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Will the NFL go to an 18-game Schedule? · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on Exit Landry Football also Landry football dot Com. Chris, They're
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  I'm looking at report here from Tom Pelacro says no surprise. The new kickoff
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  rule, crafted by NFL special teams coordinators. I have not had a chance
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  to get off into this yet. Don't want to get your thoughts. Would
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  allow teams to attempt an onside kick only win trailing in the fourth quarter,
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  and require them to declare it in advance per sources. Language still being finalized
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  and must be approved by the owners in the sake of I would assume safety
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  here. This is being done. But this this seems like this is a
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  very weird odd. I don't know how you want to frame it up.
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  Dumb onside kick roll? Help me out here? What's going on here?
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  Yeah? I hate it? I do. I think it's becoming you know,
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  they've been kind of alluding to eventually just taking the kickoff out of the
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  game, and they are I mean, think about that too. It's like
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  you're talking about where they're going to kick the ball off from where you you
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  if you don't kick it in the air to the twenty, it comes out
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  to the forty. I mean, it's just to me, it's an important
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  part of the game. I hate them just fooling with it that much.
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  I just I don't like it. And safety is you know, I you
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  know, we're gonna talk about safety, but we're gonna play. We want
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  to go to an eighteen game schedule and we want to play thirsty night and
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  and you know, and on short weeks like that. You know, tell
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  me that makes any sense. I mean, it's just it's ridiculous. It's
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  we're gonna make it safety, you know, and we're gonna do everything we
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  can, except when it's gonna cost us money, in which case we're gonna
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  we're gonna tell everybody we're being safe. But no, no, no,
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  we're not gonna forstake money for that. Yeah, you you went right where
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  I wanted to go to. Next is now the push for an eighteen game
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  regular season. Now the fans will love it. We all love it.
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  There's more football. But again, how do you and I don't know,
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  is this is this close to being a done deal with an eighteen game schedule?
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  And if so, are you thinking because that's more television dollars, that's
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  more revenue. But you can't preach player safety on onside kicks. Yet Oh
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  by the way, guys, you need to go play four more quarters of
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  football. Yeah, it's almost like they need to table that. Don't you
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  think just just aesthetics for another year and make people forget what you did,
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  because it's like, yeah, that makes no sense at all. The players
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  association have to agree to it. The players associations going to say another game.
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  You know what they're going to say, right, another game, more
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  money, greater percentage, until they're going to have to go through this is
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  how much more money we're gonna get. Here's the thing about it is there
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  these teams mean so much. Think about what Amazon paid for Black Friday,
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  a Miami Jets game, one hundred million dollars for one game, and they're
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  like, it went so well. I think they would probably pay, you
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  know, twenty five percent more than that. I mean, and we've got
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  these streaming I think they're they're looking for creative ways to make more money.
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  And I think we're going to go to eighteen at some point, and maybe
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  maybe it is going to be sooner than later. I've always believed we could
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  go and I think I believe in extending the season with more weeks in not
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  necessarily having more games. And so what I mean by that is everybody have
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  two buys, and so we would have maybe a twenty week season of games,
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  but you wouldn't have more games. So you players would you would maybe
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  make sure that you had enough bye weeks to where no one would play,
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  you know, have to play on a Sunday, and they turn out to
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  play on a Thursday, say for example. That's what was my view.
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  Now, I think it makes sense to degree, but remember how much money
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  that YouTube TV plays, Google who owns them, pays for the Sunday ticket.
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  So if you take away and you get less and less games that are
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  on Sunday ticket, maybe they can't charge as much. They can't charge as
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  much. Then the NFL can't. You don't charge as much. So you
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  see where I'm going with it. It's all the follow the money and it
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  takes through all the answers. So if you're wondering if this is going to
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  happen, if it's going to make more money, the answer is yes,