Comments on: NFL announces new trade deadline, IR rules

By: bunkmcnulty

bunkmcnulty — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:22:36 +0000

Given all the Steelers’ walking wounded, this change should be helpful. I guess Goodell isn’t that bad after all.

By: fthrvic

fthrvic — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:05:09 +0000

Nice job blowing the game plan out of the water 2 weeks before the first game of the season! I guess we’re all but guaranteed to see a traditional kickoff to start the season now that everyone knows the onside kick is in the mix!

By: thestrategyexpert

thestrategyexpert — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:01:27 +0000

The new rule changes allow one IR player to have the ability to return and it’s good news for a team like Pittsburgh that has DeCastro injured for a long time but not quite long enough. I’m not sure how I feel about this rule, it waters down the impact of injuries and the importance of depth and provides more flexibility that takes away from a more hardcore serious game where you have very limited resources and options and the planning component to this game is affected. I find it thrilling and exciting that teams have to make choices of where to invest in single players at given positions that allows them to choose where they feel they need security and where they feel they can shoot for the moon with a boom or bust, or live or die by the sword type of mentality. I have sold insurance before and you know what I loved it, but I don’t want to add injury insurance into the game of football, that’s not as fun and dramatic, this isn’t real life and I intentionally want it to be a game filled with high risk propositions! After decades of the Lions working towards building some depth the NFL now wants to decide to make rules to lessen the value of having depth; what timing!

The other rule change I like, it could potentially create more trades and that is fun and good for the game.

By: cornerback26

cornerback26 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:51:50 +0000

Moving The Tradeline Back To Week 8 Was A Great Move.Week 6 Was Wayyyy To Early,Now It’s A Pivitol Week In Which Teams Are Looking To Trade Going Down Their Playoff Run..

By: ep9erfan

ep9erfan — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:46:00 +0000

So can each team only use this IR designation once per year? or can it be used again after the original player it was used on is placed back on the active roster?

By: floriosbigtoe

floriosbigtoe — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:40:49 +0000

Is this a completely different list? Or if a team has, say, five guys on IR and one of them is coming along better than anyone thought can they then pluck him off of the list?

By: nflfollower

nflfollower — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:20:13 +0000

Awesome, I like both the new rules. Now if we can just keep those part time refs locked out who don’t want to be held accountable for their terrible calls (which were quite frequent and noticeable last year), then in a couple seasons the league will have achieved a new standard of integrity in officiating. By having full time refs willing to sacrifice dual income who are also held accountable for their performance. That would be awesome. The league is approaching this perfectly, just gotta stay the course.