Pro Bowl replacements

[Chaos]

Dear residents of Honolulu, 

Sorry. 

Sincerely, 

Gordell

[stratopanther]

Bortles got snubbed bigtime.

[Growl]

The idea of a Super Bowl Week is one of the NFL's better one in recent years, but the Pro Bowl has got to be put back.  Replace it with something. Not a skills competition, that's bland, a Rookie Sophomore game or something would be nice.

[shaqattaq]

3 hours ago, Snake said:

Should just be a skills competition. Or they need to move it to after the SB.  No playoff players want to play another game. 

I liked it better when it was after the SB, and even then it was kind of lame. 

[jdpanther5]

Just the Panthers replacements:

Cam Newton, Carolina (replaced by Tyrod Taylor, Buffalo)

Jonathan Stewart, Carolina (replaced by Latavius Murray, Oakland)

Mike Tolbert, Carolina (replaced by Patrick DiMarco, Atlanta).

Greg Olsen, Carolina (replaced by Delanie Walker, Tennessee)

Trai Turner, Carolina (replaced by Logan Mankins, Tampa Bay)

Ryan Kalil, Carolina (replaced by Eric Wood, Buffalo)

Kawann Short, Carolina (replaced by Jurrell Casey, Tennessee)

Luke Kuechly, Carolina (replaced by Derrick Johnson, Kansas City)

Thomas Davis, Carolina (replaced by Elvis Dumervil, Baltimore)

Josh Norman, Carolina (replaced by Desmond Trufant, Atlanta)

[PantherJD]

5 hours ago, CoastalCat said:

It's ridiculous how many guys opted out (Palmer, Brees, Rivers, etc) before they landed on Tyrod, Carr, and Jameis. 

They could easily fix this if they wanted to. The plan?

Go back to conference teams, and give an extra inter-conference home game to the winning conference. (i.e. we played the AFC South this season. If the NFC had won the pro bowl last year, 3 of those 4 games would be home games). Losing conference goes from 2 home to 1 home inter-conference game. 

AND for everyone that's about to say "the owners wouldn't give up the revenue", it's going to wash itself out if the winning conference keeps alternating. You'll have one less game one year, and one more another. If the league would ever consider changing home field to the wildcard team with a higher record instead of a bad division winner, they can certainly consider this idea. 

Hell, I don't even care if they leave the game where it is on the schedule, and the super bowl players aren't invited. Let the bounced playoff teams play together for an extra home game. I think that players would show up, AND they'd play.

Just my $.02.

That would throw off the scheduling balance way too much.  It would mainly just end up hurting the cities/teams of the losing conference by taking away an important revenue-making home game from each city.  More importantly, it doesn't really help the winning conference much either because you're competing against intra-conference rivals for playoff spots, so one extra or one less home game for everybody does nothing.  The only way it would help or hurt a team is if you were playing, say, the AFC East and you happened to draw the Patriots at home instead on the road.  It would really suck for 3 teams in the division to get a home game against the Patriots and for one to have to go to Foxborough.

Anyway, I don't think the league should be trying to add any incentives to make the game more competitive because that could lead to unnecessary injuries.  If anything, you want guys taking it easier in this game (which is why some people are saying not to play the game at all).

[bigpoppa]

Remember when this time of year we were excited when one of the Panthers would become a replacement in the Pro Bowl? I think that condition should now be called Falconitis