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18 game regular season "dead in the water"


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The NFL Season is perfect the way it is, the playoffs give the perfect incentive to finish in first place (Bye week plus home field advantage). Why they keep !@#$ing with the format is beyond me.

 

The off-season can get really boring.

 

Well, since the owners gave the players veto over any effort ot expnad the regular season, it's safe to say that they really have no intent to propose an 18 game regular season.

 

That was just a ploy used by the owners to get the NFLPA to swallow the CBA. It was never a serious threat. More playoff games makes much more sense in an revenue sense.

 

Pretty much.

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New NFLPA president likes the idea of expanded playoffs:

 

"For the record, I don't put expanded playoffs in the same category as 18 games," Winston told SportsRadio 610 in Houston. "We're talking about one extra game possibly, for two teams or four teams total, if you would count both AFC [and] NFC."

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/27/new-nflpa-president-likes-the-idea-of-expanded-playoffs/

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new NFLPA President Eric Winston: "No 18-game season on my watch"

 

The owners, however, are widely expected to expand the playoffs following the 2015 regular season, and Winston indicated that the players can accept that. If the NFL is going to add games, it's going to add two playoff games. Not 32 regular-season games.

 

http://profootballta...on-on-my-watch/

 

Now they just need to kill off the extra playoff games, which are a way worse idea.

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