More sildenafil citrate commercials. More flags. Less parity. Dear Roger, pack it in, most games are unwatchable.
yesterday's Broncos/Saints game was a perfect example of how shitty the league is. Everyone who knows anything about football knows that guy was out of bounds and it was a joke ending but they are cramming it down our throats as an "amazing finish." Meanwhile everybody outside of Denver, CO doesnt think it was an amazing finish.
Counterpoint the Cowboys Steelers ending was BONKERS. What pisses me off the most is only a few years ago you would get one of those almost weekly. Now its 3 1/2 hours of E.D. meds and pick up truck commercials and occasionally they cut to a game just in time for a confusing as hell penalty.
The real problem is the last CBA. When teams are limited to practice and limited to "hit" in pads, shitty performance on the field is a result.
Get rid of divisions, just have conferences. No more playing 3 teams twice a year. Mix up regular season schedule with the top 2 teams getting the bye and home field advantage in the playoffs... Playoff structure would be the same.
The worst thing they can do is fuck with the current conference and playoff structure. It's damn near perfect. They need to put an official in the booth with an mic down to the head official so disasters like the one in the Seattle vs. Buffalo game don't happen. They need to add light hand checking back to the defensive side of the ball. The product and flags are so shitty because corners get called for sneezing in the direction of a wideout. Smart quarterbacks throw the ball up if they're in trouble and rightfully so; they're gonna get the flag. Add full-time officials. No brainer there. Add another official on the field too. They need to abolish these shitty Thursday Night games. Outside of last week, Sunday Night Football has been pretty horrible as well. I'd keep the Sunday night game though. Get rid of the London idea. Play a TON of preseason games over there. Very few fans in England will really know the difference. It seems like such a simple fix, but Goodell is too fixated on making the game global so he can add a million a year to his salary. They also need to rethink their scheduling. The Jets play 4 games in 19 days in December. Anyone can look at that and say wtf. They should also add two or three more roster spots, due to tons of injuries hampering teams and refine the practice squad situation. Allow teams more space to keep players around so that they can further develop them. It also obviously won't happen until a new CBA is negotiated, but they need to add practice time to the offseason. Tackling is so poor in the NFL now, and injuries are so prevalent because guys aren't ready for game action early on in the season that their tackling form is just terrible. These guys barely put on shoulder pads in camp, because the players association wanted to make it easier for their guys, yet it's the root of their injury problems. I'll be commish if you guys want. Start the movement.
As a Jets fan it would be nice to be out of the AFC east. Jets schedule was brutal, but can't complain too much, NFL scheduling in general has been rough for all teams. The pats are the problem. The Commissioner is/was in their back pocket throughout all of 2000's. Yeah, they have a good football team too. Put the pats in the AFC North. Let them play baltimore, pittsburgh and Cincy. Bills, Jets, Dolphins and Browns. It's stupid at this point. The pats have literally owned the division for close to 2 decades. I'm a guy who loves tradition. Loves history of the rivalry. The division is broken though. Jets, dolphins and Bills are completely out classed. It's not going to change as long as Belichick is in the division. Everyone kisses the tainted rings. Seeing Sean Payton out there tonight makes me think of the bs he went through (know I will get killed for that comment, but Belli should have served time too). Belichick should have been kicked out of the league years ago. As far as I'm concerned that entire franchise has gotten away with murder, except Aaron Hernandez...he should have listened to BB and got the safe house. PS london game was a lot of fun. The trip and city are nice. That said I would never want to host one of our home games there......ahh maybe once would be cool. It was a really fun trip. No offense to the fans over there, but they don't really understand the game yet. It was a dolphins home game and they would stand up on third down to make noise when the dolphins are on offense. Not that Tannehill was going to pull anything out, but I'm sure it was distracting. The refs kept the phins in that game. The mexico city game this weekend is dumb as hell. I know this isn't the fist time they have had a game in Mexico, but its been a few seasons. They are going to get someone killed down there. I read a headline that the Houston Texans were telling their players not to leave the hotel and not to order room service lol. I completely agree about defense. It's so watered down at this point. I miss the days where teams were built on the running game. Now everything is built for quarterback, wide receiver and fantasy football fans. The league is trying to cater to new fans, in the process they are turning away the old timers. Sometimes I'm not even sure if its the same sport we use to watch. It's evolved into something else. And all that said... I will always be a fan. I grew up on the sport. My grandfather would be 98 this year. He played it when he was a kid, and all years of high school. It's just in my blood. /semi rant, poorly written, but from the heart
the most important thing I have read is jetsvilma saying they are simply always trying to cater to new fans and don't give a damn about the long time fans or the fans who really enjoy football. they want to pander to these pansies and morons who live for fantasy and red zone. the problem is those fans are not real fans, they are fly by night fans, they only care as long as its new and cool and they will be off rollerblading or some other pansy thing in a few years because what was 2 years ago is boring to them now. meanwhile the fans who love to be out there in subzero weather to cheer on their team with other fans like themselves have been priced out and turned off by all of the bs this ahole commissioner and his cronies the newest generation of owners have done to make football not football. I don't need parody, I need good football. if a team wins a game by 20 points and they are a good football team I am ok with that. I never didn't watch the 49ers back in the late 80s. my interest in the nfl is waning severely. I like college, high school and even youth football more than the nfl at this point. that's because I love football, I don't love all the extra shit that has become a part of it. ive watched a lot of better mac football games on a weeknight than I have nfl games this year.
I also typically can speak the English language, not so much in that last post... but fuck it im too lazy to go back and make myself not sound like an idiot.
I was going to make this thread just now but you guys are on top of it. NFL is in a serious regressing decline. NBA will surpass them in the next decade. I just dont see the game being as enjoyable as it once was with fans and I think due to concussion and health problems players are suffering more parents will push their kids to play basketball baseball and soccer
The NFL should change the rule regarding incomplete passes. After an incomplete pass, the clock should stop only until both teams are behind their respective sides of the scrimmage line. This would cut down on the number of wasted passes and speed up the last quarter. Under the current rules, last 7 or 8 minutes of the game usually drags out 25-30 minutes.
This is exactly what Damien Woody was talking about in a video he did for ESPN. And the wild inconsistency at the officiating level is another problem. Crimoney, we went 2 years without knowing what a completed pass was, because they didn't know either.
Okay, since you brought it up . There are a few problems that need attention, but the biggest single one is the defenses are too good. Because of "DWC theory" (defenses win championships), at the amateur level, teams are putting their best athletes there, and they're just too dominant now at the pro level. However, that's only part of it. The rest is that the speed and size of the players - especially on D - has exceeded the size of the playing surface. A move to the Canadian size field would address that, but it won't happen for the same reason the NHL won't move to the international sized ice surface: too many expensive seats will be lost. But nothing will happen until Goodell is gone, for he's no more than a gopher for the old rich owners. Some of them need to be gone also, btw. Just IMHO.
That's a good point about field size. Per Wikipedia- Because of the larger field, many American football venues are generally unfit for the Canadian game. While there are several American stadia which could accommodate the extra 17½ feet (nearly 6 yards (5.5 m) per side in width (multi-purpose stadiums, baseball parks converted for football, and some soccer-specific stadiums are particularly good fits), most American stadia would lose between fifteen and eighteen rows of seating in each endzone because the field is 15 yards (14 m) longer on each end. In many smaller venues, this would be the entire endzone section, losing seating for at least 3,000 spectators.
I totally disagree that defenses are too good. I think they are too poor and the lack of fundamentals (tackling) at both the pro and amateur levels is the problem. I don't want to see college style shootouts.
I was coaching in HS about 20 years ago when the movement away from teaching form-tackling came in, and rip-rise-run took over. Too many neck and head injuries. So today it's grab cloth, hold on and pray for your teammates to come in and push everyone over.
yup, and you have all these HS/youth coaches now that think they are the next Tom Landry focusing on their shitty playbook instead of teaching kids the game of football. If they taught them how to block and tackle properly not only would it be a safer game but they'd probably win more games than anything they drew up in their playbook with. I moonlight as a youth referee, it is infuriating. I'm sorry but when your coaching a junior high team that is running a 5 wide, shotgun, spread offense but they don't even know how to tackle... its an issue and you are a bad coach.
