Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Early NFL Bye Weeks - BLOW!

Ok, so the NFL implemented the bye week many years ago when the league was at 31 teams and as a result, teams had to have a bye. After the league expanded to 32 teams the NFL decided that the bye week is a good thing and has since kept a bye week for every team. This year (and seemingly every year) the Chargers get their bye week in week 3. How worthless is that? The bye week was kept to help teams rest players, a mid-season breather and just basically a week off for every team during the regular season grind. But to have teams take their bye week anytime before November is basically worthless and why should some teams luck out and get their bye week at a more opportunistic time in the season - namely later - while other teams are just basically given the shaft and given an early bye week?

To make the bye week fair for all teams the NFL should have all the byes for every team in November. 8 teams per week for 4 weeks. You only drop 4 games per week and all NFL teams get their bye week within a month of each other, whereas now, the Chargers bye week and those that get a week 9 bye is a month and a half apart...seems too fair to me...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

when did the nfl only have 31 teams? i thought the last expansion was 2 teams (Jax and Caro) bumping the tally to 32? help.

SayOw said...

Cleveland Browns came in in 1999 making the league 31 teams. Houston Texans came in 2002 making the league 32 teams.