Not sure where to search for this online or if it's been agreed but If/when a 17th regular season game is added.....who is the additional opponent? Extra divisional game? Other conference team that finished in the same relative draft position?
Not sure how you guys feel, but I'm very against this move. Seeing teams at 12-5, and 3-14 is going to be so weird.
17 is such a terrible number. They clearly wanted 18, but they knew the PA would sooner burn NFL HQ to the ground, so they'll play the long game. 17 now, then once they've gotten used to it for 10 years (and the league is mostly full of players who've never known anything else), press for 18, maybe in exchange for the 50/50 the players want. As for who...what a mess. I don't think they can just tack an extra game on to the current formula, it's too well balanced for that. Maybe 9 divisional games (plus the rotating intra- and inter-conference games)? If they do add a 2nd bye week, please give every team a bye before they play on TNF. I bet the quality of play shoots up 50%, and they'd earn a small bit of goodwill by eliminating short weeks.
Our 17th opponent should be the Jets. After figuratively beating ourselves for the first 16 games, we can do the real thing in the last game.
Right Now 6 against Division 4 against predetermined Conference (Same) 4 against predertimend Conference (other) 2 against other same conference (same standing last year) If you want to keep it only 2 games against divsion - it would make the most sense and logistically that they would rotate an opposite conference division opponent with the same standing. What I do not like is that half of the teams will get an extra home game each year,
Neither do I. It's not fair to give multiple teams an advantage with an extra home game while being unfair for half of the other teams getting one fewer home game. I feel with the extra 1 game it should be played on a neutral playing field such as London or better yet, a college stadium within a city/state that has no professional football teams in order for those fans to experience NFL Football such as an Alabama, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kentucky or South Carolina etc. I don't know, Imy just trying to think outside of the box here on this one. I think it's an awesome idea though.
Well they could ditch the intra-conference games and just go with 'play everyone in your own conference once'. Now we have 7 playoff teams it seems somewhat fairer to have teams actually advancing based on conference record rather then lucking into 4 games against a sucky cross-conference division or an easier bottom feeder route.
All AFC teams get nine home games one season (2020) and eight the following season (2021). All NFC teams get eight home games one season (2020) and nine the following season (2021). Not sure, but the extra game may have to be an inter-conference game to accommodate this setup.
