The NFL moved to 17 games in recent years, which is mostly annoying because it’s an odd number (this 9-8/8-9 nonsense is for the birds) and it threw all statistical achievements of the last several decades in the dumpster. But it’s equally frustrating because 17 games is just a pitstop to an 18-game NFL season.
Everyone knows this, or should know this. Count Joe Burrow as one of the former, and let’s give him credit for coming up with a pretty perfect scheduling solution that is really quite simple. Burrow, appearing on Pardon My Take, was asked by co-host Dan Katz (a.k.a. Big Cat) what the “perfect football schedule” would be, to which he responded “how many games are we playing” (which was coupled with a knowing sigh about where this was headed, more on that in a bit).
“Gotta have two bye weeks,” Burrow replied after some quick banter. “And I think it’d be cool to do normal bye weeks like it is now. Have it spread out. But then, like, Week 13, do the Pro Bowl break. Where you have the 7-on-7 and all the skills challenges, like the NBA does. Because I think that would give more ratings for the Pro Bowl and then it would also give everybody that bye week going into the last six games of the year.”
Big Cat then floated the idea of having Christmas off for the whole NFL as a “reset,” which Burrow dovetailed into his Week 13 idea.
“And then you have guys that are injured that would be able to potentially come back,” Burrow continued. “And you want your best players out there as a league. You want them out there the last six weeks of the season. You want your best players on the field. So I think that would be a smart idea.”
Burrow’s been on a fun little media tour the last week or so, talking about learning to play an instrument as a healing process for his wrist, promising the Bengals will “give people something to talk about” in 2024 and even making his ~modeling debut~ at the…
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Author : Will Brinson
Publish date : 2024-07-09 16:00:36
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