Has there ever been a Bigger P*ssy to be Comish than Goodell?

before hte cesspool happens.
the obvious explanation over the schedule is money. player safety, while the league would love for you to believe is paramount, is not as important as the owners making money. so really has no realm in your rant.

 

I'm all for protecting players in games and careers, but this season has been a joke and even the players have made noises to that effect. Its a contact sport and there is a degree of violence.
All Goodell has done is just made more grey areas, but then thats his whole demeanour.

 

I call it handegg

 

Interesting little tidbit I saw just the other day - the guy charged with reviewing film and deciding fines? Teddy Cottrell.

 

Seriously??? hmy:

 

The problem is that today we're dealing with a changing culture where player safety comes before the entertainment value of the game. This is something that we're going to see as an important issue for many years to come, regardless of who's commissioner. Get used to it. Players will either need to adjust or suffer the consequences. Most players will adjust.

 

adding two games to the schedule has no relevance to player safety, that is an issue of player's long term health. game 1 of the season doesn't pose any less imminent danger to a player's safety than game 17 or 18, each game is just as dangerous as any other. all it does is increase the risk of a player sustaining an injury or extra hits that could lead to long term health problems. but every additional game on the schedule does so. 16 games isn't some magical number of games where a player's long term health is fine despite the beating they take throughout it but anymore games will cause significant long term effects.

you can't advocate player's long term health and prefer a 16 game season either since 14 games would be better, which is where it was at some point. and 12 games would be even better than that.

 

But if you ask me the NFL is pretty fucking entertaining right now, has been for the past several years, and the quality of the players seems to only be getting better. If Goodell is ruining the product so much why does a shitty MNF game beat the shit out of playoff baseball in October in terms of TV ratings? He's trying to balance entertainment with safety, and there's plenty of specific instances where a penalty is thrown or a fine is made that actually is absurd but on the whole I agree with what he's doing. I just hope that the NFL is trying to make a point out of player safety in the regular season and saves the 15 yard penalties for only the most egregious and malicious head hunting in the post-season because like everyone points out, guys are moving so fast, accidents happen, etc and it would be a shame to see playoff results be altered because of a borderline unnecessary roughness penalty.

 

Also, my understanding of the expansion to 18 games is that they will remove two of the preseason games so that players have the same number of matches, it's just that two more of them will count.

 

Your overexaggerating too much to get any real point across.

 

The point isn't that 16 games is a magical threshold above which players will get killed, it's that you can't pretend to be a serious advocate for player safety and extend the schedule at the same time. Sure they are taking 2 games out of the preseason, but starters don't take anywhere near as much punishment in the preseason as they do in the regular season.

The increased flags we've seen aren't about protecting player safety, they're about promoting offense. Nobody gives a shit when a defensive lineman gets clubbed in the head 10 times a game, but when someone touches a QB's helmet we go into DEFCON 1. Hines Ward is tough when he blindsides a defenseless cornerback, but if a corner nails a receiver in the exact same way he gets suspended.

Goodell knows that flash makes money, so he's out to protect the flashy players.

 

The NFL is all about the passing game. The passing game sells. Brady, Manning, Brees, Ryan, Rodgers, Rivers, Sanchez, Flacco and many more. These guys for the most part are extremely marketable. Everything the NFL is doing is meant to make it easier to pass the ball and make these guys even more marketable.

They don't care that they have destroyed any concept of an NFL defense dominating. Steelers, Ravens and Jets defenses barely slow down the top passing offenses. This is what the NFL wants. Notice the playoffs, every single elite QB is in the playoffs.

Did any real quality QB not make the playoffs? The numbers that Brady and Manning put up are like playing a video game.

Without a big passing game in today's NFL you don't have a chance.

 

I kind of relate it to hockey when they started to crack down hardcore on the hooking, holding, etc. The first year there were so many penalties, it was outrageous. Same goes with the first couple of years. After a while, you saw the amount of penalties drop considerably. Firstly, the refs laxed slightly in what they were calling, but additionally, the players adjusted and stopped committing those penalties as often.

They're professional players, so they can and will adjust. The players who can't will be left behind.

 

Ummmmmmmmmm, no.

 

Oh sweet another "the NFL is turning into flag football post."

Lost in all the hate for the new rule enforcement on head to head hits is the fact that a lot of guys are actually being forced to learn how to tackle again. Tackle the way they were taught to correctly in, you know, Pop Warner.

The late hits on a QB thing is another story but I understand that the NFL wants to keep the starting QB's on the field at all costs. It makes them more money.