The internet is mad 49ers will get two days of extra rest



Brock Purdy of the San Francisco 49ers seems to bypass towards the Seattle Seahawks during the archetypal portion wrong the NFC Wild Card playoff athletics astatine Levi's Stadium connected January 14, 2023 successful Santa Clara, California.

The NFL announced Sunday nighttime the San Francisco 49ers volition look the victor of tonight's Buccaneers-Cowboys crippled wrong the NFC divisional circular successful adjacent Sunday afternoon's three:30 p.M. Window.

And the nett is already huffy astir it.

Notorious respond guys, NFL pundits and former players took to Twitter implicit the play to decry a competitory payment for the Niners, who gets a spot greater than 2 days' much relaxation by utilizing distinctive diagnostic of playing successful the Saturday day model whilst their hostile plays Monday nighttime of chaotic paper weekend.

Following the playoff maturation to fourteen groups successful 2020 — a walk that eliminated a bye for the NFC and AFC 2-seeds — the NFL moved 1 of the chaotic paper play video games to Monday successful 2021. Last play that Monday nighttime victor (the eventual Super Bowl Champion Los Angeles Rams) had six days' remainder to the Bucs' 7 days' remainder wrong the divisional spherical. This yr, the 49ers volition participate with 8 days' remainder to their opponent's six.

Former Super Bowl champion Patriots moving returned Shane Vereen (who besides played locally astatine Cal) changed into 1 of the maximum vocal connected Sunday, tweeting "So, the victor of the Tampa/Dallas crippled volition play the 49ers who whitethorn person had TWO days of other rest… Make that marque acquisition to me."

"Two days whitethorn not dependable similar tons to the casual fan. But licence maine pass you astatine the infinitesimal of the play ever hr of healing subjects," helium persevered. "Especially successful the rattling Playoffs!!!!!"

Prior to the playoff growth, other relaxation changed into reputedly a rather immense deal. From 2012-2019, each unmarried Super Bowl subordinate had obtained a archetypal circular bye by means of virtuousness of being a one- oregon two-seed. The last radical to marque it that a ways without a bye turned into the 2012 Baltimore Ravens. But the last years person sificantly bucked that fashion: successful 2020, the Bucs made it to the Super Bowl arsenic the five-seed, and successful 2021 some the Rams and the Bengals made it arsenic four-seeds. Three of the 4 groups gambling connected shorter relaxation closing play gained wrong the divisional spherical — unneurotic with the 49ers, who stunned the pinnacle-seeded Packers successful Lambeau. The Niners person been gambling connected six days' relaxation, portion Green Bay became playing aft 2 weeks off.

Obviously the flip facet to this is Tampa Bay and Dallas had a implicit 2 much days to enactment unneurotic for his oregon her chaotic paper recreation (something Seattle bid Pete Carroll probable would've favored).

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The NFL docket perfectly isn't cleanable and is wholly pushed with the assistance of what TV windows volition marque them the maximum advert dollars — nary longer which slots clasp the good competitory advantage. That's wherefore the 49ers bash not person a bye this week and wherefore Dallas-Tampa Bay is successful the Monday nighttime model — present not due to the fact that the NFL is favoring immoderate unmarried group, nevertheless owed to the information they are favoring thing acold other important to them: money.

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