Football Updates regarding the 17 Game Schedule in 2021 from Peter King

FloridaMan88 · 03-01-2021, 10:27 AM

From his column today:

Link: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ia-peter-king/

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- The 17-game schedule is highly likely in 2021. No surprise there. TV partners and NFL schedulers are working under the assumption that the 17-game schedule (the way was paved for it last March when players approved a new CBA) will debut in 2021.

- The league calendar gets pushed back one week, with a likely Feb. 13 Super Bowl in Los Angeles. No extra bye—17 games in 18 weekends. Super Bowl LVI, originally scheduled for Feb. 6, 2022 and airing on NBC, has not been officially moved yet. The league hasn’t said a word about moving the game to officials in Los Angeles. But the NFL won’t start the season on the ratings-quashing Labor Day Weekend, and the league doesn’t want to add an extra regular-season bye week. So that adds up to Feb. 13, which would be the latest Super Bowl in history.

- The best game of 2021, Aaron Rodgers versus Patrick Mahomes, is on track. Really, only one game in 2021 would rival Green Bay-Kansas City. That’s Tampa Bay at New England, with Tom Brady’s return to Foxboro. Pittsburgh at Green Bay is interesting too, with the very likely last meeting of Ben Roethlisberger and Rodgers. Brady in Foxboro is great theater, of course. But Rodgers-Mahomes is a much better game, with two passers at the peak of their powers.

- A note about how the league configured the extra game: When the NFL was choosing options, the formula that prevailed—follow me now—was AFC versus NFC, cross-conference matchup from two years ago, 2021 matchup based on 2020 standings. Now that you’re totally confused, here’s an example: The four AFC West teams played the four NFC North teams in 2019. In 2020, Kansas City finished in first place in the AFC West, Green Bay first in the NFC North. So in 2021, it’s AFC West against NFC North, and 1-versus-1 from ‘20 becomes Green Bay versus Kansas City. I will bet you a Kroll’s West cheeseburger with an ice-cold Spotted Cow that the networks will brawl over this ratings-gold game. This game alone is reason enough for the league to rush the 17th game onto the 2021 schedule.

- Hearing it’s most likely to be AFC hosting all 16 newly invented games in 2021. Then NFC teams hosting in 2022. If that’s how it goes, it’s the fairest way. Competitive equity is the key. You don’t want three NFC East teams playing eight at home and the fourth playing nine at home.

htismaqe · 03-01-2021, 10:30 AM

Tampa / New England would be a terrible football game. It's not even close to the matchup of KC / GB.

FloridaMan88 · 03-01-2021, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

Tampa / New England would be a terrible football game. It's not even close to the matchup of KC / GB.

The only drama would be to see when/if Brady/Belichick embrace each other postgame.

Gary Cooper · 03-01-2021, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

Tampa / New England would be a terrible football game. It's not even close to the matchup of KC / GB.

Here's the million dollar question. Will this game (or any game) be in front of a sold out stadium? If not, Tom Brady returning to Boston doesn't mean as much.

**BigRedChief** · 03-01-2021, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by JudasRising20

Here's the million dollar question. Will this game (or any game) be in front of a sold out stadium? If not, Tom Brady returning to Boston doesn't mean as much.

Everyone who wants a vaccine will have had a chance to get one by the first NFL game in Sept. I expect full stadiums. But..... may have to prove you have been vaccinated?

**alpha_omega** · 03-01-2021, 10:30 AM

Thanks for the update...still don't like it.

**Rain Man** · 03-01-2021, 10:32 AM

I really don't need a 17th game. In fact, I don't even want one.

htismaqe · 03-01-2021, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I really don't need a 17th game. In fact, I don't even want one.

You're going to get one. The NFL doesn't care what YOU want.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-01-2021, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

You're going to get one. The NFL doesn't care what YOU want.

It's a damn shame, too.

As much as I enjoy the NBA playoffs from April-June, I'll rarely tune into a regular season game, unless it's just an amazing matchup between two of the top 6 teams in the NBA, because they play 82 games in a season, which is just too many games, IMO, to determine the top 16 of 30 teams.

Now, the NFL is going to have 17 regular season games, in addition to three rounds of playoff games featuring 14 of 32 teams, in order to determine a champion? That's insane. The old system of 12 teams was just fine.

Plus, the good teams stand to lose more than the bad teams in a 17 game season with 7 playoff teams per conference.

It's much easier for a great team to stumble than it is for a middling team to win an "upset" but when you're designing the season AND the playoffs for upsets, why even bother watching until the playoffs?

htismaqe · 03-01-2021, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

It's a damn shame, too.

As much as I enjoy the NBA playoffs from April-June, I'll rarely tune into a regular season game, unless it's just an amazing matchup between two of the top 6 teams in the NBA, because they play 82 games in a season, which is just too many games, IMO, to determine the top 16 of 30 teams.

Now, the NFL is going to have 17 regular season games, in addition to three rounds of playoff games featuring 14 of 32 teams, in order to determine a champion? That's insane. The old system of 12 teams was just fine.

Plus, the good teams stand to lose more than the bad teams in a 17 game season with 7 playoff teams per conference.

It's much easier for a great team to stumble than it is for a middling team to win an "upset" but when you're designing the season AND the playoffs for upsets, why even bother watching until the playoffs?

Yep.

Much like basketball (you talked about the NBA, but NCAA is similar) they're moving towards 2 seasons. One season for everybody, and another season just for the good teams. Wait until they expand the playoffs again.

KChiefs1 · 03-01-2021, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

why even bother watching until the playoffs?

So I assume you don’t like watching football.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-01-2021, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by KChiefs1

So I assume you don’t like watching football.

I've had Sunday Ticket since 2003 so you're wrong, as usual, once again.

displacedinMN · 03-01-2021, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

It's a damn shame, too.

As much as I enjoy the NBA playoffs from April-June, I'll rarely tune into a regular season game, unless it's just an amazing matchup between two of the top 6 teams in the NBA, because they play 82 games in a season, which is just too many games, IMO, to determine the top 16 of 30 teams.

Now, the NFL is going to have 17 regular season games, in addition to three rounds of playoff games featuring 14 of 32 teams, in order to determine a champion? That's insane. The old system of 12 teams was just fine.

Plus, the good teams stand to lose more than the bad teams in a 17 game season with 7 playoff teams per conference.

It's much easier for a great team to stumble than it is for a middling team to win an "upset" but when you're designing the season AND the playoffs for upsets, why even bother watching until the playoffs?

NBA and NHL seasons are too long now. Adding time to the NFL seems just dumb.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-01-2021, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by displacedinMN

NBA and NHL seasons are too long now. Adding time to the NFL seems just dumb.

I wouldn't mind it so much if there weren't so many truly bad football teams. I mean, the very first year the NFL decides to expand the playoffs, a team made it with a sub .500 record, which is utterly ridiculous.

I watch the NFL to see great games and matchups, not so I can see shit teams like the Lions, Jets, Jaguars, Bears, Giants, et al, upset a great team.

One more regular season game will not only dilute the talent on field due to injuries but the overall quality play will decrease, not increase, because there's only so much trauma the human body can endure without breaking down.

And it's going to totally **** the record books.

Azide22 · 03-01-2021, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

You're going to get one. The NFL doesn't care what YOU want.

Yep, was same for 7th team in playoffs. Don't like it, they don't care. Why not just go to 8 for crying out loud. We already know they'd go to 18 regular season games if they could.

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