NFL may use bigger active rosters for Thursday games

[Wood]

Three players who AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH ANY OTHER WEEK to make the roster are the solution to the disaster that is Thursday Night Football?

Its the NFL attempt at greed and its bad idea. Mark Cuban went as far as to say this will be demise of NFL in about 10 years. Pigs get fat and Hogs get slaughtered. Says there will simply be too much football on and people will lose interest.

 

[DFWJC]

The level of greed by the owners and commish has gotten to be so over the top in recent years. It for sure is going to catch up to them.

There shouldn't even be Thursday night games unless it is with two teams coming off a bye week.
And that 18 game schedule idea was pretty careless as well.

 

[xwalker]

I would worry that it would lead to over specialization - particularly if you got a larger active roster too.

It seems like that would be totally dependent on the active roster size.

 

[conner01]

With that logic it's not Jerry's fault with the Cowboys, then.

goodell does'nt make rules or change them. the competition commitee which is the owners does

 

[jazzcat22]

For the questions of having the 53 man roster, and only 46 active on game day.

I believe this started from when the changed the IR rules. Teams would stash players on IR for a hangnail, then activate them when needed. They had I think a 43 man roster at the time..
So when they changed the IR, once on it, on it for the year. In lieu of that, they expanded the roster, but allowed 46 to be active for the game.
So if a player had a hangnail, he would be inactive until in was clipped off.

Basically the inactive list was meant to be a temp IR list at first.

 

[AbeBeta]

It seems like that would be totally dependent on the active roster size.

Active would have to change - you could really argue that teams now have a 60 man roster anyway with the PS so there is little point to expanding the roster but not the active #.

 

[SkinsFan28]

Its the NFL attempt at greed and its bad idea. Mark Cuban went as far as to say this will be demise of NFL in about 10 years. Pigs get fat and Hogs get slaughtered. Says there will simply be too much football on and people will lose interest.

there are still only 16 games for any fan's team (maybe 17 in the near future). It' s laughable to me for a Basketball, Baseball, or Hockey owner to say the NFL's demise will be to many games. How many games does the NBA regular season have? 82. That's just under 5 NFL seasons.

 

[SkinsFan28]

Still not a good enough reason to me. Most teams usually only have 2 or 3 guys that can't go at all that week. Pee-wee teams have bigger rosters. If they are serious about safety they should expand the game day roster to the full 60 guys on the roster and practice squad. I would even add a 5-7 man taxi squad just for Special Teamers. They wouldn't have to have full union benefits and maybe they would allow Kickoffs to stay a part of the game.

The union is an active participant when writing the CBA in determining roster sizes, etc. I can't see them agreeing for one second on a taxi squad that didn't have full union benefits, and I was real disappointed that they didn't make a push for larger practice squads at that point, but someone on the players side (i don't remember who) was arguing that the the larger pool would dilute the overall salaries.

I would love to see a larger practice squad, and 49-50 active every game.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I don't think this really helps a great deal. I mean, yeah, you can more easily replace injured players but Coaching Staffs are still going to go with the best player at every position. That means that all of your starters and your key subs will still have too few days to get recover. That's just not a real good solution IMO.

 

[Nightman]

The union is an active participant when writing the CBA in determining roster sizes, etc. I can't see them agreeing for one second on a taxi squad that didn't have full union benefits, and I was real disappointed that they didn't make a push for larger practice squads at that point, but someone on the players side (i don't remember who) was arguing that the the larger pool would dilute the overall salaries.

I would love to see a larger practice squad, and 49-50 active every game.

I agree the Players are partly responsible. They don't want to split the pie any further than they have to. But the full 53 and the practice guys are already getting paid and should be allowed to be active.

 

[xwalker]

Active would have to change - you could really argue that teams now have a 60 man roster anyway with the PS so there is little point to expanding the roster but not the active #.

I just want to make the practice squad protected assets.