Interesting concept. Are you talking adding a 4th bye week for everybody in the middle of the season or making this the 3rd bye week for everybody? Definitely not my cup of tea to view anyways. I have no interest in watching guys run some of the combine drills along with other hokey events. Maybe I'm in the minority but the more I see the NHL and NFL try to add new things to their All-Star and Pro Bowl events in the name of making them more entertaining the less entertaining they come across as to me.don corleone wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:46 amKind of an odd thought and wondering if it would work to schedule a complete bye week in week nine or ten and fill the void with a skills style competition similar to what they did years ago. It would all have to be non contact and so forth but fun for the fans to know who the fastest, strongest players are. Players competing would need to be compensated
Not sure if a complete bye week would shorten the season or not. Main concern would be days between games.
BCF raises some great points. Biggest I think is the idea of asking some of the most important players to surrender their bye week of resting/recharging and opportunity to spend time with family. Players really do value their bye weeks for those reasons. A second byproduct of that is that some team will be getting a bye the week before this week and another the week after. That means those teams are taking two weeks of downtime going 3 weeks . Using Week 9 this year as an example BC has the Week 8 bye. With this concept they'd play July 21st and not again until August 11th. That is not a good thing. Injury risk is real because the only way to find out who the fastest and strongest are is to ask them to strain themselves to their limits if they want to win..
My bigger concern though would be about the timing. Weeks 9 & 10 are right when the NFL starts televising their exhibition games. That is not the time to take the pedal off the metal by replacing 4 games = 12 hours of live game action with an hour or two of some made for TV event. This sort of event might best be suitable for sometime in the offseason like either the week after Grey Cup or in conjunction with the CFL Combine.