09-16-2018, 10:15 AM
(09-15-2018, 09:03 AM)Sled21 Wrote: The consensus on Sirius, is that they need to add a bye for teams, so that they can rest prior to the Thursday night game, and allow a 53 man gameday roster with all 53 men allowed to play instead of 46....
I've said this for a long time but no additional bye week is needed.
While it would be tough to do from a scheduling perspective, it COULD be done ...
Since there are 32 teams, that means 16 Thursday games. The NFL could schedule Thursday doubleheaders (like they do for MNF early in the season) starting in week 4 (for the teams that have a week 3 bye). If they scheduled it that way, there would be 8 doubleheaders from week 4 thru week 9, with a skip of week 10 then 2 Thursday games for Thanksgiving and one more Thursday doubleheader and we're done with them.
The only "flaw" with doing it that way is that eastern (and central) time zone Thursday games would need to be played at about 6 pm eastern time and some at 9:30 pm eastern time (because there are fewer mountain and pacific time zone teams).
