NFL Week 9 Game Thread
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riboflav said:
That's a good point. It might have something to do with not disturbing the tradition of Friday night high school games in the football states.
How hard would it be to delay the start of TNF until after byes start and then the teams coming off a bye can meet up for TNF? Probably a scheduling nightmare
That's the ticket. Thursday night should always be two divisional rivals coming off byes. (Hell, there's 16 games and 32 teams; they could get rid of the byes entirely and have every team appear once on a Thursday.) Guys would have plenty of rest, injuries might be fewer, and some of the games would be important.
Currently the NFL has 17 weeks (plus playoffs) of dominating ad revenue and ratings. Are you suggesting they take that to 16 weeks so they can have a slightly better product on Thursday nights? A night they already dominate and a night that got the NFL Network carried ubiquitously on cable and satellite TV. That seems unlikely.Pandemonium67 said:
It would still be 17 weeks. Each team plays 16 games and has two 'half byes' instead of a whole bye.
That is right. The reason you get Saturday games the last couple weeks -- or used to -- is that the colleges are shut down by that point.
The Thursday games are a D+/C- product. It is up to the fans to not watch them. I watched Baylor/K State
The Thursday games are a D+/C- product. It is up to the fans to not watch them. I watched Baylor/K State
Pandemonium67 said:
No...your post says:
There's no extra week. Every team plays in 16 straight Thursday to Sunday windows.
Not sure how's that's extra rest. Everyone gets one Sunday to Thursday turnaround, and one Thursday to Sunday "Rest". That "half bye" doesn't add an extra week.
Week 1:
Thurs: NE @ Jets
Sun/Mon: Everyone else
Week 2:
Thurs: NYG @ Philly
Sun/Mon: Everyone else
And on and on...
If that happens for 16 straight weeks, since you said no byes, how are you getting to 17 weeks?
They should play for 8 straight weeks, take a weekend off, then play 8 more. Same bye for everyone. Work with the NCAA to have the off week be rivalry week, with games spread over Saturday and Sunday. Now, they won't do that because it's a loss of a week's revenue, but then there'd be no complaining over bye week timing, etc.
I don´t know if I understood Pandemonium:
Play on 17 Sundays, 16 Thursdays in between (start SUN, end SUN). This way you get the half-bye he mentions.
Week 1: Everyone plays SUN (Jets, Pats off)
Week 2: Jets-Pats THU, everybody else plays SUN (Bengals, Steelers off)
Week 3: Bengals-Steelers THU, everybody else plays SUN (Colts, Texans off)
Week 4: Colts-Texans THU, everybody else plays SUN (Raiders, Chargers off)
Week 5: Raiders-Chargers, everybody else plays SUN (Eagles, Cowboys off)
...and so on.
For example, a team like the Colts in this example play each week on Sunday and have a half-bye in Week 3, but play on Thursday in Week 4, then have the other half-bye in Week 5 and play again in Week 6 on Sunday.
I don´t know if this makes more sense, is more balanced or is better. Obviously, a team that has his half-byes early in this scheduling would have a tougher road than if you get those breaks in Week 8-12. But that could just rotate from year to year.
Play on 17 Sundays, 16 Thursdays in between (start SUN, end SUN). This way you get the half-bye he mentions.
Week 1: Everyone plays SUN (Jets, Pats off)
Week 2: Jets-Pats THU, everybody else plays SUN (Bengals, Steelers off)
Week 3: Bengals-Steelers THU, everybody else plays SUN (Colts, Texans off)
Week 4: Colts-Texans THU, everybody else plays SUN (Raiders, Chargers off)
Week 5: Raiders-Chargers, everybody else plays SUN (Eagles, Cowboys off)
...and so on.
For example, a team like the Colts in this example play each week on Sunday and have a half-bye in Week 3, but play on Thursday in Week 4, then have the other half-bye in Week 5 and play again in Week 6 on Sunday.
I don´t know if this makes more sense, is more balanced or is better. Obviously, a team that has his half-byes early in this scheduling would have a tougher road than if you get those breaks in Week 8-12. But that could just rotate from year to year.
I am glad that the Browns are a dumpster fire and that their defense sucks after being reasonably competent last year. I can't wait until Pettine gets fired. He tried to narc on the Pats last year.
DrewDawg said:
That's just an over-sight. They could still open the season on a Thursday with the defending champs and have 17 Thursdays. Changes nothing.
The problem with this is that the math doesn't work. If you've got 32 NFL teams and 2 teams per week are getting a bye then you need to have 16 weeks of byes to have everyone get one, right? If you skip week 1 that means two teams will have a bye week 17. That makes no sense. You also can't have a bye week 1. And having a week 3 bye is bad enough but including a week 1, 2, 16, or 17 is just screwy. You can double or triple up the byes around Turkey Day and have no byes on other weeks if you want to make it work a little better.
A better proposal I saw is going to an 18 week season and adding a bye for everybody. You would have no byes week 1 and week 18 with 4 teams off each of the 16 weeks in-between (16 x 4 = 64, so the math works). They can switch around who plays on Thursday so you get one real bye and one semi-bye. Not sure what you would do about Turkey Day...screw a few teams over I guess.
This not only improves the quality of play on Thursdays but adds a week to the NFL season ($$$) something they've been pushing for. They can also spin it as pro-player health.
One of our more public posters (KT) pointed out the 18 week, 2 bye thing on twitter a while back. Not my idea.
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Rex Ryan - still a fucking clown.
http://deadspin.com/once-again-rex-ryan-trolled-the-bills-opponents-with-h-1741301629?trending_test_c&utm_expid=66866090-62.H_y_0o51QhmMY_tue7bevQ.3&utm_referrer=http://deadspin.com/?trending_test_c
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Once Again, Rex Ryan Trolled The Bills' Opponents With His Selection Of Captains
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The Buffalo Bills play the Dolphins today in Buffalo. The two climatologically opposite teams have a rivalry, and the Bills are coached by jolly trickster Rex Ryan, so of course he did some pranking. Much like he did two weeks ago against the Dolphins, Ryan made a point of selecting the funniest captains possible, so this time he sent out ex-Dolphins Richie Incognito, Charles Clay, and Dan Carpenter.
http://deadspin.com/once-again-rex-ryan-trolled-the-bills-opponents-with-h-1741301629?trending_test_c&utm_expid=66866090-62.H_y_0o51QhmMY_tue7bevQ.3&utm_referrer=http://deadspin.com/?trending_test_c
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Once Again, Rex Ryan Trolled The Bills' Opponents With His Selection Of Captains
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The Buffalo Bills play the Dolphins today in Buffalo. The two climatologically opposite teams have a rivalry, and the Bills are coached by jolly trickster Rex Ryan, so of course he did some pranking. Much like he did two weeks ago against the Dolphins, Ryan made a point of selecting the funniest captains possible, so this time he sent out ex-Dolphins Richie Incognito, Charles Clay, and Dan Carpenter.
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Dan Campbell with quite the gamble going for a TD 1st and goal at the 2 with only 2 seconds left. Pass incomplete.
