IR rules should change

[Hoofbite]

Lower the league min

Yeah, that will go over like a lead blimp.

 

[Hoofbite]

I think the ability to keep players who you want and play them later during the season would allow for a much better product on the field and would be better for the players as well.

The idea that you're going to stash a veteran you already have to pay for doesn't cut mustard and if a player was on the active roster for an entire year, generally you wouldn't stash them either.

The NFL wants you to cut a borderline player who will now have to try to learn a new system half way through the year when they are healthy, just so another team has the chance to get them and that they aren't stashed. It's silly.

But teams can already do that. The bottom of every roster is full of guys who are more or less expendable so keep the ones you want and ditch the ones you don't.

It's not like the league is so ripe with talent across the board that good players are getting cut left and right. Teams already have all the flexibility they need because there are a handful of guys who basically do nothing all year on every team. Can't live without those, I guess.

Then again, I do get a little excited about what kind of a juggernaut Dallas would be if they had a few more Devon Street's, Geoff Swaim's, or castoff Seattle RBs on their roster.

 

[frickster]

i never understood why you have 53 players on the roster and can only dress 46.

I have always hated that too. I guess the NFL was afraid of specialization. Who cares? I think it would make the game more interesting.

 

[Galian Beast]

But teams can already do that. The bottom of every roster is full of guys who are more or less expendable so keep the ones you want and ditch the ones you don't.

It's not like the league is so ripe with talent across the board that good players are getting cut left and right. Teams already have all the flexibility they need because there are a handful of guys who basically do nothing all year on every team. Can't live without those, I guess.

Then again, I do get a little excited about what kind of a juggernaut Dallas would be if they had a few more Devon Street's, Geoff Swaim's, or castoff Seattle RBs on their roster.

Terrell McClain is a much better example of who might have been kept if there were more flexible IR rules.

 

[CowboyChris]

Because of injuries. Suppose Team A has 4 injured players on its roster and Team B has none. Team A would have 49 players on Sunday to the 53 players of Team B, it would be an unfair advantage to the injured teams.

Roster should expand to 58 and teams should dress 51ish.

thanks, did not know that, ,makes sense.

 

[erod]

With the salary cap era, I don't think the IR as it currently stands makes any sense.

I would say they should at the very least allow you to long term IR as many players who are not on rookie contracts as you want, and maybe around 5 players who have registered at least 1 season on the active roster.

Thoughts?

I agree with this, but mechanisms would have to be in place to keep teams from rat-holing players. Perhaps a limit of five players or something.

 

[Cowboys22]

If they allowed 5 IR eligible to return at any one time, they could allow all 53 to dress. They should also allow teams to move practice squad players to the active roster to fill the spot of an IR'd player and back to the practice squad without being exposed to waivers. I know they are always allowed to be signed at any time but if they are waived, they could decide to join the practice squad with another team. A team should be allowed to move them back and forth without them becoming free agents as lond as they are taking the spot of an IR'd player.

 

[rynochop]

Idk why it can't be like MLB and have a disabled list system, have a two week, four week, eight or whatever