NFL Plans to Cancel Week 1, Week 4 of Preseason

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00:00 The NFL has reduced the preseason, taking away two of the games for this summer.

00:06 For more on that, I'm joined by the fantasy exec, Corey Parson and Ben Pickman.

00:11 Now guys, obviously the preseason, not the most important part of the NFL calendar.

00:16 This year, clearly there are extenuating circumstances, but should they just scrap the preseason altogether?

00:21 Ben, let's start with you.

00:23 No, I don't think they should scrap it altogether.

00:26 I mean, the preseason gives an opportunity to a number of undrafted players and late

00:30 round picks that might otherwise not get that chance to make an NFL roster and live out

00:35 their dreams.

00:36 And so you're providing a number of job opportunities for a number of players who wouldn't get them.

00:39 But one other main reason they shouldn't scrap it is because of injury concerns.

00:43 And I hear the complaints that some star players or you're putting starters potentially at

00:47 an injury risk by playing it altogether.

00:49 But if you were to scrap those four games altogether, then I think you're putting more

00:53 players at risk.

00:54 And when the regular season starts, you're going from zero to 100, ramping up too quickly.

00:57 And so there is some value in playing some exhibition games to kind of warm up prior

01:02 to the regular season.

01:03 Yeah, I mean, Corey, Ben makes valid points there, right?

01:07 And those are the points that you hear all the time.

01:09 So is there some happy medium somewhere?

01:13 You know, Rob, what I would say is this.

01:14 I think you don't need four preseason games.

01:16 I think two preseason games is a pretty good one.

01:19 We all know that the week three of the preseason is, you know, the dress rehearsal week where

01:24 you kind of get things set up.

01:25 Now, there's a number of different things that you look at when you discuss this.

01:29 Number one, fans.

01:30 A lot of fans don't get to go to games in the regular season.

01:32 So it's a good chance where you get out there to take a little bit cheaper and you get to

01:36 enjoy the NFL experience that way.

01:38 Not to mention the fact that people like myself who's in the fantasy industry, we need to

01:42 see these players on the field.

01:43 We need to see position battles and what's going on.

01:45 So I think the preseason does serve some purpose.

01:47 So I'm not going to say totally scrap the preseason altogether, but maybe take it down

01:51 to one or two games.

01:53 Yeah, and we don't expect to see fans this preseason, of course.

01:57 But when the preseason does continue, those ticket prices need to go way down for the

02:02 fans.

02:03 Yes.

02:04 Corey, Ben, appreciate your time as always.

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