Around the NFL - 2016

[MDS]

too much parity for me as well....I know some people like every team going 7-9 or 9-7 but I want great teams....really the only team I somewhat follow other than the Eagles is the pats who I actually "root" for...I love belly and Brady and hope they win three more chips if the eagles aren't going to get any

this is a fair point and sort of an issue for the nfl

great teams drive interest and ratings. look at the warriors in the nba. look at alabama in cfb, kentucky in certain years in cbb. the nfl has actively tried to avoid having great teams. they want everyone to be "good." there were more close games this year entering 4Q, on average, than ever before. this is what pleases them.

with that, you can get an abundance of "ok" teams which in turn results in terrible national tv games involving the texans, colts, 49ers, jets, etc.

[ice grillin you]

the problem is the rules more than the penalties but the amount of penalties is out of control too...especially the PI calls...they are joke and often ruin games

[QB Eagles]

The brutal thing about PI is how inconsistent it is even within games... whenever it's called, I feel like I saw 5 other passes in that game where the player was interfered with worse that weren't called.

Also seems like an incomplete sideline pass to a good player draws a PI call about 1/3 of the time... as long as the QB is good enough to avoid an INT, there's really no reason to not bomb it deep to an Antonio Brown type repeatedly whenever a team falls behind. If the WR doesn't make the catch, the refs will make it good anyway.

[MDS]

PI calls seem like the strike zone in baseball....varies play to play and game to game. its a really difficult thing to call.

[PhillyPhreak54]

They need to adopt the college rule on PI

[MDS]

They need to adopt the college rule on PI

im 1000% in favor of this....should be a 15 yard penalty. the competition committee feels that the PI's would increase if it was no longer a spot foul. i think that was their reasoning because it was discussed.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah I think they said it would incentivize the defenses to just grab on knowing it won't cost them the ball getting placed at the spot

But it's crushing when they call some horseshtein ticky tack PI and it's a 53yd penalty to the 1.

[MDS]

i just dont get that because 15 yarders are pretty bad....sure its not a 50 yarder but i just dont see how DBs are going to not give a farg about giving up 15 yards and a fresh set of downs

but coaches, execs (including igy's hero ozzie newsome) and a few league people are on the CC. not all on goodell and his minions.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah the blame lies at the feet of the CC. So when I see a coach, especially one on the CC, bitching about a PI I don't have sympathy. Don't like it? Change it.

They should ease up on the pass coverage rules as a whole.

[MDS]

ratings are up 80% in the uk

take that, america

[Diomedes]

just as we're watching more and more of their football.

we'll play the world's game, they can have Brexit and the NFL

[PhillyPhreak54]

Merton Hanks;

"The NFL wants their players to be dynamic individuals from the start of the whistle to the end of the whistle, stop exactly what they're doing on a dime, go back to their huddle and then do it again. After being in the league office and now being on the outside looking in after being in the league office for 13 seasons, there is a real line of demarcation that the NFL product inherently harms itself when it devalues its characters, when it doesn't live up to the entertainment entity that it itself claims it is . . . Sportsmanship is a worthy goal. I'm not minimizing that. That's the line the NFL is taking. But they are throwing out the baby with the bath water. They are stripping away what makes the league a must-watch event.''

—Merton Hanks, who was the NFL's vice president of football operations until last spring, to Tom Curran of Comcast Sports Net-New England. Hanks is now associate commissioner of Conference USA.

[Sgt PSN]

I hated his crazy ass head whip celebration back in the day, but he's 100% on point right there. 

[hbionic]

That was unnecessary.

His celebration and his opinion are mutually exclusive. Why you tied them together reveals how stupid you are so huge in the pants.

[PhillyPhreak54]

And this from MMQB

I think I simply cannot believe the league fined Odell Beckham Jr. $24,309 for taking his helmet off as he was leaving the field at the end of a play. This is an inexcusable sanction. The average personal income for an American male with a bachelor's degree in the United States today (according to Wikipedia) is $49,804. Odell Beckham Jr. was fined six months' salary of the average American man with a college education for taking his helmet off in celebration as he left the field after scoring a touchdown. Give the man a 15-yard penalty and leave it there. The NFL has the right to fine players for unsportsmanlike conduct fouls, but they don't have to. Jon Runyan, the league's first-year discipline czar, chose to fine Beckham that egregious amount. No wonder so many fans and media people flail away at the league endlessly. And don't get me started on the Vernon Davis free throw fine ($12,154).