Trade Deadline Moved; 'marquee Player' Exemption Added For Ir

[PiKapp27]

The owners also voted to move the trading deadline from after Week 6 to after Week 8, and to allow one "marquee" player placed on injured reserve to return to practice after the sixth game and to the lineup after the eighth game. That player must be on the 53-man roster after the final preseason cut.

Saw this at the tail-end of ESPN's article on knee- and thigh-pad wearing by 2013 today. The 'marquee' player exemption for the Injured Reserve list is especially interesting; Suggs and others in his situation could really benefit

Link: http://espn.go.com/n...-knee-pads-2013

Apologies for the random capitalization in thread title; not how I put it in

[Montsta]

This board automatically capitalizes text in thread titles.

As far as the rules I think it's great. Not that the NFL ever does any blockbuster trades as it is, but you might see more now. 2-4 isn't necessarily done as a season, 2-6 pretty much is, and losing teams may concede that they aren't going anywhere. The IR rule will be good for when Otah busts a toe week one and takes 5 weeks to recover from it, but we won't have to put him on full blown IR now, so that's cool.

[Black]

Love both of these moves, Goodell's tenure has been a great one.

[SuperMan]

Interesting Indeed.

[Ivan The Awesome]

Trade deadline moved and one Marquee player ready for duty? Interesting rule changes.

[PantherPhann89]

Goodell is continuing to tweek... good tweeks Goodell

[PhillyB]

no no you guys dont get it goodell is terrible at life and only makes decisions for the explicit purpose of destroying teams he randomly holds biases against

isnt that right alejandro