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What changes, if any, would you make to the NFL if you were named Comish for just one day?
Draft to rotate each year to an NFL city
First 2 overtimes of sudden death TD only then TD or FG in 3rd and on
Players sign a concussion waiver and back to hitting, except for cheap shots
Booth Official can overturn any call on the field if it is clearly wrong
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1 Take the skirts off QB's
2 Put kickoffs BACK to where they were
3 Put OT back to Sudden Death
4 Eliminate Thursday Night Games
5 Put draft back to Saturday and Sunday
6 When you sign your contract, you automatically relieve the NFL of ANY responsibility for future health issues
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1. Drop preseason games from 4 to 2.
2. Remove all idividual bye weeks. After week 8(exactly half way through the season) there would be a one week break where the entire NFL takes a week off. Yes, this means we would have to go one whole week without the NFL, but I think removing the competetive advantage of soem teams getting a bye in week 6 vs others who get theirs as late as week 12.
3. Expand the playoffs to 16 teams(half of the field, 8 from each conference). Each division winner would still get an automatic seed, but with 4 wildcard teams in each conference. The set up would be similar to what we have now, but with the #1 and #2 seeds no longer recieving a bye, they would play the #7 and #8 seeds week one.
4. Set an individual player salary max at 10% of the salary cap. This way teams are no longer hendered or hamstrung by having to pay one player(Joe Flacco comes to mind) 20+% of their salary cap. This would allow teams to keep more of their core players, it will also minimize the number of holdouts, because players won't have an unlimited amount of money to ask for.
5. Allow group celebrations and perhaps even certain prop celebrations as long as they are under a certain time frames(perhaps 15 seconds). I would still leave the dunking celebration banned, that can damage the goal posts and really mess up a game if the entire goal post were to come down.
6. Do away with all this "safety" crap. If a defender intentionally launches at a players head, fine, but if a player accidently makes contact with a players helmet or the offensive player initiates the helmet to helmet contact by lowering their head to avoid contact, then that's on the offensive player, defenders shouldn't be held accountable for that.
7. Leave the salary floor in effect, where teams must spend 90% of their salary cap.
8. Browns automatically get the first pick in every draft(this one is ficticious, but it sounds good don't it?
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What changes, if any, would you make to the NFL if you were named Comish for just one day?
Draft to rotate each year to an NFL city
First 2 overtimes of sudden death TD only then TD or FG in 3rd and on
Players sign a concussion waiver and back to hitting, except for cheap shots
Booth Official can overturn any call on the field if it is clearly wrong
I like these. I would also move the Steelers to London or Moscow or maybe even N Korea
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A couple ideas I really like of your posts
1. Booth Official can overturn any call on the field if it is clearly wrong
2. When you sign your contract, you automatically relieve the NFL of ANY responsibility for future health issues
and I would add a 3rd as well
3. In OT each team is given the ball an equal amount of times (Like college), if team A doesn't score on their drive and team B does, then team B wins, if Team A gets a FG and team B does as well then you continue to play OT. If Team A gets a TD then Team B gets a chance to match, if they are able to score a TD then OT continues. I hate that 60 minutes of hard play can come down to one fluke play and the other team doesn't get a chance.
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Millcreek said something interesting.. Rotate the NFL Draft.. Myself, I think it should be held in Canton Ohio at the HOF....
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1. Adopt the review system of the NCAA. No more challenges, just let the booth notify the referee when something needs to be looked at.
2. Adios touchdown-commercial-kickoff-commercial.
3. The hand of a defensive player grazing the helmet of a QB is NOT a penalty.
4. When the Steelers hit a QB in the head as hard as they can, that is now a penalty.
5. I would scale down the preseason to 2 games, but add a 17th game to the schedule, the matchup being completely random (anyone except your own division) The game will be played at a college stadium. I would do this to try and drum up interest in parts of the country that don't have immediate NFL football (Tuscaloosa, Oklahoma, Oregon, etc..) I don't know how attendance would be, but I think for a year it would be a cool idea. Much better than playing games in England.
6. No more games in England.
7. I would eliminate the XP. You either get it automatically, or you can opt to risk it for 2. I think this is probably going to happen anyway.
8. I would make a decision on the "pick play". I don't really care which way that goes, but it needs to be clarified. Either it's illegal for everyone including Manning and Brady, or everyone can do it.
9. You can do whatever you want when you score, so long as it's not obscene or harmful to anyone.
10. No more Mike Tirico on MNF, because he is the absolute WORST.
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Speaking of the HOF, I would make upgrades there.
I went 4-5 years ago and it was rinky dink compared to Cooperstown. Not impressed at all.
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Take kickoff rules back to how it was.
Remove all the babying of QBs.
Those two would be the first of likely a long list of todos....
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I agree on the use of the College Replay system, they are doing quite fine with it.
Overtime starts, each team possesses the ball once, if it's still tied, then it's Sudden Death.
I'm in favor of adding one playoff team to each conference. #1 seeds are the only team that gets a bye.
Winning your division gets you a playoff spot, but does not automatically get you a home game, seeds 2-7 are ranked by record. (Winning your division can be used as a tiebreaker)
Teach officials to stop throwing flags based on the "sound" the hit/crowd makes...
Get full time officials.
Go to a 3 Preseason Game Schedule, Thursday night games only during Thanksgiving, No Bye Weeks before week 7 or after week 11 (4 Bye weeks of 6 Teams, 1 Bye week of 8 Teams)
Make the Jaguars get new helmets.
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Investigate Pro-cap and other "superior helmets"
End all drug testing (both recreational and PEDs)
Make a larger push (much larger) for helping players with financial responsibility.
Larger push for more sports psychologists and general folks to prevent the Incognito / Bess issues.
Put an asterisk next to the 70s Steelers.
Hold a ceremony honoring Ralph Wilson.
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I'd make this the Steelers the only Jersey option they had (for both home and away games) for the next 5,000 years. 
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"4. Set an individual player salary max at 10% of the salary cap. This way teams are no longer hendered or hamstrung by having to pay one player(Joe Flacco comes to mind) 20+% of their salary cap. This would allow teams to keep more of their core players, it will also minimize the number of holdouts, because players won't have an unlimited amount of money to ask for."
just saying that doesn't really work in Basketball and I think it'd be awful here too. Well, it works if you're a major market team, but no where else.
1) Get rid of the London idea. Play a game there, but not 2 or 4.
2) Focus on Mexico City. While they live in poverty, they're probably better off for an American Football team than London would be. There wouldn't be any struggles with the time zones like there would be for a London game.
3) Start up NFL Europe and do it right. Don't stock the team completely with Americans, because Europeans don't want to watch bad Americans play bad football.
4) Get rid of recreational drug testing.
5) Declassify adderall as a PED.
6) Get rid of the dumb rules about celebrating. Let the Chad Ochocincos have their moment in the spot light. Let's just say it's a lot more fun watching TO, Chad, Steve Smith and Randy Moss than it is Flash, Megatron, and Dez.
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I'd rather see 20 games played in London over 1 in Mexico.
I don't want my team having to go to that miserable place.
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Mexico City gets a bad wrap for being in Mexico  It's actually relatively safe compared to most US cities per capita. It's also more than twice the size of LA.
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What changes, if any, would you make to the NFL if you were named Comish for just one day?
Draft to rotate each year to an NFL city
First 2 overtimes of sudden death TD only then TD or FG in 3rd and on
Players sign a concussion waiver and back to hitting, except for cheap shots
Booth Official can overturn any call on the field if it is clearly wrong
I like these. I would also move the Steelers to London or Moscow or maybe even N Korea
I vote for North Korea, Rodman could be their mascot.
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Speaking of the HOF, I would make upgrades there.
I went 4-5 years ago and it was rinky dink compared to Cooperstown. Not impressed at all.
It expanded a few years ago. I haven't been there since that took place. So it's hard for me to say. Actually, I think it was more than a few years ago It might have been since you've been there. Not sure.
Generally, with the value of this league, They should have a palace as the HOF....
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1. Get rid of the stupid celebration penalties as long as they aren't extremely excessive, impacting the result of a game 15 yards because of something that isn't malicious or illegal is stupid.
2. Move the extra point to the 25 yard line or give a team the option of going for 2 from the 5.
3. Move the kickoff back to the original position, they want to "add excitement" but they have virtually eliminated kickoffs and field position. Maybe this is in balance for the favoritism towards offenses in the rules to keep field position at the 20 with touchbacks.
4. Make one common bye week in the middle of the year, also make this bye week the trade deadline.
5. Re-work the drug suspension policy. Not sure someone taking something on accident really warrants them being suspended for 4 or more games (not every case but some cases this happens).
6. Do not expand overseas. It would be too much of a hassle for someone to be told they are living in Europe for their job, the travel would become a great annoyance.
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I'd also make the field goal posts shorter by a yard, at least. Anything under 30 is basically automatic, so we should try to make the kickers' lives a little bit more difficult.
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Would also like to add:
11. No more Cowboys and Lions getting guaranteed games on Thanksgiving day. I don't want to hear crying from their fan base about tradition or any of that other garbage. There are way too many dog games on the absolute best football-watching day of the year.
It should be 3 rivalry games.
When the schedulers get together to create the new season, that is the first set of games that should be made out.
How much better would Thanksgiving be if it were Bears/Packers, or Brady/Manning, SF/SEA, Saints/Panthers, etc...
And I agree, there shouldn't be football on Thursday other than that day. If they want to experiment with Fridays, I would think the product would be a little better. And yes, I realize high school is played on that day, but I'm the commissioner, and I don't really give a hoot about your freaking high school team, and in fact, I'd be willing to wager that ratings won't take a hit.
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How about raising the goal posts by 3- 6 feet, making the kicker have to get the ball up higher in order to have a successful attempt. 50 yard FGs would be much harder to make when the kicker not only has to get the ball 67 yards, but also has to get it higher in the air to clear the new, higher crossbar. Those FG tries that just squeaked over in the past would not make it with a higher crossbar. Maybe combine this with making the crossbar 2 or 3 feet narrower. A kicker would have to be really good to make a 45 yarder under those circumstances, let along 50+.
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How about raising the goal posts by 3- 6 feet, making the kicker have to get the ball up higher in order to have a successful attempt. 50 yard FGs would be much harder to make when the kicker not only has to get the ball 67 yards, but also has to get it higher in the air to clear the new, higher crossbar. Those FG tries that just squeaked over in the past would not make it with a higher crossbar. Maybe combine this with making the crossbar 2 or 3 feet narrower. A kicker would have to be really good to make a 45 yarder under those circumstances, let along 50+.
They already have to be really good to make it over 50+ yards, why raise it?
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Put a camera in the top of each upright that are pointing directly up into the sky -- Then make all Field Goals reviewable.
Doesn't come into play very often, but seems like the "Did he make that or miss it" argument always happens at the worst possible times.
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What changes, if any, would you make to the NFL if you were named Comish for just one day?
Draft to rotate each year to an NFL city
First 2 overtimes of sudden death TD only then TD or FG in 3rd and on
Players sign a concussion waiver and back to hitting, except for cheap shots
Booth Official can overturn any call on the field if it is clearly wrong
I like these. I would also move the Steelers to London or Moscow or maybe even N Korea
Can't move them to north korea because, as of now, they'd all have to get a kim jong un haircut and my guess is there's something in the nflpa by laws that prevents players having to have a kim jong un style.
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Put a camera in the top of each upright that are pointing directly up into the sky -- Then make all Field Goals reviewable.
Doesn't come into play very often, but seems like the "Did he make that or miss it" argument always happens at the worst possible times.
My girlfriend is not much of a football fan and isn't from Cleveland, but kinda-sorta pays attention to the Browns because I do.
One day we were watching either a Browns documentary or some sort of special and they showed the GW field goal in the '87 AFC championship game, and she said that it was no good. I just laughed and said welcome to the brotherhood.
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The "Adam Carolla Rule" has been implemented. They are raising the uprights five feet.
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1 - The draft should be held in the city of the worst team from the previous year. Basically, whatever team has the 1st pick in the draft also gets to host the draft.
2 - Whoever scored the TD has to kick the extra point. If it was a passing play then either the QB or WR can make the kick.
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Put a camera in the top of each upright that are pointing directly up into the sky -- Then make all Field Goals reviewable.
Doesn't come into play very often, but seems like the "Did he make that or miss it" argument always happens at the worst possible times.
My girlfriend is not much of a football fan and isn't from Cleveland, but kinda-sorta pays attention to the Browns because I do.
One day we were watching either a Browns documentary or some sort of special and they showed the GW field goal in the '87 AFC championship game, and she said that it was no good. I just laughed and said welcome to the brotherhood.
I was sitting behind that goalpost, and we went nuts cheering after the kick, because it clearly missed ........ then the Refs raised their arms and called it good.  I will never buy that the FG try that cost us a Super Bowl was good. Never.
(and I know that we still would have had to drive the field for a score to win)
Worst part is that I was there with friends, but I had met these 2 really cute girls while camping out for tickets, and they gave me their money so I could buy their tickets so we could sit together. (which was kinda crazy, because they really didn't even know me, and I could have run off with their money if I had been a jerk) Anyway, with a win, who knows what kind of celebration we would have had ......... but instead ...... I wasn't even in the mood to get drunk at that point. Talk about killing the mood. 
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Some Friday-Saturday games once college football is over. Saturday night browns games? Now that sounds like a party 
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LOL....Now thats funny...I dont care who you are.
I'd also reinstate Pete Rose.... 
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Saturday night browns games? Now that sounds like a party
I will co-sign on Saturday night games.
p.s. the Monday morning post-Sunday-drinking-bender-the-browns-are-horrible-again is one of the worst things on earth.
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I would end suspensions for pot.
I would move kick offs back to the 30.
I would allow the wedge on kickoffs.
I would make every play reviewable(sp?).
Pass interference, holding, illegal formation and offsides would have to be blatant to be penalties.
Convicted felons would not be allowed to play.
I would expand game day rosters to about 70 players.
I would forbid the use of twitter and other social media sites by active players during the season.
I would make a non-cap hit $5 mil team loyalty resigning bonus for first term FA's legal on top of any other offers. This would help teams retain home grown talent and protect the time they spent developing players. If the money is not enough, then the guy wants out and should be allowed to leave.
I would collect a big fat pay check for one day!
Of course all of my changes would have to be automatically approved.
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Screw changing any NFL football rules. I'd go buy a Farrari and take a joy ride.
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