I like it the way it is. With teh talent pool so thin stretched across 14 teams, AND using a flex player, we need it so that teams can make adjustments later in the season.

Actually, I'd like to narrow the reserves slightly more, with each team only having one defense. I mean, when your starting defense is out for their bye week, you can just IR them for that week, so you can still have two defenses when you need it, but the way it's set up right now, everyone can sit on defenses all day long and have one on their bench just to deprive others of it.

Anyway, that's my take.

It's a new experience for me being in a league so large and being in a league with a flex player, so yeah. I won my 6 team league last year and came in second in my 12 team league last year, so this sounds like a new kind of format to conquer.

But back to the OP, I vote keep it the same, but destroy a defense bench spot. They can be IR'ed for their bye week, and it allows for people to use FA defenses; look how shallow the talent pool for defenses is now.