Talk of a 17 game season. GREAT!

skinsfan_nn · 04-27-2007, 09:39 AM

I welcome a LONGER season, hope it happens.

NFL Considers 17th Regular Season Game - washingtonpost.com

BeastsoftheNFCeast · 04-27-2007, 09:49 AM

Id love this

MTK · 04-27-2007, 09:52 AM

I think they should go to 18 and cut out 2 of the meaningless pre-season games.

BeastsoftheNFCeast · 04-27-2007, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I think they should go to 18 and cut out 2 of the meaningless pre-season games.

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JankySpanky80 · 04-27-2007, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I think they should go to 18 and cut out 2 of the meaningless pre-season games.

That would be the perfect plan. Players probably like it though.

Pocket$ $traight · 04-28-2007, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by JankySpanky80

That would be the perfect plan. Players probably like it though.

Why would the players want to play an additional 2 games for the same pay? Whoever said the union would object is correct. Ever game is like a car wreck. Would you like to be in two additional car wrecks a year? There is no way they go to 18 games and then have a full set of playoff games. Also, I think they have to consider the possibility of watering down the product.

jsarno · 04-28-2007, 02:22 AM

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Why would the players want to play an additional 2 games for the same pay? Whoever said the union would object is correct. Ever game is like a car wreck. Would you like to be in two additional car wrecks a year? There is no way they go to 18 games and then have a full set of playoff games. Also, I think they have to consider the possibility of watering down the product.

I think players will like it for two reasons, if they can drop 2 preseason games for two regular season games, they'd go for it.
Also, adding two games means records previously untouchable, would be MUCH easier to beat. What record would be safe with two more regular season games????

Hijinx · 04-28-2007, 06:08 AM

While I like the idea of getting rid of preseason games in favor of real games, that fact that the NFL wants to play the extra game outside of this country doesn't make me happy. The NFL schedule is already hard to make fair as it is. with Thursday games and short weeks. Imagine having to play a game after having played the previous week in London or Spain. Or needing a win to make the playoffs and having it in Germany or Japan. Any one here ever had that kind of jet lag? What time would these games be? A game in Tokyo started at 1 Pm EST would be 2 AM. You think anyone is going to that game? As much as we love the NFL here in the USA, it has not caught on elsewhere. So be it. Forcing it down the throats of other countries isn't going to help. I think the NFL will be fine if they leave Europe and Asia to MLB and the NBA.

irish · 04-29-2007, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by jsarno

I think players will like it for two reasons, if they can drop 2 preseason games for two regular season games, they'd go for it.
Also, adding two games means records previously untouchable, would be MUCH easier to beat. What record would be safe with two more regular season games????

No preseason games will be dropped so forget about that.

jsarno · 04-28-2007, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I think they should go to 18 and cut out 2 of the meaningless pre-season games.

I agree.
Going to 17 is stupid. It went from 14 to 16...so it's natural to move up to 18. The football season is too short anyway, and the preseason is too long.

TheMalcolmConnection · 04-27-2007, 10:20 AM

ANY EXTRA football is good with me.

EARTHQUAKE2689 · 05-10-2007, 11:46 PM

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ANY EXTRA football is good with me.

exactly what i was thinking

Daseal · 04-27-2007, 10:25 AM

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I'd love a longer season, but with 16 games how beatup are many teams come playoff time?

Schneed10 · 04-27-2007, 10:28 AM

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I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I'd love a longer season, but with 16 games how beatup are many teams come playoff time?

I'd venture to guess not significantly more beat up, it's only one game, and they'd be removing one preseason game as it is.

Besides, all the teams would be dealing with the same schedule, they'd all be on equal levels when it comes to being beat up.

Maybe you think about giving a bye week for all teams to rest up before the playoffs begin? I dunno.

Overall it'd be a good move, getting rid of one of the ridiculous preseason games and exchanging it for a game that counts would be win-win in my eyes.

firstdown · 04-27-2007, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Daseal

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I'd love a longer season, but with 16 games how beatup are many teams come playoff time?

I could see Snyder standing in front of the other owners using that line and then he would here a loud HA HA HA HA HA.

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