Let’s discuss theoretical new rule changes that you would like to see. I’ll start:
In no particular order, off the top of my head:
flame away lol
Well…some of them are zany so hard to say.
Here would be a few credible and incredible examples:
I agree with these two. For the rest just go watch American football. I love the Canadian game.
OPS Cap.
I would like to see something different for overtime but nothing gimmicky. Maybe what we have now but with worse starting position. Or once the goalposts are moved that’ll change things up.
Hmm:
I would keep a 1 yard neutral zone. That said, I would like to allow for the ball to be scrimmaged inside the 1 yard line and in cases where the ball is inside the defensive 1 yard line, allow defenses to line up no further than the goal line (less than 1 yard in this specific case).
Abolish the operations cap
Single division for all 9 teams
Otherwise I would have the powers-that-be go through the rulebook with a fine tooth comb and do whatever is necessary to streamline the game. We have a hodgepodge of rules that have been introduced at different times for different reasons. I have always looked at illegal kicks where kickoffs cannot go out the sidelines in any which way, punts cannot go out through the air beyond the 20 yard line, and all other kicks can exit any which way. Different limitations brought in at different times for different reasons. Lets just make a blanket rule. Let’s hope the new clock rules give us the same or more football without changing the entire timing scheme in the last 3 minutes of the half. Lets just have kickoffs after a score instead of options on scrimmage or kickoff. Lets simplify the roster rules with no minimum Canadian starters, just peg the number of overall Canadians on the roster such that some must start because of math. We don’t need designated QBs, naturalized Canadians, designated imports etc.
yea i think if the one yard off LOS was taken out, they would have to not allow waggle, which i think would suck.
I have no issue with the ops cap. Why should teams be able to spend their way out of dumb decisions? If there’s a cap on player salary, then there should be a cap on ops salary too.
Most positions in ops are already well-paid.
I don’t think the waggle has much to do with the neutral zone. Perhaps whatever the approved ruling interpretation for offensive offside is today would have to be tightened up a bit but it shouldn’t preclude the use of the waggle.
Offensive penalties which are enforced as half the distance to goal should result in the first down line being moved such that the new distance to first is the old distance + the penalty yardage. For example, a team committing a holding penalty on 1st and 10 from their own 5 should have 1st and 20 from their own 2, not 1st and 13 as is currently the case.
Eliminate kneeldowns. If a team can run out the half with strictly kneeldowns, just let them declare the half over and move on.
Shorten quarters to 8 minutes and use the post 3 minute warning clock for the entire game.
Make PI not magically disappear if the ball is touched at the LoS. If the ball has not been touched for a full second, PI can be called.
Illegal interference should not be an automatic first down, it should be 10 yards forward from the point of foul, loss of down (as if it had been recovered 10 yards further).
All kicks should be required to travel 10 yards before being eligible to be recovered by the kicking team (eliminate the dribble punt).
There are certainly others but these are what come to mind.
Get rid of the mandatory 2 PAT in OT is a must for me.
Agreed will be interesting to see how the new goal post locations affect things
Others.
I want the clock to run the same for the last 3 minutes per half
Dribble Kick either gone or make it so it has to reach the first down marker.
No coaches challenges on PI.
Also eliminate the kicked 1-point conversion and go to a modified XFL convert system.
1 point conversion from the 3
2 point conversion from the 7
3 point conversion from the 15
So they can hire enough people to do their job well and not wear so many hats. I’d also like to see a higher cap on player salary.
Football ops seems to be bloated enough if you look around the league. Certain teams try to run it on a shoestring budget, but that’s their problem.
Ops contracts are already guaranteed. You take the cap off and then you’re paying a guy $500k to paper-push. That’s corporate crap and I want no part of it. Pay the players. They are the product.
Who’s paying that kind of money to push paper in the cfl?
I want adequate coaching, training, therapy etc. The players and fans deserve it
I also totally agree with this. I think if there isn’t an ops cap teams will spend appropriately. But if there isn’t a salary cap, it will make teams non competitive.
That money will only go to paying guys who are already making more than a nice salary to coach grown men throwing a pigskin for a living. I don’t need head coaches or GMs or AGMs to make more money than they already do. If you can’t live on an income well into six figures, go find another job.
Training won’t happen per the current CBA limiting player practices and such. Same with “adequate” coaching. You get that by paying players more, particularly the bottom-most rung (entry-level Americans and Canadians).
By training I mean on and off season training and by therapy I mean physical therapy. There is always room for better training or more therapy and i can’t imagine that is limited in the cba
Every team already has trainers and sports therapists. I’m curious to know what you think would help? I’m all for player safety, but my Als, for example, play on turf that, according to a recent report, is in dire need of replacing, and it’s not clear whether McGill is going to cough up the cash to do it. Meanwhile we’ve had a rash of guys going down with leg injuries of various kinds. Therapists ain’t gonna help there.
By the same token, Davis Alexander injured his hamstring by overtraining last offseason. That’s on him and he will hopefully learn from the experience.