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With Portis' injury (and considering the major injuries of years past) comes the popular debate about the preseason. Is it took long? Some people say, "yes". Others say "no".

I realize all of the owners want to make their money so each team has 10 home games a year.

I, however, am one of those that think preseason is too long. Teams simply don't need to play 4 meaningless games.

If the owners want to make their money, here is what I propose.

Extend the NFL regular season to 18 games.

Have only 2 preseason games.

That's what I would like to see!

How about all of you!?!?!?

This runs along the same line as the Poll on the Main Site

I would like to see the NFL do away with the preseason games completely. To me they are unnecessary and the only thing that comes out of them are injuries. With all the mini camps and the length of training camp coaches have ample time to evaluate young players and get the veterans ready for the season. They don't have any preseason games in college and teams there do fine. If not having any preason games was such a big deal to college teams then I doubt that Miami and FSU would open every season playing each other.

If the NFL doesn't do away with the preseason then I would like to see coaches keep their starters on the bench. There really is no need for a player like Portis to play in last night's game. He gets more than enough reps in practice when the team is running its real offense, so what is the point of giving him several carries while running a watered down, vanilla offense during a preseason game. Gibbs said today that the plan was to get Portis a carry or two and then take him out. Is there any real benefit to giving Portis one carry in a meaningless game? To me the risks far outweigh the rewards. I think that the only reason that teams have their star players play in the preseason is so that the owners can justify charging fans full tickets prices for these game.

I was listening to the John Riggins show this afternoon and they were arguing about whether or not Portis should've tried to make that tackle last night. Riggins was saying that it's preseason and that Portis should've given up on that play. Well to me that just backs up the argument for doing away with preseason games. What's the point of having your starters play if you dont want them to play agressively. A guy like Portis is going to make that play in a regular season game, preseason game, or flag football game. That's simply how he plays. You cant tell him to go play but not play the way he normally does. If anything, that would just increase his risk of getting hurt.

Do away with preseason games!

I'd cut it to 3. I think the coaches need that much to evaluate talent & make roster moves.

SkinzCanes wrote:I would like to see the NFL do away with the preseason games completely. To me they are unnecessary and the only thing that comes out of them are injuries. With all the mini camps and the length of training camp coaches have ample time to evaluate young players and get the veterans ready for the season. They don't have any preseason games in college and teams there do fine. If not having any preason games was such a big deal to college teams then I doubt that Miami and FSU would open every season playing each other.

If the NFL doesn't do away with the preseason then I would like to see coaches keep their starters on the bench. There really is no need for a player like Portis to play in last night's game. He gets more than enough reps in practice when the team is running its real offense, so what is the point of giving him several carries while running a watered down, vanilla offense during a preseason game. Gibbs said today that the plan was to get Portis a carry or two and then take him out. Is there any real benefit to giving Portis one carry in a meaningless game? To me the risks far outweigh the rewards. I think that the only reason that teams have their star players play in the preseason is so that the owners can justify charging fans full tickets prices for these game.

I was listening to the John Riggins show this afternoon and they were arguing about whether or not Portis should've tried to make that tackle last night. Riggins was saying that it's preseason and that Portis should've given up on that play. Well to me that just backs up the argument for doing away with preseason games. What's the point of having your starters play if you dont want them to play agressively. A guy like Portis is going to make that play in a regular season game, preseason game, or flag football game. That's simply how he plays. You cant tell him to go play but not play the way he normally does. If anything, that would just increase his risk of getting hurt.

Do away with preseason games!

WHAT?!?! I completely 100% disagree with you right here.

So you are saying that we should just go into Week 1 of the Regular Season with a brand new 700 page playbook, new WR/QB combinations, and mass rustiness and just start off right there from game 1 and work out all the kinks until about Week 4 to which the Season is already 25% over?

Sure, injuries are going to happen, IT'S FOOTBALL! And you know what, CP can get just as injured in Week 1 or 4 or 9 of the Regular season too.

I say, YES keep the preseason, but only have 3 games, not four.

I vote for 2 preseason games and keep the regular 16 game season

I think it's fine just the way it is.

JSPB22 wrote:I think it's fine just the way it is.

Particularly right now, when our back-ups will need time to get a feel for the game, now that a couple of our starters are out.

Injuries certainly are part of the game, and it stinks to have them happen during the pre-season. However, if we had the injuries we have now, and we were kicking off the season next Monday, I'd be a lot more concerned about having to fill the spots of those players who've are now injured.

RIght now, Joe and his staff has 3 games to get new players and backups up to speed to keep our ship sailing to Super Bowl XLI.

I feel that 3 games would be sufficient. I think anything less would affect the game in a negative way. If everyone is worried about injuries, we certainly do not want a season with 18 games. That would cause even more injuries because of the full time beating that the starters would endure for the entire year instead of probably a total of a 1/2 game through out preseason. Look how spent Portis and Brunell were come playoff time last season. Injuries are going to happen anyway you look at it. It Is a CONTACT sport and not a sissy sport like soccer.

We all want to see some more meaningful football but at what expense to the fun or competitiveness of the game. What good would it be to have a really good season (speaking of an 18 game season) only to have your team dragging a$$ in the post season? Like others have said, do you want to start the season with our team trying to learn a new system and worry about winning at the same time? Practice just isn't the same as going full tilt in a real game.

HOSS wrote:I vote for 2 preseason games and keep the regular 16 game season

Best proposal so far.

I think 2 preseason games are enough, And I like the idea of 18 regular season games

HOSS wrote:I vote for 2 preseason games and keep the regular 16 game season

Yeah, but even if there were only 2 preseason games, Portis would still be hurt.

I know everyone is freaked out about injuries, but they are going to happen no matter what in the NFL, be it PreSeason, Regular Season, or Post Season, people are going to get injured.

And I know everyone is all pissed because, "PreSeason games don't count". Well really, that is sort of a good thing.

Check it out, in the Pre-Season we can figure out all the kinks and stuff in AL Saunders offense and not get penalized if we lose. And we can work on chemistry between the QB and the WR's. Or we can just simply run the offense and if we lose it doesn't matter.

I know the Pre-Season is something that people will never agree on, but IMO it is very neccessary, especially to a team like the 2006 Redskins.

tony kornhizer(how ever the heck you spell that!! ) had that same idea during monday nights game and joe thismen(how ever the heck you spell that!!) shot it down... he kinda got upset..

preseason is for the back ups and the rookies.. i think 4 games is ok and its up to the coaches to keep out the players that would be a disaster to lose.

no reason to keep changing the league when it is the coaches responsiblity to keep starters healthy... use preseason the way its supposed be used. to find out who you really want on the field when you need them. get those back ups polished and weed out the duds.

leave the starters on the bench.