What If The NFL Had Relegation? 

Oh this would suck. My Bengals woulda been relegated multiple times including the entirety of the 90’s.

I like your takes, but to keep it fair you'd have to integrate them into the draft even with the other teams and have same salary caps etc. Besides that though it would throw the whole divisions and conferences model into frenzy, so you'd need a brand new schedule system too

I don't know how it works in the UK, I'm not really a soccer fan I just know Mexican soccer from my girlfriend and I always thought it was stupid the way relegation works. It would make more sense if, like you said it was a way to encourage teams to get better. But it's really not. In Liga MX the last place team got sent down to Ascenso MX and the first place team from Ascenso MX got sent up. The problem with that, the reason I think it's stupid is that someone ALWAYS has to be last place. Even if every owner spends as much money as they can, every GM makes the best possible moves, every coach calls the best plays every game, and every player gives it 100% at all times someone STILL has to come in last. Now during the pandemic they stopped doing relegation in Liga MX, and instead they get fined for coming in last place. To me that's a better system. It doesn't kill the team, and destroy their TV revenue and ticket sales by making them essentially a minor league team, so it's bad but no THAT bad. I think a better way to make it work for American Football and Baseball etc would be to start with a $1,000,000 fine if you come in last in your division (a lot of money to you or me, but not to a pro sports franchise) then double it every year til you stop coming in last, and maybe if you don't come in last 2 years in a row you get your money back. That way it's not some world shattering thing of you happen to come in last one year even though you tried your hardest, but it could be really bad if you don't put money into making your team better and cheap owners would end up spending more by being habitually cheap than by just trying to actually be good. There is one other huge problem though where I think this would work for MLB but NOT for the NFL. Salary cap. The way salary cap works in the NFL it kinda guarantees every team is going to suck sometimes. If you want to actually build a Superbowl winning team you either have to get really lucky drafting and developing players or you have to go and sign some big contracts that are back loaded so that you can make your team better this year at the expense of big cap hits a few years down the road. For example to build their 2020-2021 Superbowl winning team and their contending teams the next two seasons the Tampa Bay Bucs back loaded a bunch of contracts then they were pretty much screwed last year and this year with no money to spend filling holes in their roster. If Baker Mayfield hadn't showed up and WAY over performed his contract they would have been awful. Not because the owners or GM were being cheap but because the rules stopped them from spending any more money on signing new players.

Could work if the ufl can be challenging!!! Also expand the CFL!!!

You're not really correct when you say there's no motivation to improve. League rules strongly encourage teams to improve and compete. There's a salary cap, but also a salary floor that ensures teams spend all available cap space. Money you don't spend this year carries over to the next with a 3 year minimum spending floor. You cannot be a cheap team in the NFL. Rules prevent it. If you must spend the entire salary cap, you're motivated to spend it building the best team. There's no motivation to overpay mediocre players to field a bad team. This is in contrast to the MLB where there have been teams with 30 million dollar payrolls and 300 million dollar payrolls competing in the same league and same season

It's an interesting question to ask, but there is another reason that it wouldn't work in the NFL -- it would get in the way of some of the big stories of the NFL. The Detroit Lions finally becoming a contender. The Buccaneers going from being an after-thought to the winner of the Superbowl. The Texans going from one of the worst teams in the league to a contender in one year. If any of those teams had been relegated, those stories likely wouldn't have happened. It's an extension of "Any given Sunday" -- "Any team, any year."

Dumbest idea ever. The problem, of course, is that there are no teams that could enter the NFL to take their place. The worst team in NFL history is roughly 17 billion times better than any other non-NFL-football team in history. .... On the other hand, I have been advocating for 15 years that the NBA should create a system like the rest of the world has. 20'ish NBA teams in a Top League with Relegation and Promotion from newly-established Lower Leagues would work absolutely perfectly. My idea works moreover because the NBA Draft is an absolute farce!

This sounds like the worst idea ive ever heard. If its not broke.. you know maybe you should do a video about dropping relegation and adopting NFL policys.