Sunday night is too much. I love football but goddamn 9 hours is a fucking lot. Then if they got a London game on you're talking 12 hours of football. Kill SNF. Kill London game. And the refs are terrible. Not because they're bad refs but because nobody knows what the fuck pass interference is anymore. They're so busy looking at ticky-tack shit they miss the big stuff. Let the DBs play man. They're already at a tremendous disadvantage. Let 'em breathe.
There's a game every god damn day. It went from two days a week to every other day.
It's simple... Redzone, fantasy football, and cell phone apps keep you connected without sitting thru a whole game... Duh
Exactly.
Yeah exactly.. I am all for the breast cancer awareness movement, but FUCK! I don't need to see that shit for what seems to be all year...
And making bad calls.
1) The penalties for celebrations are stupid. That's what makes it cool. Pretty much no kickoff returns anymore.
2) The fucking London game is stupid, keep your ass on Sunday @ 1. Stop advertising to women, if they like it they like it. Your too fucking preachy for a gladiator sport.
3) Goodell is the main problem. Stick to tradition. They owners are gonna call for his head soon.
I was telling my boys this
How many great white hype QBs are left in the NFL?
It's not as many as it has been and a lot of those dudes are on their way out
These New Jack CACs ain't all that really most of the top young QBs are black
The majority of the viewers and people in the stadiums are white just off sheer population of CACs of this country and they need those golden boy CAC QBs and they don't have them right now
Not to mention the officiating sucks, the running back postion is devalued which really hurts the league more than people realize people love to adore a star running back always have. I refuse to believe their couldn't be more star backs the teams just done give anyone the ball 20 times a game anymore
Can't lay anyone out that's an automatic penalty and fine
And of course they took out all the fun to appease the conservative CACs who spending the big money
Over suspending and penalizing players for bullshit that don't matter like smoking weed
Goodell needs to take the fall for this cuz it's happening under his watch
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Mark Cuban called it 2 years ago.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/10/mar...e?hootPostID=c1aaa859dfa9b331a47919989b37f733
Blame the NFL’s declining ratings on whatever you want: A captivating presidential election, players protesting the nation anthem, too many penalties, etc. There’s no denying this: The NFL’s primetime games have been hard to watch.
This is what happens when you have three primetime slots to fill every week with a finite number of good teams and the desire to showcase different teams throughout the season. We’ve been oversaturated with football — bad football — and we’ve started to tune out. Which is exactly what Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said would happen back in 2014.
Via ESPN.com:
“I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion,” Cuban said two years after the NFL announced an expanded TV package. “I’m just telling you: Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. And they’re getting hoggy.”
“Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I’m just telling you, when you’ve got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That’s rule No. 1 of business.”
“They’re trying to take over every night of TV,” Cuban said. “Initially, it’ll be, ‘Yeah, they’re the biggest-rating thing that there is.’ OK, Thursday, that’s great, regardless of whether it impacts [the NBA] during that period when we cross over. Then if it gets Saturday, now you’re impacting colleges. Now it’s on four days a week.
“It’s all football. At some point, the people get sick of it.”
Based on this year’s ratings, people have gotten sick of it. Of course, people will still watch their favorite team play every week, no matter how bad those games are, but the primetime games — which draw the big advertisers — rely on a national audience that won’t tune in to a bad game between teams they don’t care about.
THANKS TO YOUR TENURE WE NO LONGER KNOW WHAT A 'CATCH' IS ANYMORE YOU STUPID FUCK!!!!!
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*two cents *
its targeted for the very cacs that ain't watching it. they deserve it. love it.
fuck em
youtube highlights take care of my weekly football. Maybe my attention span has really been drastically reduced.
Aside from the league making it more like flag football, another reason is because A LOT of people own these hacked firesticks, Apple TVs, rokus, etc. and are cable cutting. Then when they tune into a game from their device, the network isn't counting that view. My brother, my mom's, my daughters mom, and a lot of my cousins have the firestick with no actual cable and they know ZERO about cpus but they know how to work that streaming device to watch their programs.
Yep
Those same exact CACs who are no longer tuning in is who they were trying to please
Even tho they were still watching anyway
They should make Jerry sell the Cowboys and take over the operations of the NFL
I guarantee you ratings, sales, and everything will be through the ceiling
Nobody is better at that shit
You can't stop talking about an issue that you never talked about.
Thursday night games are whack shouldn't have stepped on NCAA toes plus players are still sore, Monday night more whack this year since Tirico left, dude in the booth with Gruden just doesn't sound right for the NFL. Only a few good running attacks featured, Dallas being the best with Elliot. Redzone makes up for all the mediocrity so you don't have to tune in to the other b.s. Hence the ratings decline and the list goes on. Only good change Goodell has made is moving the extra point back everything else he has dropped the ball including the way he switched the draft to a weeknight in prime time.
Come to think about it. The NUMBER ONE THING that's killing the NFL is one word POLITICS.
Sports is suppose to be an escape from everyday life.
Once it became vogue to have commentators lecture fans on issues *domestic violence, gun violence, and spankings*, that becomes a big turn off for the fans.
Right now, I barely watch ESPN anymore. Only time is during college football, and I do not watch pregames anymore.
10 years ago, you couldn't change my tv from ESPN.
Add that with all the officiating, and then this year's protest. No wonder this is happening.
I highly doubt "overexposure" would matter if the product on the field is good.
Sports is suppose to be an escape from everyday life.
Once it became vogue to have commentators lecture fans on issues *domestic violence, gun violence, and spankings*, that becomes a big turn off for the fans.
Right now, I barely watch ESPN anymore. Only time is during college football, and I do not watch pregames anymore.
10 years ago, you couldn't change my tv from ESPN.
Add that with all the officiating, and then this year's protest. No wonder this is happening.
I highly doubt "overexposure" would matter if the product on the field is good.
Goodell gets paid $40 million per year. Let's see if his pay decreases because of the ratings decrease.
I agree with a lot of these comments, most specifically that the league is whack, and it is. Quarterback play is horrible, they gave all of the advantage to the offense and QB play still sucks. Instant replay sucks, it seems like they replay everything. Then on defense every time there is a big hit you start to anticipate there will be a flag and it usually is. Now you have the taunting and personal foul penalties, 
People liked the NFL because it used to be some 'gladiator' type shit, but. . . .
. . . . . . we're seeing the ill effects of all of that gladiator shit now. NFL trying to avoid a ton of lawsuits from former players. So the rules changes, to some degree, were inevitable.
Some of the other shit you dudes are mentioning is kind of crazy.
The NFL is doing too fucking much.
. . . . . . we're seeing the ill effects of all of that gladiator shit now. NFL trying to avoid a ton of lawsuits from former players. So the rules changes, to some degree, were inevitable.
Some of the other shit you dudes are mentioning is kind of crazy.
The NFL is doing too fucking much.
You covered all of the bases.
Last week I watched ESPN for the first time in ages and I caught an NFL round table discussion on Tony Romo. I cannot remember who the brother on the panel was but he said that Romo should be benched indefinately....and he was laughing and feeling upbeat while he said it. I could see Tim Hasselbeck's eyes swelling up with cac tears while this was going on. He basically sat back and said nothing while the brother called for Romo's head....knowing damn well if this was back in the Vick era he would have been caping for someone like Matt Schaub.
And then the slave master/slave dynamic can really make a comeback huh?
What if someone wants to protest about a social ill?
Man fuck jerry jones
When has the NFL not had that dynamic????
Look at how they run that shit
I been said we need to stop watching if we just being 100 with ourselves but I know I'm not going to do it I enjoy football too much
But the way they run the NFL is foul
Just think, Kap would have been shut down immediately if GloryHole Man was running shit! And how long before personal agendas on players start?
I think he would have his faults and that's one of them but I know for a fact he would run the league better than goodell that was my point
Jerry cares about the bottom line and stopping all the protests would be part of that I agree with you
We been watching the NBA all this time and they stopped anthem protests 20 years ago
Also made a dress code 10 years ago which was very racist
they need more black superstars..
they shouldntve ran mike vick out the league,
and give "black" qbs the same chances you give the "white" ones....
folks getting tired of that blatant racist favortism...
if tony romo was a brother he wouldve been forced into retirement...
they shouldntve ran mike vick out the league,
and give "black" qbs the same chances you give the "white" ones....
folks getting tired of that blatant racist favortism...
if tony romo was a brother he wouldve been forced into retirement...
That's what I don't understand. Years ago, while doing a local sports show, former Ravens owner Art Modell said that back in the day, they were planning to introduce Friday night football but the networks complained that it would conflict with the college games. So they moved it to Monday night.