Virgil Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 I’m watching 6 teams play for their playoff lives against teams that are either eliminated or don’t care. While it’s not about when you play someone, rather the entire season’s body of work, I pose this question: Should week 17 have optional flex scheduling? For example, this week you’d have: Dallas vs Philly Tennessee vs Pittsburg Colts vs Raiders Seattle vs San Fran (already happening) I’m sure there’s all kinds of logical reasons why this can’t happen, but it would make more sense from a competitive sense 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo03 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 What the hell are you talking about? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Matter_What Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Virgil and you are accusing other posters of being drunk? ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Do The Reich Thing Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 So in this drunken scenario the Bills would’ve played the Pats again this week had they beat them last week. Wtf are you smoking lol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rc2catch Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 10 minutes ago, Virgil said: I’m watching 6 teams play for their playoff lives against teams that are either eliminated or don’t care. While it’s not about when you play someone, rather the entire season’s body of work, I pose this question: Should week 17 have optional flex scheduling? For example, this week you’d have: Dallas vs Philly Tennessee vs Pittsburg Colts vs Raiders Seattle vs San Fran (already happening) I’m sure there’s all kinds of logical reasons why this can’t happen, but it would make more sense from a competitive sense That’s an extremely big ask. A lot of coordinating and some seriously angry fans. I think Philly fans would rather watch them beat up the giants for an easy division title vs giving the cowboys an actual shot at winning the division. It would be a last ditch kinda effort to save ratings if things ever got REALLY BAD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 18 minutes ago, Virgil said: I’m watching 6 teams play for their playoff lives against teams that are either eliminated or don’t care. While it’s not about when you play someone, rather the entire season’s body of work, I pose this question: Should week 17 have optional flex scheduling? For example, this week you’d have: Dallas vs Philly Tennessee vs Pittsburg Colts vs Raiders Seattle vs San Fran (already happening) I’m sure there’s all kinds of logical reasons why this can’t happen, but it would make more sense from a competitive sense a variable schedule overruling for week 17? need some more planning there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThurmasThoman Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 I read an article once about how the scheduling process works--it's pretty intense. Guys locked in a room for secrecy running thousands of permutations through computers to make sure things are balanced. Tons of considerations like: stadiums being used for concerts, weather factors (hurricane season, heat in the south, etc. etc.). I think a more fruitful thread discussion might be: should the last week of the season be reserved for divisional matchups. Personally, I'm kinda ehhhh on the subject. I think it might be cooler if the last week was inter-conference games only, as you would know that (a) you wouldn't see the same matchup next weekend in the wildcard round, and (b) rooting interest would be pretty straight forward for fans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgil Posted December 30, 2019 Author Share Posted December 30, 2019 30 minutes ago, No_Matter_What said: Virgil and you are accusing other posters of being drunk? ? I’m bored!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17islongenough Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 If they moved to a 17 game season I could see something like this happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 A 17th week forcing contenders to slug it out as a sort of pre-playoff round, have to make it worth their while.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 They could have the option of swapping week 15 or week 16 with week 17 games I guess. Would be difficult to coordinate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apuszczalowski Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 You would have to make all division games played before week 17, otherwise it would eliminate division record from the tie breaker cause the last week is now only divisional games. You would then also have to leave all the games unscheduled for week 17 and have some way of determining the reason for each team playing each other. It also wouldn't work without making week 16 this way because you could end up with teams playing an additional home or road game instead of equal home and away. It would be a nightmare to do and throw off any balance in the scheduling. Might be better then forcing the Bills to have to play the Jets for no reason other then stats..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Uh, no. Hard pass. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your Brown Eye Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Real McClappy Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Battle for the first pick in the NFL draft could be exciting. CMON guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalobillswin Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 The only scheduling change I want is a more even distribution of 1pm and 4pm games. It was so fun getting to watch 6 games at 4:30 instead of one or two games, most of which include the crappy cowboys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagon127 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 They do this in week 18-22. No need to move it up a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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