I like that. Dont mess it up, Mikey.

Last year, the Patriots didn’t face a team with a winning record until they played the Ravens in the playoffs. Going into that season, it was widely known that the Patriots had a weak if not the weakest schedule.

Yeah, yeah, the Patriots are now 4-3 this year with the weakest schedule. That is true, but that is only because Belichick has been wasting their boatload of draft picks on players that didn’t live up to the hype.

Still, Mike you ought to write an article on how horrible the scheduling procedures are when it comes to parity in the league now. Then compare that to the way it used to be..

As for the trade deadline, it should be moved to no later than week ten. Weak teams should be able to rebuild if they can by dumping contracts late, but there does becomes a point where those late trades can have undue influence on the playoffs. In other words stocking up for the playoff run and then dumping those players after the playoffs are over.

While several good points have been made about the differences between MLB and the NFL, I still love the idea of moving the trade deadline to week 12.

It will help bad teams improve by getting draft picks for a player they’d probably lose anyway. And of course it will help good teams make that final run.

But it will also provide all of us with a lot of entertainment as we get to be hyper critical of the trades that would occur.

If the Jets some how pull to 6-6 at week 12, does anyone not think that they’d offer the Chiefs an arm and a leg for Bowe? Or the Jags for MJD? or the Steelers for Wallace? And we’d all get to sit around playing keyboard-GM.

That sounds like more fun to me than having the trade deadline pass by with about the same amount of excitement as the Pro Bowl.

It will never be like the MLB because of injuries, the importance of draft picks, the lack of a minor league system, and the salary cap, but it can stand to get a little more interesting.

So, who cares if something destroys the game as long as you can make a few dollars more now, eh?

teams trade for their own benefit; one team has a NEED, the other team, perhaps, has a LOST SEASON and wants to grab a prospect or a draft pick or yes, LOSE A CRAPPY SALARY, but I think the league would be MORE FUN for us meager viewers and fantasy football nerds if they added a few weeks to the trading “season”.

You want to make the NFL the MLB with the Yanks. How about we let good teams become great teams down the stretch? And we let teams with problems fall apart on their own?

The trade deadline is fine.

Don’t fix what ain’t broke.

Unless the deadline is removed all together, the “well if we move it back 2 more weeks” will never end.

You can’t use a situation that worked out timing wise as if it will continue to happen.

Should the Jets be able to trade for a real QB mid season when they put their eggs on 2 50% completion QBs?

Injury replacement is one thing, but that’s what free agency is.

By the way, the later champion Giants were 6-7 at one point last season, which is a worse situation than being 5-6 in week 12.

The NBA, NHL, and MLB have trade deadlines that are usually more entertaining than the first half of their respective seasons.

I think moving it to week 12 would grease the wheels a bit, but it seems unlikely that a league with a cap could realistically see a lot of mid-season movement of anyone significant.

Awwww I’m just busting your chops Jeff. All in all, you’ve put together a good team (but if we had Marshall………)

Players cannot be integrated into a team within a couple of weeks. Just look at the size of each teams playbooks that have to be learned.

Daft idea whose only purpose is to drive up PFT page hits.

I think a later deadline would add intrigue without drastically altering the NFL landscape.

However, it’s mostly cap issues, IMO. The NFL needs to figure out a way where teams can trade that where a team can spread out the cap hit.

Anyone?