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Why No Thursday Game This Week? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Leroy Hoard
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SkippaDaFlippa
Footballguy
All Madden documentary on FOX 8pm EST
Deamon
Footballguy
Don't think this is the reason.... no game was scheduled anyways.
I think it's because they don't want to give mini-byes heading into the pivotal week 18 games.
Go DC Yourself
Footballguy
Adding an 18th week made it more difficult to adhere to limiting the number of times teams had a short week to prepare for a game, so held it to 16 Thursdays, like in years past.
With games on Thursdays, Sundays and Mondays, the schedule makers have to allow enough time between games so teams are not at a disadvantage against an opponent that has had more time to prepare and rest. Teams scheduled to play on Thursday nights will not have to play a short week more than once a season.
With games on Thursdays, Sundays and Mondays, the schedule makers have to allow enough time between games so teams are not at a disadvantage against an opponent that has had more time to prepare and rest. Teams scheduled to play on Thursday nights will not have to play a short week more than once a season.
Harry Frogfish
Footballguy
Why not showcase Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville vs North Carolina State (-3 1/2) in the Holiday Bowl?
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Tomorrow at Noon you can watch the 2021 rusher leader on CBS.
That kid will be playing on Thursday nights pretty soon.
This should be great.
That kid will be playing on Thursday nights pretty soon.
This should be great.
Deamon
Footballguy
Ya, isn't it a thing where every team plays TNF one time? (I could be totally wrong here).... so having it 16 times would work perfect
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Hard to say, right? Kareem Hunt was a third rounder, but he had a much longer resume.
He was listed at 195 in high school, and ran a 4.50 as a h.s. Senior. He's around 220 now. I have feeling he's going to have a pretty good RAS - agile, quick, fast, and strong. I don't think I've seen a 3 cone but his shuttle time and vertical were pretty sweet (for the latter I wanna say it was 36.5" or something.) Anyway, I would expect him to do really well at the Combine or Pro Day bc he's an exceptional athlete. Then it just kind of depends if there's a groundswell.
Central has a phenomenal weight training program - Eric Fisher is a guy who filled out in college, gained like 50 pounds. Same thing with the tackle they have now, Bernhard Raimann. 6'7" 305, he was like 250 as a Freshman. He was an exchange student from Austria who only played a year or two of American football before college. KId is gonna be a steal for someone, though he is more on the radar than Nichols so might be a early Day 2 guy.
LN III might be a 4th rounder, or might drop to 6th or 7th. Seems like a pretty solid kid and I don't see anything that will hold him back.
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apalmer
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Makes a lot of sense, also having all the playoff teams going in with the same exact amount of days off.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
wlwiles
Footballguy
At least once, yes. Because there's multiple Thanksgiving day games there was one pair that did it twice (Cowboys and Saints both on Thanksgiving, then vs. each other the following Thursday). But yes the goal is everybody has to do the short week only once.
PantherThunder
Footballguy
Thank goodness there aren't any Thursday, Saturday, extra Monday Tuesday games. It has been brutal keeping up with the COVID ins and outs.
wlwiles
Footballguy
I think it's just because Saturday is New Years Day and that's when the most/biggest college bowl games are. If NYD was on Friday then we'd probably have Saturday NFL.
Dez
Footballguy
So glad we don't have a Thursday game especially being the final week of the year with Fantasy Championships on the line.
Countless times this year because of injury status or the unkown with covid I have played the wrong guys. I have too many times where I played a guy on Thursday dud out then the guy on Sunday comes back and goes off or I sit the guy on Thursday to only find that Friday or Saturday covid news out of nowhere to wreck me.
Sure it is fun to have something to watch if your just a NFL fan but more often then not Thursday games are nothing more than a pain for us in fantasy.
Countless times this year because of injury status or the unkown with covid I have played the wrong guys. I have too many times where I played a guy on Thursday dud out then the guy on Sunday comes back and goes off or I sit the guy on Thursday to only find that Friday or Saturday covid news out of nowhere to wreck me.
Sure it is fun to have something to watch if your just a NFL fan but more often then not Thursday games are nothing more than a pain for us in fantasy.
I agree. I think college bowl games thur/fri/sat are more likely the primary reason. No edge into week 18 is possibly a secondary reason.
Sam Quentin
Footballguy
Because God is merciful
Ted Lange as your Bartender
Footballguy
This week has been wonderful. It’s old school. Line it up at 1PM Sunday and let’s go
candian fantasy guy
Footballguy
32 teams divided by 2 per week = 16 weeks
It's that simple.
It's that simple.
