scott88
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IMO, the Draft should be moved up to mid-March. The combine is this weekend and after the pro days, it really shouldn't need to take you much longer if your scouting department has been doing their jobs
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I like it how it is. The combine/free agency/draft feel like extensions of the previous season, which I enjoy. The Super Bowl isn't the end of the year, the draft is. This helps keep me somewhat invested in the ongoing NFL season even if the Saints aren't in the Superbowl hunt.
The gap between the draft and preseason also makes a nice clean "break" between the two seasons. The waiting sucks, but it builds anticipation and I'm actually excited about preseason when it comes around (hate the Hall of Fame game though). That only lasts a weekend because preseason basically sucks, but I think without the "drought" before hand I wouldn't even care about that 1 weekend of games.
Anyways. I like it how it is. I like clearly identifiable offseason, I think it's healthy for the game. Actually wish they'd compress the season even a little more, dumping the HOF game and getting rid of the regular season Thursday night lead off game. Football should start with a bang, not a whimper.
IMO, the Draft should be moved up to mid-March. The combine is this weekend and after the pro days, it really shouldn't need to take you much longer if your scouting department has been doing their jobs
I agree. Like I said, if anything the schedule should be compressed some, not extended.
The NFL needs to protect its brand better. You can only exploit your product so much before you devalue it. One if the advantages the NFL has had over baseball and basketball is that the NFL doesn't seem interminably long. Even ardent NBA fans tend to dismiss November and December and casual NBA fans don't even pay attention until after the all-star break, if then. Then the playoffs go on for two months. This makes the NBA a significantly less valuable TV property despite being, arguably, a better sports product on TV then even football. Close to 50% of, say, the 49er games will likely be prime time next year. The Heat will only be on national tv 33% of the time this year. Because who really cares that much about game 2 of the 4 they'll play against Boston in December? You can just watch the 4th game of that series in February when it starts to count.
Anyways, the point is scarcity has been to the NFLs advantage. Every game is more important and therefore more valuable. Part of why preseason sells for anything at all is because we go months without the NFL and are willing to take anything by the time it rolls around. And part of why the draft became such an event was many fans ended the season unfulfilled and wanting more,
At some point the NFL will "saturate" the market finally, it's not inexhaustible, nothing is, and what I fear they'll find is that it's not a gradual slope down on the other side of that tipping point. It'll be a rapid crash as the property, once devalued even a little bit, creates a "sellers" market, as the media stops spending so much money and time on the NFL and fans consequently start rapidly checking out on the "experience".
They should really be much more careful
he already ruined part of the draft by dragging it out over 3 days. I used to love watching from early morning to late at night on a Saturday
Ruined it for me too.. Use to love those two days in April.. Would have the grill going all weekend... Who Dats over... Beer... It was like a Holiday or something with perfect weather.
Joe
My God is the NFL that hungry for more money?
Ruined it for me too.. Use to love those two days in April.. Would have the grill going all weekend... Who Dats over... Beer... It was like a Holiday or something with perfect weather.
Joe