I'm not sure if the commissioner will consider this, or if a poll needs to be put to vote, but I would like to see the number of preseason games go from 3 to 4

If this were to happen, I'm almost positive we can't make it happen this season since the schedule has already been created. We can put it up for vote for the next season and beyond though if you'd like

Yes I understand that it would be impossible for this season! But I would like it to be put up for vote, so that it can possibly be effective as early as next season.

Can I ask what the reasoning is to add a 4th preseason game? Other than selling more beer at your concessions….lol

I consider preseason games as a testing out period for player personnel, plays, formations, switching personnel around in the depth chart and learning from all of the above during a time when the end result isn’t official!
I figure only one extra game would make a difference for those of us who do enjoy testing out any of the previous mentioned! We don’t need to make an entire 16 game preseason LOL, I just figured why not 4 games

Good practice Tide. As for four preseason games, it depends what you use them for. I'd prefer it, but it's not that big a deal to me.

I understand the need for prep time as i do the same during the preseason. but it's really hard to gauge whether or not the plays, formation and etc will be working come regular season. Unless a team is not using backups at all in the Pre-season you will never get a good read on what will work as 2nd half of PS games are (usually) against scrub backups. With that being said i think 3 is a good number and i vote to leave it at 3.

Figuring out which plays work and which don't is an important part of preseason. Of course, preseason success does not guarantee regular season success, but you can at least find out which plays are *disastrously* bad. That doesn't help you if you are already pretty sure which plays you are going to use.

Another important part of preseason is developing young players. Last season, I was just trying to sneak through without getting people hurt. I didn't make it! Then I was happy with the shorter preseason. This season, I have some players whom I actually want to gain experience, so I want an extra preseason game for that. Otherwise I would have to sacrifice regular season games to give people experience I want them to have.

Avoiding injuries is a losing gamble. The extra game gives me more time to get over the injuries I'm going to have anyway. Experience has shown me that getting healthy is more important than avoiding injuries in the first place. If I can keep my nose above water, I can start getting people *back* at the end of the season, instead of losing them. There's no defense against that.

Myself...

Preseason is about getting some position experience for young players and NOT getting injured. I deactivate a good number of my veteran starters and just pray for health.

In occasion, I have a player that I want to see is he is viable at a different position. So I will watch for that.

I typically can't wait for preseason to end. But maybe that is part of why I rarely make it over the big success humps.