Fixing the NFL: Improving the Game Off the Field

The Bill Barnwell Show

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4.4 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On today's episode of The Bill Barnwell Show, Doug Kyed of The Boston Herald joins the show for the next installment of the Fixing the NFL series, breaking down what changes need to occur off the field to improve the game. They brainstorm ideas like if The NFL Draft should come before free agency, implementing minor league teams to the NFL, and why the league should abolish the playoff seeding system. Later, they break down their "Boomer takes," including why teams should have nine wins to be considered playoff-eligible. Plus, Doug shares one of the most insane ideas on the podcast that would change life as we know it. 4:54 NFL Draft before free agency 11:39 Double the rookie pay scale 15:15 Cap benefit for keeping players drafted by teams 19:27 Abolish playoff seeding, and conference champions get to pick which wild card team they play 21:00 Boomer Take: Teams must have nine wins to be playoff-eligible 25:07 No spring leagues; bring minor leagues consisting of practice players for the Fall 31:10 Boomer Take: teams only play on Sunday and Monday 34:22: Boomer Take: bring back positional jersey numbers 35:29 Kyedian Calendar: shifting every month backward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to the Bill Barnwell show. I am Bill Barnwell. Today, we are
0:11.5	continuing our series on fixing, or at least improving the NFL last week. We talked with
0:17.5	Charles McDonald of Yahoo Sports about fixing or improving the on-field product.
0:23.3	And today, joining me to focus on improving the product off of the field with the NFL is my friend from the Boston Herald who covers the Patriots.
0:33.2	Doug Kide.
0:34.0	Doug, how are you?
0:35.2	Bill, I'm doing quite well.
0:36.3	I was just telling you beforehand that I was up late
0:38.7	last night covering the Boston Celtics because our Celtics Pete reporter decided to leave the company
0:44.7	in like March or early April, just really great timing before the finals run. Wow. It allowed
0:51.2	me and Andrew Callahan to cover a lot of Celtics games and for us to bring on
0:54.8	Zach Cox as a freelancer.
0:56.3	So three NFL, long-time NFL reporters covering the Celtics and, you know, for what it was,
1:02.4	I thought we did a bang-up job and it was fun to be all those games, or not all those games,
1:06.4	but the games I was at.
1:07.7	Really calling people out here early on the show.
1:09.9	I'm not expect that. Steve Hewitt, calling you out, Steve Hewitt now. Steve's great. He got a new gig in journalism,
1:15.6	but yeah, it was a good opportunity. It was really fun. Yeah, obviously, fun to see your hometown
1:21.3	team win a title. And like you said, maybe gave you some perspective on what might be different,
1:27.1	you know, in the NBA
1:27.9	that we could apply to the NFL.
1:30.0	Absolutely.
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