, and SHOULD be, or they SHOULD abolish Thursday night football in its entirety, if they don't adjust soon, they can stuff every rule and change in the sake of "player safety" straight up their lying assess.
HumanCockroach wrote:Not coincidence that injuries increase, and every player asked about it says there isn't enough time to recover. Plenty of articles on it if you feel inclined to look them up, but feel free to feel however about it, it's not my body going through cat wreck after car wreck and then being asked to do it again four days later. I suppose I tend to believe the people subjected to the environment, than people that have never experienced it. To each their own I guess.
In conclusion, I'll ask just one question.... after being battered, bruised and injured, is it better for the human body to have more time to recuperate, and get medical rehabilitation, or less? Ultimately, that's the only question that needs to be answered really. Anyone saying the second has either lived in a bubble and never been, or doesn't have the foggiest how the human body works.
But let me ask you a question: If players are getting so battered and bruised as you say they are and that playing on 4 days rest subjects players to such an obviously increased risk of injury, why on Earth would teams conduct full contact practices on 3 days rest? Why not just take the entire week off and only experience full contact during the games?
RiverDog wrote:The NFL just signed a 5 year contract with Fox to televise Thursday Night Football.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/fo ... spartanntp
When they first came up with the idea, I was all for it, giving us 3 days out of the week in which we can watch NFL football. But lately, the matchups have been relatively poor and the gimmicks, in particular the color rush, are getting to be annoying. Additionally, the players and coaches don't like it. As a result, I'm much more ambivalent about TNF than I used to be. I can take it or leave it.
Ironically, the league signed a 5 year TNF agreement, carrying it through 2022, even though the current CBA expires a year earlier.
Largent80 wrote:NFL is sliding bigtime. To say that it's Americas game s NOT accurate because people are tuning out in record numbers. I don't even know how a person could say otherwise.
The stupid rules, the limited rosters, there's so many reasons.
Yet they think everything is the same. It's like a spouse that is abusive. She'll stay despite the beatings.
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