Football A solution to the "sitting starters" in Week 16/17?

**OnTheWarpath15** · 01-06-2010, 03:13 PM

I think the draft pick idea is ridiculous, and could never work.

How can you reward good teams with extra draft picks, and widen the balance between the haves and the have nots?

I heard this proposal by a listener to Sirius NFL Radio:

Schedule all non-conference and non-division games at the beginning of the year, and backload all the division games over the last 6 weeks of the season.

Division titles would likely still be on the line, and teams would have much more to play for at the end of the season.

Thoughts?

**The Franchise** · 01-06-2010, 03:13 PM

Works for me.

**Buck** · 01-06-2010, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

I think the draft pick idea is ridiculous, and could never work.

How can you reward good teams with extra draft picks, and widen the balance between the haves and the have nots?

I heard this proposal by a listener to Sirius NFL Radio:

Schedule all non-conference and non-division games at the beginning of the year, and backload all the division games over the last 6 weeks of the season.

Division titles would likely still be on the line, and teams would have much more to play for at the end of the season.

Thoughts?

Reward them with a Home game to begin and end the next season.

**dirk digler** · 01-06-2010, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

I think the draft pick idea is ridiculous, and could never work.

How can you reward good teams with extra draft picks, and widen the balance between the haves and the have nots?

I heard this proposal by a listener to Sirius NFL Radio:

Schedule all non-conference and non-division games at the beginning of the year, and backload all the division games over the last 6 weeks of the season.

Division titles would likely still be on the line, and teams would have much more to play for at the end of the season.

Thoughts?

Yep I read that suggestion last week sometime. Damn good idea.

**DaneMcCloud** · 01-06-2010, 03:17 PM

That may or may not work.

If a team is 13-0 or 14-0, it wouldn't matter a bit. If a team has the division locked up early, which happens every year, I don't think it would matter.

There is no simple solution.

KCFalcon59 · 01-06-2010, 03:17 PM

That's the best option I've heard so far.

**DaFace** · 01-06-2010, 03:18 PM

I've never known whether or not it was intentional, but it always seems like the NHL does this at least informally. Division games seem to be mostly in the beginning and end of the season. Seems to keep things exciting.

**OnTheWarpath15** · 01-06-2010, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by BuckinKaeding

Reward them with a Home game to begin and end the next season.

Good teams often start at home the next season anyway.

And honestly, that's not much of an incentive.

Hey, Jim Caldwell - play Peyton Manning in Week 17 and we'll let you open at home next year.

I think he'd have to try damn hard not to laugh.

CaliforniaChief · 01-06-2010, 03:19 PM

That's probably the best idea I've heard of in terms of making weeks 16 and 17 more competitive.

**The Franchise** · 01-06-2010, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

Good teams often start at home the next season anyway.

And honestly, that's not much of an incentive.

Hey, Jim Caldwell - play Peyton Manning in Week 17 and we'll let you open at home next year.

I think he'd have to try damn hard not to laugh.

Hey, Jim Caldwell - play Peyton Manning in Week 17 or we'll make you sit him Week 1.

**dirk digler** · 01-06-2010, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

That may or may not work.

If a team is 13-0 or 14-0, it wouldn't matter a bit. If a team has the division locked up early, which happens every year, I don't think it would matter.

There is no simple solution.

Good point.

**** it I say take away their first round draft choice for the next year

**OnTheWarpath15** · 01-06-2010, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

That may or may not work.

If a team is 13-0 or 14-0, it wouldn't matter a bit. If a team has the division locked up early, which happens every year, I don't think it would matter.

There is no simple solution.

True, but that's an exception, and certainly not the rule.

Unless you expect there to be 2-3 teams every year that go on a Colts/Saints-like run.

In theory, wouldn't a team have to have at least a 6 game lead in the division for the last 6 games, all in the division, not to matter?

What are the odds of a team being 10-0 and the other 3 teams being 4-6 or worse?

CaliforniaChief · 01-06-2010, 03:21 PM

The Fantasyfootballification of the NFL continues...

**OnTheWarpath15** · 01-06-2010, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Pestilence

Hey, Jim Caldwell - play Peyton Manning in Week 17 or we'll make you sit him Week 1.

That's the thing:

You can't force coaches to play these guys, but you sure as hell can make the decision to sit them tougher.

**dirk digler** · 01-06-2010, 03:22 PM

Or better yet if they decide to sit their players the worst team in the league gets to pick 1 player off that team in the offseason

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