Will We Eventually See NFL Preseason Games Disappear

Zach & Zack fill in for Levack & Goz to discuss NFL Preseason, and Zach thinks they will eventually got 18 games and no preseason games

Episode Transcript

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It's Lavak and Gouz on the voiceof the Capitol Regions Sports fan Fox Sports
ninety five to nine and nine eightyJO. Just waking up in the morning
in to be well, quite honestwith you, I really sleep well.

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You feel like you're trained dogs bendwell, that's when you press someone.
This is Lavack and Gods on FoxSports nine eighty ninety five point nine FM
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you may be tuning in. Yes, this is not Lavak and Goz.
This is Zach Squared, Baby,Zach Baby Junior, or whatever you want

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to call us. I don't reallycare at this point. Pall us jerks,
We don't care. But one thingI do care about is the NFL
saying one thing while pushing another thing. So we talked about last segment how
Aaron Rodgers needs to be at mandatorymini camp because you only get so many

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limited practices because quote unquote the NFLcares about safety, and then they want
to add more games. With theaddition of potentially more games, now this
isn't happening for upcoming season. There'sseventeen games they're looking to push to eighteen.

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What I want to talk with youabout is Sean McVay was innovated at
the time where he did not playhis guys a single snap throughout the whole
entire preseason, not game one,two, three, or four when there

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was four at the time. Nowthere's three. Is it time that we
do away with the preseason games?Now? I know back end guys forty
eight through fifty three or whatever rangeyou want to give him, they're dependent

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on these games because it's not howyou practice, it's how you play the
game. Yep. Some would argueTim Tebow was a guy that may not
have practiced well, but when itcame to the game, he played it,
he won it. He found away. I would argue that eventually
we will see the end of NFLpreseason games. Well, this was something.

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This was a point that came uprecently, fairly recently anyway, with
the NFL commissioner, who he wason camera and they asked him, you
know, what are your thoughts onthe preseason? He goes, I'd like
to see less of it. Hehad already talked about the idea of cutting
down the preseason and turning those intoregular season games personally. Look, it's

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a business and a lot too manyplayers. Too many times players get lost
in the idea that in reality,your business is not sports. Your business
is the entertainment business. It's theentertainment industry. And I'm sorry, but
those back end guys, those aren'twhy people are buying seats. And if
you can find ways to get morepeople and more seats for more games,

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that's always going to be the decisionof what the NFL is going to want
to do. And to be honest, at a stage where we've already taken
the pads out of the out ofthe what was it? The not?
The not? They also are gettingthe Pro Bowl for the NFL. You've
already taken pads out of that.You already don't want to put stars into
the preseason game, so you alreadyfeel like there's not really a point or

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purpose. You know, viewership isway down on those games. I think
getting rid of them is probably asmarter move on a business perspective. Now
I'm going to be a businessman andoffer a solution, and i want to
know what you would think of it. Okay, they push players safety if

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they are really much about player safetyas they say they are, you go
to eighteen games, you get ridof preseason all together, two bye weeks,
two weeks, two by weeks inan eighteen game season. Now,
I'm not a schedule master, soI don't know how that would typically work,

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because obviously you'd want on both endsof the spectrum. Let me finish,
So two by weeks, eighteen weeksor eighteen games, no preseason,
but televised joint practice of slash scrimmages. I think a lot of players,

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a lot of teams, because rememberit's an environment you can control. Guys
are probably less likely to get injuredin a game that you can control.
That you can micro manage my teamversus your team. I think that's the
way to go. I think alot of players prefer joint pract this is

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than they do a preseason game.So I think maybe they televise that to
make up the missing money that they'relosing out on a preseason game. Yeah,
and I think that you still getsomething out of that. It reminds
me a lot of spring training baseball, where it's kind of like, you
know, you don't view them asreal games and you have a very different
approach to them. The Booth evenhas a very different approach to them,

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where it's kind of like it's morelax. It's this is just we're out
here, we're hanging out, we'replaying the game. But really the teams
are just kind of doing their thingto figure out what they need for the
upcoming season and whatever that would be. How I think those would feel,
And I agree with you where Ithink it's a way where it goes towards

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the league's standard of safety. Wellalso helps you move away from preseason games
and makes those into real games.And what I was gonna say is real
games, real money exactly. HUh is when when you're talking about the
schedule and that banking an eighteen gamewith two by weeks, that is actually

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something I forgot I'd heard before.And if someone correct me if I'm wrong,
I believe that would mean the superBowl would get pushed an extra week
and for most people they'd have thatMonday off as it's a holiday. And
I have double check, but Ibelieve that that Monday would be a holiday.

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And uh yeah, So if weget the Monday after the super Bowl
off, I will always before that. I mean, I always get the
Monday after the super Bowl off becauseI always saved one day in months in
advance before the even starts. You'rethat person, I'm not coming in on
this Monday. Your boss is theone who always looks over and goes,

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So that's why he's not here again. Hey, if they know me,
they know what's gonna happen. Theyshould just put it in for me.
Anyways, I think it should bea national holiday, but I agreed,
But if you can move it towhere a national holiday falls on that day,
I'm not necessarily opposed either. OrI know you like that idea.

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If you get the postseason removed altogether, still get the two by weeks because
you're taking away three weeks of preseason. Pull the season back. That gives
opportunity for the super Bowl to beheld in other venues without the word.

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There's still be a worry of apotential snowstorm. But yeah, January versus
February, maybe, I don't know. My only thing with that is from
a marketing perspective, I think you'regonna choose the option that gives you the
most amount of time and most amountof investment into it, because even though

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you still have to do those concernsof you know, storms and weather and
things like that. A lot ofstadiums nowadays have the roots anyway, the
retractable and now retract wolves. Soit's I think that you can work around
the weather. I think you can'twork around dollar signs. And I think
that that's the option that a lotof people are going to go with.
Can we like pin that quote,work around the weather, can't work around

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the dollar signs? I'll take it'sa beautiful quote. I think ultimately we
will see eighteen games. That's nota matter of if, that's a matter
of when. Preseason. I thinkthat's something that they could take away.
But I also think you're taking awaythat extra income for these NFL owners yep,

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where yeah, it's preseason, butthey're people are paying. They're paying
for the parking, they're paying forthe food. They're going regardless of how
little quality they may have on thefield, people are still going. And
I think it's gonna be hard pressedto get these owners to get rid of

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the preseason games unless that eighteenth gameis added, absolutely, and I think
that is what it will It willcome down to, is if you can
get that final game to still getthose dollars and still get because this is
the big push in sports now andI'm not necessarily opposed to it. I
think there are some things that getlost in it, but it's to try,

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and because those people who are goingto those games, those are your
hardcore, those are your lifers,those are the people that live for this
game. And we're in a timewhere we're trying to push it to the
masses, and this is a wayto do that. And the NFL owners
are just gonna have to need thateighteenth game as a way to just recoop

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the revenue, which will be morethan the preseason games generated. But still
absolutely I agree with you. Realgame, real money. Yeah, that's
the best way to put it.Real game, real money. Postseasons where
it's at, regular seasons, whereit's at, and you get that eighteenth

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game, that one last chance tomake the postseason push. We've seen a
lot of the season come down tothe last game. You get that extra
game to get over the hump.I think the money is there, the
money is there to be made.The problem is the players have a little

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bit of power enough to say wedon't want eighteen unless such and such,
and I think that's going to comeinto terms of preseason get away. Preseason
that's done. It's over with,absolutely, and I think it will be
done with. I think this isgonna be I think last, or this

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upcoming year will probably be one ofthe few last times that we're gonna get
preseason. It's something that's already beentalked about by the commissioner, which means
it's already something on the table.And again, I will not be shocked
at all if it's acted in inreplacement of having more regular season games and
a longer season. This is theVaking Guys on Fox Sports on eighty ninety

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