It's time to face the facts. The NFL has too many teams, that's why everyone sucks. Colleges just can't shit out talent fast enough. So, let's go ahead and fix it by removing a team from every division.
>AFC North The Bengals, so that they'll suffer with the Browns, and we won't lose that important part of the league >AFC East The Jest, who else? >AFC South The Tits. If they were still the Oilers, I'd probably pick the Texans instead, but they're not. >AFC West Chorgers, no contest >NFC North This is tough, since they all have history. I'd have to choose the Loins though; they have the least special history >NFC East Another tough one. While the Eagles are the newest and least distinct, fuck DC, so the skins will have to lose the pigskin. >NFC South Probably the Panthers. "Carolina" is new and doesn't even have a city. The Carolinas did just fine pulling for the Falcons and the Cowboys, and they can do it again. >NFC West Probably the Tardinals. They're simply too ordinary
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Jace Lewis
>AFC North
>AFC East
>AFC South
>AFC West
>NFC North
>NFC East
>NFC South
>NFC West
Levi King
If teams didn't need so many players, there wouldn't be an apparent talent shortage.
Why do you need dedicated offensive and defensive teams to take to the field? Just have players who can play both roles.
Mason Long
Nobody would want to do that cause then they would be tired as fuck and what if someone gets hurt.
Henry Ross
Because they'd fucking die? You wouldn't survive getting beat down all the time on both sides of the ball.
Daniel Brown
>>NFC North >This is tough, since they all have history. I'd have to choose the Loins though; they have the least special history
Please, if you had list all the NLF teams, everybody would forget the Vikings.
Eli Nelson
There are too many games to keep track of anyway; the league has fat that it could stand to lose
William Nguyen
Should just collapse the whole AFC South desu. Indy is the only one even worth arguing about keeping.
Most of the others I agree with except: > NFC East Has to be the Eagles. Cowboys v. Redskins is a good Thanksgiving rivalry
Samuel Cooper
Some fundamental changes to the way football is played should be looked at then. Less focus on outright flooring your opposition at full speed and more focus on tackling technique?
I seriously don't get the logic of a 53 man list, with 46 in the actual game but only 11 on the field at once. 11 on the field with 7 or so substitutes should be plenty to work with.
Justin Cook
But they were a dynasty at one point, right? Maybe two points? I know there's the Purple People Eaters, but there'a also the late 90s.
And the Loins?
Kevin Collins
>removing any NFC East or NFC North teams You're a commie. Eat shit and die.
Oliver Gutierrez
How about we make it easy and just remove two divisions.
>AFC North Three past-their-prime rustbelt cities that wouldn't get teams if they were around today, and one mid-Atlantic city that plays second fiddle to the nation's capital. Goodbye AFCN.
>NFC South Three smaller/irrelevant cities and Atlanta, which is barely relevant anyway. Now I don't have to give a fuck about football anymore, thank god.
Matthew Rogers
>falcons lose to dolphins >aaron rodgers out >cowboys and giants suck >patriots have no defense >rothlisberger basically retired
Are the eagles, dare I say it, the next owl champs?
Thomas Carter
>Keeping the AFC South and losing the NFC South Naw man
Gavin Price
> muh endurance
There's too much intricate shit for a player to play on both sides of the ball and it would be way to hard on the body. Football isn't fluid like soccer, half the game is about planning and strategizing based on the formation of players on the field and even the types of players. Different positions need to excel at different things and it takes a very long time to physically condition yourself to play that position and to learn all the subtleties of said position.
Not only that but it's just not practical considering how often injuries occur. I do agree that something should be done (maybe revert back to leather helmets so players won't use their heads as weapons anymore and will have to focus on proper tackling)
Evan Collins
Get rid of the Souths in generals and remake the North into the Central. Like the good old days.
Henry Bell
Trouble is, the audience has a taste for gladiatorial headbashing at this point; as the NFL is a TV league, they need their brutish aesthetic
Which isn't to say I'm above it or anything. I love my high-speed nigger collisions as much as anyone.
Elijah Foster
>Gee, let's guarantee that the South will only watch college ball At least keep the Falcons (in the place of the Chargers)
Ian Cooper
the nfl should only have 2 teams: 1 good one and 1 bad one.
Dominic Martinez
The win rate would be even, knowing the NFL
Henry Campbell
Reminder that the AFC East is literally the best division in football right now
Austin Collins
that's the point, they wouldn't go balls out every single play anymore. they'd leave a little in the tank. there would be fewer injuries because you wouldn't have 20 angry turbo niggers hurling themselves through the air at excessive velocities every second... they'd ton it down a ton so they don't get gassed.
Brandon Adams
>But they were a dynasty at one point, right?
So were the Lions, just because it was before the corporate meme "superb owl" doesn't change that, they dominated the league throughout the 1950s and have been in the NFL since 1934 (1929 if you count when they were the Portsmouth Ohio Spartans).
The Vikings didn't exist until 1961.
Elijah Parker
>maybe revert back to leather helmets so players
will literally die on the field...
Wyatt Ortiz
That's pretty compelling; Loins will take the Vikes' place in OP's NFL 2018
Sebastian Cooper
>not the Vikings
theres a reason anything resembling talent on that team ends up dead
football gods do not want them
Xavier Morris
you could redo the divisions, no sense in taking out a team from every division, just kick out the 8 worst teams Ravens, Browns, Colts can all share 1 team. Kick out the Jags Texans and Titans. Cardinals, Panthers, Bucs
There, it's fixed.
Colton Brown
>Ravens, Browns, Colts can all share 1 team. >Keeping the Chargers over any of these teams I'd say: > Jags Texans and Titans > Cardinals, Pans, Busc but: >Chorgers, Ravens
Hudson Cox
If youre only going to have 24 teams than you need 3 divisions in each conferences. Pretty much how it was 15 years ago but with less teams.
I'd probably swap the Browns and the Cardinals (put the Texans in NFC West, and have the browns take their spot.
I also might sub the Saints for the Skins
Joseph Howard
Remove Cowboys. Problem solved.
Jacob Walker
-just fucking get rid of the bengals and browns, 2 forever caca teams that no one will unironically miss -send seacocks over to the afc -realign teams to actual area proximity -get rid of north and south, replaced with central -have 6 divisions, 5 teams each -keep the 6 team per conference for playoffs and 2 team byes -3 division winners and 3 wild cards, best wild card gets home field for wildcard round, rest of wild card are visitors -draft is same except first 10 1st round picks will be randomized, so constantly shit teams dont always first pick promising talent and fuck them over like the browns -as a team in the top 10 in the 1st round, you are randomly given your pick, then you can trade the pick or select your player. -players cannot bring outside bullshit into games (political or racial), auto 4 game suspension, no appeal and teams cannot release you or blackball you for doing that dumb shit unless you do it a 2nd time within the football season.
Zachary Martinez
well, some have to die first to let the others eventually understand and change their ways
let them understand through pain, blood and tears
Carson Reyes
>draft is same except first 10 1st round picks will be randomized, so constantly shit teams dont always first pick promising talent and fuck them over like the browns
I'd lower this to five, but this is a great idea; suddenly draftb owls cease to exist, and tanking becomes less rewarding
Wyatt Walker
>my teams doing bad so we have to change everything! tell me cuck, what is your team?
Blake Jones
>I seriously don't get the logic of role specialization
Caleb Cox
>40 teams >Two divisions >Relegation >No forced parity
That's how you save the NFL
Chase Davis
AFC North: Merge Ravens back into Browns. AFC East: The Bills have never done anything and NY already has two teams. AFC South: Titans AFC West: Churrgers
NFC North: Vikings NFC East: Redskins, because I went to college in NoVa and redskins fans are losers NFC West: Their mascot is a seed-eating bird, fuck the Cardinals NFC South: Atlanta, they must be punished for LI
Benjamin Brown
Just delete the entire AFC south
Dominic Scott
Hmmm yeah no how about you stick to getting raped by emus while your wife fucks the Kangaroo next door
Aaron Nguyen
Lions haven't been in 82% of playoffs since the start of the NFL. 4/5 years you're watching the playoffs the Vikings make it and lose it. I don't care what that delusional lions fan says I'd name packers bears and Vikings first in the NFC north. - t. Chiefs fan.
Vikings lost 82% off all NFL playoffs since the Superbowl existed and their creation and that's a pretty tremendous statistic and also is an argument of how well they're known. Everyone following an NFC has had to read about them as contenders year after year and on the AFC end you're reading about them as Superbowl hopefuls. The Vikings also have been 0-4 in the Superbowl and attended 4 more than the lions.
Ethan Reyes
You're talking about prehistoric history here in the NFL, as far as franchises and people care about the Superbowl started a new era for the NFL that's why old rings sure as hell don't count and the Boomer generation that remembers a good lions team is dead. Face it your lions have been an irrelevant part of the NFL for decades and the only crowning achievement the lions have is a 0-16 season and 2 potential goats retire early on them just because they got sick of the lions.
Bears always have 1985 and that owl in the 2000s, and will always get talked about. The lions are just a joke.
Jose Anderson
20 (preferred) to 24 (max) teams would fix a lot.
Jackson Bell
You're right, but if we ditch the AFCS I think we should get rid of Carolina or New Orleans and replace them with Houston.
Jack Jones
Or have a weigh-in before the game, then based on that number, each team is limited to no more than 2000 pounds on the field at any time. If you want to have 300 pound fatties for your offensive line, then you don't have enough remaining weight cap for more than a skinny quarterback and a skinny running back.
Elijah Hall
Cut both the entire AFC South and NFC South
Lucas Ward
Uhhh Charlotte is definitely a city. It's a top 20 largest metro in the US. If they dont have a city then at minimum 30 other states lack a city
Hunter Murphy
They used to have that, then some teams had specialized players and dominated. It'll happen again.
Jackson White
Who cares what the south watches, they're insignificant
Ian Thompson
>Texas needs two teams after Houston already blew their franchise, surely it wont happen again
Ethan Foster
>how to prevent a bad league >make all teams trash except two cali teams >make the fans of those two teams murderous tards Thanks Europe.
Jeremiah Sanchez
>Carolina >No City Charlotte?
Also, great job letting Florida keep 3 teams, dingus.
We don't need to remove TEAMS--we need to remove GAMES. Less games = lless hurt players = more players.
Take away 2 Preseason games and the Pro Bowl
Jacob Russell
the easy three to dump are the Texans, Titans, and Jags (expansion teams, no success, no fans). the next easiest is the Chargers (AFL team, no success, no fans). that covers the AFC. so, if you want to get rid of 4 NFC teams for balance, it would be easiest to just get rid of the NFC South. Carolina (expansion team, 2 SB appearances but no wins), Atlanta (older expansion team, 2 SB appearances but no wins), NO (older expansion team, 1 owl appearance/win, sub .500 all time record), and TB (older expansion team, 1 owl appearance/win, sub .500 all time) are all pretty bad, though Carolina and Atlanta show promise for the future and are in big markets. NO is only as good as Drew Brees and TB is just happy to be there. of course, you can argue against teams like Philly, Detroit, and Arizona too, but they have more history. I'd keep Carolina and Atlanta and ditch Detroit and Arizona, but there's no real wrong answer.
Grayson Watson
Pre season games or Pro Bowl games don't do shit. First teamers only play the 3rd game in pre season. The rest is for the 3rd and 4th stringers who wont even make the team.
Carter Sullivan
>>AFC North Bengals >>AFC East Bills >>AFC South Texans >>AFC West Chargers >>NFC North Vikings >>NFC East Skins >>NFC South Panthers or falcons >>NFC West Rams or cards leaning rams
Gavin Garcia
Just shut down all California teams. They don't care anyway.
Samuel Martin
Don't do it by division. Reduce the number of NFL teams to 24. The 8 who get removed will be selected from the teams who have an overall franchise regular season record below .500 and who have never won a superbowl. There are 12 of them, so the 8 removed will be removed based on size of their fanbase, history, and location. The Eagles get to stay as they are one of the most profitable NFL teams, the browns get to stay due to their history and because Ohio is a large state and deserves a football team, and the Lions and Cardinals can stay because of their history.
Bengals, Texans, Jaguars, Chargers. and Bills are out because they play in states that already have football teams. Panthers are out because they're an expansion team that has a losing franchise record and never won a Superbowl. Sorry to the Titans and Falcons but 2 others teams have to go.
Evan Cook
>Cleveland is the 32nd biggest metropolitan area >15th biggest statistical area >Wouldn't get a team
Nahhh
Juan Stewart
i know way more jet fans than bills fans
Aiden Sullivan
>t. never played football in my life
Ryan Johnson
The Cardinals are the oldest franchise in the NFL at 119 years - no matter how shitty they've been run for ages, they're never going anywhere.
Ryder Wood
Honestly sounds like you need better friends
Dominic Gray
>The Carolinas did just fine pulling for the Falcons and the Cowboys, and they can do it again. You ignant. The Carolinas were largely Redskins territory, dating back to the days of broadcast TV, when the Redskins were the only game we got. Other than a few underpopulated bits of SC that abutted Georgia and could get the Atlanta signal.
Jonathan Martin
>>AFC SouthThe Tits. If they were still the Oilers, I'd probably pick the Texans instead, but they're not.
>Having a chance to lose the Jaguars without the expense of shipping them off to England, and choosing to get rid of somebody else.
You are trolling, right.
Also. not losing the Falcons. Even Atlanta does not care about the Falcons
Jack Perry
That's so crazy it JUST MIGHT WORK!!!
Joshua Scott
>Ohio is a large state and deserves a football team,
Carolinas have more population than Ohio, though.
Wyatt Baker
>AFC North Cleveland >AFC East Buffalo >AFC South Jacksonville >AFC West Raiders >NFC North Green Bay >NFC East Giants >NFC South Tampa Bay >NFC West 49ers
I just tried to pare it down to one team per state.
Austin Watson
not sure about the NFC south but there's no way Houston goes without a team lel. 4th biggest city in the US without an NFL team?
Cooper Garcia
That's a strange way to spell "Bud Adams is a money grubbing whore"
Caleb Mitchell
you're leaving rams and chargers in california, but taking away nevada's only team
Angel Flores
Honestly there ARE way too many teams. Most teams now are honestly garage. I'd say getting rid of a good 10-12 teams is not only a good idea but utterly necessary to maintain the sport.
Anthony Nelson
oh yeah forgot the raiders were moving. Swap them with chargers then
Christian Peterson
>eagles >newest You really are a dumb fat nigger OP. Irrelevant thread is irrelevant
Robert Nelson
>not just getting rid of the cuckboy Literally problem solved
Carter Scott
>AFC North Browns >AFC East Jets >AFC South Titans >AFC West Raiders or Chargers >NFC North Bears >NFC East Redskins >NFC South Buccaneers >NFC West 49ers
Elijah Garcia
You have thought about this alot and I like it
Nathaniel Hernandez
Instead of choosing one from each division just choose the 8 most insignificant teams. As you will see from my layout I made it so each conference only have 3 divisions. Also moved Raiders to their new home in Vegas and got the buccs out of Florida since there only needs to be one in that state. Inb4 "MUH HISTORY" if there's going to be less teams then new start.
Oliver Cooper
I'd swap the Portland Busc for the Pheonix Cardinals, and rename the AFC West to AFC Central, but otherwise perfect
Liam Rivera
the PNW only needs one team. move the bucs to omaha or nashville or some shit
