Traded Sunday Night. Play Monday Night?

[Irv]

Dumb question.  If you played a 1PM game and got traded immediately after to a team that's playing the Monday Night game - would you be eligble to play Monday?  I ask this becuase I have no life and could not find anything on the interwebs.  In this situation you could pad your stats.  But I wonder how the union rules and pay would work out.   Has it ever happened? 

[zevo]

this just happened with ertz last week...he played Thursday night but was not eligible to play Sunday after getting traded to the cards

Edited October 25, 2021 by zevo

[TBBills]

Yea they won't let you play more than one game during the week.

[BringBackFergy]

12 hours ago, TBBills said:

Yea they won't let you play more than one game during the week.

Since Sunday is the first day of the week, Monday would be the start of a new week. It’s been that way for 2000+ years. 

[Gugny]

14 hours ago, Irv said:

Dumb question.  If you played a 1PM game and got traded immediately after to a team that's playing the Monday Night game - would you be eligble to play Monday?  I ask this becuase I have no life and could not find anything on the interwebs.  In this situation you could pad your stats.  But I wonder how the union rules and pay would work out.   Has it ever happened? 

 

I'm pretty sure that if the first game played is a 1pm start in Pacific Time and the second game is a Monday night 8:30pm start in Eastern time, then the player IS eligible to play due to the hours passed between games.  That's why Ertz was ineligible to play ... because not enough hours had passed between games.

 

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[Ridgewaycynic2013]

When the sad day comes for Ryan Fitzpatrick to retire, league rules will be bent so he can play the Thursday night game, Sunday early game, Sunday night game, and Monday night game.  All so he can add three more jerseys to the collection.  (Monday night is a Bills game. 😁)

[shrader]

Has a player ever played more than 16 games in a season?  It would be possible if traded during a bye week.  Hell, technically that could actually happen more than once during the season.

[TBBills]

8 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:

Since Sunday is the first day of the week, Monday would be the start of a new week. It’s been that way for 2000+ years. 

Not in NFL, I figured someone would say something like this... Didn't realize I had to explain. That is sad you actually made this post seriously...

 

The league week goes Tuesday-Monday.

Edited October 26, 2021 by TBBills

[BringBackFergy]

1 hour ago, TBBills said:

Not in NFL, I figured someone would say something like this... Didn't realize I had to explain. That is sad you actually made this post seriously...

 

The league week goes Tuesday-Monday.

The rule is ambiguous…and all ambiguities should be construed against the party drafting the terms. Hence, Thursday is in the prior week to an upcoming Monday (new week). Open your eyes. 

[unbillievable]

6 hours ago, shrader said:

Has a player ever played more than 16 games in a season?  It would be possible if traded during a bye week.  Hell, technically that could actually happen more than once during the season.

 

 

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[Just Jack]

11 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

When the sad day comes for Ryan Fitzpatrick to retire, league rules will be bent so he can play the Thursday night game, Sunday early game, Sunday night game, and Monday night game.  All so he can add three more jerseys to the collection.  (Monday night is a Bills game. 😁)

 

I think every team he has not played for should offer him a 1 day contract, he could do a retirement tour, picking up a different jersey every day.