Johnny Nix Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Would two struggling NFL teams ever consider merging to form a more competitive one? Take the Bengals and Browns for instance. Could they merge and form a new team and still keep all their players into the offseason until they were forced to cut down to 53? I know this hasn’t been historically done for some time, but is it even a possibility in today’s NFL? I’d imagine it would be up for a league owner vote (would be shocked if it actually went through), and the NFL would probably want another expansion team to be lined up to take the place of the 32nd team. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission27 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Bengals and Browns merging would be interesting. Play half your games in Cincy and half in Cleveland. I still think they'd go 5-11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuskieTitan Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Two halves do not make a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Nix Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 Or build a new stadium in Columbus half way and realize the dream that is the Columbus Carp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMountainGoat Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 I can't see it happening. But the only time I think could, would not be on poor on field performance, but poor off field. And even then I think they would move not merge. The Chargers merging with the Rams is the only situation I think you even have a 0.001% chance of being considered, and that's because the NFL can't live with the Chargers playing 16 away games each year because they have such weak support in LA, and it might be more palatable to merge and create an expansion team than move them again within 10 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BayRaider Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 I think the Bengals/Browns would combine their win total. So, 5 wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soko Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 It’ll never happen, but for fun, I’ll look at the two worst teams (record wise) - the Browns and Giants. QB: Eli, Geno RB: D Johnson, Crowell WR: OBJ, Gordon, Shepard, Coleman TE: Engram, Njoku LT: J Thomas LG: Joel Bitonio C: Richburg RG: Zeitler RT: Pugh/Schwartz DE: Garrett DT: Snacks DT: Shelton/Tomlinson DE: JPP/Vernon OLB: Collins MLB: Goodson OLB: Kennard CB: Jenkins, McCourty, BBC, DRC, Apple S: Collins S: Kindred Having Spags/Jackson as the coaches would be the real issue here. Playing up to their talent, this could be a playoff team though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malfatron Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 3 hours ago, johndeere1707 said: Would two struggling NFL teams ever consider merging to form a more competitive one? Take the Bengals and Browns for instance. Could they merge and form a new team and still keep all their players into the offseason until they were forced to cut down to 53? I know this hasn’t been historically done for some time, but is it even a possibility in today’s NFL? I’d imagine it would be up for a league owner vote (would be shocked if it actually went through), and the NFL would probably want another expansion team to be lined up to take the place of the 32nd team. Thoughts? the Clevenatti Bro-gals. like it! better than getting a 33rd team anyway. the expansion team would need to go into the afc north, otherwise we'd need realignment. could be a good opportunity to bring a canadian team into the nfl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renndawg37 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 29 minutes ago, Yin-Yang said: It’ll never happen, but for fun, I’ll look at the two worst teams (record wise) - the Browns and Giants. QB: Eli, Geno RB: D Johnson, Crowell WR: OBJ, Gordon, Shepard, Coleman TE: Engram, Njoku LT: J Thomas LG: Joel Bitonio C: Richburg RG: Zeitler RT: Pugh/Schwartz DE: Garrett DT: Snacks DT: Shelton/Tomlinson DE: JPP/Vernon OLB: Collins MLB: Goodson OLB: Kennard CB: Jenkins, McCourty, BBC, DRC, Apple S: Collins S: Kindred Having Spags/Jackson as the coaches would be the real issue here. Playing up to their talent, this could be a playoff team though. Christian Kirksey >>>>> Devon Kennard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biletnikoff Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 this is why you arent a billionaire. people are still dumb enough in both cities to go to games because they are fat and have nothing better to do. theres no need to merge till people wise up and dont go at all. its about expansion,not contraction. they sent the Cards and Jaguars to europe lol people are so dumb,that they went to those games. No merging teams is needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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