18 Game Schedule.. Good or Bad?

[rypper11]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

1. Every team gets two bye weeks. As a consequence of this, we'll now have 20 weeks of regular season football to watch instead of just 17. Football season is my favorite time of the year, so i'm all about adding a few weeks.

2. Increase roster sizes and/or allow the full roster to be eligible to play on gamedays.

3. Change IR rules to allow players to come back from IR during the regular season.

4. Provide some kind of incentive for playoff-bound teams to play starters during the final weeks of the regular season. My suggestion - have the last 4 weeks of a teams schedule be divisional games.

5. On the flip side of the previous suggestion, have the first few games of the regular season be non-conference games for every team. these games are less important from a tie-breaking standpoint, and should be played near the beginning of the season to allow teams to "Gear up" more for the "more important" regular season games to be played later in the year.

I like these suggestions but would add a couple more. You should be allowed to remove a certain number of players from IR. Training camp reduced to 2-3 weeks. 2-3 OTA's with no pads (mandatory). NFL players today don't need to get into shape, they just need to learn systems and playbooks.