Perry's Perspective
NFL Needs to Extend Trade Deadline

There has always been one thing that annoys me when I think about the NFL trade deadline. This is that the trade deadline occurs far too early in the season, and this is often the reason why there are not more trades made in the NFL. The NFL is the only professional league that has their trade deadline before the halfway point of the regular season. This hardly makes any sense to me. Every other major professional sport in North America has their trade deadline at least 60 or 70 percent into their regular season. The NBA trade deadline takes place a little over 50 games into their 82 game schedule. Major League Baseball has their trade deadline a little over 100 games into their 162 games slate. Even NHL commish Gary Bettman has his league's trade deadline about 60 games into their 82 game regular season.


This year's trade deadline occurred on Tuesday afternoon, with once again hardly a trade to be had.  I dont blame many teams for not pulling the trigger on a trade at this point of the season, unless you are 0-6, 1-5, 5-1 or 6-0.  In my eyes, the NFL is always the king of sports, in that any team can go from 4-12 one year, to 12-4 the next. But its often tough to find out what deficiencies you have, as a result of either poor play by current personnel or because of unexpected injuries this early in the season. Maybe if commisioner Roger Goodell extended the trade deadline to after week 10, instead of week 6, that we would see alot more trades take place. I think this could only be a good thing, as more team's would have more opportunties to stay more competitive throughout the season.