Pro Bowl changes
 

What do you guys think about the Pro bowl changes? I just know one thing now that my boy Colston will never be one now. The guy gets no respect around the league now so if they have some draft I feel it's just going to show favor tesiom to player that they like and add player for the wrong reason. Look at what Jimmy Graham did this year and he was left off the top 100 that's all I'm saying.

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I'm not sure.

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Im worried
The rule changes do not look they are being changed for the Pro Bowl.
If the TV numbers are better or if the talking heads in the media give them the thumbs up i fully expect a certain red faced buffoon to add them into regular season games.
No kick off-Less head trauma
No stopping the clock-More people watch the final minutes rather than switching over. etc etc

Rules
Game within the Game – A two-minute warning will be added to the first and third quarters and the ball will change hands after each quarter. This will increase the opportunities for quarterbacks to direct “two-minute drills,” which are especially exciting for fans.

No Kickoffs – The coin toss will determine which team is awarded possession first. The ball will be placed on the 25-yard line at the start of each quarter and after scoring plays.

Rosters – The rosters will continue to consist of 43 players per squad. The kick return specialist will be replaced by an additional defensive back.

Cover Two and Press Coverage – The defense will be permitted to play “cover two” and “press” coverage. In previous years, only “man” coverage was permitted, except for goal line situations.

Stopping of the Game Clock – Beginning at the two-minute mark of every quarter, if the offense does not gain at least one yard, the clock will stop as if the play were an incomplete pass. This rule will make the team with the ball attempt to gain yardage toward the end of each quarter.

Game Timing – The game clock will start after an incomplete pass on the signal of the referee, except inside the last two minutes of the first half and the last five minutes of the second half.

Play Clock – A 35-second/25-second play clock will be adopted instead of the typical 40-second/25-second clock.

Sacks – The game clock will not stop on quarterback sacks outside of the final two minutes of the game. Currently, the game clock stops in these situations outside of two minutes of the second and fourth quarters.

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Yawn! Thats pretty much the only thing I have to say about the pro bowl. I just hope the HoF voters top looking at Pro Bowls when considering candidates to the Hall.

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NFL please stop the pain ! Who wants to watch a glorified scrimmage? Need to take this crap out of football and these greedy owners looking for one more payoff.

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Well wonderful, they further alienated the fans by removing them from the voting and they wussified the game further :(

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They wont make most of those changes to regular season...

Anything that shortens the length of a regular season game effectively lowers revenue for the NFL by cutting into commercial time blocks to sell.

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I don't even care. I haven't watched one in a very very long time. I heard Deion Sanders will be a coach or something... makes me not want to watch it even more.

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I was attempting to watch NFL network last night and 9 toe Deion was interviewing Julio Jones... had to change the channel. What a fraud tv analyst.

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ALL of those changes to the Pro Bowl rules, Goodell has been trying for years to implement into regular season games. The owners have resisted but eventually they'll bow.

The Pro Bowl will be a road show sales booth for his ideal of the near future of the NFL.

Goodell is bad for the sport of football. I mean who the hell is this guy to cram rule changes down the throat of the entire sport of football?

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Just another one of Goody's snake-like tactice to change the game. I can't stand that guy.

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Goodell has 2 agendas for his term as commish:

1) Make the NFL look squeaky clean and reformist so the league does NOT have to pay former players who suffered head injuries, and

2) Modernize the game and make changes to leave his ever-lasting mark on the game.

Problem is, FOOTBALL DIDN'T NEED TO BE MODERNIZED or changed before the jerk became commissar. I believe the NBA is better at trying to preserve their game than the NFL right now.

Every year we now have to wait with bated-breath after owners meeting to hear which RIDICULOUS rule changes will be implemented and which ones just missed being implemented.

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I haven't watched the pro bowl in years.

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Yep and sure don't plan on watching it in the future either.

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What was that wannabe league with He Hate Me as a player?
These rules sound a lot lie their rules!

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The only way I would watch the Pro Bowl all players selected were playing "Kill the man with the ball"....and Justin Bieber, Lil' Wayne, and Jay Z were the ones holding the ball. :D

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We be addin' godell and JJ onto that list now.

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Who seriously watches the Pro Bowl, and thinks it's a real game? I'll tell you who watches the Pro Bowl, and thinks it's real: LITTLE KIDS.

I remember watching the Pro Bowl as a LITTLE KID, and being jacked up, high as a kite, on Bob Griese, Roger Staubach, Walter Payton, or John Madden coaching, or whatever the heck it was. Archie Manning, that one year. Straight up hero worship, in Little Kid Land.

They are doing it this way, partially on purpose, to get the little kids used to not having kickoffs -- so that when kickoffs are removed, it's just the "old folks" or "grumblers" who complain about it.

Now that he's done this, I think it's a safe bet to predict that the kickoff as we know it will be officially gone in around 5-7 years from now, unless something happens to Goodell.

The purpose of this is clear to me -- removing the kickoff will be one part of a grand bargain, to settle the concussion lawsuits. It will be one piece of the negotiations, to symbolically show the jury or the judge that they are making concessions for player safety, going forward. Then they can cower behind their "we didn't know then, but we know now" defense, with the quack doctor the NFL hired as a consultant way back, who said for years and decades that concussions weren't a problem.

In exchange for eliminating kickoffs, and other concessions, I predict there will be a cap put on how much is paid to former players, and a cutoff date for who is and isn't eligible for compensation, and a lump sum put aside for the purpose. It will be much the same way that BP was initially forced to agree to put aside X AMOUNT of dollars (I think it was $20 billion) over the oil spill, that number was fixed, set in stone, and now it's all just different people squabbling over who gets what of the money.

But eliminating kickoffs will become a bargaining chip for the NFL, to whittle down the amount they will owe in the concussion lawsuits, I feel pretty confident that you can bank on it now.

One thing people need to understand about this lawsuit -- it's NOT about the big dollar amount -- like the tobacco industry or the oil business, the NFL can basically print its own money, and can survive any forced payout or settlement. It's about protecting themselves from the legal ramifications of "CYA," going forward.

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The owners need to sack up and get rid of this jack wagon. He continues to make stupid decisions that are ruining the game of football. Plus I'll never forget offseason 2012. His only saving grace is that the owners have made so much money under his watch so they won't do anything about him.

IMO I don't care what they do to the Pro Bowl as long as it doesn't "count" for something like in MLB. This has horrible ending written all over it, why can't they just have a skills competition in Hawaii for the players that get selected. I'd watch that before I watch this "made for TV" game they are trying to sell

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Why is a kickoff different than a punt? I see a logo change coming The NKFL. I saw a blurb on the bottom of the screen on the NFL network concerning Shanahan and RGIII talking with someone on how to "protect" read option QB's? Soon it will the the Touch Football League. Glad we got our SB Trophy when we did.

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Pro Bowl has been a joke since they moved it to a week before the Superbowl. You have 6 to 8 that are Pro Bowlers that can't play............really stupid! JMO.