(09-06-2017, 07:29 PM)JaguarsWoman Wrote:

(09-06-2017, 11:56 AM)Kane Wrote: Well aren't you argumentative this morning.

It's overhyped because you can't heal from a major injury in one week. And professional millionaire football players deal with dings and dents throughout the season. Them playing 16 games straight really isn't that much different from playing 4 and then 12 like many teams do...
Or playing 10 and then 6.... still long stretches.

Also... they still get their bye... they can "heal up" from training camp and preseason with a week 1 bye.

Only people who know nothing about football would dare to suggest there is no health benefit to having a bye week in the middle of the regular season. Do I need to list injuries that players can recover from in less than two weeks simply by resting at home? What about injuries that become nagging because players did not get a midseason break? Using the logic that you presented, there would be no bye weeks at all in the NFL schedule format. Think about this too: many of  the dings players get throughout the season can lead up to bigger, more severe injuries by the time playoff races heat up. Both the Buccaneers and Dolph8ins will need to be as healthy as possible in Week 11 because they are playoff contenders and in Week 12, the loss of a bye week can affect their chances of winning the next game.

Why do you always default to this? People can have differing opinions to you. Your opinion is not fact, it's your opinion.

Everyone is allowed one.

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(09-07-2017, 07:00 PM)JaguarsWoman Wrote: You can see very clearly here I was not making up the idea it literally hurts players to not have a bye in Week 11.

"Listen, it’s a long season. Let’s be honest about it. It’s a long season, and I think the stretch after our bye week is probably one of the toughest... That bye week will give us an opportunity to kind of get some guys healthy. In this NFL, in the league, you’re going to get banged up week in, week out. For us, that bye week, it comes at an appropriate time. For us, to keep it there would be huge; but I know there are unfortunate situations and it’s out of our hands and it’s up to the NFL and the teams to decide what happens; but we could use that bye at that time."  - Jarvis Landry, Miami Dolphins wide receiver

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/09.../23200812/

Also.... those teams who have bye weeks in week 5 will have to play 12 straight games in the regular season.. so how is having a bye in week 11 any different to that? Would you say that Atlanta, Denver, New Orleans and Washington are going into the latter stages of the season in a worse off state because they have an early bye week?

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