05-30-2018, 10:41 AM
(05-30-2018, 08:59 AM)fredtoast Wrote: ....High school football players are the target market for future NFL fans. Can't cut them out of the viewership.
...Thursday night games need to just go away. Players now have less than 100 hourse to recover and prepare after a Sunday game. That lowers the quality of the product.
...Expand the season to 17 games and have every team play one neutral site game. When I first came up with this idea I proposed that Las Vegas could have a game every week. Lots of fans could travel there cheaply to see the games. But now they have their own team.
...Remove a preseason game and add an extra bye week.
For the past 10 years or so, the first MNF game has been a "doubleheader", right?
Why not set up TNF games that way for the bulk of the season. As it is, 6 teams (3 games) are played on Thanksgiving Day.
If there are 2 teams playing TNF in week 4 (with a week 3 bye), then there could be a 6-week stretch where the remainder of the "doubleheader" TNF games (weeks 5-10) would be played.
It ought to be easier to schedule anyway and the NFL could ensure that every team playing on TNF gets a "bye" the week before.
