Goodell: Competition committee to look at teams mailing it in

[Kangaroo]

Goodell then they will just have them down as an injury a sore muscle, headache what ever they want this entire thing is a joke. With the Pats Wes Welker going down and by the looks of it maybe out for the playoffs. What is going to happen when a guy like Peyton goes down what do you think those teams fans are going to do when the coach was playing the guy in a game that means nothing. Sorry the whole talk is a 3 ring circus caused by the media and has gone on for years in football without anyone crying. The only reason anyone is crying because there team is on the outside looking in with the jets win. Guess what if teams would have taken care of business in previous weeks it be a none issue.

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Goodell: Competition committee to look at teams mailing it in
Jan. 3, 2010
CBSSports.com wire reports

MIAMI -- Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL competition committee will review league policy regarding late-season games where teams might be tempted to rest their starters for the playoffs.

Goodell said the league was sensitive to criticism in the wake of the Indianapolis Colts' decision to use backups a week ago in a game they lost, ending their bid for a perfect season.

"It is something we'll look at," Goodell said Sunday. "We heard the fans loud and clear. It's something our competition committee has looked at in the past, but we're going to ask our competition committee to look at it again in the future. We want every game to be competitive."

The league's position has been that playoff-bound teams enjoy the right to rest their starters to prepare for the postseason.

The Colts already had clinched home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs when coach Jim Caldwell sat Peyton Manning and other starters in the second half, and the Jets rallied to win. NFL purists were upset the Colts didn't go all-out with a shot at a perfect season.

"We want to make sure the integrity of the NFL is first and foremost in everyone's mind, and try to find ways to make sure our games are competitive at all points in the season, including the preseason," Goodell said.

The commissioner spoke before the game between the Dolphins and Steelers. He was in Miami to take part in an 80th birthday celebration for former Dolphins coach Don Shula, who won an NFL- record 347 games and two Super Bowls.

"He's an extraordinary guy," Goodell said. "You don't like to define people in terms of numbers. But when you talk about 347, you talk about two Super Bowls, and now he has added 80 to that list -- he's a special guy to the NFL and we're proud of everything he has done."

 

[casmith07]

The reason why they're going to do it is step 1 in his plans to make it an 18-game regular season.

Think about it - you could end up winning 11 games dependent on your division, and clinch the playoffs, effectively allowing you to mail it in completely for 7 weeks in a row, which hurts the on-field product.

By forcing teams NOT to mail it in, you force a good product when you force it to 18-games in the regular season.

Goodell = bad for the league.

 

[SA_Gunslinger]

this will never fly. fans can cry all they want about potential meaningless regular season games at the end of the year, but the uproar over a star getting injured right before the playoffs b/c he was FORCED to play would be larger and louder.

 

[Hypnotoad]

The reason why they're going to do it is step 1 in his plans to make it an 18-game regular season.

Think about it - you could end up winning 11 games dependent on your division, and clinch the playoffs, effectively allowing you to mail it in completely for 7 weeks in a row, which hurts the on-field product.

By forcing teams NOT to mail it in, you force a good product when you force it to 18-games in the regular season.

Goodell = bad for the league.

They can't do a punishment to help eliminate mailing it in.

And if their brilliant idea is to extend the schedule, that doesn't do **** to eliminate mailing it in either. If you extend the season, all that does is delay mailing it in by whatever number of weeks you add.

The problem is the current structure of the playoffs. Eliminate a bye and add another team into playoffs. a #7 seed. This will enocurange teams to play to hopefully get the higher seed to play that really bad team, and it keeps the structure the same afterwards too.

 

[Dallas]

The reason why they're going to do it is step 1 in his plans to make it an 18-game regular season.

Think about it - you could end up winning 11 games dependent on your division, and clinch the playoffs, effectively allowing you to mail it in completely for 7 weeks in a row, which hurts the on-field product.

By forcing teams NOT to mail it in, you force a good product when you force it to 18-games in the regular season.

Goodell = bad for the league.

I argee. I think on the business side of things, Goodell has been absolutely horrible.

 

[fanfromvirginia]

I suppose they might to decide to fine teams for sitting star players but that seems way over the line. There's already a decent deterrent against this type of thing: your players need to stay in rhythm and your team needs momentum going into the playoffs.

 

[Go Big D!]

Goodell: Competition committee to look at teams mailing it in

Well, they need to start with the giants, this game is atrocious, lol!

 

[Kangaroo]

I suppose they might to decide to fine teams for sitting star players but that seems way over the line. There's already a decent deterrent against this type of thing: your players need to stay in rhythm and your team needs momentum going into the playoffs.

But if he is listed as injured can you make an injured player start and fine a team ?

I mean if Peyton comes down with a sore hamstring you can not prove if it is sore or not as the NFL that is a player. If a player has been dinged up the past couple weeks and they sit him because he has been injured see Mathis of the Colts can you fine them for sitting an injured player.

The NFL can not do a dam thing about it and they should not; it is lip service and a joke

 

[Sarge]

I'll be glad when Goodell is gone. Was Welker "mailing it in" today.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Goodell on Jets-Colts: "We heard the fans loud and clear."

Posted by Mike Florio on January 3, 2010 1:56 PM ET

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed on Sunday reports that the league will re-examine internal policies regarding the preference of some playoff teams to rest injured starters late in the regular season.

"It is something we'll look at," Goodell said Sunday, according to the Associated Press. "We heard the fans loud and clear. It's something our Competition Committee has looked at in the past, but we're going to ask our Competition Committee to look at it again in the future. We want every game to be competitive."

ESPN's Chris Mortensen has reported that the league will consider providing incentives to playoff teams that choose to use starters. Charley Casserly of CBS, a former member of the Competition Committee, mentioned during The NFL Today that, when the league's rule-recommending body had taken up the issue in the past, no consensus could be reached regarding enforcement of a rule purporting to require playoff teams to try.

The best news here is that the NFL indeed listens to its fans. So feel free to make your voices heard when something bothers you.

Based on the habits of those who choose to post views in the comments section of the site, it's not as if an engraved invitation is needed.

 

[Hypnotoad]

What are they going to do? What kind of incentive?

Give good teams more draft picks so the rich get richer???

This is just stupid.

Seems like BS rhetoric which we wont hear again after the ****storm calms down

 

[Sarge]

....and who (and how) is going to judge whether a team mailed it in or not?

 

[Bizwah]

....and who (and how) is going to judge whether a team mailed it in or not?

Exactly.....

We "mailed it in" last year vs Philly....or were they 38 points better than us?

Here's my feeling on this.

If a team like the Steelers get mad that teams are mailing it in....that they won't get a "fair shot" at the playoffs....then they should've done more to make it a non-issue in the regular season.

Just like right now with us....It's clear that the Giants aren't giving their best effort. It sucks that we don't have a shot at the second seed.

But you know what?

We shouldn't have lost twice to the Giants.....we shouldn't have lost to the Packers....Broncos...or even the Chargers.

We're in the position we're in because of us......

The NFL needs to just step back on this one.

 

[Go Big D!]

Exactly.....

We "mailed it in" last year vs Philly....or were they 38 points better than us?

Here's my feeling on this.

If a team like the Steelers get mad that teams are mailing it in....that they won't get a "fair shot" at the playoffs....then they should've done more to make it a non-issue in the regular season.

Just like right now with us....It's clear that the Giants aren't giving their best effort. It sucks that we don't have a shot at the second seed.

But you know what?

We shouldn't have lost twice to the Giants.....we shouldn't have lost to the Packers....Broncos...or even the Chargers.

We're in the position we're in because of us......

The NFL needs to just step back on this one.

But the league loves to help the stealers

 

[fanfromvirginia]

....and who (and how) is going to judge whether a team mailed it in or not?

Per the ESPN bit quoted above, they're going the positive reinforcement route as punishment won't work. Just like house training a puppy.