@UpYourArsenal I don't even think packers fans think about the bears anymore. Especially when they're so tightly contested with the lions and vikings. The bears are going to be basement dwellers for the next 25 years and the worst part is, they won't even be like the jaguars or the browns where they're at least kind of likeable about it.
Packers fans use the Bears as a reminder why we should be thankful for the GB organization. And I remember all the trash talk this offseason. There was this stupid graphic where somebody claimed every part of the Bears offense except the line was better than ever part of GB offense that went viral on Bears pages
I would honestly love a Bears documentary at how AWFUL their QBs have been. A supposedly storied franchise has never had a decent QB. Sure come up with one season where there was a trade or something or go back 70 years. But wtf... how can they NEVER get any good QB?
That was an insane amount of hope the Bears would be good this year even with Caleb and the offensive weapons. It's the Bears, you can't give them the benefit of the doubt
flexing a sunday afternoon game to a sunday night game is fine. flexing out a TNF game for 2 good teams is just a punishment for being good. I don't think any team should play more than 1 TNF game a season
More importantly.. Why is the NFL rewarding its loyal fan base (who buys the tickets, buys the merch, watches all the games) by putting more and more games on what is basically pay-per-view? NFL games should be on CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX free of charge! Stop hurting the fans that have been good to you!
Because large companies are paying more than entire fanbases. True fans will just bite the bullet most times. It becomes a Win for mostly everyone involved.
@@jacobsims8307 I’m not 100% sure on this but people around me said when they bought from seat geek that the event had to be 100% canceled in order to get a full refund. That’s what I’ve been told from people around here that can’t make the commanders game after the schedule change this weekend.
So you book tickets to go see a game at 12:00, fly in saturday, check out sunday morning, flight leaves at 7 pm from the local airport. 6 days before the game, the game is moved to sunday night. As someone who travels to green bay once a year, that would kill all travel plans.
@@stevekuzenski1651 haha seriously. Struggling to see how this individual can’t figure out how their plans can still be accommodated with a late game 🤦♂️
@@umdfan87 if they are flying it can be hard because he would need to take Monday off of work now. depending where you work, some companies require that you need to give them a months notice
You can't just flex games all the time. Teams literally build A routine around their schedule. You can't just change it 24/7, especially for Thursday night games
@@Mocityspirityou think they care more about that or a good product hitting 60 million ppl? This is the league that added games for revenue. Yall have to use context in these discussions
That would make sense in highschool but not as much when your talking about professionals playing for millions of dollars in front of hundreds of millions of people…
flexing games is so annoying for the fans of teams that get moved guess what not every game is going to be elite and worthy of a prime time slot but it is what it is
Don't like when a 4-10 team plays a 10-4 team on primetime. If its a divisional game its fine but when its 2 teams who have no rivalry and one team just kicks the crap out of the other it just sucks.
@@jrcrit8843 in the beginning of the season the Browns and Bengals where suppose to play on Thursday night. then the NFL switched them with the Chargers and Broncos. the NFL has all the power to flex those games
@jrcrit8843 yes but it's also why they should be able to flex any game 1 month in advance. You allow people to buy tickets to any game at beginning of season but add a disclaimer/warning that any game can get moved.
If you think about it, the teams shown were all projected to be good before the season started except for the Vikings but that’s a division game. So they were meant to be good games but turned out bad.
Thankfully, there was not much advertising of the Bears - Seahawks game. I didn't know they played until the day after and apparently, I didn't miss a thing...lol
you can't just flex whatever you want, they aren't "scared" to flex, it's that there's contractual obligations with these networks that pay billions of dollars for broadcast rights to not just have all their best games stripped away every season.... there's often very limited options for what can or can't be flexed, especially when talking about non-Sunday games but it's not surprising that Pat doesn't actually understand how something works, most people don't bother to try learning what they're talking about before complaining
The networks are the problem. Open source the games the way they used to be, public networks and broadcasts not hidden by a streaming paywall. You know less about how things work than McAffee, welcome to real life.
As a Chiefs fan, I don't enjoy prime-time games. Who wants to stay up to watch their team go to OT or win at the last second on Sunday and Monday night when you have to be up at 5am? Not me. I prefer Sunday games tbh.
As a Chiefs fan from LA, move to the West Coast. I gotta wake up at 9 am on Sunday to check my fantasy line up for last minute substitutions, but late games also go no later than 830pm. It's a trade off.
Email the NFL. They purposely got rid of the highest level refs for DEI appointed ones. The prime time games are awarded to the home franchise on rotation. Remember, the NFL makes the schedule for non conference games based off of the previous season's record. The better you were last season, the more teams you'll get with a similar record. Same with being bad. I remember a story several years ago where certain democratic ran cities couldn't get a Thursday or Monday night game because the security would get overwhelming. Plus, the teams have to hire certain awarded contractors for the games as part of their contract with the city/county. These groups are normally Union employees and they have rules as well. It takes a lot of infrastructure to host a night game in a semi-major city. That's why several owners are getting out of downtown areas and out into private sportscomplexes. Pretty much every NFL home game is already sold out, so it isn't about a drastic shift in revenue.
3:14 they were right. I live in KC saw the same signs. Also saw them disappear once Mahomes came. Basically they were willing to boycott bad games but not good ones
Washington deserves prime time, and they've delivered. The pennix thing makes this interesting, both rookies, u never know. But, Daniels will probably pick them apart. Atlanta can't keep up with that offense. Seahawks bears on other hand, omg that was TERRIBLE!!!
Netflix should have never been allowed access. Let's go back to cable where you get one provider for *everything* and *nothing* is allowed to be 'exclusive' to platforms... The 'Pre'Netflix days when the world actually functioned.
I don't want to over react but... The Bears, Giants, and Panthers at very least should not get another prime time game until they have a winning season.
the issue is that the commissioner is more concerned about the team owners pockets and well being rather than the players that put the money in there!!
im going to the vikings game this week and it was originally at 12. IIt got flexed to 3:25 now which is cool but why wouldnt it just be the snf game? is there a better game this week????
@pandahat8670 it might have more playoff implications, but I'd argue that the Vikings vs. Packers game has more meaningful playoff implications. Who ever wins the south is likely out in the wildcard round and it's unlikely that Washington gets lucky enough for Hurts to get hurt again. While if the packers win and the lions win then the lions are the 1 seed and inversely if the Vikings win then it comes down to week 18.
NFL : we’re worried about player safety Also the NFL: Xmas week we have Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday games. Several teams will have 3 games in under 14 days. Quantity does not mean quality.
Flexing Thursday and Monday games is extremely difficult. Flexing a Sunday game to another Sunday time slot is a lot easier on the teams, fans, and networks
Networks don’t want to flex their marquee games out to another network. That’s where the issue is. If Sunday night has a bad game they want to flex out they would have to take a game from FOX or CBS to move in that spot and those networks aren’t going to give up one of their good games for that.
They flexed my Thursday Bengal game to Sunday. I normally books my hotel the day the schedule is announced. I almost lost my money on my room. Lucky I was able to rebook it. Since not a big fan of it.
This is so easy. Because of the scheduling of the physical game lol. There’s law enforcement, vendors, traffic patterns, hotel reservations for fans, teams and crews. Other events scheduled. It’s not that easy lol
Yeah, if they change days of the games it really fucks over ticket holders. I got shafted out of seeing PHI-SEA last year when they moved it to MNF. 😤😤😤
As a packers fan I cannot put into words how happy it makes me to know that the bears are literally so bad and painful to watch that if and when they play in prime time, the conversation the next day is why the NFL didn’t do everything in its power to stop it.
They just need to make NFL Sunday Ticket cheaper. $700 a year is insane. They should make it $20 a month and you get every game. It should be in every household like Netflix.
They should make a new rule. If you haven't scored more than a combination of 20 points by the end of the 3rd quarter, than you should not be allowed to punt. That way it's at least easier for someone to score a touchdown 😂😂😂
The biggest problem is the short week games. It doesn't matter if it's a TNF or the recent Saturday into Christmas games for some teams. Players are banged up and coaches aren't going to change much of their game plan to suit the next opponent. NFL needs to implement a system that gives teams the full week + whatever days until that non Sunday game. I can almost guarantee that Amazon and other streaming sites aren't happy about the bad games either considering what their paying for them.
The networks can't piss fans off more than they did this year with the number of times the Cowboys, 49'ers, and Jets were that national broadcast. Ridiculous that each of those crap teams were on TV 6 times each
The solution to tnf games being garbage is simple. Make them ALL divisional games. Then at least theres something on the line. The teams know each other better. The stakes are higher, etc.
We had to watch Packers/Seahawks instead of Lions/Bills in prime time 2 weeks ago. Unacceptable not to flex games in those circumstances. Bills Lions was the best game of the season so far. Flexing should be a REGULAR occurrence
They didn’t give the Carolina panthers a single prime time game this season, not even a Thursday night game, and as a panthers fan thank god. I didn’t want to watch my team be bad on a national stage (Germany games don’t count lol). They need to have some kid of flexible schedule or just not put the team on prime time at all before the beginning of the season if you think they are going to be that unwatchable.
It's funny that in the era of $50-$60 million per year QB's, field goal kickers and running backs are getting most of the points. Kickers and Running Backs deserve more money. Don't even get me started on O-linemen.
I think most people like the games that don’t end at 11:30pm eastern time. I don’t think many fans care for “prime time” games for there home team. Good matchups with good teams are all fans truly care too watch. I truly prefer the 4:30 pm games the most, and care little to none for the 8:30pm games no matter the matchup.
Love this graphic about Lamars passer rating because Aaron Rodgers is at number 1 8n 2011. It brings a smile to my face because my Giants beat him in the playoffs that year. And as a Giants fan i havent smiled in awhile
I want old school defense with new offense. If a team blows out a shotty defense I love it. If defense has a couple big hits I love it. Just want hits man
Please stop putting the Bears on primetime games, they almost always lay a stinker. They don't deserve acknowledgement anymore. Throw them in the cellar, might actually get McCrapskys to sell finally
I think Seahawks vs Bears was much harder to flex considering the 2 Christmas games, 3 primetime Saturday games, and that you probably aren't moving the Vikings vs Packers game and the 2 primetime games Sunday night and Monday night. The remaining options: Cowboys vs Eagles (Jalen Hurts ruled out) - no Panthers vs Buccs - probably best option Bills vs Jets - potential good game, but might be a blowout Colts vs Giants - NO Raiders vs Saints - NO Titans vs Jaguars - NO Dolphins vs Browns - no (except if Jameis is playing) we have 3 games that are on paper worse overall, 2 games where the QB situation makes a side not as watchable, and 2 games where you could consider over the game that you have already. I think the best solution on paper was to do nothing and hope the game becomes good. It's hard to know when a game is going to be good or not.
I doubt it comes down to corporations caring about the little guys watching. They just realize flexing won't matter because there are so few NFL games people are going to tune into them anyway.
NFL starting to get a bit greedy. Just keep games on Sundays and Monday night. Quit the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday games. They end up as watered down product.
As a bears fan, I think it should be a federal crime to be allowed to put a bears game on television.
I watched the highlights. They didn't show a single punt. I nearly wet myself laughing. The punting was the only highlight. Cheers from Australia.
Well, hang on now -- who's beating you that week?
@UpYourArsenal I don't even think packers fans think about the bears anymore. Especially when they're so tightly contested with the lions and vikings. The bears are going to be basement dwellers for the next 25 years and the worst part is, they won't even be like the jaguars or the browns where they're at least kind of likeable about it.
Packers fans use the Bears as a reminder why we should be thankful for the GB organization. And I remember all the trash talk this offseason. There was this stupid graphic where somebody claimed every part of the Bears offense except the line was better than ever part of GB offense that went viral on Bears pages
I would honestly love a Bears documentary at how AWFUL their QBs have been. A supposedly storied franchise has never had a decent QB. Sure come up with one season where there was a trade or something or go back 70 years. But wtf... how can they NEVER get any good QB?
Fans just want Dallas to stop being on 1/4 of the total primetime games.
ratings dont match that statement
just saying
@@GreenStrokeHillbilly exactly. “America’s team” my ass. 😂😂
Then why do they consistently have the highest ratings 😂
I swear every time I looked I saw the damn Jets on a primetime game too. DISGUSTING
And the Chiefs as well. They’ve had more prime time games that any other team this season.
bears shouldnt have a prime time game ever
That was an insane amount of hope the Bears would be good this year even with Caleb and the offensive weapons.
It's the Bears, you can't give them the benefit of the doubt
At this point the bears shouldn't even be on TV.
As a bears fan I’d have to agree🤣 we are ass🤷🏻♂️
Bears should be on sundays at 1pm until they win an NFC championship game
@@GeorgeLucas1138they should be on Wednesdays at 3 AM 😂
flexing a sunday afternoon game to a sunday night game is fine. flexing out a TNF game for 2 good teams is just a punishment for being good. I don't think any team should play more than 1 TNF game a season
Almost all Thursday games are trash.
@@droppin_sik_beetsOutside of the Seahawks vs Bears, this has been the best season for Thursday Night games.
@@droppin_sik_beetsyou must’ve missed the last few TNF this szn
It goes way deeper with Thursday night. It's not a coincidence the 3 worst games I've watched in the past 10 years all took place on Thursday
True football fans just want a good game; even if it flexes out your team.
Crackstreams baby
Exactly. I’ll take a good game over watching my team.
Literally any game can be a gg
@@codysmith5602 Literally any game can be a gg
I'd rather watch my team,..any given Sunday.
More importantly.. Why is the NFL rewarding its loyal fan base (who buys the tickets, buys the merch, watches all the games) by putting more and more games on what is basically pay-per-view? NFL games should be on CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX free of charge! Stop hurting the fans that have been good to you!
Because large companies are paying more than entire fanbases. True fans will just bite the bullet most times. It becomes a Win for mostly everyone involved.
PREACH
@@cmike123 I just pirate those games
Agreed. The NFL and their teams get way too much help from all levels of government to be adopting a fee-to-see model.
They're still broadcast locally for that. In Seattle at least that's true
I bought tickets to two games I had to miss out on due to schedule changes.
Do you get refunds for that
@@jacobsims8307 I’m not 100% sure on this but people around me said when they bought from seat geek that the event had to be 100% canceled in order to get a full refund. That’s what I’ve been told from people around here that can’t make the commanders game after the schedule change this weekend.
@@jacobsims8307 usually no.
@@jacobsims8307 no you don't unless you can quickly sell the tickets and have insurance on the flights
That sucks man I'm sorry. I go to one game a year (Giants lol)
So you book tickets to go see a game at 12:00, fly in saturday, check out sunday morning, flight leaves at 7 pm from the local airport. 6 days before the game, the game is moved to sunday night. As someone who travels to green bay once a year, that would kill all travel plans.
What an incredibly niche problem in the face of losing millions of television viewers.
@jasonthejesus not really. There are like 70k fans at each game so not completely irrelevant
rich person problems. most people arent flying in/out to see a game
@@stevekuzenski1651 haha seriously. Struggling to see how this individual can’t figure out how their plans can still be accommodated with a late game 🤦♂️
@@umdfan87 if they are flying it can be hard because he would need to take Monday off of work now. depending where you work, some companies require that you need to give them a months notice
I never even turned on the game last night.
Nobody cares
@jonjhon8491
But, here you are replying. 🤣🤣🤣
@@lagodifuoco313damnnnn sat that boy down and sonned him
I don't know how non-Bronco/Charger fans felt about that last TNF game, but it was incredible to watch live. Great primetime football.
But it never happened before and maybe never happens again. TNF is cursed. I still can believe how bad it was.
@@Zarathoustra811there’s been a lot of good TNF games this year
TNF will always suck unless they have a bye before it. There is no time to prepare and recover.
Prove Thursday games suck more than any other timeslot. I want facts.
It’s especially rough if they gotta travel cross country.
@@timkinley1779literally don’t have to just watch the games
@@jamesross29That's what I thought. You were referring to your feelings. And those should be kept in your purse where they belong.
TB at ATL, MIN at LAR, HOU at NYJ, CIN at BAL, PIT at CLE, GB at DET, DEN at LAC
All were good close games this year with a couple insane comebacks
This season I need ABC, NBC, Fox, Amazon prime, Netflix, and NFL network to watch regular season games. Unbelievable.
You can't just flex games all the time. Teams literally build A routine around their schedule. You can't just change it 24/7, especially for Thursday night games
It's almost like pat should realize this as a former player
@@Mocityspirityou think they care more about that or a good product hitting 60 million ppl? This is the league that added games for revenue. Yall have to use context in these discussions
That would make sense in highschool but not as much when your talking about professionals playing for millions of dollars in front of hundreds of millions of people…
fans scheduled, too
@@del0ryan88 no it makes sense for professionals too
Honestly the last 2 weeks should be non scheduled timed games on a TBD for flexing. These could be finalized by week 14 or so.
flexing games is so annoying for the fans of teams that get moved guess what not every game is going to be elite and worthy of a prime time slot but it is what it is
Don't like when a 4-10 team plays a 10-4 team on primetime. If its a divisional game its fine but when its 2 teams who have no rivalry and one team just kicks the crap out of the other it just sucks.
You do know the schedules are made well in-advanced? You can’t point predict the records of these teams by the time they play a primetime game
@@jrcrit8843 thats why flexing should be more prevalent.
@@jrcrit8843 in the beginning of the season the Browns and Bengals where suppose to play on Thursday night. then the NFL switched them with the Chargers and Broncos. the NFL has all the power to flex those games
@jrcrit8843 yes but it's also why they should be able to flex any game 1 month in advance. You allow people to buy tickets to any game at beginning of season but add a disclaimer/warning that any game can get moved.
If you think about it, the teams shown were all projected to be good before the season started except for the Vikings but that’s a division game. So they were meant to be good games but turned out bad.
its simple. they put bad games in primetime slots bc it wont get eyes at a 1pm start. put them at primetime n immediately gets eyes
Ding ding ding
Seahawks and Bears game is a unicorn, both teams lost, first in NFL
Definitely not a first
Australia won.
Thankfully, there was not much advertising of the Bears - Seahawks game. I didn't know they played until the day after and apparently, I didn't miss a thing...lol
“ I’ll be at Best Buy buying a new tv”
😂😂😂😂
you can't just flex whatever you want, they aren't "scared" to flex, it's that there's contractual obligations with these networks that pay billions of dollars for broadcast rights to not just have all their best games stripped away every season.... there's often very limited options for what can or can't be flexed, especially when talking about non-Sunday games
but it's not surprising that Pat doesn't actually understand how something works, most people don't bother to try learning what they're talking about before complaining
The networks are the problem. Open source the games the way they used to be, public networks and broadcasts not hidden by a streaming paywall.
You know less about how things work than McAffee, welcome to real life.
They have billions, they have every right to ruin a beautiful sport and tradition. Shite argument
I ask the same question every year😂😂😂
As a Chiefs fan, I don't enjoy prime-time games. Who wants to stay up to watch their team go to OT or win at the last second on Sunday and Monday night when you have to be up at 5am? Not me. I prefer Sunday games tbh.
As a Chiefs fan from LA, move to the West Coast. I gotta wake up at 9 am on Sunday to check my fantasy line up for last minute substitutions, but late games also go no later than 830pm. It's a trade off.
I don't mind watching a bad/low scoring game but boy is it hard not to fall asleep during the commercial breaks.
Last night was a bag of poop! Not suprised it was a snoozer either!
Garbage primetime games and atrocious refs are making it hard to continue caring about the NFL
Email the NFL. They purposely got rid of the highest level refs for DEI appointed ones. The prime time games are awarded to the home franchise on rotation. Remember, the NFL makes the schedule for non conference games based off of the previous season's record. The better you were last season, the more teams you'll get with a similar record. Same with being bad. I remember a story several years ago where certain democratic ran cities couldn't get a Thursday or Monday night game because the security would get overwhelming. Plus, the teams have to hire certain awarded contractors for the games as part of their contract with the city/county. These groups are normally Union employees and they have rules as well. It takes a lot of infrastructure to host a night game in a semi-major city. That's why several owners are getting out of downtown areas and out into private sportscomplexes. Pretty much every NFL home game is already sold out, so it isn't about a drastic shift in revenue.
I don't want my team flexed INTO prime time. Give me 1pm every week
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3:14 they were right. I live in KC saw the same signs. Also saw them disappear once Mahomes came. Basically they were willing to boycott bad games but not good ones
Washington deserves prime time, and they've delivered.
The pennix thing makes this interesting, both rookies, u never know.
But, Daniels will probably pick them apart. Atlanta can't keep up with that offense.
Seahawks bears on other hand, omg that was TERRIBLE!!!
Netflix did a damn good job. Very impressive for their first games.
Yes they did however they should not have made that sweet lady try to feed cake to Lamar and king Henry. 😂😂
Netflix should have never been allowed access. Let's go back to cable where you get one provider for *everything* and *nothing* is allowed to be 'exclusive' to platforms... The 'Pre'Netflix days when the world actually functioned.
They learned from the Tyson-Paul debacle
I was worried for a while about how they’d be able to do it.
I don't want to over react but... The Bears, Giants, and Panthers at very least should not get another prime time game until they have a winning season.
Patriots too. Basically any team who doesn't have a good QB
the issue is that the commissioner is more concerned about the team owners pockets and well being rather than the players that put the money in there!!
Love the “nice bots” ahahaa
im going to the vikings game this week and it was originally at 12. IIt got flexed to 3:25 now which is cool but why wouldnt it just be the snf game? is there a better game this week????
The SNF game is Washington Atlanta which has more playoff implications but yeah Vikings packers is probably better game
This game should be the sunday night or monday game no doubt.
@pandahat8670 it might have more playoff implications, but I'd argue that the Vikings vs. Packers game has more meaningful playoff implications. Who ever wins the south is likely out in the wildcard round and it's unlikely that Washington gets lucky enough for Hurts to get hurt again. While if the packers win and the lions win then the lions are the 1 seed and inversely if the Vikings win then it comes down to week 18.
@ yeah and if the bucs loose the commanders are already in. But it’s weird with contracts and stuff
They flexed chargers broncos last week and it was a great game
NFL : we’re worried about player safety
Also the NFL: Xmas week we have Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday games. Several teams will have 3 games in under 14 days.
Quantity does not mean quality.
Salute to all your success @The Pat McAfee Show !!!
Flexing Thursday and Monday games is extremely difficult. Flexing a Sunday game to another Sunday time slot is a lot easier on the teams, fans, and networks
Neilson has the capability to measure streaming. I know this as a former Neilson household
Losing records should disqualify teams from prime time.
Isaac Punts seemed to like the Seahawks Bears game.
Networks don’t want to flex their marquee games out to another network. That’s where the issue is. If Sunday night has a bad game they want to flex out they would have to take a game from FOX or CBS to move in that spot and those networks aren’t going to give up one of their good games for that.
As a fan of a bad team I not only don’t think my teams doesn’t deserve a prime time slot but I also would rather not be embarrassed on prime time.
They can only flex SNF. They can’t change schedules on TNF or MNF. Those are stuck in place no matter what. How do former players not know this?🤦♂️
Sunday night and monday night should never be an ass game
People being upset about a guy taking a knee will forever be hilarious.
The nfl used to change games from week to week and adjusted the schedule often
My panthers been in 3 OTs this year winning 2
They flexed my Thursday Bengal game to Sunday. I normally books my hotel the day the schedule is announced. I almost lost my money on my room. Lucky I was able to rebook it. Since not a big fan of it.
This is so easy. Because of the scheduling of the physical game lol. There’s law enforcement, vendors, traffic patterns, hotel reservations for fans, teams and crews. Other events scheduled. It’s not that easy lol
Yeah, if they change days of the games it really fucks over ticket holders. I got shafted out of seeing PHI-SEA last year when they moved it to MNF. 😤😤😤
As a saints fan I would have loved if our MNF game could have been flexed to like a Wednesday afternoon 😭
2:09 what??
he means WWE, not olympic wrestling. i think the WWE has some kind of brand deal for pat to say delusional things about them.
personally am in favor of making Prime-time exclusively bad games, as I am an EST individual and dont care for 8:25pm kickoffs
There’s a reason Thursday Night Football games aren’t flexed, has to do with Prime Video…that’s the NFL and streaming for you!
As a packers fan I cannot put into words how happy it makes me to know that the bears are literally so bad and painful to watch that if and when they play in prime time, the conversation the next day is why the NFL didn’t do everything in its power to stop it.
They just need to make NFL Sunday Ticket cheaper. $700 a year is insane. They should make it $20 a month and you get every game. It should be in every household like Netflix.
They should make a new rule. If you haven't scored more than a combination of 20 points by the end of the 3rd quarter, than you should not be allowed to punt. That way it's at least easier for someone to score a touchdown 😂😂😂
The biggest problem is the short week games. It doesn't matter if it's a TNF or the recent Saturday into Christmas games for some teams. Players are banged up and coaches aren't going to change much of their game plan to suit the next opponent. NFL needs to implement a system that gives teams the full week + whatever days until that non Sunday game. I can almost guarantee that Amazon and other streaming sites aren't happy about the bad games either considering what their paying for them.
You can’t flex TNF bc then some team is having multiple short weeks just bc they’re not dogshit
The networks can't piss fans off more than they did this year with the number of times the Cowboys, 49'ers, and Jets were that national broadcast. Ridiculous that each of those crap teams were on TV 6 times each
NFL should announce the weeks each teams play but not the times. Each week you’ll find out the times each team plays, what games are primetime, etc
Wish they had mandated amount of prime time games in the nba and flexing, small markets get shafted for mediocre big teams all the time.
At the start of the year, Just don’t announce times on the schedule for games beyond week 10.
The solution to tnf games being garbage is simple. Make them ALL divisional games. Then at least theres something on the line. The teams know each other better. The stakes are higher, etc.
TNF flexing is a whole different story. You're suddenly talking about making teams play a whole 3 days earlier than they were preparing for.
There is no reason the packers vs Vikings isnt a prime time game this week. Perfect example
We had to watch Packers/Seahawks instead of Lions/Bills in prime time 2 weeks ago. Unacceptable not to flex games in those circumstances. Bills Lions was the best game of the season so far. Flexing should be a REGULAR occurrence
The Giants needed to be flexed out on every game
Even as a saints fan, I couldn't believe they didn't flex saints/packers game. Terrible for the NFL ratings.
I mean Bucs vs Dallas not being flexed last week blew my mind
They didn’t give the Carolina panthers a single prime time game this season, not even a Thursday night game, and as a panthers fan thank god. I didn’t want to watch my team be bad on a national stage (Germany games don’t count lol). They need to have some kid of flexible schedule or just not put the team on prime time at all before the beginning of the season if you think they are going to be that unwatchable.
bears gotta earn the right to have a primetime game
Imagine they tried to put quality games in thanksgiving every year, instead of just sticking to the same set of teams to please the boomers
Thanksgiving games started in the 1930s. Dallas was added in the 1960s. The third game didn't start until 2006.
It's funny that in the era of $50-$60 million per year QB's, field goal kickers and running backs are getting most of the points. Kickers and Running Backs deserve more money. Don't even get me started on O-linemen.
as a bears fan, please flex us out of primetime 😂
I didn't even know they played 😂😂
Maybe expand the rosters! Players can't recover that quickly
You can't flex Thursday games, though. Each team gets 1 per season.
I think most people like the games that don’t end at 11:30pm eastern time. I don’t think many fans care for “prime time” games for there home team. Good matchups with good teams are all fans truly care too watch. I truly prefer the 4:30 pm games the most, and care little to none for the 8:30pm games no matter the matchup.
I would never go out of my way to watch da bears play football
Can’t flex Thursday night games. Or Xmas games. Only thing they can flex reasonably is Sunday night
I hate the Sunday night game because they're on too late. If the games were a little earlier, like 7pm, it would be fine.
As a Cowboys fan, please continue to flex the Cowboys out of prime time. Jerry and Capboy need to suffer consequences for what they’ve done.
they werent expecting all these teams to be ass this year
The people who bought tickets to go to the game are the ones most affected by the flexing. Sit at home and watch whatever boring game comes on.
I thought that 30-12 Vikings W was awesome to watch
Love this graphic about Lamars passer rating because Aaron Rodgers is at number 1 8n 2011. It brings a smile to my face because my Giants beat him in the playoffs that year. And as a Giants fan i havent smiled in awhile
I want old school defense with new offense. If a team blows out a shotty defense I love it. If defense has a couple big hits I love it. Just want hits man
Please stop putting the Bears on primetime games, they almost always lay a stinker. They don't deserve acknowledgement anymore. Throw them in the cellar, might actually get McCrapskys to sell finally
I never stopped watching........
I turned it off at halftime and said the game should have just ended then... checked the score a couple hours later and it kind of did.
People make plans around this time of year, having your game moved off primetime might just "ruin" your whole trip. Even bad NFL football is good
I think Seahawks vs Bears was much harder to flex considering the 2 Christmas games, 3 primetime Saturday games, and that you probably aren't moving the Vikings vs Packers game and the 2 primetime games Sunday night and Monday night. The remaining options:
Cowboys vs Eagles (Jalen Hurts ruled out) - no
Panthers vs Buccs - probably best option
Bills vs Jets - potential good game, but might be a blowout
Colts vs Giants - NO
Raiders vs Saints - NO
Titans vs Jaguars - NO
Dolphins vs Browns - no (except if Jameis is playing)
we have 3 games that are on paper worse overall, 2 games where the QB situation makes a side not as watchable, and 2 games where you could consider over the game that you have already. I think the best solution on paper was to do nothing and hope the game becomes good. It's hard to know when a game is going to be good or not.
I doubt it comes down to corporations caring about the little guys watching. They just realize flexing won't matter because there are so few NFL games people are going to tune into them anyway.
They are all businesses. If they flex you out of primetime they cut a bonus check for each team. Simple. Everyone is happier
NFL starting to get a bit greedy. Just keep games on Sundays and Monday night. Quit the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday games. They end up as watered down product.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday games get national coverage. Sunday 1p/4p games are regional. Come on, man.
Me pissed off @ 40 finding out the networks could have been shuffling these games all this time smh 😡
Welcome to Roger Gadell’s NFL, where greed supersede quality of games