Throughout the offseason, there has been a lot of talk about the NFL potentially expanding the league season to 18 games. If that happens, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow thinks it should come with another pretty significant change: an additional bye week for teams.
During his press conference on Tuesday, Joe Burrow said that while he understands why the league might want to move to 18 games given what it would mean from a revenue perspective, he also thinks that the league should consider adding an additional week of rest for players during the season.
“Eighteen games is definitely a big ask, that’s not easy,” Burrow said according to WLWT.com. “Adding that extra game, obviously it’d be great for revenue. But I feel like adding that bye week, if you’re going to have an 18 game schedule, is pretty critical for our bodies.
“If you keep that first bye week — some teams have that first bye Week 5, Week 6 — and then you’re going 12, 13 games in a row. That’s not easy. Probably a Thursday night game thrown in there, too, That’s never easy. So, those two byes are pretty critical.”
Burrow even went as far as to suggest an entire week off for all teams throughout the entire league.
“Maybe you could do something like, the first bye is kind of how we have it now, and the second bye everybody has it at once, and you make it like the Pro Bowl week, like an All-Star break for the NBA,” Burrow said. “I don’t know, people get paid a lot of money to have those discussions and make those decisions.”
We’ll have to see whether or not the league takes up this proposal.
[WLWT]
