Week 18
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William and Mary Bowl next week +
Cheetah @ Chiefs +
Goff’s Chance @ Revenge.
Hopefully we get the Flacco Browns vs original Browns called Ravens the following week
Health will be everything for them. Close to full strength (December version), I think they would give Baltimore a good battle.
Flacco beating the Ravens as a Brown would be such a great story on so many levels. I have nothing against the Texans and actually greatly respect what they’re doing BUT they’re standing in the way of a great story so go Browns.
Super playoffs? I’ll take the soup!
(Not a great message board joke. You have to say it.)
I think you're referring to one of the greatest jokes of all time, but replace playoffs with something else. If so, major kudos.
Monday always gets the 4-5. Probably because it causes the least amount of disruption to the schedule/planning/travel.
No. But damn, I've never not gotten great laughs telling that one in person.
Tirico and Collinsworth are calling two games, Noah Eagle and Todd Blackledge are calling the other.
"Per Marchand, NBC's two playoff broadcasting teams will consist of regular Sunday Night Football broadcasters Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth and college football broadcasters Noah Eagle and Todd Blackledge. Tirico and Collinsworth will call two games—one on NBC and one exclusively on Peacock—while Eagle and Blackledge will also be featured on one."
https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/12/12/nbc-unexpectedly-removes-al-michaels-from-nfl-playoff-coverage
I don’t for the life of me understand why the networks that actually call many games every week, CBS and Fox, only get 1.
So, if they stick with that plan, they do Saturday night's game in KC, hop a plane and do Sunday night's game in Detroit
They get the conference championship games and the Super Bowl the next two years.
That’s pretty crazy. Probably go out the next day I guess. Have to wait for the Taylor Swift entourage to clear out.
Or maybe they can monitor viewership on Saturday and if the eight people with Peacock are all asleep they can leave early.
It is a holiday weekend. We cant have 3 games Sat and Sun? Or start Monday at 6pm. 2 east coast teams starting at 815 on Monday, most fanbases wont see the finish.
This is the worst part of the schedule they instituted two years ago.
Obviously the networks don't care if the east coast watchers have 5 hours of sleep because this happens in every sport due to the peak ratings at 9:30pm eastern time. But it is unfortunate. The west coast gets to watch the entire game and the east coast gets to comfortably watch the first half, or the least important part of the game.
It would be unfathomable for them to start the game at 6:30pm so both the east coast and west coast could actually watch the end of the game.
It's particularly bizarre to me that TV behaves this way given that almost two-thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi. Over 3/4s live in the eastern and central time zones, almost one half in just the eastern. Only one in six live in the pacific.
The statistics are clear. And the networks don't care if everyone stays up to watch the end of the game and the leagues don't care either.
They want a maximum amount of viewers and viewership peaks in the country at 9:25pm EST. So they catch the east coast wave an the west coast wave with these start times.
Listening to the Kevin Clark pod, here's an amazing stat.
The Jaguars have one double digit win season since 2008, the Blake Bortles/Myles Jack year.
The Jaguars have one double digit win season since 2008, the Blake Bortles/Myles Jack year.
