NFL teams should be able to rest players if they want

I hate it when teams rest their starters at the end of the season. It stinks for fantasy football and gives opponents easy wins, thus changing the landscape of the teams to make the playoffs.

However, if a team is good enough to get to a point where they can rest their starters, they certainly should be able to.

NFL commissioner Roger Gooddell plans to take a look at the practice of teams resting their starters, citing the fact that he wants every game to be competitive.

There absolutely should not be any rule in place that tells coaches how to run their team.

Period.

While I understand the desire to make all games competitive, a team should be able to do as it pleases. And if they earned the right to rest players then they should be able to do so.

Why should a team be forced to play certain guys with a possibility of injury at risk.

The Indianapolis Colts rested their starters for much of the game last week against the New York Jets. The Jets won, ending the Colts perfect season.

This game also changed the landscape of the playoffs. Normally, this is a game the Colts would win. They did not and now the Jets play Cincinnati today and a win guarantees them a playoff spot. The Jets may benefit once again as the Bengals are likely to rest their starters.

Teams like Pittsburgh, Miami, Jacksonville, etc are going to have odds against them because of the position the Jets have been put in.

To that I say so what.

Does it stink for those teams that the Jets played against a team who rested its starters last week and will probably play against a team this week who rested its starters?

Absolutely.

But who cares.

If these other teams would have won the games they should have won then they would not be in this position of depending on Jets losses anyway.

What's next? The NFL telling teams they can't make quarterback changes during the season? Sorry Jet's, we don't feel like a rookie QB makes you as competitive, so you have to sit Mark Sanchez and play Kellen Clemmons.

Ridiculous.

Even considering the idea of controlling what coaches do is dumb.

How a coach uses his players is his choice.

Leave it at that.