NFL To Consider Widening Field

[Houston]

Madden HB-to-flats cheese gonna be that much better

[JBregz]

Imagine if the NFL and CFL combined..
Combine the CFL field and special teams rules with the NFL set of downs and no yard-off the ball and you have the perfect football league. 40 teams, 20 battle it out for playoff seeding with a 16 game season with 2 pre-season games. NFL (North American Football League).

[wr50l]

What some of you seem to be missing, is all of these seemingly little changes over a short period of time are changing the fabric of the game. The evolution is being sped up to the point that the game is a very different game than was being played as little as 10 or 12 years ago.

Yep. You should expect something a lot more like rugby league coming soon to an NFL or NCAA stadium near you.

[NAHSTE]

Yep. You should expect something a lot more like rugby league coming soon to an NFL or NCAA stadium near you.

There is a new NCAA rule proposal up for vote that would eject defensive players for "targeting" defenseless receivers. Which of course means every team will run out of safeties by halftime.

[BigBucs]

More and more passing yards, not player safety.

[BigBiss]

we could teach kids to tackle head up, teach WRs to "sit" into crossing routes, or address the fact that in the win now NFL were QBs have to be tossed into the fire early ... we have QB that throw WR into bad, bad spots.

Ronnie Lott would have been fined more then he made

[JimLeavy59]

I wish receivers would stop ducking down before they get hit.

[dave]

More and more passing yards, not player safety.

That's just conjecture on your part.

In the past five years there have been way more passing yards per game in the NFL on the smaller field, than the CFL on the bigger field.

Yes, NFL players are way more talented, but that goes for the D too.

IMO, NFL defences would adjust to the bigger field quickly enough.

And as for you saying player safety wouldn't be improved ... the statistics absolutely say otherwise.

I agree it's a very radical change to the game and I completely understand why many are against it ... but I've always wondered how cool the NFL game would be on CFL-size fields.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Sounds like this will really impact youth, high school, and college football...you know, where the foundation for brain trauma is set.

[BigBucs]

That's just conjecture on your part.

Be that as it may its short sighted to think that a larger field wont lead to a lot more passing yards in a league where defenders are already at a disadvantage. Those sideline toe tap/force out plays will be limited, DBs will have to cover longer and the QBs will have a larger margin for error with so much field having to be covered. Those top end QBs will have a field day. No Pun.

[BigBiss]

I'd like to see numbers by position ... how many QB,WR,DBs are having issues? always seems like EX LB,DL,OL guys

[strahanfan92]

Here's a suggestion to run by you guys. How about instead of contact in the first 5 yards the defence can now make contact off the ball in the first 10? Kinda balances out and gives the defense a favorable rule.

[Warner2BruceTD]

I'd like to see numbers by position ... how many QB,WR,DBs are having issues? always seems like EX LB,DL,OL guys

This is a point I always bring up too.

The NFL only deems certain brains important enough to protect. QB's & WR's. Gee, I wonder why that is.

[Sven Draconian]

This is a point I always bring up too.

The NFL only deems certain brains important enough to protect. QB's & WR's. Gee, I wonder why that is.

Because QB and WR are involved in significantly fewer collisions per game?