Originally Posted by lcarus:
Looking at this Thursday Night Football schedule and how bad teams generally play in Thursday games...this looks pretty brutal.
Week 2: Giants at Washington Football Team
Week 3: Panthers at Texans
Week 4: Bengals at Jaguars
Week 5: Rams at Seahawks
Week 6: Buccaneers at Eagles
Week 7: Broncos at Browns
Week 8: Packers at Cardinals
Week 9: Jets at Colts
Week 10: Ravens at Dolphins
Week 11: Patriots at Falcons
Week 12: Bills at Saints
Week 13: Cowboys at Saints
Week 14: Steelers at Vikings
Week 15: Chiefs at Chargers
Week 16: 49ers at Titans
Who'd the Saints piss off to get back-to-back Thursday Night games? :-) [Reply]
They scheduled this thinking that these two teams could still draw some attention in week two... boy were they wrong. But i guess someone has to win. [Reply]
The NFL and it’s TV partners trying to drive up ratings with shitty big market teams rarely works.
The Chicago/LA Rams game was down 7% from last year because the Bears are trash.
It’s the freaking NFL… king of TV… just focus on putting competitive teams in the prime time slots… regardless of market size… and they’ll be ratings gold. [Reply]
They should just show an endless loop of Lawrence Taylor breaking Theismann's leg with the running score under it. That would be more entertaining. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Deberg_1990:
It’s generally this way every year. I guess the NFL has decided to not put big matchups on Thursday nights. For competitive reasons i imagine? But people still watch anyways.
When you schedule every team once on Thursday. It makes it hard to have too many marquee matchups. You also are stuck with a lot of shitty teams and it is obvious that the NFL is trying to get those teams scheduled very early in the season. [Reply]
Originally Posted by louie aguiar:
That’s a pretty brutal lineup. Only a few of those games are worth watching.
Won't they change them in the second half of season?
The NFL might have decided to put every team on a national TV game on Thursday night. Then they can feature the best teams on Sunday and Monday night. Teams can't complain as much if they are featured, even if it's Thursday night. [Reply]
