How would you improve the NFL?

[DeaconBlues]

1. All bye weeks during the middle four weeks of the season.

2. Change PI to a 15 yard penalty.

3. Full time refs, then

3a. Eliminate the tuck rule. Make the refs earn their $$$.

3b. Change the force out rule back to what it was. I've seen a couple of plays were the receiver was clearly 2 to 3 yards inbounds, only to have a DB who was beat make up for it with a timely push.

3c. Change roughing the passer to not include incidental contact to the helmet. Too many cheap first downs.

4. Remove Al Davis from a position of control. Save the Raiders; it's obvious that Al has made a pack with the devil and will live for the next 30 years.

5. Disband the Washington Commanders. Fire everybody, turn the Midget into a roving mascot.

6. Eliminate the NY Jets and Cincinnati old school unis, upon penalty of death.

7. Rename the Jets and Gints to the NJ Jets and Gints. I understand using a nearby major city as the team name, but at least use the name of the state you play in. For the Commanders, see #5 above.

 

[Yeagermeister]

1. All bye weeks during the middle four weeks of the season.

2. Change PI to a 15 yard penalty.

3. Full time refs, then

3a. Eliminate the tuck rule. Make the refs earn their $$$.

3b. Change the force out rule back to what it was. I've seen a couple of plays were the receiver was clearly 2 to 3 yards inbounds, only to have a DB who was beat make up for it with a timely push.

3c. Change roughing the passer to not include incidental contact to the helmet. Too many cheap first downs.

4. Remove Al Davis from a position of control. Save the Raiders; it's obvious that Al has made a pack with the devil and will live for the next 30 years.

5. Disband the Washington Commanders. Fire everybody, turn the Midget into a roving mascot.

6. Eliminate the NY Jets and Cincinnati old school unis, upon penalty of death.

7. Rename the Jets and Gints to the NJ Jets and Gints. I understand using a nearby major city as the team name, but at least use the name of the state you play in. For the Commanders, see #5 above.

Already been done...last season IIRC

 

[Givincer]

no whistles to end plays, smear on TV. awesome.

Not sure if you're being serious with this response, but if you are... :laugh2:

Any sound can signal the end of a play. Heck, a whistle can be played over the loud speaker to signal the end of the play.

There is absolutely no reason the game should not be entirely regulated by cameras in both football and baseball.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

1. Have Roger Goodell travel around to at least half of the NFL stadiums during the season in a butt kicking booth that is open to the general public at $10 a kick.
   
2. Have NFL.com set up a weekly opinion poll on if they felt the close calls of the week were judged correct by the game officials. Then have an offsite designee (or Michael Irvin, if in studio) shoot Mike Pereira with a paint ball gun from ten feet out every time he defends a call that the public overwhelmingly is against.
   
3. Present an official "Offseason Champion" trophy prior to the start of the season each year and name it the Dan Snyder Trophy.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

1. As others have said, have full time officials.

2. Keep the season at 16 games, this is what makes the NFL special and the regular season games important.

3. Get rid of the Pro Bowl. Nobody cares.

4. Install a rookie cap. Having a top five draft choice is now a bad things whith what these rookies get paid.

5. Get rid of the hard cap and install a soft cap like the NBA. Teams should not have to lose players they drafted because of a salary cap.

6. No more expannsion. There aren't enough good players for the teams we have now.

 

[CF74]

I would reverse the cap between vets and rookies. Rookies make to much for being a prospect and vets who have clearly paid their dues should be allowed to name their price.

 

[Rampage]

1. All bye weeks during the middle four weeks of the season.

2. Change PI to a 15 yard penalty.

3. Full time refs, then

3a. Eliminate the tuck rule. Make the refs earn their $$$.

3b. Change the force out rule back to what it was. I've seen a couple of plays were the receiver was clearly 2 to 3 yards inbounds, only to have a DB who was beat make up for it with a timely push.

3c. Change roughing the passer to not include incidental contact to the helmet. Too many cheap first downs.

4. Remove Al Davis from a position of control. Save the Raiders; it's obvious that Al has made a pack with the devil and will live for the next 30 years.

5. Disband the Washington Commanders. Fire everybody, turn the Midget into a roving mascot.

6. Eliminate the NY Jets and Cincinnati old school unis, upon penalty of death.

7. Rename the Jets and Gints to the NJ Jets and Gints. I understand using a nearby major city as the team name, but at least use the name of the state you play in. For the Commanders, see #5 above.

I like that rule. most of the rules are in favor of the offense and that rule used to be a joke. who cares if he would've came down in bounds? the bottom line is he didn't come down in bounds.