The Good news about Thursday Night Football this year

[insaniti]

At least the games aren't keeping us up late into the night when most of us have to work in the morning. We can head to bed by halftime and know we didn't miss anything at all. Another close one last night, Green Bay 42 Minnesota 10. So glad we have Thursday Night Football.

 

[Yinzerlyn]

No kidding. I turned the game on as the second quarter began, and turned it off as it ended. What a shitfest.

 

[Wingman]

I watched one game, the Pittsburgh game, and it was a **** fest. Since then DVD movies go in.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

TNF is another terrible move of late by the NFL. I hate it.

I forget where I saw this posted, but it was recently. A study had been done and since 1990 in the NFL (considering Sunday and Monday games), the home team wins 58% of the time (might have been 54%). However, with TNF, the home team wins close to 80% of the time. Think about that.

It's a terrible challenge for the road team to play on Sunday, practice Mon/Tues and only part of Wed and travel on Wed in order to play on Thursday night. The platform is highly skewed in favor of the home team.

 

[Superman]

TNF is another terrible move of late by the NFL. I hate it.

I forget where I saw this posted, but it was recently. A study had been done and since 1990 in the NFL (considering Sunday and Monday games), the home team wins 58% of the time (might have been 54%). However, with TNF, the home team wins close to 80% of the time. Think about that.

It's a terrible challenge for the road team to play on Sunday, practice Mon/Tues and only part of Wed and travel on Wed in order to play on Thursday night. The platform is highly skewed in favor of the home team.

so what you're saying is that there should not be any practices allowed for both teams if they play Sunday, then Thursday?
/Goodell

in all honesty, if they do keep TNF, they need to have the teams play Thursday who had a bye on the previous Sunday.

 

[Stryker]

so what you're saying is that there should not be any practices allowed for both teams if they play Sunday, then Thursday?
/Goodell

in all honesty, if they do keep TNF, they need to have the teams play Thursday who had a bye on the previous Sunday.

That was my exact thought Supe, then I heard Boomer Esiason on the radio answer that question from a player's perspective. He said (and I'm paraphrasing), Players look forward to their bye week. It's a well deserved rest and time to spend with the family. If the bye week is taken, by splitting it up with a TNF game, it would have to be approved by the NFLPA. So for now, we're stuck with the NFL's on field depiction of domestic violence on Thursday Nights....

 

[BAS]

What really hurts is that this year, all TNF games are divisional matchups. So not only are you skewing the results in favor of the home teams, you're also practically granting the home team a divisional win. Not exactly fair practices.

The NFL is using the divisional games as a selling point, but I think the competition committee should be reviewing the results at the end of this season.

 

[Superman]

That was my exact thought Supe, then I heard Boomer Esiason on the radio answer that question from a player's perspective. He said (and I'm paraphrasing), Players look forward to their bye week. It's a well deserved rest and time to spend with the family. If the bye week is taken, by splitting it up with a TNF game, it would have to be approved by the NFLPA. So for now, we're stuck with the NFL's on field depiction of domestic violence on Thursday Nights....

I don't mean losing a bye week.

If a team is on bye, say Oct 12, then their next game is Oct 16 instead of Oct. 19.

 

[JJ_Steel]

reat idea Superman, even if the teams don't practice om the bye week they are rested instead of the present system where they play 2 games in 5 days.

 

[Southern Steeler]

What really hurts is that this year, all TNF games are divisional matchups. So not only are you skewing the results in favor of the home teams, you're also practically granting the home team a divisional win. Not exactly fair practices.

The NFL is using the divisional games as a selling point, but I think the competition committee should be reviewing the results at the end of this season.

Thing is....divisional games usually require less travel.

Imagine a Thursday night game where Miami or Buffalo had to go to Seattle. (Or vice versa)

 

[Drink IRON City]

Thing is....divisional games usually require less travel.

Imagine a Thursday night game where Miami or Buffalo had to go to Seattle. (Or vice versa)

Very good point. I'd like to see the "bye" week situation go into effect. I haven't checked, but are there any teams that play twice on thursday? If so, are they both home / away / 1 & 1 ?


Salute the nation

 

[Stryker]

I don't mean losing a bye week.

If a team is on bye, say Oct 12, then their next game is Oct 16 instead of Oct. 19.

I understand what you meant, it was my same thought as well. When it was asked to Esiason, he had a problem with it from a player's time off perspective. I don't know why he was spun up, I think it makes sense as well, i was just presenting his opinion.

 

[Idioteque]

Grantland just did a study on this and it's not nearly as bad as you think. From the NFL:

Since 2006, the average margin of victory in Thursday games is 13.6 points. In non-Thursday games, 12 points.

Since 1990, Monday Night games have had a higher blowout percentage (a win by 17+ points) than Thursday games, and nobody wants to abolish MNF. So it's not the short week that does it. The big factor this year has been the QB play in the Thursday games. Over the last three weeks, we've seen Josh McCown/Mike Glennon (at Atlanta), Kirk Cousins, and Christian Ponder (at Green Bay). ****** backups usually get blown out.

 

[SteelerFan448]

Grantland just did a study on this and it's not nearly as bad as you think. From the NFL:



Since 1990, Monday Night games have had a higher blowout percentage (a win by 17+ points) than Thursday games, and nobody wants to abolish MNF. So it's not the short week that does it. The big factor this year has been the QB play in the Thursday games. Over the last three weeks, we've seen Josh McCown/Mike Glennon (at Atlanta), Kirk Cousins, and Christian Ponder (at Green Bay). ****** backups usually get blown out.

I'm cool with abolishing all night games.