Roger Goodell has been discussing the 18-game NFL season for just a few years, suggesting that that is the course the league will finally take. After transitioning to an unbalanced 17-game season, many believed the league would keep there for a number of years. Nonetheless, further video games result in elevated income for the house owners, and finally, they may obtain their objective, sooner that later, participant properly being be damned! With the topic coming again up but once more final week, I then requested:
With the potential for an 18-game season seeming extra seemingly and even inching towards being extra seemingly than not, do you imagine there’s a probability that the house owners don’t get their method this time, regardless of that normally/virtually all the time being the way it goes? Furthermore, if and when this occurs, assuming that it does occur, what do you suppose the gamers ought to ask for/demand in return from the house owners, and what do you suppose the house owners will finally concede to earn more money for themselves?
Beneath are a few of your ideas and answers-
RobNJ65 is especially involved with the stupidity that’s the Thursday night time recreation.
No Thursday night time video games LOL
MIAMI235 additionally believes that it’ll occur. Concerning elevating the cap, I believe they may comply with the identical method as after they transitioned from 16 to 17 video games. The staff’s cap was not adjusted, however the base wage for gamers was elevated, and gamers who signed a deal earlier than Feb 2020 acquired a 1/seventeenth pay bump in the event that they have been on the roster for the seventeenth recreation. Inside a season, the cap will self-adjust itself to mirror the extra income gained from the additional recreation.
You’re in all probability proper that this can occur; it is only a matter of time. Honest possibility, could possibly be to lift the wage cap by 1/18 in an effort to compensate gamers accordingly.
tvegas897, like many people, sees the problems arising as they pertain to participant security.
Want the NFL had a clue. Participant security my arse. Restore some guidelines that make soccer an actual contact sport once more and neglect the foolish recreation enlargement. It’s a joke
Dolfanjoe needs greater rosters if/when it occurs, however sees the sport being watered down.
Obtained to make one other greenback ! TV time is cash time ! 2 preseason apply video games, 18 common video games. 56 man common roster. 22 0n the apply squad. In the reduction of on among the apply time. Be capable to shield extra gamers on the apply squads. Third emergency QB not counting towards the weekly roster. In fact the wage cap will go up fairly a bit. Everybody will make extra of the Holy Greenback ! And naturally the sport will find yourself being watered down much more. Yea i believe its inevitable !
sdphinsfan says it’s coming, so develop the rosters and add a bye week to go together with extra cap house.
Guys, that is going to occur. When all you had was the published retailers and ESPN, it was straightforward to handle the sport stock. However now you’ve the streaming retailers, who’ve proven they’ll deal with the video games and produce scores. You may’t double the variety of clients and never enhance the stock.
An 18 recreation schedule is simple to do when you do three different issues to go together with it.
1. Increase the lively roster to 60.
2. Enhance the cap extra aggressively
3. Add a 2nd bye week
Sports activities is the one factor on TV that constantly produces scores. And no sport produces scores just like the NFL. And also you’ve obtained the two to three weeks of useless time from the SB to the beginning of March Insanity. The NFL needs to monetize that point of 12 months.
When eventualities come round that provides considerably extra money for house owners and gamers, it occurs…and this can too.
SlayerNation1 says this was occurring all alongside, and the give attention to participant security was only a distraction to get us all to look the opposite method.
Sure and I’m positive it was the plan from the beginning: add 17 for just a few seasons after which go to 18. An uneven quantity is odd (pun meant) and solely helps Vegas set over/unders simply.
I additionally imagine the disingenuous participant security issues are a sleight of hand to lull you to sleep whereas they add video games. e.g. the hokey kickoff, guardian cap, blaming tush push on security, and so forth.
Like something in life, comply with the cash. They may nonetheless play unsafe Thursday video games.
Talking of cash, anticipate 8 groups within the playoffs to shortly comply with. I may see going to No Bye week for the playoffs, simply HFA.
The Gamers will need cash and one other Bye Week.
Anyway, I used to be completely tremendous with the undiluted 16 video games, 1 Bye Week.
NFL is an leisure product. Rule #1 is “all the time go away them wanting extra” to not be confused with “giving the viewers extra”.
Extra, poorly performed video games with understudies, is unattractive.
The NFL had the system at 16 video games: 7 months of buildup, 1 week in between video games, the complete season is intertwined with main American Holidays of Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Yr’s.
All the time ask your self: “ought to I am going forward and repair this nice merchandise that isn’t damaged?”
The NFL all the time picks at it, extra Worldwide video games, poorly performed high quality Thursday video games, Vacation video games on 4 totally different pay apps. The siren music of extra money is just too robust. How a lot cash do they want?
Thomas23059 is aware of that it’s all in regards to the cash!
It’s extra money for the house owners and gamers, so sure it’s going to seemingly occur. It means extra ticket income, extra concession gross sales, and, assuming they add a second bye, two extra weeks on the common season TV contracts.
Identical to in free company, they gamers will discuss recreation about every little thing else that issues, however in the long run, they may take the cash.
Francesco ITA believes that it’ll make these ultimate video games much more nugatory.
and an increasing number of meaningless video games on the finish of the season ….
dedstrk316 is one other on board with the expanded rosters.
In the event that they do that, they need to develop the gameday rosters considerably
Humorous how just a few months can change issues. The final time I raised this concern, many feedback urged that this would not occur. I used to be uncertain myself, though I believed that it might most probably occur if there was sufficient cash to be made. I believe we’ve all come to the conclusion that the “participant security” side is only a method to silence the critics as a result of they have been all the time going to stretch this out so far as they may to proceed discovering new methods to line their fats pockets. Such is the way in which of the world!
Thanks to each considered one of you who constantly takes the time to answer our query of the day. Having an extended season can have one profit for me. It is going to make it a lot simpler for me to provide you with questions for an extended time frame.
