Thursday Night Football - Another Barn Burner

[BleuEyedHawk]

Washington Commanders and Chicago Bears, Commanders lead 3 - 0 at halftime.

Thursday Night Football, let's kick.

 

[Biscanebay12]

Can we just lose the Thursday game.

 

[hawkfan68]

Look who's playing. That should be enough to tell this game would be pathetic.

 

[MyrtleHawk]

Look who's playing. That should be enough to tell this game would be pathetic.

But those sexy new uniforms, that amazing new football team name, Carson Wentz redemption year, etc etc to get everyone excited about that team?

 

[DarkVictory23]

Yeah, don't know why I watched this whole thing (maybe 'cause I pay for Prime and just want to get my money's worth?), but wow this game stunk.

Fields isn't great but his team is doing him no favors. Wentz is almost sad to watch.

 

[Cyrus12]

I watched Halloween 3 season of the witch instead. Shit was scary af.

 

[AROS]

Brady is right. There's just a lot of bad football right now.

 

[Welshers]

It's rigged anyway! Sad!

 

[RiverDog]

Bad football for sure, but still watchable. I participate in a Pick-em league and had taken the Commanders, so it kept my interest.

Justin Fields is horrible, another Bears QB first round bust. I can't remember the last time the Bears had a decent Pro Bowl caliber QB, Jim McMahan maybe? I was a little surprised at Rivera opting to attempt a FG on 4th and 4 from the Bears 30 when it wouldn't even give him a 2 score lead. Is that what analytics was telling him?

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

NFL QB Index, Week 5: Patrick Mahomes rises to No. 1; Geno Smith skyrockets into top 10

www.nfl.com

The great quarterback draft class of 2021 doesn’t look so hot. Trevor and Zach might still be busts along with Fields. Mac Jones can’t stay on the field and Trey Lance is Off of it for the year.

 

[Vesuve]

I could only watch short pieces of the game.

Just not interesting.

 

[Lagartixa]

Sure, the Thursday-night games might create an extra injury risk for the players, and you have to have Amazon Prime to watch them, but at least the actual games are great and really worth watching!

 

[Hawkinaz]

NFL contract with Amazon for TNF runs through 2033 its going to be around a while

 

[The Dirty Dozen Fan]

Al Micheals thinking I signed up for this ?

 

[SmokinHawk]

Thursday games are just the worst football viewing experience. If they happen at all, it should always be following a bye.

 

[BleuEyedHawk]

Thursday games are just the worst football viewing experience. If they happen at all, it should always be following a bye.

I agree with this.

 

[Hockey Guy]

Thursday games are just the worst football viewing experience. If they happen at all, it should always be following a bye.

Exactly this but I'd even go 1 step further & try to make them divisional games.

 

[BleuEyedHawk]

Exactly this but I'd even go 1 step further & try to make them divisional games.

I like your idea not only because of physical proximity (less travel etc) but divisional games usually have more energy.

 

[RiverDog]

Thursday games are just the worst football viewing experience. If they happen at all, it should always be following a bye.

Not practical from a scheduling standpoint. There's only 4-6 teams a week that get a bye, and to match two of them up each and ever Thursday would be extremely problematic to say the least. Besides, they need to conserve the bye weeks for teams that play overseas the previous week.

From a player's standpoint, I don't see there being a huge difference between playing a game on a Thursday vs. a full contact practice. The Cowboys and Lions have been playing a Thursday game for over 50 years, and I've never heard them complaining.

Scheduling only divisional games on a Thursday is a possibility, but I'm not sure what the purpose would be so long as every team has to play an equal number of games on a Thursday.