Why even play the Pro Bowl game?

Feels like they should just make a bigger deal out of all the skills competitions, put some money on them (the skills competitions), play for a charity, something like that...

Just watched the pick 6 by Darius Leonard, big lineman not even trying to tackle him

I remember when they would at least try. This is basically just mailing it in on steroids.

I would not mind seeing the all pro players in a number of skill challenges. Tug of War, swimming, basketball, homerun derby, passing challenges for QBs. Field goal challenge for kickers. Throwing distance challenge. Volleyball on sand.

Add up all points and determine a winning team.

So you want to pay a pro bowler 5 to 10x annual salary to play in a game? But winning a ring would be more important than possibly double what one would make in a career? You’re way off here man

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So you want to pay a pro bowler 5 to 10x annual salary to play in a game? But winning a ring would be more important than possibly double what one would make in a career? You’re way off here man

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The amount is just a number I throw out there, but if you want a full contact game in which it is All-Star tackling All-Star in which the chance of injury is incredibly high, you will have to compensate the player by paying out the yearly salary x average number of year left that the player would conceivably have left.

So it a player would conceivably have 3 years left (judging by average lifespan of a player at that position) and was being paid $1.1 million already, he would probably need to be paid $3.3 million for the game to play at full-speed.

I’m just telling you the facts you have to overcome to incentivize a player. I’m not saying any of this is feasible. By all accounts, the game is just too dangerous to play at full speed and should be scrapped.

What is the point is shoulder pads?

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Just name them as All Pro and call it a day.

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Many of these dudes aren't All-Pro. That's the issue.

It’s an absolute joke.

There’s a shite ton of skill competitions they could do. Which QB can throw the farthest with his feet tied, OL vs DL tug of war, 100 yard potato sack race for RBs, Hail Mary challenge of WRs vs DB jump balls, etc

Make the game flag football

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What is the point is shoulder pads?

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So you can't really tell how fat those linemen really are.