NFL plans to let two players come back from injured reserve

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  • RuthlessBurgher
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    • May 2008
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    NFL plans to let two players come back from injured reserve

    NFL plans to let two players come back from injured reserve

    Posted by Michael David Smith on May 17, 2017, 8:37 AM EDT

    The NFL is continuing to loosen its injured reserve rules.

    In 2012, the league began allowing each team to designate one player for return, meaning he could come back from injured reserve after eight weeks. Last year, the league altered that rule and didn’t require teams to identify that player in advance. And now the league may allow teams to bring two players back.


    Judy Battista of NFL Network reports that NFL owners are expected to pass a proposal to allow a second player to come off injured reserve during the season. The owners are meeting on Monday in Chicago.

    The NFL seems to be gradually moving in the direction of loosening restrictions on rosters, and it wouldn’t be surprising if in the next few years we see other moves, such as an expansion of the 53-player regular-season roster or the 46-player game day roster. Changing injured reserve rules is a baby step, but it’s a step in that direction.


    http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/05/17/nfl-plans-to-let-two-players-come-back-from-injured-reserve/
    Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.

    Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.

    We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.

    We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
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    • Steel Maniac
      Banned
      • Apr 2017
      • 19472
      #2
      That's a good idea by the NFL.

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        • BradshawsHairdresser
          Legend
          • Dec 2008
          • 7056
          #3
          Never could understand why they were so rigid on that before.

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            • RuthlessBurgher
              Legend
              • May 2008
              • 33208
              #4
              Report: Owners are expected to reduce overtime to 10 minutes
              Posted by Mike Florio on May 17, 2017, 12:07 PM EDT

              NFL owners reportedly were expected to reduce preseason and regular-season overtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes in March. They didn’t.

              Now, according to Judy Battista of NFL Media, NFL owners reportedly are expected to reduce preseason and regular-season overtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes in May. Hopefully, they won’t.

              It’s a bad idea. A very bad idea. With the two-possession* rule, it will result in more ties. And it won’t necessarily result in significiantly fewer plays from scrimmage, since teams could move with a greater sense of urgency in a 10-minute overtime.

              But the powers-that-be apparently are willing to welcome those complications in order, ultimately, to remove one of the arguments against short-week football. If teams won’t be playing up to 75 minutes on a Sunday before playing up to 75 minutes on a Thursday, no one can argue that Thursday football should be limited or scrapped because of this legitimate health-and-safety concern.

              Instead, we’ll argue that overtime stinks because of the uptick in ties that inevitably will occur.

              The better idea continues to be (and not just because it’s PFT’s proposal . . . wait, precisely because it’s PFT’s proposal) the implementation of a two-point conversion shootout. Each team goes for two, alternating the attempts, three times each. After that, it’s back and forth until someone scores and someone doesn’t.

              And if the league wants to put an outer limit on the number of tries before calling it a tie, so be it. But even if the limit is, say, 20 snaps, ties will be few and far between — and the total extra snaps always will be lower than they would be in a 10-minute overtime.

              http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/05/17/report-owners-are-expected-to-reduce-overtime-to-10-minutes/
              Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.

              Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.

              We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.

              We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.

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                • phillyesq
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                  • May 2008
                  • 7568
                  #5
                  I like the rule with the second player coming back from IR. If you have role player who is ready to come back, you can activate him without worrying about saving a spot for a bigger name.

                  As for OT, I don't see the need to shorten the period.

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