NFL

76 readers

4 users here now

A place for NFL news, game highlights and everything that excites you about American Football.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

communick@nfl.community

rglullis

NFL needs a new rule about bye weeks and scheduling games (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by AdmiralSn4ckb4r@alien.top to c/nfl@nfl.community

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

As the title suggests, the NFL needs to change how they schedule teams after bye weeks. Teams that come off of bye weeks should be playing each other. It is not right, nor is it fair for the team that is not coming off of a bye to have to play against a team that has come off a bye week. I'm a 49ers fan so I can only speak about our schedule. I'm not saying that the only reason the 9ers lost was because of the bye week. The 49ers had a lot of issues, no doubt about it. Even still, we played against the Browns in their home stadium, after the Browns came off a bye. This weekend we play the Bengals who are also coming off a bye. On top of that, my team is coming off of a short week. Again, not saying that is a massive factor, but it does seem right.

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] houtex727@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

There is zero reason to have a bye week logically speaking anymore. The reason is money, that's all. Yeah, sure, 'safety' or giving players a break... Early bye week teams would really like the late bye week other teams get, yes? You betcha.

Bye weeks suck.

The bye week arose because the NFL had 31 teams due to the Cleveland Browns re-becoming a thing. So at that point they had to do something, 'cause some team wasn't going to play every week, so teams got a bye. They had to make up some weird rules back then.

So when the Texans came about they kind of liked the bye weeks, and they just... kept them.

But hey, extra week of NFL, everyone likes that, sure. Ok. Fine. Here's the fix:

Week 8: AFC is off that week. All NFC games.

Week 9: NFC is off that week. All AFC games.

Tada. You can flip them every year, AFC first, then NFC first, even make it a big spectacle thing if you want. All the games color rush or alternate uniforms or throwbacks... or even one offs for that week! Make it a little odd party kind of a thing. More uniforms to sell too, yes? Yes! NFL likes that.

EVERYBODY should like that. So let's do that. Hell, I'm excited thinking it could even be a thing, let's go!