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NFL viewership off 11% YOY (2 Viewers)
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Leroy Hoard
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The weekly NFL network highlight films on demand are never more than 15 minutes. They cut out a few boring plays and give different angle replays of most scoring plays. There is an ad & an intro at the beginning of each.
Shoot_Me_Now
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Ball about ready to be snapped on 3rd and long? Cut away to advertise our crappy shows! Come back to a defensive flag and automatic first down. Nice broadcast.
RUSF18
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Closest thing might be the Front Office Football franchise, but I'm not sure when the most recent version was released.
Max Power
Footballguy
Good Article on Deadspin. http://deadspin.com/roger-goodell-no-its-the-fans-who-are-idiots-1788088490
Brings up another interesting point about mishandling of the Brown case and the continued ratings dip.
Brings up another interesting point about mishandling of the Brown case and the continued ratings dip.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Aside from the endless commercials which make the game terrible to watch at times, I think the nature of how the game is played now just isn't exciting. Tons of bubble screens, 2-yard passes, etc. For example, the Cowboys offense is tediously effective, but boring as hell to watch, as they dominate the time of possession with constant short passes and first down runs on 3rd and short. Very few exciting plays per game now, it seems like. I remember it used to be, you could name a handful or two of great games from each NFL season, but it is already week 7 and I cannot think of one nationally televised game we've had that I would call great. The games are just too forgettable now. If not for fantasy football and other gambling, the NFL would be plummeting fast.
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Willie Neslon
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I thought the superbowl rematch opener was a mistake. It wasn't an exciting game the first time. Fans want exciting and new, they don't want to live in the past. Probably the main reason is that it's an election year and this particular election has been dominating everything because of small hands orange guy. Maybe they panic over the low rating and finally give up their silly and archaic opposition to legalized gambling.
jabarony
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Brady Marino
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It's a double-edged sword. On one hand, we all grew up in an era where violent hits made up a lot of our interest in the sport. On the other hand, we now know the effects of those violent hits and so did the NFL, and now the product has become a bit vanilla.
Not watching, but for mostly different reasons.
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Dan Lambskin
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Huh? Those are available everywhereWhen you couldn't get a 3 team 6 point teaser anymore was the turning point for me.
matuski
Footballguy
I would disagree on your evaluation of the QB play in this game. My eyes saw just as much if not more crappy offense relative to great defense.
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Fariq
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We can agree to disagree then. For incompetent quarterback play in a tight game, you can look at the Cards-Jets game from 2012 with Ryan Lindley, Mark Sanchez and Greg McElroy.
jonessed
Footballguy
It was a lot of both. The NFL is heavily slanted to the offense. You aren't going to get a 6-6 tie without a lot of bad offensive play.
Fariq
Footballguy
Yeah, but the PL match would last half the time and have many many fewer commercials
Dan Lambskin
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Dan Lambskin
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That and so many college teams running spreads and OL not knowing how to properly block in a pro style offense
Brady Marino
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Dan Lambskin
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I'd rather watch 3 hours of commercials than a 90 minute soccer game. Sorry your sport is boring
jonessed
Footballguy
One of the announcers pointed out that Seattle has a well compensated QB and defense, but the least paid OL. It definitely shows.
Hu-Tang Clan
Footballguy
Does college football bring any value for the NFL game? QB's that haven't called a play in a huddle or taken a snap from centre. WR's that don't know how to run a route. OL not knowing how to actually block.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
I think we also see a lot of the best, great athletes going into stud edge rusher positions now.
The NFL set up the rules to favor the pass and a generation of athletes has been brought up and trained to defeat them.
We've seen something similar on offense as the best athletes are more and more wide receivers. Look at Ty Montgomery and Randall Cobb, shocker guess what turns out they both are just fine at RB.
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matuski
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That you conjure up Lindley, Sanchez and McElroy regarding a game that involved Palmer and Wilson says it all.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Recap of the game last night:
Al Michaels welcomes you to a raucous crowd, after the fans at home listened to Carrie Underwood sing one of the dumber songs to open a football game that sounds like it was penned by Vanilla Ice after a crack binge. HERE WE GO! Ball is kicked high and deep to a returner who will not return this ball or any ball kicked this night or any other night because the league set the kick-off rules to 'boring'. We now go to 5 minutes of commercials.
ALRIGHT we are back live at University of Phoenix stadium (seriously? your stadium is named after an online college?) and the Cards have the ball. Deep pass to Larry Fitzgerald caught. But hold on, there's a flag. Holding. 1st and 20. Yada yada yada. Punt. Commercial break.
BACK! Seattle ball. Hand-off, hand-off, missed pass, punt. COMMERCIAL BREAK!
Cards ball. Penalty before the snap. Penalty after the snap. More yellow here than a kids pool in August. Halftime coming....HOORAY FOR EVERYTHING! Commercial.
Penalty, punt, commercial, tie.
Al Michaels welcomes you to a raucous crowd, after the fans at home listened to Carrie Underwood sing one of the dumber songs to open a football game that sounds like it was penned by Vanilla Ice after a crack binge. HERE WE GO! Ball is kicked high and deep to a returner who will not return this ball or any ball kicked this night or any other night because the league set the kick-off rules to 'boring'. We now go to 5 minutes of commercials.
ALRIGHT we are back live at University of Phoenix stadium (seriously? your stadium is named after an online college?) and the Cards have the ball. Deep pass to Larry Fitzgerald caught. But hold on, there's a flag. Holding. 1st and 20. Yada yada yada. Punt. Commercial break.
BACK! Seattle ball. Hand-off, hand-off, missed pass, punt. COMMERCIAL BREAK!
Cards ball. Penalty before the snap. Penalty after the snap. More yellow here than a kids pool in August. Halftime coming....HOORAY FOR EVERYTHING! Commercial.
Penalty, punt, commercial, tie.
Brady Marino
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Thunderlips
Footballguy
Boring is as boring does.....but footballs "flow", just in regards to the sport itself, is a bit tedious. Having to supplement all of the breaks in action with the plethora of ads/advertisements is becoming flat out tiring.
I'm fast approaching going on DVRing the game, not going online and just waiting about an hour and a half to start watching it and just eliminating the commercials/breaks....but I think I'd still catch up to the game before it ended.
Willie Neslon
Footballguy
I don't buy the "crappy product" argument. All the people who say the product is crappy watch every minute of every game. If it was so crappy they would watch something else. The reason the ratings are down is a mix of people cutting the cable, the election, crappy primetime matchups to start the season, brady suspension (pats at cards that opening sunday night), manning retirement (denver in opener with no name qb), states shutting down dfs & national anthem protests. There were two debates with 80+ million viewers during primetime nfl games. Sure, they could cut down on the commercials but that'll never happen. Personally, I loved last nights game. It was a defensive war out there. Sherman couldn't walk after the game. 2 of the top 3 defensive metric teams for the week. Crazy OT with missed kicks. Two stops right at the goal line before that. Blocked kicks. Bruce Arians. Pete Carroll. David Johnson. I loved it all. People just want to ##### and moan about everything and anything these days and it's nfl season so mine as well ##### about that. I'll be watching, eating, gambling, drinking and enjoying. Love the extra London game too. Wish they'd have one every week. Go Houston +8.5 tonight. Go Deandre. Go Devante Booker 1st td +1500. Go 4-3 Hou and 8-3 Den for squares. Maybe Chinese, maybe pizza, will let you know. Go Sean Mcdonough. Go Makers. Think about what people are going through in places like Aleppo and in our country we whine about watching football on TV. Not this guy. Not today. Not ever.
The Gator
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jonessed
Footballguy
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/andy-furillo/article110072952.html
While the smartest minds in the nation dig deep into the American psyche for explanations on why 11 percent fewer of us are watching pro football, a couple of agencies in the business of gauging public opinion seem to agree that a huge reason for the NFL’s lost eyeballs is 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
A Rasmussen poll found 32 percent of the population is less likely to watch a game these days as a direct result of the Kaepernick-led, take-a-knee protests that have taken hold around the league. It’s the players’ way of protesting the shooting deaths of a number of African Americans by police officers in frantic incidents across the country the past couple of years.
While the smartest minds in the nation dig deep into the American psyche for explanations on why 11 percent fewer of us are watching pro football, a couple of agencies in the business of gauging public opinion seem to agree that a huge reason for the NFL’s lost eyeballs is 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
A Rasmussen poll found 32 percent of the population is less likely to watch a game these days as a direct result of the Kaepernick-led, take-a-knee protests that have taken hold around the league. It’s the players’ way of protesting the shooting deaths of a number of African Americans by police officers in frantic incidents across the country the past couple of years.
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