Roger Goodell is always looking for a new way of shaking the status quo.
This does not mean making changes to make changes, but the NFL commissioner encourages the changes that push the limits. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.
Put the project in prime time and move it from city to city …
Authorize the celebrations of choreographed turnover / turnover, accelerate the rhythm of the game, back up the kicks …
Reduce the pre-season and develop the regular season …
Change kicks off, radically expand the international calendar, play matches on black Friday, Christmas day and first Friday of the season …
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Goodell’s philosophy is that success inhibits innovation. He does not want to hear: “This is how we always did it” or “What have we done that day last season? Note it.
So on the heels of Philadelphia’s Super Bowl victoryAnd while the league goes towards another off -season, it is sure to say that more changes are underway, even if they have not yet completely taken shape.
First, the changes integrated into the game, the reshuffle of lists. Among the star players who almost certainly change the teams are the recipient All -Pro Cooper Kupp – the Rams were looking for a trading partner – The defensive winger Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns and the Aaron Rodgers quarters of the New York Jets, Sam Darnold of the Vikings of Minnesota and the Kirk cousins of the Falcons of Atlanta.
What other changes could be in store?
The Pittsburgh steelers will host a match in Dublin, which is suitable given the late Dan Rooney, the president and owner of the long -standing team, was a former American ambassador to Ireland.
The Indianapolis colts will play in Berlin and the Miami dolphins head for Madrid. Should be announced is a second consecutive match in Sao Paulo, probably another match on Friday after Thursday’s opening match.
The Eagles were the home team of an opening match in Sao Paulo last fall, and look at how their season ended. And do you remember the 2007 New York Giants, those who amazed New England Patriots at the time in the Super Bowl? They played a match in London this season.
International games are no longer considered exotic or disruptive. The NFL could finally end up playing a full list of 17 games beyond the American borders, a tournstorming globetrotting, perhaps instead of a fixed international franchise. We already know Rams I will play a match in 2026 in Melbourne almost certainly as the first season game.
Another Mexico Game is in preparation, but there are stadium problems that must be resolved.
Previously, the NFL would never have teams playing for several weeks in a season – a club playing a match on Monday followed by a Sunday match, more than once a year. Now it happens all the time. Monitor one or more teams to play three games in 11 days – Monday, Sunday then Thursday.
The Baltimore Ravens played three games in 11 days last season – Sunday, Saturday, Wednesday – and went 3-0.
In terms of planning, do not forget that each game is now a “free agent”, which means that the visiting team does not determine the network, as it did forever in the NFL.
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For example, think back to these years when Tom Brady against Peyton Manning was the “best” game of the regular season. Which alternates in both directions between CBS and NBC. Now, many people consider this game as Patrick Mahomes against Josh Allen. It is also eligible for Fox. The NFL has also put big games on ESPN and it also continues to develop Amazon Prime as a window, so don’t be shocked if one of these huge games ends on a streaming platform.
The NFL will not go to a 18 -game schedule in 2025. This will require a lot of negotiations between the League and the NFL Players Assn., But the concept will disrupt throughout the season, as is a new reduction in the pre-season, probably landing on 18 regular season games and two weeks of Pre-season matches.
The officer was in particular examined this season, with a largely omnipresent feeling that the Chiefs of Kansas City, who won each match tight in 2024, seemed to obtain all the breaks of the Stripes team. Monitor the league to extend the revisable game list, perhaps to include mask or non-appeal calls.
“This match has become so much faster,” said Goodell at his annual Super Bowl press conference. “You see so much that you didn’t even do it six years ago. I challenge you all – go back and watch a NFL game from 2000 – the quality of what you see, the cameras, the angles, the number of cameras, you see much more.
“So we want to use technology to complete and help and support civil servants to do things right. Rereading helps this year, I think, was a big step forward for us. I see in the future that we add more games, and we will examine this with the Competition Committee. »»
The new kick -off format has been adopted on a one -year base, and the probability is that it will be made permanent this spring. There could be some adjustments, such as moving the TouchBacks from the 30 yards line to 35.
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The league liked the figures it has seen so-called dynamic kicks, including yields increasing 57% compared to 2023. Even with 332 games added in the match, said the league, there was Less injuries to kick off than from the previous season with the previous season with the previous season with the previous season with the previous season with the previous season with the traditional format.
Look for the league to make the concept of flexion of matches permanent in the Thursday evening football window. The NFL did it once in two years – Denver in the loaders of the week 16 last season – and was satisfied with the results. The process was not as disruptive as many people feared. However, these types of planning settings are rare.
NFL matches on Christmas day, broadcast on Netflix, were a great success last season. Watch the League to redo this, while Christmas falls on a Thursday, and to extend the December 25 calendar from two games to three, corresponding to the day of Thanksgiving.
Green Bay will host the draft this year, a major event for this city, which does not have hotels (or time) to accommodate a super bowl. Certain lambeau fields will be used for the project, as are the surrounding tailings areas.
The following year, the draft will be in Pittsburgh, another historic city of the NFL which will obtain a Super Bowl, but that the League feels deserves a major event.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
