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Baseball does the same thing. It's stupid. Play the game, show the game.

Oops, follow the money. Commercials are what make games take too long. Commercials bring in revenue.

If they want more ties, they should spend Christmas with my family.

If the league truly wants less snaps in OT, then disallow punting. Or at least only allow the first receiving team to punt once. After that, you have to keep going for it. Eventually, someone will get the ball close enough to kick a FG. Done.

Just used the college rules.

They only care about offense anyways.

I'm guessing they want more urgency. They don't want teams being conservative thinking they will have 3 possessions to try to score.

1) In regards to overtime, they should just use the NCAA rules. But the NFL using a concept from the NCAA, is just as bad as admitting your younger sibling is smarter than you. Goodell aint doing that. lol.

2) Only one cut day? That's crazy! Waiver wire will be insane. Scouts/Front office will be plenty busy! Wow.

Nah, this is yet another dumb response to the games taking too long.

Most of what they are doing is going to cause them to continue to lose viewers.

We watch to see game action. The running clock, the endless explanations, the commercials, the promos, the dumb ass interviews, the change of the kickoff rules, the lengthy reviews, etc are NOT entertaining.

I get they can't cut the commercials due to the obscene salaries that NFL players make, but the rest......their trying to fix something by actually implementing more rules that will only displease their fan base.

j/c

If we thought the bottom-of-the-roster churning made our heads spin in recent years, wait until they go from 90-53 in one day. That's 1,504 guys whacked at once...then the teams fill...what...320 PS spots?

That will make late training camp much more challenging for the coaches as they prepare for the regular season. Sometimes the herd needs culled before letting them out to graze.

It'll be interesting to see the frenzy that ensues with teams trying to pick up some of those higher end players that were cut because a younger guy showed his worth and is significantly cheaper, whereas a really good team could be looking for that final piece for depth reasons or because an injury happened in camp. Not too mention the varying talent level among bottom teams, some players cut on some teams may be perceived as more valuable than the ones that made the cut down to 53. Then a second wave of cuts may happen in situations like that

Honestly, it may end up being a mini FA period with so many players hitting the market all at one time. I'm curious to see how it all unfolds.

That will be a crazy market when the Flood occurs. And if the cut is that severe, and number is reduced by about half, let's get rid of one of the preseason games. No need to evaluate what isn't here, and some should not suit up. Enough coaches to evaluate; up or down. And how would you monitor the flushed players from every other club?

I doubt that this is why numbers decline. I am enjoying NFL less as we get more stupid scheduling, halftimes, rule fiddling (I remain OK with sudden death), and some other lunacy decisions. Hope we win some this year.

Why did the NFL pass this resolution? I am not educated on that part of the NFL. What possible reason would they have doing something so radical? The only thing I can think of is to generate more of a buzz as teams scramble to claim players and then more buzz when a second round of guys become available after the initial cuts.

Is this just a marketing ploy or does it help the teams and players in any way?

maybe it enhances the quality of the 4th preseason game? better players will be fighting for jobs? just spit balling

Maybe they feel that more bottom of the roster guys being available for game 4 will help teams make decisions on those players.

I don't know if I agree with that though.

That's not the reason NCAA overtime rules will never happen. Have you seen how long many of these NCAA football games have gone on in overtime? If the NFL wants shorter game times this surly isn't a solution.

I've been thinking about this and the only thing I can come up with is this...
When the cuts were done in two stages the first guys to get cut were the very bottom roster guys. Those guys then hit the open market first. Giving them opportunities to fill spots on other team's rosters before the next wave of cuts. And that next cut was of players that were bubble type talents. Guys that maybe have a better chance of making another squad. But since they get cut later it's possible that they don't get the same opportunities to get looked at because many of the roster holes around the league were filled after the first cut.
Yes teams can again cut a player they signed after the first cut to sign a player cut during the second cut but why add to the confusion. Or the fact that GMs and coaches only have so much time to worry about bubble players. If they get a player cut in the first wave into camp and see him a few days are they going to want to start over the evaluation of another player that got cut in the second wave?
This I think prevents all this.

I'll take a stab at this one with my GUESS; perhaps this gives teams more to evaluate and keep the established starters less of a chance to be injured in the preseason? It also gives teams more time to evaluate practice squad players without chipping away at the older "Joe Thomas'" on their teams?

I am cool with this decision if this is the case. Plus, isn't preseason cheaper when evaluating (please correct me)?

My guess is that it is so team's don't have to play anyone who is going to make the team in the fourth preseason game.

Thanks to all of you who tried to answer that question. You all made sense. It still seems kinda crazy, but we'll see.

Marvin Lewis rips NFL for loosening celebration rules, says it's bad for kids


Hey Marvin, is drafting Joe Mixon also good for kids?