NFL moving to 17 game season

LondonBrown

To be announced this week according to Schefter, good or bad idea?

Browns in the record books as the first to go 17-0 is gonna be nice

Dutch Oven

Bad.

Quantity over quality.

Every regular sports season could stand having games trimmed from it.

LondonBrown

@dutch-oven said:

Bad.

Quantity over quality.

Every regular sports season could stand having games trimmed from it.

How they decide who the 17th game is against will be interesting as the current method is simple

Dutch Oven

@londonbrown said:

How they decide who the 17th game is against will be interesting as the current method is simple

So the current formula is:

(6) games vs your own division (home and away)

(4) games vs a division in opposite conference

Not sure how the other 6 games are set. I believe it has something to do with your division standing the year before. (If Browns finished in 3rd place in the AFC North, they would play 3rd place finishers in the AFC East, South and West?)

LondonBrown

@dutch-oven said:

So the current formula is:

(6) games vs your own division (home and away)

(4) games vs a division in opposite conference

Not sure how the other 6 games are set. I believe it has something to do with your division standing the year before. (If Browns finished in 3rd place in the AFC North, they would play 3rd place finishers in the AFC East, South and West?)

I think that’s right and the other three are one game against a team per division in other conference (one has already gone to the opposite division match ups)

The Gipper

@dutch-oven said:

So the current formula is:

(6) games vs your own division (home and away)

(4) games vs a division in opposite conference

Not sure how the other 6 games are set. I believe it has something to do with your division standing the year before. (If Browns finished in 3rd place in the AFC North, they would play 3rd place finishers in the AFC East, South and West?)

Partially correct:

1. Six games home and home vs. your own division

2. 4 games vs. all teams in another division in your own conference...on rotating basis

3. 4 games vs. all teams in another division in the other conference....on rotating basis

4. 2 games vs. the other two teams in your own conference that ended in the same spot in the standings as you that are not in the other conf. division that your division is playing a round robin with.

5. Last game #17 will be against a team in the other conference that ended in the same spot in the standings as you that is not in the division your division is playing round robin against, on a rotating basis:

Ergo, Browns in 2021 will be playing: Rats, Squibs, Pussies twice each. They play each team in the AFC West. They play each team in the NFC North. They play the other 3rd place finishers in the AFCE and AFC South i.e. the Patriots and the Texans. And, they will play either the Cardinals, Cowboys, or Panthers......and I believe I heard that it will be the NFC West corresponding team for AFCN teams. In other words: Browns play Cardinals, Steelers play Seahawks, Ravens play Rams. Bengal play 49ers

As for which teams get the home field for that 17th game....again, I think it goes on a rotation basis...but I am not sure what happens this year.

Here is schedule without 17th game:

2021

The Gipper

@londonbrown said:

To be announced this week according to Schefter, good or bad idea?

Browns in the record books as the first to go 17-0 is gonna be nice

Do you mean the schedule will be announced this week ....or just that they will announce the fact that they will implement the 17 game schedule....and come out with that schedule at a later time? Which is nothing at all because we have know they were going to do that....for money, for a year now.

D Bone

@londonbrown said:

To be announced this week according to Schefter, good or bad idea?

Browns in the record books as the first to go 17-0 is gonna be nice

I will like a 17 game schedule if they cut out all pre-season games.

The Gipper

@d-bone said:

I will like a 17 game schedule if they cut out all pre-season games.

Probably cut it down to 2.....at most 3, but not all. They still make big money from those and they do have some use in separating the wheat from the Chaff.

D Bone

@the-gipper said:

Probably cut it down to 2.....and most 3, but not all. They still make big money from those and they do have some use in separating the wheat from the Chaff.

The money they lose from those meaningless games will be partially subsidized by the one extra real game..... and I don't think a single NFL owner is relying on a stimulus check to meet payroll.

Any good coaching staff can get down to 53 without a single pre-season game, especially given the practice squad.

The pre-season games are for the owners and not the players, while the 17th game is for the fans.

Nero

17 games is an awful idea. They already take the first games too easy to even have more games to have more injuries.

I agree with DBone, I would accept it if they got rid of the preseason games.

Dutch Oven

ballpeen

@the-gipper said:

Probably cut it down to 2.....and most 3, but not all. They still make big money from those and they do have some use in separating the wheat from the Chaff.

They are cutting 1 pre-season game. This year we will have one pre-season home game and one extra regular. Next year 2 preseason home games and a extra road game.

gumby73

Daryl Ruiter

@RuiterWrongFAN

NFL expanding the schedule to 17 games this week is more of a formality than it is news. #Browns are expected to host #Cardinals in that 17th game in 2021.

12:37 PM · Mar 28, 2021

Kyler huh.. grow the grass long or snow

LondonBrown

Seems the extra game is against a team in the other conference who finished in the same position in the standings as yourself.

Vambo

Field Yates@FieldYates

Using the formula reported by @peter_king (profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/02/28/nfl…), here are the expected matchups for the NFL's 17th game for each team in 2021.

Mar 28, 2021 2K 144View on X

LondonBrown

I understand how the match ups come up but I haven’t seen how it’s decided who’s at home ?

The Gipper

@d-bone said:

The money they lose from those meaningless games will be partially subsidized by the one extra real game..... and I don't think a single NFL owner is relying on a stimulus check to meet payroll.

Any good coaching staff can get down to 53 without a single pre-season game, especially given the practice squad.

The pre-season games are for the owners and not the players, while the 17th game is for the fans.

Yes, the 17th game is for the owners pocketbooks....though clearly the players will benefit monetarily as well. And the preseason games are also for the owners pocketbooks, but I do think that most GMs/coaches want a couple of live games to do some evaluations. They COULD do without, but they much prefer to have those games that don't count

The Gipper · Mar 28, 2021 2K 144View on X

@vambo said:

https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1376208742098829320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1376208742098829320%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https://www.fanduel.com/theduel/posts/browns-potential-17th-game-cardinals-2021-nfl-season-schedule-01f1x4am178j

So, per this, the entire AFC will have the extra game as a home game this year.

LondonBrown

Ah of course, be NFC next year