Uh-oh...Mixon might be out for a while

[CJD]

(09-16-2018, 10:15 AM)PV Bengal Wrote: 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).

The other flaw, in the eyes of the NFL, is that they're leaving money on the table for week 1 through 3, 10, and 12-16. Why have 10 additional nights of football when you can have 17 (from a financial perspective)?