I’ll start. A turnover should be a point for the defense. Your team is winning by one point, and they turn the ball over? Now the game is tied.
Here’s one that bugs the hell out of me. Get rid of the taunting penalty!
I’ll start. A turnover should be a point for the defense. Your team is winning by one point, and they turn the ball over? Now the game is tied.
Here’s one that bugs the hell out of me. Get rid of the taunting penalty!
I’d change how the draft works.
Bottom 8 teams don’t get a 1st round pick. 9th worst team picks first and it proceeds as normal. Rounds 3 and 4 are like the first round. Round 2 is where the big changes happen: each of the bottom 8 teams drafts 3 times in snake order. Picks for the 2nd round are protected and can’t be traded. Rounds 5+ don’t really matter so they either go away or proceed as normal.
So basically the teams that suck the most can’t suck their way into a top tier QB, but they get a lot of quality picks to build up a core roster. So it would both discourage tanking for a QB while getting bottom teams help where they need it. Bad teams on the cusp of the 8-9th pick get to engage in game theory. Everyone else gets a slightly better 1st pick, but a slightly worse 2nd and 3rd pick. The best players also get a slightly better chance of getting picked by a competent team to develop them.
Another benefit is bad teams can’t count on lucking into a great pick so there’s more motivation to be a competent organization because rebuilding your team probably won’t happen overnight.
Cons:
No Stroud to the texans or Burrow to the bengals would happen in this scenario. Good teams can’t trick bad teams into trading their picks away.