The NFL is becoming more disturbing than appealing, and TV viewers are tuning out

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Goodell will run this game into the ground.

Stop Thursday night football and ****ing London regular season games. Stop the subjective nonsense on flags and focus on real penalties. Bite the bullet and pay out on player safety so we aren't forced to watch fifth string rejects at key positions.

You're a ****ing moron

Goodell isn't running anything

He does what he told, the most you can get pissed at him about is the inconsistency of the handling of the rules. Even that is influenced by outside forces.

You have the NFLPA ****ing with everything they can and you have the owners who are looking at everything from a money perspective.

fyi they have paid out on players safety SEVERAL times and the NFLPA wants to triple,quadruple dip. They will never stop asking for more even as they try to block safety rules and implementation.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

You're a ****ing moron

Goodell isn't running anything

He does what he told, the most you can get pissed at him about is the inconsistency of the handling of the rules. Even that is influenced by outside forces.

You have the NFLPA ****ing with everything they can and you have the owners who are looking at everything from a money perspective.

fyi they have paid out on players safety SEVERAL times and the NFLPA wants to triple,quadruple dip. They will never stop asking for more even as they try to block safety rules and implementation.

The inconsistent handling of the rules is the majority of the problem. And that's mostly Goodell. He has WAY more power than any commissioner dictating punishments. And he's the one who led the charge on "protecting the shield." His botched handling of Ray Rice/AP created the domestic violence PR crisis. His insistence on making it the "no fun league" leads to overflagging in games. His ridiculously unfair and inconsistent enforcement of rules has led to pissed off fans, like in New England, who are rightfully pissed about the handling of Deflategate.

Goodell is supposed to represent all owners. His decision to let Robert Kraft run the NFL, when there are 31 other owners out there, is terrible and ties in big time to the ridiculous focus on "the shield." Also, Goodell is a marketing guy. The owners have to agree to dumb ideas, but don't discount that many of those dumb ideas were Goodell's brain child.

On the player safety issue, the NFL has band-aided the settlement for years. It's well known the NFL covered this up for years and the NFLPA knows it. That's not just on Goodell. That started with Tagliabue. Until they put this to rest, they negotiate player safety from a position of weakness, not of strength.

[GoChargers]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

His ridiculously unfair and inconsistent enforcement of rules has led to pissed off fans, like in New England, who are rightfully pissed about the handling of Deflategate.

Cheatriots "fans" are only mad because they're delusional. And because even though all their teams have been winning consistently for the past 15 years, they don't want to let go of the "woe-is-us," "us against the world" mentality they had when all their teams sucked.

The Patsies got caught cheating again. They got slapped on the wrist again. So they got fined, had to give up a draft pick and Brady got to take four games off to rest. Big freaking whoop! That's seen as the cost of doing business in Foxboro. Bob Kraft's still the owner, Belicheat's still the coach, the fraudulent banners are still hanging at Gillette. The league has never hit them where it hurts and given them an incentive to stop cheating.

Pats fans are the last people who should ever whine about the league that gives them every call and lets them cheat.

[NJChiefsFan]

Originally Posted by milkman

They have over saturated the market.

Combine that the endless stream of commercials which turns a 60 minute game into a 3 1/2-4 hour marathon, officiating that is as bad as we've ever seen, and growing perception that officiating is slanted in favor of certain teams, people are becoming disenchanted with the product.

It's true. I have always said that if you went hypothetical and made the NFL a 162 game season, and made baseball a 16 game season, the intensity would flip on it's head. Certainly there are things about football that make it great. But the format of 1 epic day a week, for only 16 weeks, makes a great gathering and talking point.

To me it was/is the single greatest thing the NFL had going for itself.