Do you really think the Commissioner believes

[SissyBoyFloyd]

that it is better in any way to have so many teams playing with patchwork offenses and defenses all season long? What is the point? It is pure murder from the fans sake. The league championship is currently based on which team has the fewest major injuries to its players.

This trend cannot be good in any way. So why would you create a league structure which feeds such a poor product and situation? The whole salary cap and team player limits has created this situation. They need to tear it up and start over, thinking more clearly and out of the box. They need a structure which assures the best product, best play, best teams, and best games every week.

It will take a room full of better minds than me to come up with a solution. But it seems to me that the place to start is with the salary cap and the limit on the number of players on each team's roster. Teams need to be able to have many more top tier players, especially on the bench when needed. The current structure not only totally prevents this, it has created and feeds its opposite.

If nothing else, they could start by raising every team's salary cap by the salary being paid the year any player is on the injured reserve list. By making the salary cap a floating figure based on each teams injury situation, all team's could continue to put a more quality product on the field. This is a help for everyone, including league profits.

What sayeth you economists? Got any ideas on this what I feel is a grave situation for the league at present.

 

[BigRedRage]

The salary cap has implications on injuries?

The NFL is doing fine. Practice squads grew this year.

 

[kerouac9]

I'm never going to be sure what I think until there's some kind of voting mechanism to let me choose between largely overlapping options.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

I blame injuries the players and bargaining into the CBA less practice time and less physicality in practice.

 

[Capital Card]

Players are bigger, stronger, faster than ever. By a pretty wide margin. Safety equipment has remained relatively unchanged.

There already aren't enough quality players to go around... If you allow a few teams to collect more... seems to me you end up a diminished product.

I like the current system, for the most part. Let teams come up with their own philosophy on how to allocate their limited resources and let's see how it plays out.

Go Cards!!!

 

[seesred]

Teams should be able to dress all 54 that made the roster. That would give each team all the players that are healthy a chance to go in if injuries happen. They get paid anyway why not expand from the 45 ?

GBR
40

 

[Azlen]

Increasing the salary cap does nothing to fix your problem. All that is going to do is cause the players to get more money, it's not going to change the depth issues at all. Even increasing the number of players per team is not going to help with quality bench as the players to be added are marginal players. The only way of fixing the depth problem is to either reduce the numbers of teams in the league (not happening) or to do away with the salary cap completely and give the depth to the handful of teams that would spend more than the other teams, while letting the teams in poorer markets decline significantly. (also not happening) What the NFL is doing is trying to implement rules to keep players from getting injured but football is still a violent game and unless they move to two hand touch, players are still going to get injured.

 

[ajcardfan]

The commissioner only cares about revenue. So, yeah, he thinks this is working.

 

[NJCardFan]

How is this the commissioner's fault? The CBA was negotiated by and agreed upon by both the players and the owners.

 

[slanidrac16]

Let's start with not making players play 3 games in 12 days.

 

[Skumbag]

lol this is the dumbest thread i've read in awhile from here.

 

[DoTheDew]

Remember back when chop blocks were legal? Remember when teams didn't have nearly as strict of concussion protocols? Remember when breathing on QBs and WRs wasn't a penalty?

To suggest the league isn't trying to prevent injuries is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Salary cap changes won't do diddly squat to help combat the injury problems. There's only so many quality players in the league. Giving money to teams plagued by injuries so they can afford to sign the garbage free agents that couldn't make a roster to start the season isn't going to improve the quality of their roster. A higher salary cap will ultimately just mean bigger contracts for your best players unless the league also creates a max contract threshold, something the players probably don't want.

Bigger rosters might help, at least then teams might have an easier time transitioning new players into their lineup, but they've already increased practice squad limits over the past for years, which basically has the same effect.

 

[HeavyB3]

lol this is the dumbest thread i've read in awhile from here.

LMAO

You gotta put down what you're smoking maaannnn and think more clearly out of the box maaannnn.. You gotta be like, the air that's outside the box maaannnn

 

[HeavyB3]

that it is better in any way to have so many teams playing with patchwork offenses and defenses all season long? What is the point? It is pure murder from the fans sake. The league championship is currently based on which team has the fewest major injuries to its players.

This trend cannot be good in any way. So why would you create a league structure which feeds such a poor product and situation? The whole salary cap and team player limits has created this situation. They need to tear it up and start over, thinking more clearly and out of the box. They need a structure which assures the best product, best play, best teams, and best games every week.

It will take a room full of better minds than me to come up with a solution. But it seems to me that the place to start is with the salary cap and the limit on the number of players on each team's roster. Teams need to be able to have many more top tier players, especially on the bench when needed. The current structure not only totally prevents this, it has created and feeds its opposite.

If nothing else, they could start by raising every team's salary cap by the salary being paid the year any player is on the injured reserve list. By making the salary cap a floating figure based on each teams injury situation, all team's could continue to put a more quality product on the field. This is a help for everyone, including league profits.

What sayeth you economists? Got any ideas on this what I feel is a grave situation for the league at present.

Someone's gotta seem like the pothead if Desertdawg is gone. Way to pick up the slack man!

 

[Big Deal]

Ok, I guess I'll say it.

Poll?

 

[NJCardFan]

Someone's gotta seem like the pothead if Desertdawg is gone. Way to pick up the slack man!

What happened to Dawg?