ignatiusjreilly
Footballguy
A couple points of clarification:I've always had Peacock for free (I think it comes w/ my internet service now), they seem to bundle it as a free add-on to a bunch of stuff, but I do see the slippery slope danger here, and like every streaming service I'm sure they'll aggressively raise prices once they have a userbase.
That said, with ESPN potentially releasing a streaming network soon if all the games are on streaming networks while that's annoying, it could eliminate the largest streaming cost (Youtube TV as a replacement for cable). I only keep YTTV at this point for sports and it costs more alone than all the other streaming services combined.
Peacock has a free tier with ads. However, free users will not have access to the playoff game.
We obviously don't know what the ESPN standalone service will be like since it hasn't been released yet, but my understanding is that it will be a way to get the broadcast feed without paying a cable provider. But if you still have cable, your service will remain the same. So if there's an MNF game, you can either watch it through your cable sub or fire up your standalone app and watch it that way.
Of course, they've already shown us that they're willing to put games exclusively on ESPN+, so that's clearly on the table as well