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NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

They won't have time for training camps anyways once they do the 18 game schedule anyway.
 
Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

komey1 said:
They won't have time for training camps anyways once they do the 18 game schedule anyway.
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If they do that, I don't see how they don't at least expand the rosters a little more, say 58 to 60, with another man or two on the practice squad as well.
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

bigmrg74 said:
If they do that, I don't see how they don't at least expand the rosters a little more, say 58 to 60, with another man or two on the practice squad as well.
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Than they have to increase the salary cap to make room for paying for those extra 5-7 players, I would think it might be expanded a little bit to 55, but that all 55 could be active for any given game instead of the current setup. I highly doubt training camp goes away...actually here is my thoughts on the new schedule:
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				2010	2011
Training Camp Starts		Jul 31	Aug 6		
Hall of Fame Game		Aug 8	Aug 21		
Last Preseason Game		Sep 2	Sep 1		
Regular Season Opener		Sep 9	Sep 8		
Last Regular Season Game	Jan 2	Jan 15			
Wild Card Weekend		Jan 8	Jan 21		
Division Playoffs		Jan 15	Jan 28		
Conference Championships	Jan 23	Feb 5			
Super Bowl			Feb 6	Feb 19
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

They'd take away a couple preseason games, keep training camp the way it is.

Expanded rosters is an interesting idea, but dunno if it will fly. I could see expanding the practice squad and loosening the rules on the back-n-forth between that and the active roster.
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

They might have to expand the roster, just due to players getting banged up from the extra two games. Remember, they're adding two regular season games at the expense of two preseason games in which regulars play very little. They'll go from 16 regular + 4 preseason to 18 regular + 2 preseason. They're not going to 18+4.
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

Hammer said:
They might have to expand the roster, just due to players getting banged up from the extra two games. Remember, they're adding two regular season games at the expense of two preseason games in which regulars play very little. They'll go from 16 regular + 4 preseason to 18 regular + 2 preseason.
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I could see the NFLPA asking for too much in the way of salary cap room (meaning higher salaries for the stars), and I don't know if the owners will want to do that.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I could see the NFLPA asking for too much in the way of salary cap room (meaning higher salaries for the stars), and I don't know if the owners will want to do that.
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I would think that the owners would be willing to give the stars a little more money if they can get a rookie salary cap installed. That alone will float a few more boats on the rosters.
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

Brenthoven said:
I could see the NFLPA asking for too much in the way of salary cap room (meaning higher salaries for the stars), and I don't know if the owners will want to do that.
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owners will push the "rookie cap means more $$ for vets", then will probably bump up the cap to show they mean it :eek: :rolleyes: .

tie it to a revenue %, then cook the books!!:p
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
"The no-game-against-home-team rule"? Never heard of that one.
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I didn't know this was a rule either (maybe it's new), but looking at the maps, what it would seem to be is that if a home team in city A is playing at 1pm on network B, then network C will be blacked out in a local area around city A at 1pm. Look at the Fox early game map - the areas that are blacked out (Boston, Buffalo, Nashville,Tampa, Jacksonville, Houston) are all the home teams in the CBS 1pm games. (I can't figure out why St. Louis doesn't get an early game; maybe due to a ticket sales issue?)

Also: FOOTBALL!!!!! :D
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

jmh said:
I didn't know this was a rule either (maybe it's new), but looking at the maps, what it would seem to be is that if a home team in city A is playing at 1pm on network B, then network C will be blacked out in a local area around city A at 1pm. Look at the Fox early game map - the areas that are blacked out (Boston, Buffalo, Nashville,Tampa, Jacksonville, Houston) are all the home teams in the CBS 1pm games. (I can't figure out why St. Louis doesn't get an early game; maybe due to a ticket sales issue?)

Also: FOOTBALL!!!!! :D
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This has always been a rule in some form. Back when you could get 4 games between CBS/Fox it was always that if your team was at home, you didn't get the doubleheader...now only one network a week gets to show 2 games in your market and if you're in your teams home market you only get that game at that time. It sucks for me as a packer fan in minnesota because under the old format if the packers and vikings weren't at the same time on the same network you definitely got the packers game...now if the vikings are at home its very unlikely I get the packers game at home.
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
This has always been a rule in some form. Back when you could get 4 games between CBS/Fox it was always that if your team was at home, you didn't get the doubleheader...now only one network a week gets to show 2 games in your market and if you're in your teams home market you only get that game at that time. It sucks for me as a packer fan in minnesota because under the old format if the packers and vikings weren't at the same time on the same network you definitely got the packers game...now if the vikings are at home its very unlikely I get the packers game at home.
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It sucks more when you're in the Bay Area and you have two home teams so you only get two games, and they're the 49ers and Raiders post-2004, and they're more often than not playing other 3rd rate AFC/NFC West teams.
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

What is this rule supposed to accomplish, even? Increased local ratings for a home game? Is there any evidence to suggest that this has worked?
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

jmh said:
I didn't know this was a rule either (maybe it's new), but looking at the maps, what it would seem to be is that if a home team in city A is playing at 1pm on network B, then network C will be blacked out in a local area around city A at 1pm. Look at the Fox early game map - the areas that are blacked out (Boston, Buffalo, Nashville,Tampa, Jacksonville, Houston) are all the home teams in the CBS 1pm games. (I can't figure out why St. Louis doesn't get an early game; maybe due to a ticket sales issue?)

Also: FOOTBALL!!!!! :D
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F*, no Giants for me this weekend. Stupid New England... :mad: :mad: :mad: Will have to watch the NFL network during the week for the reairing
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

bostonewe said:
F*, no Giants for me this weekend. Stupid New England... :mad: :mad: :mad: Will have to watch the NFL network during the week for the reairing
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What, they don't have sports bars in New Hampshire? :p
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

Need some assistance for a column I'm working on:

What is the status of the Williams Wall as it relates to the StarCaps case?
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

anyone doing an eliminator pool on here?
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

SteveF said:
anyone doing an eliminator pool on here?
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I'd be game.
 
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Re: NFL Offseason: The Saints won the Superbowl, and are now Marchin on to the NFL Draft.

SteveF said:
anyone doing an eliminator pool on here?
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We probably should get on that if we're gonna do it...
 
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