Chiefs WR Makes Viral Appeal to NFL Ahead of Cutdown
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nfl make the roster like 58 or something. We got too many dawgs in the WR room to not be on the team.</p>&mdash; Marquez V-S (@MVS__11) <a href="https://twitter.com/MVS__11/status/1695886032196018553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Crying about something online is on brand for today's society

Where else should they talk about it?

Is a single social media post 'crying'?

Is it also a 'viral appeal'?

No to both.

In the brothel where they’re plowing Billay’s mom

I think they were saying viral because it had over 3K likes and 400 re-tweets :shrug:

ya it's pretty ridiculous, it's a tweet about how we have 8 wide receivers we'd prefer to keep than let go but obviously can't keep them all

FYP

I agree with him. 53 is a mind-****.

Has it always been 53? If it has then it makes sense for it to be updated. Used to be a run first league so it was not as imperative to keep as many QBs and WRs. Now with the offenses being ran today and more WR usage there is a need for at least a 55 man roster.

Should probably go to a 69 man roster lmao

Go to 55 and people will be screaming for 56 and higher.

It's been 53 (46 active + 7 inactive) since 2011, but I agree that an increase in active players would be a good thing.
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A 53 man roster is what makes the NFL a little more competitive. More talent is forced into the pool.

We weren't complaining when that piece of shit Pioli left this roster in shambles to the point Reid and Dorsey had to rebuild it using roster cuts from other stacked teams.

Viral appeal?

Okay.

Generally, I think the 53 man roster is perfect and keeps things competitive and more talent laden team to team. A lot of the bottom of 53 man rosters (not our team) is nothing more than roster fodder. The league has been diluted enough with expansion, don't want to dilute it even more.

The one reason I might be willing to hear an argument advocating for expanding from 53 to 55 is the 17th game that was added by the owners and eventually the 18th game (we know it's coming) that will be added. That creates more potential injury situations due to a longer season and I can see why teams might want to carry an extra couple players on their active roster. They also need to increase the game day active roster once if/when this 18th game is added to the schedule.

What if we keep it 53 but don’t count the specialists against the roster? Kicker/Punter and Long Snapper.

I'm on board with what MVS is saying. 58 sounds like a good number. Although I think the argument could be made for 57 right now.

On the PS you can designate 4 players per week to be protected from being signed to other teams. I would propose to remove that weekly designation process for teams and just incorporate those 4 spots into the active roster.

That could potentially work, but then you have the situation with the salary cap. Do you have a separate "specialist salary cap"? Is there a set amount that can be used towards THAT salary cap or can you just pay them whatever you want? A lot of potential issues there and obviously all those things would need to be negotiated into the next CBA. Which may be possible long term, but a more immediate fix (since that 18th game is likely coming before a new CBA) is just to expand the rosters to 55.

I do think expanding wouldn't hurt the game much to include key positions, but eventually when does it stop and you say "Oh we need that ninth WR for our KR backup role, he's a dawg!!!" Everyone is working with the same deck, gotta make it work and hope the injury bug doesn't come around.

We could just say the specialists don’t count against the cap. I can’t imagine even the most talented kicker/punter would make anywhere near a what a star at any other position would make.

But then you would just create a bidding war where the teams with the most money (cash) could just 'buy' all the best specialists every year and NFL owners without excessive family wealth outside of football would just be stuck with garbage specialists. That's not really fair.

The thing that makes the NFL great is the salary cap and ALL teams ability to compete within the same parameters. If we move outside of that at all, then you will have other players (at different positions) and agents advocating for 'their' guys to be exempt from the cap.

It just opens up a Pandora's Box that you probably don't want to open. Would potentially ruin the NFL as we know it currently.

A correct viral appeal to the NFL.

I have no problem with MVS fighting for his guys, but its all these little social media and chiefs sites that use it as content to get clicks that I find annoying.