GOODELL OF AN IDEA

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NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell recently mentioned the idea of cutting the pre-season to 2 games a year and going to a 16 or 18 game regular season schedule. The fans are not on favor of the long pre-season, and season ticket holders don’t like paying for it either, since they have no interest in the pre-season, because the games don’t count.

Goodell also feels they don’t need all those pre-season games to get a team ready.

Never have I enjoyed watching a pre-season game, especially in its entirety, feeling that it has no bearing on anything and is just a waste of time, that doesn’t help the team.  Why, because your offense won’t reveal anything to your opponents defense and vice-versa.

I have an idea that I think would make a lot of sense for pre-season. Instead of a team playing another team in pre-season, they send only a defense or offense to scrimmage! The New York Giants could sent their defense to scrimmage against a New England patriot offense, while the New York Giants Offense can scrimmage against a Cleveland defense, all in one day!

This practice could enable both sides of the ball more concentration and depth of practice, no game being played and yet getting the benefit to perfecting the teams.

That’s all I wrote, folks!