They absolutely need to build some lines, and their 1st round pick next year should be for the biggest, most hulking, surefire O-lineman in the draft.
Stafford showed some stuff on sunday. Finishing off that game and getting the win with a bad wing showed some toughness and leadership. He clearly does not want to be another Joey Harrington.
What’s that you say? Okung and Pettigrew back together again?
Okung in the first round, Asamoah in the second all defense after that. The Bears better get their shit together.
How come there’s never any chicks in these threads?
If the man-ass couldn’t draw them in I suppose it never will!
I read something interesting on Wiki that seemed to explain why the western divisions are so overrepresented on primetime games. The NFL treats the 49ers and Raiders the same way they treat the Jets and Giants in that they try to never schedule them at the same time since they’re in a single market. (As opposed to Baltimore which has its own market separate from DC.)
Nobody wants to kick off at 10am local time, so what the NFL generally does is move the 49ers/Raiders to one of the primetime slots extra times above what they deserve. From my own observations these tend to be divisional games, which is why the western divisions end up with so many more primetime games than their success would seem to merit.
Certainly makes sense.
LOL.
Yeah.
And I agree with you two about the preponderance of west coast games in primetime. It does make sense. If I lived on the West coast, there’s no way I’d want to watch a football game on Sunday at 10:00am. That’s just too damn early, and wrong somehow.
The NFL has never scheduled West Coast games at the early time slot, to my knowledge. That was true going back to the days of the Rams, Niners, Raiders, Chargers and Broncos (them being all we had out there).
Now you have the Seahawks, Cardinals, Niners, Raiders, Chargers and Broncos. All you would have to do to avoid the issue is simply schedule the Raiders and Niners home on different weekends most of the time, with at most two or three weekends where you bumped them to either the SNF or MNF slots. That wouldn’t be that hard, and certainly would not “overrepresent them.”
Plus, that only affects two out of six teams. So I doubt that’s really the reason.
Having lived in the midwest and the east let me tell you NOTHING rocks like the NFL starting a 10 am. Wake up, take a shower, have some breakfast, if I go out to watch the game indulge in a Bllody Mary (or two) and watch a bevy of early games. If I feel like I have my fix I have all afternoon to do other random crap or impress my wife by not letting football ruin “our” Sunday.
Young 'un, are you? 
(Reference: the Cowboys didn’t start playing on that day until 1966 :p)
I HATED when I went to college back East in Rochester, NY and had to wait 'til 1:00 to watch football, then didn’t get done with football until after 7 pm. Blew the whole Sunday afternoon, it did! :mad:
Man, so all the folks born after 1960 would be Young 'uns? I hope to still be considers a puppy when I’m closing in on my 50th B-day.
You have a bizarre idea of what blows a Sunday. As far as I’m concerned having a Sunday with no football after about 8PM is a waste! What the hell am I supposed to do with the rest of my night.
Oh man does it suck. I’m a night person too so I rarely can get to bed before 6am or so. My average amount of sleep I get before going out to watch the football games is 1.5-2 hours.
Ha! I’m even more of a night person than you (sort of), so I’d almost prefer having the West Coast NFL experience.
Let me explain. My sleep cycle is almost wholly unconnected to the rotation of the Earth along its axis: on a given day, I’m just as likely to wake up at 6PM as 6AM, and only somewhat less likely to wake up at midnight than at noon. So having the games start at 1 doesn’t necessarily help me, since in all likelihood I’ll still either be sleep-deprived at the start of the first game or two hours past my bedtime by the start of the night game. At least if the games started at 10AM, I’d have an excuse to get up early and feel (or be viewed as) somewhat useful and active, and I could more easily hang out with friends after the games if they ended at 8:30 as opposed to 11:30. (My only close friend who watches football moved to Mississippi a few months ago. :()
Just to be clear, the issue is kicking off a home game at 10am, not that your home team shouldn’t play at 10am. Remember last season all the talk about how the Pacific time zone teams were something like 1-8 playing at 1pm on the East coast? That’s not an issue.
The main issue seems to be you don’t want to force fans to have to show up to the stadium and take their seats by 10am. That’s asking too much, and I imagine it would absolutely kill tailgating.
The issue with the 49ers/Raiders is that because they’re in the same market, the NFL doesn’t want to ever have them both at home in the same timeslot. It’s the same basic idea as why the NFL won’t ever broadcast a game opposite your home team’s game on the other network. In a nutshell, don’t ever give the ticket holders a reason to stay home. If your home team sucks and a good game is on at the same time, that’s incentive to stay home and watch the good game instead of heading out to the stadium.
And DSYoungEsq, what six teams do you mean? I count four teams in a division. If 25% of a division’s team gets overrepresented on primetime, that absolutely can make a huge impact on the division as a whole being overrepresented.
Describes me exactly.
It boils down to I don’t care when the games start because there will be multiple weeks out of the year that it’ll be inconvenient for me. Such is life.
The Thanksgiving Day game starts at 12;30. That is nice and early on the west coast.
It is a sellout. I bet there are lots of empty seats though. No shows with season ticket holders.
The Lions are 33-34-2 on Thanksgiving games.
I have it down to a science: My wife and I watch the 1:00 games and 4:00 games (although I can miss a session if life intrudes and they’re not showing games I’m heavily interested in). Sunday and Monday nights, assuming the Giants aren’t playing (or it’s not a huge game like this week’s MNF), I watch the game for a bit, then watch a show with my wife, set the DVR to tape the 4th quarter and we go to bed. Then The Littlest Briston and I watch the end of the game over breakfast.
We get sleep, and still see all the games. Perfect.
I was pissed that the Cards/Vikings game got flexed.
I know that the game wasn’t flexed because of the Cards. It will be a Favre slobberfest. I hope this is the game where Favre has a 5 interception meltdown so I don’t have to listen to the ‘gunslinger’ and ‘for the love of the game’ BS all night.
I have ten hours of work on Monday and Mondays just suck at my job. I’m usually in bed by 8 and asleep by 9 on Sunday night, so I usually miss part of the Sunday night game. The Sunday night game starts at 630 here.
The next week features a Cards Monday night game which I will end up missing most of the first half because I don’t expect to be home from work until late in the first half.
Yeah, I should suck it up and get a DVR. But, outside of a few times a year, I wouldn’t use it. This is the first year the Cards have been a ‘big boy’ team and have several games in prime time.