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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
And that game was only exciting because of one bad Aaron Rodgers throw. If he throws it down the field to Devante Adams instead of the sideline on that Q3 interception last week, Packers would have been up 3TDs and that probably turns into a laugher too. I feel pretty strongly we're in the post-apex of the NFL as a product. The peak was between 1999 and 2010 or so. Product has been getting worse the last few years, culminating in this season which has been pretty much awful from the beginning. Unless we see a lot of rules clawbacks, plus actually trying to speed up the game, it probably will only get worse.
NFL is lucky we're all hooked with gambling or fantasy, because without those the league would be in real, serious trouble, rather than the making $15 billion instead of $17 billion trouble. I also wouldn't mind seeing maybe a little contraction to 28 or even 24 teams. The NFL is not the NBA, the NBA is actually growing it's talent pool to the point expanding actually makes sense. The NFL talent pool is shrinking because of concussions leading to declining youth play, and because Timothy Mozgov can get $18 million per year, and you don't even know who Timothy Mozgov is. Only the top 1% of NFL players can make that money, whereas 40-50% of the NBA can. Wouldn't shock me to see the NBA pass the NFL in 20-30 years.
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They are on record that the NFL's goal is to reach $25 billion revenue.
Will definitely be interesting to see how it plays out over the next couple years.