Resisting The Status Quo: enter The Seventeen Game Schedule.

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The NFL And Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin Have Varying Similarities About Them. Both Rose Out Of The Ruins Of A Former Place Holder And emerge to Eminences In Their respective Spheres Of Influence. Both Have Had Cordial And Contentious Relationships With President Trump And Both Are Monolithic Edifices Of That Symbolize Change Resistance. Putin Has Yet To Yield His "Authoritarian" Power In Russian Since '99 And The NFL Has Kept The Cleveland's Browns in Their Banal Uniforms Since '99. Both Admirable In Their Own Right Putin And The NFL Have Also Been The Subject Of Grave Criticism and Both Have Responded Similar By Standing Foot And receding Ground In Inches As The World Tugs Against The Their Vice Like Grip On The "Status Quo". The NFL Has Been Embroiled In Dispute With The "Status Quo", Or Its Distinctive Values, For Decades And That Point Is At The Core Of Its Preeminence. The League Did s Not Grow Into The Behemoth Of Sports Performance By Way Whimsicality And free expression But By Gutting its Way Through Decades Of Progression. When A Brand-New Helmet Introduced In The '30s By Riddell Manufacturers The NFL Defers The League Wide Implantation Until The 50s. As Revenues Ballooned Each Decade, The NFL Recoiled At The Specter of Expanding To 32 teams until 2005. Other Major League Embracing The Multi-cultural Head Coaching Movement, The NFL Is Still tailing In that Forum. In 2015 The NFL Surrender Its Tax- Exemption Status Amongst Mounting Criticism Of Its Massive Revenue Numbers; The League Had Held That Status Since 1947. The Washington Football Team Controversy Is Yet Another Case Of The NFL Not Wanting To Concede To The Pulling Of The Tide of. Despite It Being An Obtrusive Mark And A Point Of Contention In The race Tension In Society At Large, The NFL And The Team's Owners Continue To Downplay The "Divisive" Nature Of The "Redskin" Moniker for Years. The Result, A-Team Striped, Sorry, Surrendering Said Moniker And Embracing The Designation "Washington Football Team".

In 1979 The NFL Established The 16 Game Season As It Standard. A Perfectly Even Number, "Balanced As All Things Should Be", That Could Easily Facilitate Interconference, division And Outer conference Play With Some, added Cushion For Premiere Matchups As Well. That Was forty Plus Years Of The NFL At 16 Games And Needless to Say It Has Been A Relative Success. So, It Came As A Relative Surprise When It Was Announced That The League Would Be Introducing A Slate Of 17 Games for this upcoming 2021-2022 Season. The Implications Are That This added Affair Will Be An Interconference Game. The League Brass Had Been in Discussion on The Potential Expansion Of Scheduling For A Number Years. The Prospect of Expansion has Always Loomed Over The league Line of Litigations And Thanks To The Collective Bargaining Agreement "language" The Players Association Would Not Be Hurdle The Front Offices Should They Decide To Move Forward With Their Proposition. For Us Who Follow The NFL Ardently. The Move To 17 Had Always Been Perceived As One That Would Come Not If But When And when Is Now, Or 2021-22. The time Arrived, And Roger Goddell And Other League Officials Decided To Announce it. I Say "relative" Surprise As No Leading Reports Of The impending Change Surfaced Until the Announcement Itself And That Itself Was A Bit OF A Change. Also, Included Imperative details of The New Season Format Included The Retraction Of Pre-season. This Detail Marginal Detail Could Be Perceived As Just That, Marginal, But it Is Significant Because That Wrinkle In Preseason Gives Undrafted Rookies And Fringe Roster Players Less Time And Opportunity To Earn A Roster Spot, As The four Game Slate Had Previously Promised In Past Years. Point Of Note.

The League Suffered A Contracted Year in The Realm of Revenues Due To COVID-19 Consideration and Possibly Saw The Adding Of A Game As Means To Hyperbolically Accelerate Their Fiscal Recover after Being Injured Some 4 Billion. The Other Means Would Be Franchisee Expansions But That Would Be Far More Polarizing Than This Already Polarizing Move. An Added Game, Superficially, Appears cosmetic To The Naked Eyed NFL Spectator But It Could Have A Range Of Ripple Effects Across Various Spectrums Of The Leagues Performance. Production, Injury, And Economics Are All Expected To Spike The On Some Level With The Addition One Game.

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In 2020, The NFL Concluded its regular season Without A 5000 Yard Passer for the first time since 2107, The Highest Offensive Yardage Amongst top teams Trended On A Downward Trajectory, And Except Derrick Henry And Dalvin Cook The Run Game Was Virtually Dispensable despite Guy Like Aaron Jones And Nick Chubb Having A Highlighted Years. With Covid-19 Constrictions Soon to Be Set Aside and An Added Game To Boot, Offensive Output Would Be The first Speculative Point Of reference For Expanded. With Several Quarterbacks Like Deshaun Watson And Josh Allen falling Relatively Short of Their First 5000 It Is Easy To extrapolate That The Number Of 5000 yards Passer Could Easily top 5 players come This Year. Rookie Sensation Justin Herbert Fell 9 Short Of Breaking Andrew Lucks Rookie Passing Yard Record And Around 600 Yards Short Of 5000. An Added Game brings with the Anticipation that top arms Man, Trevor Lawrence Or Zach Wilson, could Eclipse The 4386 Yard Mark Luck established Back In 2011-2012. More Than Likely, What Could Be Intriguing is if either Marks Man Can Approach Or Overarch That 5000 Yard Clip, Something That In Previous Years Would Have Been Consider Inconceivable. All the rookie Quarterback Speculations Should Come With An Asterisks, Given That except for Lawrence, None Of These Rookies Are Expected To Start Day One. The individual Running Back Production Could Possibly Rebound As Well. Except for Hercules Henry, The Run Game across The League Was Relatively Unremarkable. Arron Jones finish In Fourth Place On The Rushing Yard List With 1004 yards In 2020. This Would have been Good Enough For A 10th Place Finish the year prior. If We calculate His Pace Of Productivity of Last season he may Have collected another 200 yards with the Extra Outing. Peanut Production But Could Yield More Earnings as For Running Backs Who Are Often Saddled With Incentive Laced Contracts. Speculatively the Number Of Running Backs who May Grasp That Ever Coveted 2000 plus Scrimmage Yard Production Threshold may be a consequence of the extra game. If We Extrapolate 2020 Yardage Amongst Running Backs Their Productivity Should increase, not To The Extent That A Foray Of Players Could rush Into the 2000 Yard plateau As Derick Henry Did. Most Successful Teams Employ The Running Back By Committee Deployment Still Guys Like Ezekiel Elliot Should See A Rebound Above That 1000 Yard Threshold. How Will The NFL Accredit This Expected Statistical Explosion? The Record Books Will Have to make New Accounts As Former Records Are Sure To fall flat Under The weight The Distending NFL yard Production. The Exclusivity Of These Productive Scales As A Marker Of excellence Will Have To BE rewritten AND A New Standard Amongst Player Will Have To Be Established.

Injuries are another cause for concern. across The Board Head and Knee Injuries, Most Frequent Amongst NFL Players Are Down As Advancements In Sports Medicine And the NFL Front Offices Taking A More responsible Approach To Player Safety, Helmet restriction. Still, Another Game Exaggerate The Chances for Injury. Some Players Have Already Voiced Their Concerns Over The Prospects Of The 17 Game Schedule, Tough Luck Because They Negotiated Themselves Into This Change In Some respects And Those Players Uninjured Are not Expected To Complain About The Added Cheque. Ultimately Injuries Happen, On and Off The Field, Cam Newtons Car Accident (The Player Who Feel Down The Stairs) And It is It Is The Players Responsibility To Adjust To The New Format Set Forth To Them by Their Employer The NFL. Another Cause Of Speculative Concern Is Performance Could An Injury To A Star Player at The End Of The Season Be Consequential In the Playoff When That added Game Would Have Not Been Present A year Before. Could They Dreaded Exhaustion Affect The Overall Quality Of NFL completion? Fo r The Avid Fan Who would Watch Any NFL Performance Featuring any AnyCast Of Players This would Mean Nothing But For the causal viewing Mitch Trubisky Instead Of Josh Allen Late in The Season Could Produce Massive Divergence In Viewership.

In The Areas Of Commerce, The NFL's Road To Fiscal recovery Is straightforward: Show Up, Open The Doors, and Ball Out. Roger Goddell Expressed As Recently As Tuesday That He Anticipates Stands full Of Fans Come Opening day As Covid-19 Continues To Be Pushed Into The Periphery. That 4 Billion In Lost revenue, That is a 25 % Detraction From The Previous Year. This Must-Have Stung The Pockets Of Some of America's Richest Men And Safe To Presume That They Are Eager To recoup Their Losses Plus More. Ascertaining How Much Of That Lost Revenue Is A result Of Stadium Deficiency Would Be Stroke Mathematical Gymnastics. The NFL is the "Quintessential-Multi-Stream-of income-Conglomerate-Giant" The World Aims To emulate. Private Corporation tare not required To flash Fiscal Figures. As Of Today, The Three Major Broadcasters Of The NFL Programming (NBC, CBS, Fox) Pay The League Around 3.1 Billion Per Year, Per Investopedia, In 2018 Fox Paid An Additional 3.3 Billion To The NFL For Broadcasting Right. An Extra Game Onto The NFL Could Yield Another Billion in Revenue.

There Is So Much To Speculate AS Far A One Added Game Onto The NFL Schedule Is Concern. The Realms Of Unseen Football Spectacles Could be Filled With An Array Of Football Aberration. This Could Ultimately Be A precursor To The Ultimate Goal Of 18 Games And 25 Billion In Revenue The NFL Brass Has Purported To Be Seeking. What Is For Certain Is There Will Be Football And Lots Of It.