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[QUOTE="STEVEHOLT, post: 3055169, member: 522"]
I disagree with everyone here.  Im all for it.  I'm not the NFL so I'm not paying lip service to player safety.  You want to be safe? Don't play in the NFL.  Screw that.  More games is better.  More fantasy football, more games to bet on.  More entertainment for ME.

The 16 out of 18 rule also adds a ton of strategy into the mix.  Do you just punt two games?  Do you rest your better players against the better teams who you might lose to anyway and ensure victory over the crappier teams?  Or do you try to win them all by resting your better guys vs the crappier teams?

As far as the roster setting, the coaches can handle it.  As fantasy football owners, we've had to deal with having to sit our players on bye weeks for years, and manage.  They can too.

I do however believe that the quarterbacks should be exempt from the 16 game max.  That is a position at much lower injury risk than the others with the way the rules have evolved, and forcing a team to sit their QB is basically completely altering the fabric of a team...no other position in sports has such impact on game outcomes.

Never seen so many whiny ass players who dont want to play football.   There are an infinite number of guys who would kill to play a single game in the league and surely would revel in 18.

Of course I believe the money generated by the extra two games should go disproportionately to the players and player pensions should vest at two years vs the current three.

player contracts should have at least a percentage of them guaranteed...and players on league minimums should have the entire contract guaranteed as long as you are on the active roster (like MLB)

If you are truly worried about safety, get out of the league.  If you as a fan are truly taken aback at the atrocity of the increased injury risk of two more games, then you should be lobbying for a 14  or 12 game season.
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