League screwing over Bucs, let's all laugh

[t96]

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/3608/jay-cutler

 

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The NFL has postponed the Bucs-Dolphins game until Week 11 due to Hurricane Irma.

The teams share(d) a Week 11 bye week and will play the game then. The players now have to play 16-straight games with no off week, which is a big concern for player safety, but Roger Goodell apparently wasn't comfortable moving the game to a neutral site like Pittsburgh of Philadelphia. Fantasy owners need to get their Bucs and Dolphins out of lineups. Tampa will open at home against Chicago next week, with the Dolphins traveling to face the Chargers. Sep 6 - 9:14 AM

16 straight weeks for them, and their fans have to wait even longer for their first game. Hahahaha

[mc52beast]

If they're as talented as 95% of the talking heads say they are then playing w/o a bye week shouldn't be a problem...

[uncfan888]

Do all teams that play in the first week share a bye week? Or did they just get lucky on that? 

Edit: just looked up the niners and their bye is the same as ours. Interesting

[csx]

I don't really think that's funny. The league can screw anyone.

[Moorgan]

Wait so the league can create Mega Death Hurricanes now? Yikes.

[Jangler]

the bye week at the same time would solve this problem. maybe 2 bye weeks

[Mojo]

The Bucs and Dolphins are both getting screwed and it increases the injury risk to players.  I think it's a horrible decision by the NFL and puts both teams at a disadvantage.  This is almost like a punishment for a potentially devastating hurricane hitting FL.

[Thorrez]

4 minutes ago, uncfan888 said:

Do all teams that play in the first week share a bye week? Or did they just get lucky on that? 

Edit: just looked up the niners and their bye is the same as ours. Interesting

All teams play week one, so no just luck. Bye weeks are 5 through 11.

[RoaringRiot]

Feels like preparing for a huge hurricane and keeping people safe is more important than football 

[Doyle]

1 minute ago, Mojo said:

The Bucs and Dolphins are both getting screwed and it increases the injury risk to players.  I think it's a horrible decision by the NFL and puts both teams at a disadvantage.  This is almost like a punishment for a potentially devastating hurricane hitting FL.

What's your solution to the predicament? 

[Cyberjag]

Doesn't really help us at all.  They will end up playing the Falcons on a short week though.

[uncfan888]

1 minute ago, Thorrez said:

All teams play week one, so no just luck. Bye weeks are 5 through 11.

You misunderstood me. I meant do all teams playing each other week 1 share the same bye week later in the season. 

[Moorgan]

1 minute ago, uncfan888 said:

You misunderstood me. I meant do all teams playing each other week 1 share the same bye week later in the season. 

No. KC is week 10 and NE is week 9. Although we weirdly have the same bye week as the 49ers.

[jumpman910]

Just now, Mojo said:

The Bucs and Dolphins are both getting screwed and it increases the injury risk to players.  I think it's a horrible decision by the NFL and puts both teams at a disadvantage.  This is almost like a punishment for a potentially devastating hurricane hitting FL.

Safety is an issue but at the same time does the NFL screw over one team or both. If it would've been moved to a neutral sight that removes any home field opening day advantage the dolphins would've had, not to mention they are already losing one home game by playing in London. That scenario would've had them losing 2 home games giving the advantage to the Bucs.

With this decisions both teams get equally screwed but the playing field is even. This was a Lose-Lose situation and looks like the NFL picked the option that would mess with both teams and not just one.