Roger Goodell said today's game was an experiment??

[spartan19]

I wish they would have "experimented" and played the game on grass.  So much for concern about player safety.

[CheshireCT]

I'm also in the camp that this international NFL concept is crap. I've always thought playing games in London is stupid, and not because of any American pride reason. Rather, I think it's competitively unfair, and potentially unsafe for the players. Who knows if today's guys would have gone down if they actually had slept properly the last two days.

 

Playing games in other countries is not good for the sport, it's just simply an attempt to find more financial growth for the league because they can't think of anything else to do at this point. dumb dumb dumb

[Augie]

41 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

 

 

Where is the old FU emoji when you need it? 

[Alphadawg7]

Jags being there already was just a blatant advantage that you don’t need any experiments to confirm.  Utter stupidity 

[Augie]

10 minutes ago, spartan19 said:

I wish they would have "experimented" and played the game on grass.  So much for concern about player safety.

 

They experiment only at making money, and not losing money. Not what is best for the players or fans, regardless of the BS they spew. 

[Old Coot]

I do not necessarily disagree that the Bills were at a disadvantage but how to account for the fact that our D played much much better than our O? Would not they both be jet lagged? Playing devil's advocate here.

[billsfan89]

40 minutes ago, stevestojan said:

We’d be laughing so hard if KC fans were crying like this.  
 

Is jet lag a new concept? If they were THAT tired - as world class athletes - from a 7 hour flight, that’s embarrassing. But if that really is a concern, FLY OUT MONDAY. 
 

As far as the turf, yeah, every game should be played on the fairway of Augusta. But they’re not. And the Jags were on the same field.

 

We lost. To a supposed inferior team. I really don’t even care about the loss. This is all about Milano. And how Beane needs to be on the phones dealing whatever he needs to get a guy in here. 

 

No team has played in London against a team that played in London the previous week. The turf and injuries are issues that can happen on other NFL fields but the London thing is just awful

[Success]

Money, money, money.

 

At what point do billionaires have enough?

 

[Augie]

44 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Everyone complained about west coast teams traveling east being at a disadvantage for years but somehow a team on their ‘home game’ jumping 5 time zones to meet the away team that was there the week before is out of the question?  
 

to me if you’re gonna do an experiment like this at least make it a bills away game 

 

The bold, at the very least. I don’t think it’s an “experiment” at all. I think they were just proving what was intuitively obvious to the most casual observer. 

 

It was sloppy, lazy or dare I say, calculated in a less than fair manner. 

 

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Edited October 8, 2023 by Augie

[Wayne Arnold]

39 minutes ago, Toledo Bill said:

This POS is all about the owners and could care less about the players or fans.

 

Well to be honest that's his job. He's paid to make decisions that lead to the happiness of the owners (short-term cash flow), not the happiness of players and fans (long-term health of the game).

[Big Turk]

24 minutes ago, spartan19 said:

I wish they would have "experimented" and played the game on grass.  So much for concern about player safety.

 

Lawrence said the grass isn't the same over there as it is in the US because it is made for the ball to roll on while playing soccer and is much slicker.

 

 

[Bob Jones]

56 minutes ago, Bubba Gump said:

Are you ***** kidding me?? He said they wanted to see how having a team over there for a few weeks stood up to a team travelling from the US. Boomer Esiason just said he would be pissed if he were the Bills. Basically said Goodell's "experiment" was a joke. 

Pretty sure I heard on the TV sometime today that the Jags have only been over there 10 days, which means that they also traveled on Thursday, 10 days ago, so them being over there “a few weeks” sounds way off.

[reddogblitz]

11 minutes ago, BadboyBills said:

Obviously advantage Jags in the 1st half, we sleepwalked and finally injuries caught up with us in the end. But the flags today we're just unbearable, slowed the game to a crawl. I hate it all. Had a bad feeling ever since they said the Jags would be there ahead of us. I mean a 6 hour difference is no joke and I was shocked we didn't arrive earlier like on Tuesday or Wednesday, that was a fail on our part.

 

After reading Roger's comment it makes me wonder who made this decision?  

 

Was it someone at OBD, or did the NFL tell us yall are flying in on Thursday for experimental purposes?

 

Makes me wonder. 

 

Does anyone know?

Edited October 8, 2023 by reddogblitz

[Toledo Bill]

4 minutes ago, Wayne Arnold said:

 

Well to be honest that's his job. He's paid to make decisions that lead to the happiness of the owners (short-term cash flow), not the happiness of players and fans (long-term health of the game).

Understood, but really turns me off as a fan.

[Bob Jones]

53 minutes ago, Bubba Gump said:

 

Great that Bills were the guinea pig. That guy has single handedly ruined the NFL. Between his over officiating and all this international BS. The game is getting harder to watch. He is not doing the league any favors. 

I surmise that if the owners didn’t like the job he’s doing, they wouldn’t be paying him $40+ million a year. Just sayin…

[GoBills808]

4 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

Lawrence said the grass isn't the same over there as it is in the US because it is made for the ball to roll on while playing soccer and is much slicker.

 

 

It wouldn't be so different tbh, they water the fields before soccer games to get the ball moving

[Franco_92]

39 minutes ago, Augie said:

So the Bills had a “home game” against a team that regularly plays in that market, and the team that actually has years of experience building a local fan base, gets a week to get acclimated to the time change and conditions. That doesn’t pass the smell test. 

 

I’m not just reacting to today’s game. That is pure BS that they want to “experiment” with giving any team, let alone an “away” team, any advantages. 

 

As much as I hate that, I hate even more buying any additional streaming services to line their pockets. I have never thought I could lose interest, but they are pushing the limits. I need some cooling off, but this has been building for a while. I don’t NEED the NFL at all. 

It is incredibly easy to watch for free without giving them any money

[BuffaninSarasota]

56 minutes ago, BBFL said:

The experiment was to see about a permanent team being in London… That’s the only experimental thing they did; give a team multiple weeks there.

 

Can’t see what else… it’s not geographical experimenting… they’ve played in London every year since 2007 with multiple games in that City since 2013.

 

 

Incorrect. The NFL is exploring a possible England/European division and also expanding into other markets like Ireland, Spain, and Brazil. This is called marketing and internationalization.

 

what happened today was the experiment and we were the guinea pigs

[dgrochester55]

Goodell's experiments more often than not leave the Bills on the short end.   Is the God awful officiating of this morning and last sunday night an experiment too?  was the cross promotion with Taylor Swift last Sunday an experiment.

 

Goodell needs to go, he is ruining the NFL just a little more every season.

[Wayne Arnold]

1 minute ago, Toledo Bill said:

Understood, but really turns me off as a fan.

 

Oh yeah, that's completely understandable because owners don't care about the health of the game - whereas we fans do.

 

I'm an MLB fan and I've watched the sport of baseball slowly lose its status as "America's pastime" and lose fans on a consistent basis for the last 35 years because the owners of the teams only care about short-term profit and don't want to concern themselves with what's actually best for the sport. And those two things are not aligned, more often than not.