Press Release, Day After: Prices On The Rise As Fewer Games Reduce Revenue Opportunities

The 18-game season actually increases revenue potential as two FORMER meaningless pre-season contests become finale-type divisional playoff games . The end of the regular season every NFL team advances to the divisional round. 

The divisional match ups are for all the marbles. You have to win both the divisional semi-final and divisional final to become the divisional champ and advance to the conference round.

Think of how intense the last two weeks of the NFL will become.

So you have the NHL where the regular season doesn't mean anything.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

We know owners dont want to give up a home game, preseason or otherwise. Expanding to 18 regular season games seems possible but had endured pushback as well.

Assuming we're stuck with 4 preseason games, if you dont want your best players getting hurt, then dont play them in the preseason.

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If they went to 18 games, here's what I'd like to see: Players do NOT need to play more games. 16 regular season and then the playoffs is enough. So expand the roster by a few guys and say players may only be active for 16 games. Everyone. Including QB's. Now, the backup QB becomes very important. Now coaching strategy becomes critical. Do you hope you've clinched by week 16? Do you pick out a weak opponent and rest them then?

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^^ I like this idea and have talked about it before. It would add an element of strategy that would be quite interesting.

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Just line up and play the damn game. We dont need another Madden element in real life.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

Well never played Madden so can't speak to that. To me that is the best of the ideas. I think it would be kind of cool and would def make for some chatter. It's the best of the ideas. Or just don't mess w/ the sys.

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Too bad I have the OP on ignore. But this thread was probably dumb anyway. The FO has the option to completely not play the starters if they want to. So this point is moot.

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The 18-game season actually increases revenue potential as two FORMER meaningless pre-season contests become finale-type divisional playoff games . The end of the regular season every NFL team advances to the divisional round. 

The divisional match ups are for all the marbles. You have to win both the divisional semi-final and divisional final to become the divisional champ and advance to the conference round.

Think of how intense the last two weeks of the NFL will become.

So you have the NHL where the regular season doesn't mean anything.

To say the 16-game run doesn't mean anything is a bit short-sighted. Let me add each team's roster will expand to 65 players - no more practice squad. As a result, some of the salary cap parameters may need to be adjusted accordingly.

The 16 regular season games are played to determine which teams gain home-field advantage for the division championship. Additionally, in this new template for the NFL season, the NFL draft order is set AFTER the 16 games prior to the divisional round are played. All teams will know their draft order after the 16 "regular" season schedule is complete. You can keep the draft order inverted, or maybe not invert the draft order to provide additional incentive to finish high?

After the entire league takes Christmas off, in each NFL division, #1 hosts #4 and #2 hosts #3. With those results in hand, the highest remaining seed gets to host the divisional championship while two divisional losers square off in a consolation game hosted by the higher seed. The revenue for each of the divisional championship/consolation games is split 60-40. 

There are considerable intangibles, of course. It stokes up divisional rivalries. If you think Dallas and Philadelphia are rivals now, imagine if the 3-13 #4 seed Cowboys knock off the 14-2 #1 Eagles in the divisional round, and the #3 seed 5-11 New York Giants slide by the 12-4 #2 seed Washington Redskins?

To me, this format would be much more than "the NHL". It will be the ultimate test of survival. 

Using the example, all the 14-2 Eagles can do to survive and advance is knock off a lowly 3-13 team, but that team just happens to be the bitter rival, Dallas. The Cowboys will come gunning to spoil the Eagles' season.

What will be absolutely fun to watch is the strategy each team employs. How will a team approach things to endure the season? The NFL has had nothing like this before. The stakes are incredibly high and with so much to potentially lose every team will play at their highest level of competitiveness. Rivalries become incredibly meaningful. 

This is the ultimate test. 

I've even come up with a way to spice up the two pre-season games. On even years, the AFC team are in the hat. The NFC picks one team each. Then the AFC teams pick one NFC team out of the hat. The NFC teams then host a AFC team picked at random followed by the AFC cities hosting their NFC counterparts in pre-season week two. Flip that all for odd years.

The drawing will take place the day before the first college football prospects take the field at the NFL Combine. So each NFL franchise must have a representative at the Combine to draw the pre-season opponent. It's much more fun to draw opponents randomly, I think.

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I don't understand what the difference is if a player gets hurt in pre-season or the regular season.

When your player gets hurt in preseason there is a feeling like it could have been avoided because it wasn't necessary to play that player because attempting to get a win isn't critical.

During the regular season, winning games are critical so you need to play your best players.

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If they went to 18 games, here's what I'd like to see:  Players do NOT need to play more games. 16 regular season and then the playoffs is enough.  So expand the roster by a few guys and say players may only be active for 16 games.  Everyone. Including QB's.  Now, the backup QB becomes very important.  Now coaching strategy becomes critical.  Do you hope you've clinched by week 16?  Do you pick out a weak opponent and rest them then?

This idea has a lot of merit!  It also shifts the emphasis even more to the importance of building a deep roster rather than snagging a couple of notable stars.

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Fix the O-Line!

If they went to 18 games, here's what I'd like to see:  Players do NOT need to play more games. 16 regular season and then the playoffs is enough.  So expand the roster by a few guys and say players may only be active for 16 games.  Everyone. Including QB's.  Now, the backup QB becomes very important.  Now coaching strategy becomes critical.  Do you hope you've clinched by week 16?  Do you pick out a weak opponent and rest them then?

This idea has a lot of merit!  It also shifts the emphasis even more to the importance of building a deep roster rather than snagging a couple of notable stars.

Let it sink in for a while.

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So you have the NHL where the regular season doesn't mean anything.

To say the 16-game run doesn't mean anything is a bit short-sighted. Let me add each team's roster will expand to 65 players - no more practice squad. As a result, some of the salary cap parameters may need to be adjusted accordingly.

The 16 regular season games are played to determine which teams gain home-field advantage for the division championship. Additionally, in this new template for the NFL season, the NFL draft order is set AFTER the 16 games prior to the divisional round are played. All teams will know their draft order after the 16 "regular" season schedule is complete. You can keep the draft order inverted, or maybe not invert the draft order to provide additional incentive to finish high?

After the entire league takes Christmas off, in each NFL division, #1 hosts #4 and #2 hosts #3. With those results in hand, the highest remaining seed gets to host the divisional championship while two divisional losers square off in a consolation game hosted by the higher seed. The revenue for each of the divisional championship/consolation games is split 60-40. 

There are considerable intangibles, of course. It stokes up divisional rivalries. If you think Dallas and Philadelphia are rivals now, imagine if the 3-13 #4 seed Cowboys knock off the 14-2 #1 Eagles in the divisional round, and the #3 seed 5-11 New York Giants slide by the 12-4 #2 seed Washington Redskins?

To me, this format would be much more than "the NHL". It will be the ultimate test of survival. 

Using the example, all the 14-2 Eagles can do to survive and advance is knock off a lowly 3-13 team, but that team just happens to be the bitter rival, Dallas. The Cowboys will come gunning to spoil the Eagles' season.

What will be absolutely fun to watch is the strategy each team employs. How will a team approach things to endure the season? The NFL has had nothing like this before. The stakes are incredibly high and with so much to potentially lose every team will play at their highest level of competitiveness. Rivalries become incredibly meaningful. 

This is the ultimate test. 

I've even come up with a way to spice up the two pre-season games. On even years, the AFC team are in the hat. The NFC picks one team each. Then the AFC teams pick one NFC team out of the hat. The NFC teams then host a AFC team picked at random followed by the AFC cities hosting their NFC counterparts in pre-season week two. Flip that all for odd years.

The drawing will take place the day before the first college football prospects take the field at the NFL Combine. So each NFL franchise must have a representative at the Combine to draw the pre-season opponent. It's much more fun to draw opponents randomly, I think.

So they play 16 games only to decide home field advantage. So the entire NFL season is only as significant as MLB's all star game.

Dumbest idea I have ever heard. The NFL would never do anything this stupid.

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I don't understand what the difference is if a player gets hurt in pre-season or the regular season.

When your player gets hurt in preseason there is a feeling like it could have been avoided because it wasn't necessary to play that player because attempting to get a win isn't critical.

During the regular season, winning games are critical so you need to play your best players.

Ohhh....so getting hurt on a necessary play is better than getting hurt on an unnecessary play.

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This idea has a lot of merit!  It also shifts the emphasis even more to the importance of building a deep roster rather than snagging a couple of notable stars.

Let it sink in for a while.

Turds like this usually float. You have no need to play any of your stars at any point in the regular season if everyone makes the playoffs, and last year's Browns could get hot for a month and win the championship. No thanks.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

I'm OK with the 4 game pre-season when Game 3 is at home.

I'd like to see the Jaguars add some serious value to the night when we have pre-season game 4 at home. Shorten the game and have a pre-game concert in the Amphitheater for one group of registered game attendees and another after the game for a second set; give everyone a gift of some significance (not a dumb pin, maybe a coupon for a Jags sweatshirt or something similar in value) or 2 free beer coupons valid all season....

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Why? Teams aren't required to play their starters

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