I am a Bucs fan and Todd Bowles just cost them their season.Cart coming out, brutal loss for Tampa. They can’t afford to lose both Evans and Godwin and remain a viable threat.
Penalties/game:Every week. It’s a plague in this league now.
They stopped calling penalties on the ChiefsSo what happened from 2020 through 2023 for the drop and subsequent rise back to pre-2020 numbers?
No idea why the modest dip for a few years, but double digit penalties per game over a full schedule reinforces my view that the game is over-legislated, and has been for years.Penalties/game:
2024: 13.0
2023: 11.3
2022: 11.1
2021: 11.7
2020: 11.1
2019: 13.4
2018: 13.4
2017: 13.2
2016: 13.3
So what happened from 2020 through 2023 for the drop and subsequent rise back to pre-2020 numbers?
Pretty sure the uptick this year can be solely attributed to the new "focus" on the illegal formation penalty.Penalties/game:
2024: 13.0
2023: 11.3
2022: 11.1
2021: 11.7
2020: 11.1
2019: 13.4
2018: 13.4
2017: 13.2
2016: 13.3
So what happened from 2020 through 2023 for the drop and subsequent rise back to pre-2020 numbers?
Update:This sounds like a winning answer from Roger Goodell at his annual press conference before the Super Bowl, if he’s even still doing them.
The trend toward moving national games to streaming only platforms is so shortsighted. The only “research” implication I can really think of is how they might compare to other subscription packages like Sunday Ticket which has always seemed way too expensive and, when it was with DirectTV, inaccessible. Otherwise it is really just a pure money grab.
Also, ESPN+ is stupid.
the NFL got what it deserved. To serve up two games like that before we have an easy way to switch between games on streamers is inviting the lesser game to be ignored.
ESPN will claim the game was a chance to “learn” for its looming DTC service
This was exactly my issue. Jumping between the cable feed and the app is awful and it forced me to pick one game or the other, or have the games on on different TV’s.the NFL got what it deserved. To serve up two games like that before we have an easy way to switch between games on streamers is inviting the lesser game to be ignored.