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Post by Lithfan on Sept 15, 2017 10:40:04 GMT -5
I also wonder if the NFL would even want to go up against a normal Saturday night of college football. Put a matchup like last night's game up against Clemson - Louisville this Saturday and it would probably be destroyed in the ratings. NFL ratings would still vastly out-perform college on a nationwide basis, but Saturday night is typically the worst TV viewing night of the week so the NFL won't go there for an entire season. Thursday night used to have some of the best college match ups of the week, it WAS a premium slot for big games, now it's an after-thought and a filler for mid-major games and power 5 teams playing FCS or bottom of the conference teams. It's a shame because you end up having too many great games being played at the same time. Look at last week, you had Clemson/Auburn, USC/Stanford, Ohio State/Oklahoma and Notre Dame/Georgia all playing in the same Saturday night window. That fucking sucks. Without Thursday night college football is forced to play everything on a Saturday, and you only have two decent viewing windows, 3;30 and 8pm. I despise the NFL for forcing all this down our throats. Thats what happens when I start posting before my morning coffee. I say stupid shit. College football is not going to beat NFL in the ratings, but the great slate of college games on a typical Saturday night will erode the NFL's ratings. They still do a couple of Saturday night games late in the season between the college regular season and bowl games. I agree completely on the Thursday Night games. Last night the alternative to the NFL game was Boise State - New Mexico -- used to have some nice compelling college matchups on Thursday nights, but not anymore since the NFL took over Thursday night.
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Post by JStokes on Sept 15, 2017 10:49:28 GMT -5
I always thought that the NFL and the NCAA had an informal deal that the NFL would lay off Saturday football until the college season was over and college football would lay off Sunday.
The NCAA is kind of the NFL's minor league so I don't think they really want to damage that product too much.
If they had games on Saturday it would certainly draw away college FB viewers.
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Post by Big L on Sept 15, 2017 11:22:47 GMT -5
Let's talk about the gorilla in the room the NFL doesn't see. The Thursday night NFL product is crap. I think teams just aren't ready to play a game 5 days after the last one, and the product suffers.
I agree with Saturday night - not gonna happen. But if NFL wants another night of games, then move Thursday to Friday at least.
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Post by Big L on Sept 15, 2017 11:23:33 GMT -5
Or always have two Monday night games. Make it two Sunday night games, too.
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Post by Lithfan on Sept 15, 2017 11:25:44 GMT -5
Let's talk about the gorilla in the room the NFL doesn't see. The Thursday night NFL product is crap. I think teams just aren't ready to play a game 5 days after the last one, and the product suffers. I agree with Saturday night - not gonna happen. But if NFL wants another night of games, then move Thursday to Friday at least. Or, if it wouldn't make scheduling too complicated, schedule Thursday night games for teams coming off of their bye weeks.
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Post by tkasper01 on Sept 21, 2017 19:35:48 GMT -5
OMG. This fucking ref crew sucks. 100 penalties with many questionable. Triplette is the guy who blinded the Browns player back in the 90s. Lots a penalties and a 4 hour game. As if this shotshow won't be painful enough.
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Post by bxjetfan on Sept 21, 2017 19:41:44 GMT -5
Or always have two Monday night games. Make it two Sunday night games, too. LOL, I can barely watch the Jets.
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Post by fullblast on Sept 21, 2017 21:45:45 GMT -5
The Niners are awful. Definitely worse than us. Darnold may be staying in Cali.
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Post by maury77 on Sept 22, 2017 5:58:06 GMT -5
The Niners are awful. Definitely worse than us. Darnold may be staying in Cali. This is the thought that keeps me up at night, however: 1) Shanahan is a 1st year coach and they may heat up as the year goes on 2) The 49ers dropped close to 40 points last night. I can't see the Jets offense doing that this season. 3) The 49ers defense has a lot of good young players in Armstead, Solomon Thomas and Reuben Foster. They should get better as the year goes on. We need Hackenberg in there ASAP to guarantee the tank.
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Post by Lithfan on Sept 22, 2017 6:08:37 GMT -5
The Niners are awful. Definitely worse than us. Darnold may be staying in Cali. This is the thought that keeps me up at night, however: 1) Shanahan is a 1st year coach and they may heat up as the year goes on 2) The 49ers dropped close to 40 points last night. I can't see the Jets offense doing that this season. 3) The 49ers defense has a lot of good young players in Armstead, Solomon Thomas and Reuben Foster. They should get better as the year goes on. We need Hackenberg in there ASAP to guarantee the tank. Agree for the most part. But that Niners defense looked absolutely putrid all night against an average Rams offense -- maybe a bit better than average because Goff looked really good. Wow, never thought I would say that. Still, to draw conclusions from a Thursday Night game is tough -- although that was about as entertaining as any Thursday Night game that I can remember.
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Post by 2foolish on Sept 22, 2017 7:20:07 GMT -5
Love the Rams old school uni's this year..
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Post by carlton on Sept 22, 2017 8:32:54 GMT -5
Love the Rams old school uni's this year.. Been begging for them to bring these back! They are awesome and their other ones are horrible.
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Post by Paradis on Sept 22, 2017 10:55:52 GMT -5
The Niners are awful. Definitely worse than us. Darnold may be staying in Cali. #classic overreaction... let me know when the jets score 39 in an exciting game. I'll hold my breath while i fondle Darnold's balls
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Post by 2milehighJet on Sept 22, 2017 12:08:13 GMT -5
Love the Rams old school uni's this year.. Been begging for them to bring these back! They are awesome and their other ones are horrible. i always thought the reason we never did old school uni's was we couldn't change the helmets? Rams have the white and blue, then last night yellow and blue? I realize the Titans were gold, so then why dont we get the 86 version? Cheap organization I suppose.
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Post by carlton on Sept 22, 2017 12:32:45 GMT -5
Been begging for them to bring these back! They are awesome and their other ones are horrible. i always thought the reason we never did old school uni's was we couldn't change the helmets? Rams have the white and blue, then last night yellow and blue? I realize the Titans were gold, so then why dont we get the 86 version? Cheap organization I suppose. Great question I have no idea.
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