Eagles Players Speak Out on the Potential 18-Game Season

Home and away won’t be even.

But there’s a reason few players from the CFL ever make it on an NFL team. Just look at their 2009 Rookie of the Year, Martell Mallett, struggling to make our roster. We simply play at a higher level than they do. The hits are harder, the speed is faster, and the practices are more grueling. It takes one hell of a toll on a player’s body.

There would be more revenue, sure, but I think the main issue here is the health of the players.

CFL is awful football (I’m Canadian)

this is fucking brutal, I hate this idea SO MUCH

I think that where people are missing the argument here is that all of the star players don’t want this to happen. There are a lot of people who would make teams and likely have a more significant role. Stars in the league are picked all the time in the later rounds. That, I am sure, would continue to happen even further down the draft board (what would now be undrafted free agents). Yes, the star players would likely be more at risk, and they are voicing thier opinions. But the bubble players would benefit and teams could take on more projects. I don’t see it as a dilution of talent. I see it as an opportunity to change strategies when making roster cuts.

it would take the same amount of time…They’re not adding anything, they’re replacing week 3 and 4 of the preseason with regular season games.

They need to reduce the number of teams in the NFL first and ensure each market can support a team.

The current system seems the most fair (though you forgot the 2 against same division same within division rank from the previous year). You could go with #1 ranked in division A also plays #2 ranked in division B and C while the #2 in division A plays the #1 in divisions B and C. Then do the same system for the number 3 and 4 ranks. I essence it would match the schedules of the top 2 teams and the bottom 2 teams in eache division, rather than rank them in the 1-4 style that they do now.
In this example, the Eagles would play the Cardinals and the Saints, while the cowchips would play the 49ers and the Falcons. The viginas would play the Rams and Bucs, the skirts would play the Panthers and Seahawks. Just a thought, but that seems like it would bring much more parody into the league, doesn’t it?

For all the times that announcers talk about parody, it really seems like teams every year stay strong or pick early. It might change in about decade long shifts, but for the most part the predictions look so similar from year to year.

They would obiously have to increase roster sizes, so the players would actually have more time to get acclimated, maybe even a full season.

Give me one of those contracts and I’ll bust my ass from OTAs right through game 18. No pity here.

this is my main issue too… athletes are breaking career and season records that stood for years, but espn glorifies these records as if they’re monumental and legendary… but the fact of the matter is that these athletes are given more time in the year to do it. baseball is very guilty of this, but if the nfl goes to 18 games, it will only be a few years before aaron rogers or drew brees breaks the season td or yards record and all the major media outlets will praise these records as if they’re something special.

… and wiped the record books clean. If purity of the record book is your main concern, we are 32 years past screwed on that one.

Greed is what they’re doing now, charging full price for half-ass games. Since we as fans are foolish enough to support that model, we’re now committed to giving them that money, and they’re not going to give it back.

To me, the next best thing is taking two half-ass games and turning them into full games.

Good point about the dead season.