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What would you guys think of a longer NFL season? Compared to the 17 weeks of football of today maybe add 4 more weeks add another bye week making 2 weeks off. All that in a nut shell would equal 18 weeks of football so only 2 games would be added to the season.

What do you guys think???
 
Bro the season is hard enough on these guys bodies, and to throw some more games for them to play is just asking for more injuries in my opinion.:wink:
 
Fin Fan in Cali said:
Bro the season is hard enough on these guys bodies, and to throw some more games for them to play is just asking for more injuries in my opinion.:wink:
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Thats my thinking also. It doesn't matter what kind of money the owners/league can throw at these guys, their bodies can only take so much.
 
If they do add 1 or 2 games to the regular season I would take those 1 or 2 games off of preseason. One game for each team could be played overseas if the league has its mind up to go that way without giving away any more "home" games.
 
Dakota FinFan said:
If they do add 1 or 2 games to the regular season I would take those 1 or 2 games off of preseason. One game for each team could be played overseas if the league has its mind up to go that way without giving away any more "home" games.
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I am not a big fan of overseas games on regular basis as you lose a lot of time traveling, when the time could be used with the trainers getting better, studying game film, and preparing for next weeks opponent.:wink:
 
Fin Fan in Cali said:
I am not a big fan of overseas games on regular basis as you lose a lot of time traveling, when the time could be used with the trainers getting better, studying game film, and preparing for next weeks opponent.:wink:
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I'am not a big fan of the overseas games neither. We're kind of getting lucky with the most of the brits being Dolphin fans, but this is still an American sport and should be play on American soil. Preseason is one thing, but losing a regular season game is another.
I doubt that you'll ever see a Man U/Arsenal game over here or a Celtic/Rangers or a Real Madrid/Barcelona, or a top German game over on US soil.
I feel the same way about NASCAR going south of the border. NASCAR is an American sport and should be ran on American pavement/dirt.
 
SamBoSqueezy said:
What would you guys think of a longer NFL season? Compared to the 17 weeks of football of today maybe add 4 more weeks add another bye week making 2 weeks off. All that in a nut shell would equal 18 weeks of football so only 2 games would be added to the season.

What do you guys think???
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Well first I dont understand your math. You say 17 weeks so I assume you are counting the bye as it is now with 16 games. If you add 4 weeks and one is a bye then thats 19 games and 21 weeks. But, you say only 2 games would be added and say 18 weeks. I guess you mean 18 games when you say weeks this time. But with 2 byes thats 20 weeks not 21. Even if you meant 17 weeks as in weeks not games, and add 4 weeks as in games and count the bye extra bye seperate thats 22 weeks and 20 games. Im lost. You should be consistant and if you refer to weeks as the number calendar weeks and not games do the same later in the writing. No matter how you did it whether you called weeks as games first, then weeks as calendar weeks, or weeks as calendar weeks then total games, or weeks as games both times, or weeks as calendar weeks both times your math is off. What are you talking about????

To answer your question though I would say no to adding more games. 16 regular season is plenty. 2 or 3 preseason is plenty too. They should maybe cut a preseason game or two.

I wouldnt mind if they added a second bye week while staying at 16 games.

Also making all the teams in each conference take the bye on the same week would be much more fair. That way there is still football on those weekends and no team has advantages over teams in their own conference as far as timing of the bye week.

Maybe they should look into playing interconference games all on the same 4 weeks as well.

I would make a great commissioner when it comes to scheduling and orginization of the leagues structure to maximize fairness.
 
FiveStar said:
Agreed
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Disagreed. Who would say no to MORE football?? Season goes by so quick every year, then the six month layoff is brutal. Injury argument is stupid in my opinion. Maybe we should lobby for less games than 16 so these poor players won't get so injured. Maybe we should just abolish football period then nobody will get hurt at all.
 
KuD said:
Disagreed. Who would say no to MORE football?? Season goes by so quick every year, then the six month layoff is brutal. Injury argument is stupid in my opinion. Maybe we should lobby for less games than 16 so these poor players won't get so injured. Maybe we should just abolish football period then nobody will get hurt at all.
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The injury argument is not stupid. If you play extra games during the season and you lose your star players for an an extra game or two, and don't have them available for the playoff run, what did the extra games get you? Do you want quanity over quality?
 
Fin Fan in Cali said:
The injury argument is not stupid. If you play extra games during the season and you lose your star players for an an extra game or two, and don't have them available for the playoff run, what did the extra games get you? Do you want quanity over quality?
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Great point. Also an 18 game season could take an extra few years off of guys careers. That many games could go over the threshold. In other words the toll taken in game 17 and 18 is probably more than games 1 and 2 of the following season. A player who plays 10 years in 18 games a year has probably lost more on the back end of his career than someone who plays 180 games over the 11 seasons and 4 games it would take now.

Also consider playoffs. Guys could play in as many as 5 preseason and 22 reg/post season games if they went to 18 regular season. 27 games out of a 52.5 week year is just too much to ask. We already have a sick amount of retired players who have tremendous damage to their body and minds. With the athletes getting bigger and stronger this is only going to get worse.

Thats why I say keep it at 16(there are enough tiebreak situations for playoffs already, having less than 16 games would not be enough of a sample to keep there from being a sick amount of ties) but, add a bye week and kill a couple of preseason games.
 
KuD said:
Disagreed. Who would say no to MORE football?? Season goes by so quick every year, then the six month layoff is brutal. Injury argument is stupid in my opinion. Maybe we should lobby for less games than 16 so these poor players won't get so injured. Maybe we should just abolish football period then nobody will get hurt at all.
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It would be easy for us to say this while sitting on our couches eating some nice stuff(pizza, wings, grilled food, chips, cheeses, drinking beer or soda) and watching the action. Id say it would be tougher to make this claim if we were on the field banging against a 280lb beast of a man 30 or more times in a 3 hrs span for 16 weeks a year. Heck running backs can take several shots per carry.
 
Fin Fan in Cali said:
Bro the season is hard enough on these guys bodies, and to throw some more games for them to play is just asking for more injuries in my opinion.:wink:
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I really don't buy that. I know it's what is sold all around the media but I don't buy it. Professional rugby league players here, who play 80 minute games without protective equipment, play a 25 week season followed by 6 weeks of playoffs. In the off-season they play in international games. These guys also play the full 80 minutes week-in-week-out as opposed to limiting themselves to defense or offense. I'm not saying that these guys are 'harder' than NFL players or anything, and their body compositions and fitness levels are entirely different, but it shows that professional athletes in a full-contact sport can last that long.

It also shows that athletes, being professionals, can adapt their bodies accordingly. Therefore, if the season increased, training would change to fit the new season length. It's about adapting the body.
 
HysterikiLL said:
I really don't buy that. I know it's what is sold all around the media but I don't buy it. Professional rugby league players here, who play 80 minute games without protective equipment, play a 25 week season followed by 6 weeks of playoffs. In the off-season they play in international games. These guys also play the full 80 minutes week-in-week-out as opposed to limiting themselves to defense or offense. I'm not saying that these guys are 'harder' than NFL players or anything, and their body compositions and fitness levels are entirely different, but it shows that professional athletes in a full-contact sport can last that long.

It also shows that athletes, being professionals, can adapt their bodies accordingly. Therefore, if the season increased, training would change to fit the new season length. It's about adapting the body.
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That reminds me.... God I hate da bears!:chuckle:

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