18 game season proposal, players only play 16

[slaughterrt]

I can’t wait to buy my tickets and surprise miss Barkley or Mahomes because that is a week that they sit. Fun

This is exactly one of the big downfalls, for fans. Vegas/gambling world has too large of an influence for them not to require the inactives on a weekly basis, but for those who purchase tickets a few weeks or months in advance. Greed

Haha yeah it’s like those families who saved up all year to get tickets to a Cavs game, only to have Lebron not play.

[Pullo Vision]

just did the math, a $15 million cap increase comes out to less than $500M of that $2.5B in revenue. I'm sure the players will want at least a full Billion dollars in pay and benefits out of that amount of increased revenue.

I was wondering this too. 15mil per team seemed too small a percentage.

[Pullo Vision]

Meanwhile the Sleeper App would account for this and start allowing conditional lineup submissions. That would be rad to be able to submit your starting lineup, and also submit backup players that automatically swap in due to pre-kickoff deactivations.

This is already a function on MFL. One of my leagues does this- we select a backup player and put in the note field who he's backing up when submitting a lineup. If that starter is not listed as out leading up to the game but then is declared out 1.5 hours before the game, the commish will swap the players. That way, you don't have to be a slave to the gameday injury reports.

[IBall2]

I think the NFL owners might be pushing this as a political ploy ahead of the CBA negotiations. The union and fans will resist, then they'll give it up in exchange for something they really want.

But they're also greedy, so it may be about squeezing every dollar out regardless of the affect on the game.

This is what I came here to say. I don't think the NFL owners actually think the NFLPA will agree to an 18 game season. They are just using it to create a bargaining chip in their favor so they have something on the table. The NFLPA will eventually have to make a compromise now that the owners have their bargaining chip on the table and this compromise will probably hurt the players and helps the owners like they always do at each CBA.

[killer_of_giants]

yeah but you can't just pull "bargaining chips!" out of your 'arris