NFL Fixed???

[WeezyBengal]

(01-11-2017, 01:06 PM)Au165 Wrote: If this was true LA would have won more game this year and the Jets wouldn't be irrelevant. Little old Green Bay Wisconsin has a tiny market yet they somehow win consistently. Dallas was irrelevant for almost 15 years, why would that be when that market is huge?

I think teams get preferential treatment in the way their players are fined/punished (although Brady got smakced), and in scheduling, and in new rule proposals. I do not however believe there is any organized directive from the league office to manipulate games. There is human bias in everything, so if a ref decides to do that on his own accord nothing you can do about it, but as I stated I do not believe there is a push from up top to change outcomes of games.

The money argument doesn't hold water. The revenue is driven by large national numbers across all markets. The guy in Iowa doesn't care that NE is winning. In fact one could argue they'd be better off making the big market teams that have had success lose in order to bring down a giant which the average man tends to eat up.

So you do agree that certain teams get preferential treatment? 

The Jets and Cowboys sucked for years. Its hard to get preferential treatment during games when your team is just awful. Im not saying the league is talking to the opposing quarterback thats going up against a terrible Dallas team and saying "hey, throw 4 ints this game, the Cowboys need to win". 

Now that the Cowboys are relevant and winning are they going to get "looser" pass interference calls when they play a team like the Bengals or Browns in a relevant game that the league wants to affect the outcome of? Absolutely I do. 

Also, just an FYI, Green Bay has like the third biggest fan base in the NFL.