What Impact does a ..."BYE" Have on Teams?

[DGreenFan87]

i think an early bye week can hurt. by the second half of the season, teams have all these injuries and people are starting to wear out a little bit and an extra week to rest and/or train more can help a team out a lot. i feel like the skins have the perfect bye week, right in the middle of the season. and i think you'd want to rest and/or get some more training in toward the end of the season when everyone is trying to get into the playoffs and get home field advantage.

of course there is the opinion that a bye week can make you rusty, but i seriously doubt that teams often get rusty just because of one extra week. these teams aren't sitting at home all week doing nothing. they're usually doing something to get them ready for their next game and the rest of the season, except now they have an extra week to plan. the little amount of negative attributes that a bye week has are extremely overshadowed by the positive.

 

[david_jackson]

when you play a team, having had an injury the week before is a disadvantage since you have limited time to game plan around it. The Commanders have a 0% chance of injury within 7 day of playing the Cowboys in Washington......that give a slight extra advantage to them

 

[dougonthebench]

Im all for the bye week,not as early as we seem to have year after year.(except last year)I think the whole league would be better of with every team having the bye at the same time.