New York Jets Miscellanea

[MBGreen]

I don't think he was ever on our staff, but he was on our team in 2009-10.

Oh right..he was our 3rd stringer for 3 seasons.

[MexJetinBcn]

If you go, will you slap the excrement out of Gustoon for all of us?

Promised

[MBGreen]

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@uSTADIUM
6 teams will propose pushing the NFL Trade Deadline back two weeks from Week 8 to Week 10, per @jjones9
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The #Browns, #Eagles, #Jets, #49ers, #Lions and #Commanders are the 6 teams that are set to propose it.

The idea behind it is to increase trade activity and intrigue as teams believed the deadline is too early to decide if they are buyers or sellers.

Right now it’s believed that owners are split on the idea, as they believe pushing the deadline back will increase tanking.

[AlioTheFool]

Why would pushing back the deadline increase tanking? I don't understand this thinking in sports. If you can trade later, you can make your team better later, so you can fight a little longer to stay in the hunt. Once the deadline comes, if you feel like you're out of it and you sell, you have nothing but the tank to look forward to.

[Johnny English]

Why would pushing back the deadline increase tanking? I don't understand this thinking in sports. If you can trade later, you can make your team better later, so you can fight a little longer to stay in the hunt. Once the deadline comes, if you feel like you're out of it and you sell, you have nothing but the tank to look forward to.

Because if there's less season left you have more idea of your chances of making the playoffs, and thus teams will become more motivated sellers at the deadline. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing if the NFL ends up with the concept of rentals in the way hockey does.

[CatoTheElder]

As of now I don't really have a problem with it.

[AlioTheFool]

Because if there's less season left you have more idea of your chances of making the playoffs, and thus teams will become more motivated sellers at the deadline. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing if the NFL ends up with the concept of rentals in the way hockey does.

Right, which is why having more time after the deadline like now should logically increase tanking rather than the other way around. A shorter post-deadline period should keep more teams fighting for longer before giving up.

[Johnny English]

Right, which is why having more time after the deadline like now should logically increase tanking rather than the other way around. A shorter post-deadline period should keep more teams fighting for longer before giving up.

The Cleveland GM had an interesting set of data on it in a press chat at the Combine - essentially the NFL deadline comes 45% of the way through the season at which point virtually no one is out of the running, so teams are reluctant to sell unless it's a disgruntled player or a deal you can't refuse. By moving it later which would be more in line with other sports, teams are likely to be more realistic about playoff chances and sell to tank.

[AlioTheFool]

The Cleveland GM had an interesting set of data on it in a press chat at the Combine - essentially the NFL deadline comes 45% of the way through the season at which point virtually no one is out of the running, so teams are reluctant to sell unless it's a disgruntled player or a deal you can't refuse. By moving it later which would be more in line with other sports, teams are likely to be more realistic about playoff chances and sell to tank.

I just think those same teams are going to tank anyway. They may as well get assets to assist in the next rebuild and teams that are in the hunt can improve. I'm a fan of pushing trade deadlines later in other sports too. I didn't like baseball dumping the waiver trade deadline; I'd have preferred they change it to an extended regular deadline. Later deadlines make better playoff teams while helping bad teams work on their future.

[Johnny English]

I just think those same teams are going to tank anyway. They may as well get assets to assist in the next rebuild and teams that are in the hunt can improve. I'm a fan of pushing trade deadlines later in other sports too. I didn't like baseball dumping the waiver trade deadline; I'd have preferred they change it to an extended regular deadline. Later deadlines make better playoff teams while helping bad teams work on their future.

100% agree, it would make the deadline more interesting and more useful to teams on both the buy and sell side.

[Libero_2]

100% agree, it would make the deadline more interesting and more useful to teams on both the buy and sell side.

This is how it should be presented.

Everyone wants more competitive post season play. Which teams that are going for it, need to be able to “buy” and they can only do that if teams are willing to sell. Right now the NFL deadline is usually the quietest of all the major sports. A later deadline means that activity increases, theoretically, playoff teams are making a push to win it all, or “almost” teams are trying to buy their way in. Teams out of it, or setting up a rebuild have a better chance of getting assets to rebuild quicker and they are already focused on getting younger guys who are part of the future PT anyways


And it’s definitely better marketing stuff for the NFL to have a big deadline day. 

[Badger]

100% agree, it would make the deadline more interesting and more useful to teams on both the buy and sell side.

We all agree - I'll let Goodell know we gave it the green light.