This Is Rival Talk v1.0

[ChaRisMa]

1 hour ago, AlexGreen#20 said:

Come on dude. This isn't Madden with endurance bars. QBs play fully healthy seasons all the damn time. 

I’m only 10% serious about this. Just want more football. The year that I thought this idea up, I believe it was 60% of the starter QBs made every game, absolutely agree with you. 

That also means 40% of the league walked into weeks at a major disadvantage. This reads like a communist wrote it when I type it but it’ll level the playing field a degree regarding injury. It’ll develop young guys. The aging QBs are the ones that gain the most money from an additional game of course. It will create drama for the last two weeks of the regular season for even bad teams that are out of it. Teams are forced to try different players? What losing fan base isn’t clamoring for that by week 12? Will someone be upset when they’re knocked out of the playoffs because of this rule? Yes. Will they have an excuse? No. Plan accordingly. Everyone knows you’re gonna lose your top string at each position for at least two games. It’ll show us a lot about coaches.

It gets me out of another week of the NFL offseason. Hell let’s make this thing 26 weeks. A tough 30 game season if you win it all. Come on, Players Union. These guys are only this age so long let’s squeeze some juice outta their youth while they have it. It’s a crime we’re preventing these guys from playing football for us year round and making their money. A crime.

Tell you what, full summary of how I feel about the NFL offseason.

 

[squire12]

13 minutes ago, ChaRisMa said:

That also means 40% of the league walked into weeks at a major disadvantage

But forcing a backup QB to start 2 games (11%) for each team is pushing it more toward bad football 

[ChaRisMa]

46 minutes ago, squire12 said:

But forcing a backup QB to start 2 games (11%) for each team is pushing it more toward bad football 

Agree those two weeks will be down weeks from a performance of athletes point of view. But the exposure and live game reps opens the door for more parody and a healthier league the first 16 weeks of the next season. If an established QB suddenly has a stud backup exposed to the world. That stud backup is going to be starting somewhere else next year. Part of why we don’t have a capable QB for every team is because teams with established full health QBs never have reason to showcase their backups. 

Those weeks already stink overall for a bunch of reasons but a bad NFL weekend is still a game with playoff implications in every TV slot. We flex games to solve this issue already.

Asking NFL teams to have a QB2 ready to play well after 20 weeks of practice isn’t asking for something they aren’t supposed to have anyway. 

[incognito_man]

1 hour ago, ChaRisMa said:

But the exposure and live game reps opens the door for more parody

I think this is unintentionally hilarious

[Malfatron]

5 hours ago, ChaRisMa said:

Hell let’s make this thing 26 weeks. A tough 30 game season if you win it all.

I thought 17 games was bad enough

Sit down sir

[Malfatron]

And yes thats all i read

[Mazrimiv]

9 hours ago, ChaRisMa said:

But the exposure and live game reps opens the door for more parody

Mad respect if this was on purpose.

[Old Guy]

Bears, WR DJ Moore agree to terms on four-year, $110 million extension (nfl.com)

This is actually a bargain compared to many of the big contracts being handed out to WRs. Still a tough number for me to swallow for a WR. 

The more I think about it, keep drafting WR's Gute and either trade them prior to hitting free agency or let them walk. 

Grab 3 WRs every two years. 

[skibrett15]

On 7/30/2024 at 9:01 AM, AlexGreen#20 said:

Ever watch the NBA with their rest days? 

Teams wouldn't rest their starting QB against bad teams. They would rest them against elite teams. 

The Chiefs wouldn't see a starting QB all year (maybe a division game).)

This would devastate primetime matchups. 

if they go 18 there is 0 chance they will stop players from playing all 18 for exactly the reasons you mention.

 

Honestly,  I wouldn't mind 2 more bye weeks per team and 1 fewer preseason game.  There's still plenty to watch any given sunday even if more teams are on bye.

[Mazrimiv]

1 hour ago, skibrett15 said:

Honestly,  I wouldn't mind 2 more bye weeks per team and 1 fewer preseason game.  There's still plenty to watch any given sunday even if more teams are on bye.

There were multiple crap weeks during the one season (1993) when the league had two byes.  Maybe it wouldn't be quite as bad now with a 2nd bye week since there are 32 teams rather than 28, but a 3rd bye week would be nuts.

[Brat&Beer]

I was opposed to going from 16 games to 17. It was perfect. 16 games, 32 teams, 12 playoff teams. There was a kind of symmetry to it. 17 just doesn't feel right. But now that we're at 17, I feel might as well go to 18 with an extra bye week. 18 games and a 20 week season seems better.  I wonder if the owners are thinking about adding an 8th playoff team as well.

[ThatJerkDave]

12 minutes ago, Brat&Beer said:

I was opposed to going from 16 games to 17. It was perfect. 16 games, 32 teams, 12 playoff teams. There was a kind of symmetry to it. 17 just doesn't feel right. But now that we're at 17, I feel might as well go to 18 with an extra bye week. 18 games and a 20 week season seems better.  I wonder if the owners are thinking about adding an 8th playoff team as well.

I like that teams have staggered bye weeks because it allows more exposure when the local team is not on.  Probably the only time I get to watch the Seahawks, Jags, or Bills, if they aren't on in prime time.  But an 18 week 2 bye week schedule would be fair.  Perhaps everyone gets 6 games, then a bye, then 6 games, then the second bye.  

[Old Guy]

19 minutes ago, Brat&Beer said:

I was opposed to going from 16 games to 17. It was perfect. 16 games, 32 teams, 12 playoff teams. There was a kind of symmetry to it. 17 just doesn't feel right. But now that we're at 17, I feel might as well go to 18 with an extra bye week. 18 games and a 20 week season seems better.  I wonder if the owners are thinking about adding an 8th playoff team as well.

No matter how you slice it, the 18th game takes time off of players careers. There are only so many games of that pounding a body can take. 

I'd like to go back to 16 (never happen), lower the cap and put ceiling on what each position can make. Just do two preseason games as well and 2 bye weeks.

Also, clean up the void years and mathematics gymnastics teams do with contracts. That is the only way to have a true cap. I also know there is not a snowballs chance in hell any of this would happen. 

As much of a capitalist as I am, I understand the need for some socialism in professional sports as it pertains to the revenue pie. 

Edited July 31 by Old Guy

[Brat&Beer]

They're never going back to 16. I've been wondering whether the players would rather have a 17 game season with 1 bye week, or an 18 game season with 2 bye weeks. Does the extra week of rest offset having to play another game?

[ThatJerkDave]

37 minutes ago, Old Guy said:

No matter how you slice it, the 18th game takes time off of players careers. There are only so many games of that pounding a body can take. 

I'd like to go back to 16 (never happen), lower the cap and put ceiling on what each position can make. Just do two preseason games as well and 2 bye weeks.

Also, clean up the void years and mathematics gymnastics teams do with contracts. That is the only way to have a true cap. I also know there is not a snowballs chance in hell any of this would happen. 

As much of a capitalist as I am, I understand the need for some socialism in professional sports as it pertains to the revenue pie. 

I agree with everything except the ceiling of what positions can make.  If I want to pay my back-up long snapper 45 million per season, then I get to sleep in the bed that I have made.