"I think the NFL is about 10 years away from an implosion"-Mark Cuban

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

And to Cubans argument, he's basically hedging that "casual" fans will diminish which it wont and the NFL will continue to thrive and here's why.

1. Each team has a big enough fan base that will hold weight in ratings and because of parity fans of opposing conference teams will watch because the outcome will directly affect their teams standing not to mention playoff odds.
2. Fantasy Football
3. Rivalries

Basically all the NFL would have to do is flex good matchups but again this goes back to my argument about parity. The NFL tries to schedule matchups based on the previous years performance but because teams can go from super bowl contender to top 3 in the draft in one offseason they end up with shytty matchups that were supposed to be marque before the season started.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Like someone else said in this thread the health issues will eventually cause a decline in the league. Remember all the hubub that happen when Barry decided to quit 10 years in his career, fast forward you have guys like Glen Coffee,Rolando McClain,etc who have quit early on in their careers. People starting to realize that 5-7 years of football ain't worth 30-40 years with a couple cells missing in your brain.

two things
1. Glen Coffee was a bytch ass nikka, who said he saw better defenses in the SEC than he saw in the NFL....and left to pursue religion.

2. Rolando McClain is a perennial fukk up, who just can't not be involved in stupid shyt.... if it wasn't for football, he'd probably have been on an episode of the first 48

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

it was an obvious hyperbole breh

I actually dont think talent is overvalued currently, besides the qb position. the non-guaranteed contracts actually enable lesser teams to compete within a short turnaround time.

the contract gets cut or traded not because the talent was overvalued, but because the value of such contract is not that high !
theres not much repercussion for giving a big nonguaranteed contract in the nfl, because you can just cut the player if he doesnt perform

again, all this room for error is what allows teams to rise up instead of bad contracts drowning them to the bottom of the sea.

ok name me 5 big free agency signings over the past 10 years of non QB's that were not overvalued and I will name you double that during the same period.

 

[yseJ]

ok name me 5 big free agency signings over the past 10 years of non QB's that were not overvalued and I will name you double that during the same period.

Im not getting what youre saying..
the guaranteed parts of the FA contracts is what counts, not the total money
and talent isnt overvalued relative to league baseline, but it is overvalued compared to draft value you can get. any FA signing will pale compared to a cheap, young, good player in draft whos getting paid peanuts

again, you want good teams to keep players to stay good. but thats how the cycle works in the NFL to make shyttier teams come up easier.

a shytty team can just shed those contracts and free up cap for players on good teams who dont fit the cap. otherwise the schism between good teams and crap teams would just widen with ever year. the seahawks without a cap would be a dynasty for a decade if they can keep all of their players. and this gap would just widen and widen. this isnt nba or even mlb. there are 53 players on active roster and if 40 of them suck theres no way youre winning shyt. this artificial 'talent sharing' is what makes the NFL go and prevents it becoming a league of 5 all-pro teams, 2 decent teams and 25 garbage teams

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

And to Cubans argument, he's basically hedging that "casual" fans will diminish which it wont and the NFL will continue to thrive and here's why.

1. Each team has a big enough fan base that will hold weight in ratings and because of parity fans of opposing conference teams will watch because the outcome will directly affect their teams standing not to mention playoff odds.
2. Fantasy Football
3. Rivalries

Basically all the NFL would have to do is flex good matchups but again this goes back to my argument about parity. The NFL tries to schedule matchups based on the previous years performance but because teams can go from super bowl contender to top 3 in the draft in one offseason they end up with shytty matchups that were supposed to be marque before the season started.

this is false, there are a few teams out there... who can't even get their home games broadcast in their city, because of a lack of fan base.... Jacksonville has to tarp up tens of thousands of seats and get extensions just to weasel around that shyt.

 

[Dillah810]

"pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered." Sounds like something would say.

"pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered playboi,..."

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

two things
1. Glen Coffee was a bytch ass nikka, who said he saw better defenses in the SEC than he saw in the NFL....and left to pursue religion.

2. Rolando McClain is a perennial fukk up, who just can't not be involved in stupid shyt.... if it wasn't for football, he'd probably have been on an episode of the first 48

Not sure what the purpose of this post is. I just named players that came to mind that retired early. shyt like that never use to happen, whether it be for health or other reasons. Just a couple weeks ago Mendenhall retired at 26 for health reasons. I remember a linemen who retired before training camp last season for health reasons. Point is back in the days you played until you were cut and no one would sign you again, now dudes are leaving on their own terms.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

this is false, there are a few teams out there... who can't even get their home games broadcast in their city, because of a lack of fan base.... Jacksonville has to tarp up tens of thousands of seats and get extensions just to weasel around that shyt.

true but the way the nfl is set up it don't matter. Jacksonville can still turn a profit through revenue sharing. As far as TV ratings teams like Jacksonville simply won't get scheduled a lot. Jacksonville could've also solved that problem by signing Tebow.

My team (Cowboys) are the symbol of mediocre but are still a ratings monster. They have tradition and history. Jacksonville on the other hand has been around since 1995 and is in a shytty pro sports market in general. Every sport has those. I mean think about it. The NFL doesn't even need a franchise in L.A. to thrive.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Not sure what the purpose of this post is. I just named players that came to mind that retired early. shyt like that never use to happen, whether it be for health or other reasons. Just a couple weeks ago Mendenhall retired at 26 for health reasons. I remember a linemen who retired before training camp last season for health reasons. Point is back in the days you played until you were cut and no one would sign you again, now dudes are leaving on their own terms.

Jim Brown retired in his prime, so it's not like people didn't leave on their own terms.

People finding their "calling" has caused all types of, careers to be cut short.... look at Pat Tillman, he felt he had a higher purpose than playing football...he's no different than Mendenhall. He didn't retire for health reasons, he retired because he felt he had more to offer than just being a football player.

back in the day, most of them dudes could only play football...so they had no choice but to play until they couldn't play anymore. players today are planning for life after football, before they even set foot in college, much less play a down in the NFL......cause they've seen how shyt played out for alot of these guys

 

[NSSVO]

cant broadcast games on friday night

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Broadcasting_Act_of_1961

friday night hs
saturday night college football

Thanks I didn't actually know there was an actual law, thought it was out of love.

 

[rantanamo]

Cuban never thinks anything out of his lane will work. He and Eddie Gossage like to talk like this. It may happen, but its not because he said so. He used to be all about innovation and trying different things, but now he's just old and conservative like every other owner. Dude was too worried about keeping these mediocre teams relevant to take a chance and go after another title.

 

[OG Talk]

The only thing that can stop the NFL is the demise of the white QB....Other than that the league is bullet proof....

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

He has a point especially if the quality of football start getting to the point of last seasons thursday night games.

That's such a myth.

When you look at every TNF game, most of them were pretty good, competitive games.

People throw this shyt out there all the time, the reality is the teams who played on TNF were usually not great teams, so people just weren't interested.

 

[STAN JONES]

i cant believe so many people in here agree with Cuban

if he owned a nfl team i guarantee you he wouldnt be saying any of this

the nfl aint going nowhere

who gonna take the crown from the nfl? the nba? mlb?

 

[CrimsonTider]

I wouldn't be mad if they got rid of Monday night football and switched it to Friday night. Had Sunday ticket and only wanted it for Redzone channel. They're screwing their own product especially with that channel. I still believe that when that tv money bubble burst, they will go to a ppv option and that's when folks will say the hell with this

No one is sitting at home on Friday nights to watch tv