They may not get called up to prime time but turn on the NFL Network or ESPN anytime and there’s a really really good chance that you will see either the Cowboys, Jets or Eagles.
It’s impossible to deny that the NFC East gets more than it proportionate share of coverage. Nothing new there. If I were a Falcons fan I would be annoyed that my team as good as it is gets very little coverage.
Wait, the Packers who were 15-1 last year only got 1 MNF game? And somehow Chicago got 3?
The Giants, 4-1 in the SB, including winning the most recent one, only got one as well.
MNF isn’t the league’s premier prime-time game any longer; Sunday Night Football (on NBC) is. The Packers appeared on SNF three times this season; the Bears appeared once.
(Edit: and the Giants have been on NBC three times, as well, if you include the Thursday night game to open the season.)
Thanks. Never thought about that. IMO Sunday night nfl has the best call guy and analyst doing football right now.
I know a lot of fans love Heckert, but I’m not one of them. He has continued the trend of sucky QBs. If Lombardi isn’t enough to make you give up, just imagine when they hire Josh McDaniels to replace Shurmur.
Josh McDaniels worries me less than Lombardi by an order of magnitude. He’s a young, smart, ambitious head coach that was given too much control and too many responsibilities on his first job. He could learn and bounce back. Lombardi is a career kiss ass yes man who’s never actually done anything notable that’s good and almost certainly never will.
SNF has the particular advantage that the networks can fairly easily get the good game that had been at 1pm swapped with a rather obvious stinker that had been scheduled for SNF. Not sure if they are still doing that, but they were in the late part of the season a few years back. Seems to me, also, that SNF is an hour or so earlier than most weekday games, making it slightly less painful for the easterners.
Their kickoff is at about 8:20. MNF and the Thursday night game on the NFL Network both kick off at around 8:35.
Yes, SNF still has the “flex” option for late-season games. It looks like they may have used that option to get out of the doggy SD/NYJ game this Sunday, and are now carrying SF/SEA.
Something not mentioned on wiki is that CBS and FOX are treated equally in flexing to NBC. I don’t remember all the details but part of the SNF deal was that each network would lose the same total number of games to NBC over some number of years. E.g. if Fox lost a bunch in the first couple years, NBC would have to balance it out with CBS games eventually.
In every single instance that I have heard Lombardi speak, he has said at least one completely indefensible, brainless, idiotic thing. Every. Single. Time. I have wondered, on multiple occasions, how this guy has managed to con everyone into thinking he has value or unique insight or cognitive ability in general.
Listening to him on the BS Report for a couple years now, it is comical how he routinely changes his opinions to cater to Simmons. His blue chip feature was completely Simmons’ idea. He’s a complete disaster.
No Thursday game? Keerap! No Monday either? Double crap. Nearing season’s end is trying in many respects.
They used to have a couple of Saturday day games the last 2 weeks of the season, a feature I’ve thought they should expand as the end of the season has extended later. Instead, they seem to have practically done away with it.
I didn’t read the quote in your post at first, and thought you were talking about VINCE Lombardi.
I was like, ‘Man, THAT is harsh.’
On a more modern note, I’m a Georgia fan, and saw Stafford on Saturday night for an entire game for the first time since he went pro.
Is it just me, or is he STILL holding on to the ball a hair too long, then throwing late, flat, and hard, and making life difficult on his receivers? He did that all through his time at Georgia, and I thought they would fix it in the NFL.
I mean, he guns it so it still goes into the passing lane and gets there more or less on time, but good luck catching it. Calvin Johnson has the hands for it, at least…