10 ideas to help Roger get this league back on track

[DasTex]

Have the Cowboys back in the Super Bowl!

 

[erod]

I hear ya and I don't blame the players for not liking it but I'm talking about from a fans standpoint.

They should call it Cortisone Night because those guys are playing on meds.

Every Thursday night game is sloppy and boring.

 

[Sarge]

They should call it Cortisone Night because those guys are playing on meds.

Every Thursday night game is sloppy and boring.

I don't necessarily disagree but I love football on Thursday.

 

[erod]

I don't necessarily disagree but I love football on Thursday.

If so, they need to figure out a way for the teams to be off the prior weekend.

 

[coult44]

I agree with everything except FF. Especially DFS. FF brought a huge audience to the game. The problem is too many states have made DFS illegal. This actually hurt the NFL. Thousand of casual and non football fans stopped watching once they weren't allowed to win money anymore. I'm a football junkie. But I stopped caring about a huge amount of games when all of a sudden I had zero vested interest in the game. Last night was perfect example, and this TNF is another one. A year ago It would have been fun to pick a team and watch what happens. I would've watched until the end, now I couldn't care less.

 

[robjay04]

London is cool. I love waking up to football and the players seem to enjoy it as do The fans.

Thursday football is fine. Fantasy football has been around for a long time and is not going away. Most fantasy fans are also NFL fans.

If you don't like it, don't watch it. I enjoy just watching football.

The game itself is fine. The penalities for celebrations is getting a little old. A few weeks that aren't up to a standard ratings wise doesn't mean the league is hurting in anyway.

 

[robjay04]

If so, they need to figure out a way for the teams to be off the prior weekend.

Why?

The cowboys/Lions had to deal with it for years. If anything the Thursday games evens the playing field.

Most cowboy fans would always consider the Thursday games to be an advantage for the cowboys because they had an "extra bye".

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

For the first time in my lifetime I am watching less NFL games. Too many are on during the week and the games for the most part have been awful.

 

[Shinaoi]

It's also fairly wrong and disrepecful to call England a socialist hellhole. It's far from a hellhole. All place have their faults and positives, and England is an amazing place. I'm not going to sit here and laundry list the problem with Texas, after all my life here. I could name many.

 

[Howboutdemcowboys31]

I like the Thursday games and I like Fantasy but the rest of the things you named would be good starts

 

[xwalker]

First off, Rog, you are doing some things well. The draft coverage these days is cool. Many of the nuances of the broadcast add a lot. I personally support your strict behavior policies because this world is losing his soul day by day. I like a lot of what you do.

But we have to talk, bud. You're falling TV ratings should be of no surprise to you. They're not to us. Folks can only watch so much of this shadow league of its former self.

Here's 10 things to help you get back on track:

1. First, stop lecturing to us. Just stop, and try to control the media that broadcasts your games. You own those rights. Contract it. I don't need to be told how to feel about Michael Sam or Richie Incognito or Greg Hardy. Don't make it about anthems or breast cancer or the military or domestic violence. I don't need Uncle Costas spewing his version of life all over me and my kids before kickoff. Show me football, and shut up. We aren't in need of your social guidance, nor your hopes for society. Football, damn it!

2. Enough with the commercials already. After every kickoff, during replay, during every minute injury. That's why we're using our DVRs. There go your live ratings. We record it, and skip through your nonsense anyway, so stop it. Red Zone channel works wonders in that manner, so thanks for that, but that requires the NFL Ticket. Give us a much tighter viewing window because there are plenty of other things we can do. Technology has made sure of it.

3. Get your rules right. Stop calling illegal contact for almost nothing to keep your precious offenses going with weak automatic first downs. Learn what a catch is and define it for gawd's sake. Lighten up on the illegal hits and define that, too. This is football, and you've chased off a lot of viewers by overreacting to an agenda that aims to take the NFL down. Acknowledge the need for change, but don't overreach. It's gotten ridiculous with the flags. STOP CHANGING THE RULES SO MUCH EVERY YEAR. The game was fine with a few tweaks.

4. Either do replay, or don't, but this is dumb. Why can't a coach challenge a 60-yard interference penalty, but they can challenge a spot in a short yardage scrum? Stupid. More should be challengeable, or none of it, but stop with the half you know what.

5. Fire Dean Blandino now. He's never so much as refereed a game, but he's the head of referees? Are you kidding? Did he catch you naked with Mara's daughter or something? The man is a blithering dolt, and he serves no purpose in this league. It's never been so murky and confused. Or was that your goal? Again....you're running us off.

6. Stop with the stupid themes. Color Rush is for small children and simpletons. It looks dumb, and I turn it off the moment I see it. Enough with the throwback nonsense because it's gotten way out of control. Nobody wants to see the Packers in that. I don't want to see the Eagles in blue and yellow. Bumble bees don't make professional football uniforms. That ship sailed 10 years ago. Give me the traditional uniforms. AND MAKE THE JAGUARS GO BACK TO THEIR OLD UNIFORMS, WHICH WERE REALLY COOL. Those look like something a cat threw up.

7. Enough with London. Your dream of putting a team there won't happen, or you'll lose your league altogether if you do. Nobody wants it, least of which are the players who'll have to pay 70 percent taxes in that God-forsaken socialist hellhole. And if I want to get up that early, I'm going to church. You think the folks in Seattle want to watch their team at 6:30 in the morning? Are you that dense? In fact, no more expansion talk of any kind. This league is watered down enough as it is. The football is bad too often.

8. No more Thursday games. Enough already. The players hate it, the coaches hate it, we're not watching it, and your Rush jerseys are making it even worse. Thanksgiving only. Leave it be. You're oversaturating the market, and we've got other things to do than just watch NFL all the time. We're over it, so undo it.

9. Stop with the fantasty football gluttony. Those passers-by will leave you, just like they did Nascar. See those half-empty race tracks? It's because they catered to much to the casual fans, who always leave when they get bored because they aren't real fans. They're going to leave you, too, and if you keep messing with the fabric of the NFL, we'll leave with them.

10. Go back to the NFLPA and bring practice back. These guys are barely prepared. No two-a-days? Only 14 padded practices a season? So much mandatory time off and whatnot is killing the quality of this game. Guys are not prepared. Tackling is atrocious. Injuries are rampant because they're not ready to play. There's a lot of bad football, Roger, and much of it is attributable to this horrific NFLPA deal.

That's it. Do what you will, if you even care.

Get the Cowboys back to the Super Bowl. Repeat.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

#11

Stop changing the game for the players. Change the players for the game.

Eliminate all safety rule changes and bring the game back to it's 1970's form. No more in the grasp, no more helmet to helmet penalties, no more unprotected receiver, no more reducing the game to flag football.

The players want protection? Six year mandatory limit in the NFL or second major injury!

A player can play a maximum of six seasons or until they suffer a second major injury. Now they are protected!

What is wrong with that? The average NFL career is three and a half seasons. They are allowed almost double that.

This would only effect about 15% of NFL players, the ones that are most at risk. Who is suing, the players who spent a couple years in the NFL, no. It's the players that spent 8-12 years in the NFL. The game is dangerous? Well, duh! One way to not get your butt kicked in the boxer's ring is don 't step in the ring!

Playing in the NFL is not a career. Careers are 20, 25, 30 and more years! the NFL is an opportunity to play the game you love at the highest level and get a great financial start to life, that should be it.

They get out healthy, they get out with better financial condition because they are more prepared for it to end because they know it will.

More of them will get their college education. More will graduate and be better prepared for their future.

The game will maintain it's purity.

Why not? College football thrives with a maximum 4 years participation by the players, why not six for the NFL?

Okay, go ahead, I'm ready........

This is just laughably bad

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

What's not to like about Thursday night games?

Jacksonville @ Tennessee?

 

[Sarge]

Jacksonville @ Tennessee?

I'd rather be watching football than not.

 

[dogunwo]

I know there was a push to make sure the Cowboys had a road game before the Thanksgiving match-up. Is that true for all home teams on Thursday?



Edit: Never mind, just looked at the schedule again.

 

[Jinxx13x]

Here are my 3 steps:

1) Remove the Salary Cap

2) Jerry Jones spends lots of cash

3) Cowboys dominate again

Problems fixed

 

[erod]

It's also fairly wrong and disrepecful to call England a socialist hellhole. It's far from a hellhole. All place have their faults and positives, and England is an amazing place. I'm not going to sit here and laundry list the problem with Texas, after all my life here. I could name many.

It's an amazing place to visit, but I don't understand how they live in those cracker jack box houses.

I love British movies, British history, and the English Premier League.

But the country has lost its way (half my company is England-based, and the guys I work with there hate what's happened to their heritage and culture. It's nothing like what they grew up with.)

 

[Shinaoi]

It's an amazing place to visit, but I don't understand how they live in those cracker jack box houses.

I love British movies, British history, and the English Premier League.

But the country has lost its way (half my company is England-based, and the guys I work with there hate what's happened to their heritage and culture. It's nothing like what they grew up with.)

Fair enough. Good point.

 

[drawandstrike]

I just sent some comments to the @nflcommish on Twitter.

You can read them here: [click on the image below to go to Twitter and see the full thread]



I decided to keep it short and just focus on the loss of a safe space inside the stadiums.

 

[plasticman]

This is just laughably bad

Because.........

Your opinion would carry more....that is, would carry weight if you explained why. Try it.