Sunday Night Football Stinks. Here's How to Fix It

For being the marquee time slot for games, Sunday Night Football isn't getting any good games. Jets vs. Raiders. Broncos vs. Vikings. Bears vs. Chargers. How do we get better games on Sunday Night Football via flex scheduling without impacting the other networks (CBS and FOX) in a negative way? There might be a solution.
EDIT: Welp, I made a mistake later in the video with Prohibition by accidentally calling it the Nineteenth instead of the Eighteenth Amendment
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[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

EDIT: Don't know why on earth I said Nineteenth instead of Eighteenth when talking about Prohibition, but thanks to everyone that pointed that out! What happens when you record at 3 AM after watching your team get battered in the World Series

[@koltonfinnegan]

I came here to correct you lol

[@paulframe85]

Backing the Snakes to make a comeback

[@theuriah01]

Just take down, re-record that segment, re-edit, and re-upload 😉

[@johnwiesner9590]

I think that starting with week 5, just like they do in college football, the NFL should not set times for Sunday games until 12 days before. The network that does the doubleheader that week gets to protect one game.

[@big8dog887]

Do that and then automatically feature the game with the two teams with the best combined record, unless that game is either protected, or one of the teams played the week before.

[@thekingbarrelmaker7642]

Finally someone says what needs to be said. SNF quality has deteriorated since the beginning of last season.

[@mrMJexperience]

I think the issue is there are too many primetime games. Too many hands in the cookie jar. ESPN and Amazon games can’t be flexed so those should be good matchups even though we do get bad ones. Fox and CBS protect their good games, leaving scraps for NBC. Also injuries suck in terms of scheduling. In theory the jets were going to be a dream team but are not.

[@americangiant1003]

I don't about the 2023/'24 Jets being a "Dream Team". 😂 If you mean pre season, Gang Green and Aaron Rogers getting the most media is probably what you mean. Also I think with Thursday Night games now being the entire season, it also lessen the available selections for NBC and soon also ESPN/ABC for SNF and MNF games. So in this new TV contract lasting for the next 10 years or so (end of the 2033-'34 season), no doubt CBS and Fox are the big winners here for the next decade or so.

[@simtek3475]

MNF and TNF CAN be flexed now

[@americangiant1003]

@@simtek3475 And the NFL now so desperately trying to make happy it’s cast of thousands TV/Streaming Partners they now have to resort to pimping in expanding the flex schedule to now prime time games several times a year. Fan(if you brought a TNF ticket traveling many miles away as the game is switched to Saturday or Sunday) and or player consideration be damned.

[@Coyotek4]

How can I go about getting a petition going to have NBC preempt Jets-Raiders for all markets outside of New York and Las Vegas in favor of an encore presentation of the classic movie "Heidi"?

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made videos about the following: 1. How CBS gamed the system in Tampa in 1983. 2. Why the NFL didn’t do flex scheduling for Monday Night Football in 2002.

[@natetremblay]

There's another major issue. I've heard that there are new rules that CBS and FOX get one of every Divisional match-up in their respective conference. For example Giants vs Cowboys must be on Fox once a year and that applies to every Divisional game. This means SNF can't flex as many games like Steelers vs Browns because their first game was on MNF that means their second game must be on CBS.

[@HowardSalwasser]

You're right on the new rules regarding divisional games needing to have one game being on their home network. And that rule will stay in place even if TNF and MNF didn't have the same flexing rules.

[@mgb4692]

@@HowardSalwasser Which I guess means that the Hawks/Niners backend, which could be for the NFC West lead, will stay at 4:05 regional instead of being flexed to MNF. Of course being that FOX's early games that day are all garbage (DET/CHI, CAR/NO, LAR/BAL), I expect they'll do a "reverse singleheader" with it acting as a "late early" game and they'll have KB/Olsen there

[@InYourHouse316]

@@mgb4692spot on

[@coreylevine8095]

Someone need explain 2016 Broncos vs Chiefs being on NBC twice i remember NBC once had the AFC rights back in the 80's and 90's that in 2016 is Strange for CBS didn't show Broncos-Chiefs back then

[@YourPalAlRetroGamer]

The thing with the SNF's week 8 matchup between the Bears vs the Chargers is that the Bears didn't deserve to play on SNF when the schedule was released. For the Chargers, yes, they earned it. They were the 5th seed in the AFC playoffs last season before falling flat on their faces in the Wild Card game vs. the Jaguars. For Bears, Heck no! The Bears were had the worst record in the league, they didn't make a huge splash in the following offseason, and they traded the 1st pick in the draft to the Panthers, which became Bryce Young. Remember, they now released the schedule after the draft instead of before it. So why in the H E double hockey sticks did they put the Bears on SNF. That made no sense then and not flexing that game out made no sense now. SNF and MNF games should be for teams are elite and/or have playoff potential. The Bears don't check either boxes, now nor back in May.

[@johnlilly8519]

They also got an MNF game, 2 TNF games, and 2 games at 4:25. Meanwhile actually playoff teams get less

[@americangiant1003]

Retrogamer For the Bears, it is the same reason, why say the Cowboys, Steelers, Packers and both NY/NJ area teams i.e Giants and Jets also always get at least 1 SNF or MNF appearance for the last 50 years or (or in case for Sunday almost 20 years). Even when those legacy brand name clubs are crappy and last places in the divisions. So because they are either in America's largest media markets with the Giants, Jets, 49ers or Bears they will always get widespread exposure. Or in the case of the other 3 mentioned historic clubs from Dallas, Pittsburgh and Green Bay, they all have big national/international fan bases.

[@InYourHouse316]

Yeah the networks all bit HARD on the bears hype. And I’m glad it backfired, making them look incredibly stupid.

[@TheMailmanOfSteel]

How to fix it? Reschedule the trash games to mid Sunday, and don't set the schedule before the season starts. After about week 4 there is no need to have losing teams face off in prime time.

[@ravivaithinathan1222]

I remember when the Thursday Night games only started in Week 8 (can’t remember if it was that week but it was at least mid season). I would start both the Thursday and Sunday night games halfway through and both get to choose one game to flex.

[@Coolthings246]

You also have to have bigger markets mixed with good Teams for viewership.

[@ravivaithinathan1222]

@@Coolthings246 problem is, every network knows this and don’t want to lose it. But with that said, those teams need to play reasonably well too.

[@effend446]

Let's also say the overall quality of play throughout the whole league has truly sucked so far this season.

[@RetroJR3379]

2006 when NBC started doing the flex schedule after week 10 they didnt unveiled the matchup it wasnt preset.

[@notoriouseagle1074]

Just an historical note, of the 11 Brady v Manning games that took place, four of the games were on in primetime, plus an additional two games where neither QB played. All six games were when CBS had the single game.

[@therealuncleowen2588]

I'd say Titans-Jaguars is objectively the best matchup among those you declared completely off the table. Trevor Lawrence against Will Levis is, at least, intriguing.

[@marcwhitlock5450]

I'm so thankful for Bills Bengals this Sunday night

[@lionsfan7500]

Great and informative video and im really glad you made this video. I have always been a huge fan of SNF and ive enjoyed the announcers over the years and for the most part NBC has had some great matchups with some great games and phenomenal endings. Unitil this year it really seems like SNF has really gone down hill, with bad matchups and bad games. I really hope they find a solution sooner rather than later because lately i haven't been waiting all day for Sunday night.

[@simtek3475]

One thing that you didn’t mention. In the newest TV contracts, they made it harder to flex games. Besides adding MNF and TNF flexing, they now made it so CBS/FOX are guaranteed one half of a divisional matchup. Only one can be in primetime, not the other (outside Week 18.) So for instance, NBC cannot have Giants Cowboys because they already had Giants Cowboys in the beginning of the season.

[@scottybbadd]

I had a similar reaction to Bears vs Chargers on Sunday night

[@Mr2000sEraClassics]

Week 12 Sunday Night Football should be Eagles vs Chiefs instead of Vikings vs Broncos

[@Simbaforlife]

Well atleast Eagles and Chiefs is mnf so that’s a win kinda

[@mgb4692]

What you mean you don't see the potential ratings bonanza that is Jaren Hall vs Jarrett Stidham?🤣

[@martincruz8319]

To NBC's defense, the upcoming Jets-Raiders game is the anniversary of the Heidi Game, a game you have featured in other previous matchups (Oakland at Washington from 1975, Buffalo at Oakland, a classic AFL game from 1969, and a couple of others).

[@Thunder103093]

i don't care about the networks & never will, i want the best matchup on SNF & thats the end of it as far as im concerned

[@nelroy78]

I think the No Flex League sacrificed some good SNF games to appease ESPN/ABC

[@nelroy78]

@@user-hs7qf5vv2n which is why they need to dump TNF except for Opening Night and Thanksgiving. It also doesn’t help that are some weeks that six teams are on bye.

[@americangiant1003]

@@user-hs7qf5vv2n Agreed. Instead of a full season Thursday Night game, even giving ESPN/ABC a doubleheader on MNF all season might have made more sense. And TNF should have only been at most 1/2 season starting around Week 8. That is not counting Opening Night and Thanksgiving.

[@ElFuego35]

@@americangiant1003The ONLY reason the TNF package was created was because the NFL Network was struggling to get Cable companies to carry the network, and as a tactic to get companies to pick up the network, signed agreements to air 7 or 8 NFL games a season on NFL Network. Thus the weird situation in the CBS, CBS-NBC, and Fox era where they had to simulcast games on the NFL Network, with the NFL Network having exclusive games some weeks. When Amazon signed for TNF, they didn't want to share with NFLN, but the NFL Network still has that clause in the contract, thus the expansion to Europe, which gives them 3 games, SNF on Christmas eve instead of NBC (NBC gets a Saturday game in exchange), bringing it up to 4, and the annual Saturday Tripleheader during Week 15.

[@sirstewartwallace3917]

The simple solution would be to stop scheduling by market size and instead go by which teams are the best at the moment, as football is a national sport instead of a regional one. Case in point: the Chiefs-Dolphins game this week should have been a Sunday night game in Kansas City instead of being part of the International Series. I'm not sure of what the thinking was here but the NFL must really hate how the biggest game of the week is going to be exclusive to the NFL Network when many fans are asleep or away from home. As for teams having three straight prime time games, it's happened. In 2010, due to a roof collapse and a blizzard in Philadelphia, a Minnesota Vikings team that was well out of playoff contention got three prime time games in a row. The interesting part is that at least two of those games could have been afternoon games.

[@americanidol30]

Because the game is in Germany, it prevents Dolphins WR Tyreke Hill from returning to Kansas City.

[@Thunder103093]

exactly, the teams matter, not the markets or the networks, never will care about those

[@americangiant1003]

While in the NFL does not need market size or so called blue blood teams i.e Cowboys, Giants, Bears, Packers, Jets, 49ers and Packers it should put on the more deserving teams on either SNF or MNF. However due to politics and the old stereotypes of always putting on either the Cowboys (Jerry Jones basically is the real Boss of the league)or the NYC area, LA or Chicago teams at least 1x a year, that is why those teams even as last places clubs get that nod.

[@mgb4692]

Thank Mike Fairy-o for his soyfest the last decade or so about there not being two teams with winning records in a European game. Because when it comes to what's good for the NFL, I automatically make a beeline to Pee-FT

[@coreylevine8095]

Dolphins-Chiefs Playoff game was on Peacock

[@KADoodlez]

Zach Wilson has been pretty good in national televised games this year so far. They beat the bills . They lost vs the chiefs but Wilson played a good game. So ya never know

[@Noctem_pasa]

Yeah the jets primetime games have kind of been fire lowkey

[@btredinnick4747]

In the first 6 weeks, the Giants played 4 primetime games. No team, and I don't care how good they were in the season before or hyped up to be this year, should have to do that. In fact, they played in all the timeslots that you could play in (bar international games) during those 6 weeks. As a Giants fan, who knows that we do struggle in primetime, I found it unbearable to know that the whole world sat and watched us collapse every week. Oh, and I guess I'm sorry for the punt-fest last Sunday. Imagine if that was a primetime game, NBC would never recover.

[@auraofazure]

Given how the ratings have fared this season, the 4:25 national slot has been deemed more important than the SNF game - and it’s hard to argue against CBS and Fox keeping their marquee games, even though there needs to be more of an emphasis on getting quality games on NBC when there’s a mid-off scheduled, and the NBC games are suffering because of it.

[@americangiant1003]

Not to get off topic but all of the late afternoon aka 4:25pm should just start at 430pm et/1pm pt. And from Sept. to early Feb. 60 Minutes on CBS (other than the west coast times slots)just starts at 8pm ET. Just allow NBC, CBS and Fox to air extended post game shows with the post game Coaches Press Conferences and highlights until 8pm.

[@andrewsheehy9938]

The 4:25 PM Slot is the marquee game of the week in the NFL. Most weeks, it's the top rated NFL Broadcast Window.

[@patrickrusso9919]

I can at least potentially see TEN/JAX or SEA/LAR having some interest if Tennessee can put some wins together or if Seattle is in a position to take over the division (or extend their lead) with a win over the Rams.

[@RetroJR3379]

What they could do is what College Football does. After Week 5 dont revealed the time until 10 days

[@johnwiesner9590]

Exactly

[@RetroJR3379]

@johnwiesner9590 Its perfect just protect the one 125PM GOW and unveiled the rest of the time similar how they do after SNF Wk 17 game

[@americangiant1003]

@@RetroJR3379 125pm (Pacific time) you mean? I am on the East Coast and it's 425pm. Plus I endorse the proposal that only after Week 5 with at least 10 days announce to the public the times until week 16. Then announce the kickoff schedule on the Monday Morning aka 6 days before the final weekend of the regular season.

[@RetroJR3379]

@americangiant1003 I meant Pacific since I lived in the west coast lol.

[@tevinsherrill5653]

Great video as always, but I think there's something that people always forget: The NFL and its schedule makers can't predict who will be good/bad year in and year out. They can't predict when a big name player (i.e. Aaron Rodgers) will suffer a devastating injury. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are THE biggest media markets in the country. The NFL doesn't care if their teams are good or not. They're the biggest cities in the country, and the bigger the city (or player) is, that's more revenue for the league. Also, the new flex rules have made it easier for CBS and Fox to protect their marquee games and have made it harder for any network to flex games. Yes, TNF, SNF and even MNF have had their fair share of bad games, but we (the fans) don't work for the NFL. We can't fix this, even if we tried.

[@Thunder103093]

the markets need to be ignored & never matter, good teams should be prioritize

[@notoriouseagle1074]

Boston too

[@justinturley7071]

Dallas, Texas too

[@patrickrusso9919]

But the Bears have been terrible, and the Chargers have underachieved for years

[@americangiant1003]

Tevin add in historic teams with huge national/international fan bases, ie. Cowboys, 49ers, Packers and Steelers for the same reason as the Giants, Jets, Bears and Rams. Technically the Chargers don't count. 😂

[@andykillsu]

Bring back Cris Collinsworth and Al Michaels... They should have NEVER been split up...

[@andykillsu]

@@user-hs7qf5vv2n he’s tired of calling the abomination that is TNF…

[@tommyparkerparker]

If Al Michaels was still doing SNF, you can bet he would have somehow lobbied to flex out the Bears/Chargers game.

[@jonathanlund590]

There's always that certain games are going to have below 500 teams because the schedule was made before hand and you of all people should know that

[@Lankku_]

Is there a website or some place to see which games FOX/CBS protected each week? Would be cool to see each week what they choose.

[@ceddycedchin]

The best way to fix all of this is to get rid of Thursday Night Football. But sadly they'll never do it because they sold out to Amazon.

[@paulframe85]

UK NFL fan here. I watch SNF on gamepass' game in '40 so I'm in favour of all the good games being in the 1 & 4pm windows.

[@stevengrvp]

Probably because jets raiders NBC has history

[@coreylevine8095]

The Hiedi game back in 1968

[@rigeur071]

Hot take…the best thing we got from the Bears-Chargers game was to hear Carrie Underwood sing about “the Bears and the ‘Bolts’” in her opening. Also, I’m thinking scheduling the Jets vs. Raiders for SNF was really to “pit” Aaron Rodgers vs. Davante Adams. That’s weak, but the best I’ve got.

[@Thunder103093]

I remember saying that when i did my schedule reaction stream that that was probably the reason

[@mgb4692]

Well it is also close to the 55th anniversary of the Heidi Game.

[@TheRealfan1]

Great idea with game protections. You should suggest that to NFL with your reasoning you mentioned in this video. There was a time when NBC had a bad game and CBS protected Chiefs @ Broncos (only had single header that week) game when Broncos were undefeated and Chiefs had only 1 loss I believe. They got convinced to let that game to be on NBC.

[@pronkb000]

That was a late game on the single-header network, generally not an important game, schedule-wise. I don't think that would have happened hat CBS had a DH that week.

[@mgb4692]

It was Aaron Rodgers' broken collarbone, that's the only reason. And other way around, was the Chiefs undefeated against the Broncos 8-1 (lost to Indy on SNF in Peyton's return)

[@justinjoseph6966]

While I get the crux of your argument, Jets/Raiders is a classic rivalry between two founding AFL franchises with rabid fan bases that will always get huge ratings regardless of how bad one or both teams are, so I understand not flexing it out.

[@MrTim2031]

My biggest issue with the system is that it is a ‘90s system that is being dragged slowly into the 21st century. Streaming is a thing now and fan bases live all over the country not regionally. Sunday Ticket on KZbin TV is a step in the right direction, as I don’t have to buy antiquated hard ware to get it. But to really get the money’s worth, have the networks produce the games and stream for free. Then as an Eagles fan living in CO, I can watch the eagles and the network can get the advertisement revenue. Maybe get rid of SNF altogether and get more views, especially on the East Coast. The game goes off the air after 10pm on a Sunday. People have to work and more importantly, kids have school so they can’t stay up that late. It’s a Monday, you are sleep deprived for the rest of the week. I think at the core, the issue is that the NFL is focused on getting guaranteed corporate payments as opposed to increasing fan satisfaction, exhibit A: Network contracts; exhibit B: the direct TV 30 year stranglehold on Sunday Ticket; exhibit C: Madden.

[@reidcraig3739]

I may sound a little bit biased as I am a Colts fan, as I stated in my last video that JaguarGator 9 stated about the prime time game problem, but the NFL owes an apology to Indy, Houston, Arizona, and Atlanta for not giving them a prime time game

[@ElFuego35]

When scheduling, the NFL tries to make sure each team gets at least 1 National Appearance. "National Appearance" doesn't just mean Primetime, but means games not airing Sundays at 1:00/4:00/4:25 on Fox/CBS Indy Plays in Germany Week 10. Atlanta Played in England Week 4. That leaves Houston and Arizona as teams with no national appearances... yet (although Arizona has no chance of getting one).

[@americangiant1003]

@@ElFuego35 The NFL need to change the so called "National Prime Time Appearance" meaning to include the 4:25 pm game as well. Most of the time when it's the CBS or Fox "Game of the week" in that late window it's basically a prime Time game for almost everyone in America can see.

[@goldosprey]

Great video. Can i suggest something on Media markets or why the home cities have to show their teams? This is in regards to the Giants Raiders game this week on NYC and Vegas TVs while everyone else gets Eagles Cowboys.

[@Musicradio77Network]

WNBC-TV (channel 4) in NYC has been airing the Jets games for decades back in the 1980’s, WCBS-TV (channel 2) had the Giants games back then, and WABC-TV (channel 7) has been carried “Monday Night Football” for years where it focused on their national teams, except for the Giants and the Jets.

[@mrmoose6619]

This does sound good in theory, but there should also be a proviso that each team gets one TRUE National Game a year. Streaming does not count for this. Maybe we see more 3 vs 4 divisional games each year... maybe the Thanksgiving night game is one of them... or the Lions take on the bottom of the NFC North aside from them yearly. Just my take as a Browns (and therefore non-marquee team) fan who doesn't live in a AFC North territory.

[@Coyotek4]

Honestly, SF-Jax should be flexed to *Thursday* Night Football that week! Both teams are coming off the 'bye', and NO ONE wants to watch Bears-Panthers!

[@chadadams6052]

The fact that the Bears were even scheduled to be on SNF to begin with is absurd, they were the worst team in the league last year and every bit as bad this year,

[@ElFuego35]

If it was after Week 11,when NBC isn't limiting in flexing, then I could see the Bears in primetime as a placeholder... but in Weeks 5-10, when NBC only gets 2 flexes? I think that the NFL was hoping that the Jordan Love Era at Green Bay would've started better, so they could flex MIN-GB into SNF.

[@chadadams6052]

@@ElFuego35 I should just say for those later weeks, they should not have a set game scheduled and NBC should be able to pick whatever game they want that isn't protected by Fox or CBS

[@crater044]

Bears were heavily hyped in the offseason and preseason......they were supposed to be better.

[@michaelreich4827]

No one knew how bad the Giants were going to be this year. They were coming off a playoff appearance and had some "sleeper" talk pre-season.

[@Coolthings246]

If anybody paid close attention they could see a fraud incoming. 3-6-1 in final 10 games (including playoffs) couldn’t do anything vs cowboys and eagles, kept it close with bad teams, lack of star power, injury prone players, etc. still it’s 2 big market teams in the cowboys vs giants. I don’t really understand the bills vs giants scheduling though.

[@MrTim2031]

⁠@@Coolthings246but they had “The Coach of the Year!!!”. Also they treated their best player like trash and extended a mediocre QB. Problem is, they didn’t really have much choice, they built around a RB like a mid-90s team and didn’t have the capital to get a franchise QB. They are a bad team that overachieved last year and then took the fools gold.

[@Simbaforlife]

Hopefully whenever the NFL expands which could be in in 5 years or 10years depending on the tv contracts, this can help solve the issue

[@deadend1041]

It can't be fixed. All of the nuance, defense and all of the "game of inches" was taken out of it in order to increase scoring and excitement. Unfortunately since the global population under age 40 is now declining the talent pool from which to draw those players for the more exciting game is smaller and so you will have teams that are not exciting to watch. Back in the 80s before even the salary cap I could watch a game and enjoy it even when it was lopsided because you could pay attention to the more detailed parts of the game, thats gone. It was like when you just watch the pitcher versus the batter in baseball and it really understand and watch the contest there. In order to fix it you would have to go back to basics take a massive hit for an entire generation in terms of rating share and rebuild from the ground up. It's not going to happen. So the NFL will in coming decades continue to lose market share and while in nominal terms I'm sure revenue will be up as a share of economies it will be down, as it has been down over the last 20 years.

[@CTubeMan]

My idea: Between Weeks 10-17 NBC can flex games every week if they want to. In those weeks CBS and Fox will each have four doubleheader weeks. In those weeks one 4:25 game will be designated as the National game. That game will receive automatic protection. In those weeks CBS and Fox can each use up to two protections for other games. This will count against the five total protections they can use in those weeks.

[@PredatorKingdom]

I'm the same way where I'd prefer watching my teams in the afternoon rather than at night personally. I like some of the ideas, I've heard so far to fix it, but the solution that I've heard so far is the one that college uses where no games have set times 12 days before the game starts. I think that would allow for the 4:25pm and primetime window to get the best games possible and even MNF. They'd probably have to schedule TNF and the overseas morning games. Another solution as well is to get rid of the exclusive game window and make MNF the big game of the week again since that'll be one game. SNF could be a regional window and have 3 games air against each other. Football seems to be at its best when people have different choices of games to watch in the afternoon. Splitting up some of the early games and sending them into primetime would be fun and allow people to not be stuck to one game. ABC would get that big 1 game on Monday nights.

[@eyeofhorus99]

Another point to bring up is you lose games to flex because of the stupid international games. I would rather see the Dolphins-Chiefs game at Arrowhead on Sunday Night Football than their game being played in Germany on a cable network/streaming service i won’t pay for.

[@L_Train]

We got a heck of one coming up this Sunday though

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

I literally took a nap when I saw which teams were playing (I usually don't check the schedule beforehand). I went to sleep thinking "The Chargers are gonna win. No need to even watch this one."

[@andrewmartinyt]

My Sunday will become wide open after the early slate. Any slated marquee game featuring the Jersey teams, Bears or Raiders is worth 0 attention. I wish those teams would be barred from such games until they are CONSISTENTLY good.

[@edrew9975]

They should've flexed the Jags-49ers game to Sunday Night. Two Teams currently among the best in the league. Jags trying to push to 7-2, competing for the Number 1 Seed in the AFC, vs the 49ers, who started off hot, lost the last three, but are trying to pull themselves up after the bye. To top it off, the rumors of throwback uniforms for Alumni Night make it that much better.

[@bonafide9781]

I have a question. Under your system, couldn’t Fox switch Cowboys/Giants with 49ers/Jaguars, so that the former is at 1 and the other as 4? Doesn’t that mean we could be right back where we started?

[@maxbaker5393]

Well this week's game is a rematch of the Damar Hamlin game.

[@michaelreich4827]

Jesus. What's the over/under on the number of stories about him this week?

[@scottybbadd]

JG9, you think NBC is giving up a game involving a New York team. No.

[@Brianavi]

Don’t slander my Jets like that man, they’re the only team that could beat the Eagles

[@chiapets2594]

Many teams can they just get lucky with refsball

[@Brianavi]

Was it the refs that threw 3 picks?

[@Noctem_pasa]

@@Brianavino but it was the refs who gave Jalen hurts a phantom td and AJ brown a fake 25 yard catch

[@KevinT7274]

NBC got a bit unlucky too in that some teams that were expected to be good aren't.

[@KBroly]

The problem with flexing in Jets/Bills or Steelers/Browns is that those games were already on national TV. No one wants to see THE SAME MATCHUP on national TV twice in the regular season.

[@CTubeMan]

I may have my extended idea tomorrow morning, but I’m surprised the national 4:25 game isn’t automatically protected.

[@ravivaithinathan1222]

I think part of the reason is the amount of prime time games each team technically can have per season (I think 5) so you can’t have the best teams in prime time.

[@ryanstrnad8442]

Is it possible within the league agreements to flex a west coast Sunday Night game to 10am local time kickoff? This could be evident if, say a LA Chargers scheduled Sunday night game gets flexed and the LA Rams have a road game being televised in the late afternoon winow.

[@KevinT7274]

NY market, Jets are still in the playoff hunt so that game isn't getting flexed out.

[@yoferpher]

Oh don’t worry about a lack of dumb decisions material for Jets/Raiders. The replacement for McDaniels is just as bad, if not worse (just ask any Arizona State fan)

[@Rockhound6165]

A few years ago I made this claim about Thursday night games.

[@ceddycedchin]

I'm also upset Dolphins-Chiefs in London is on NFL Network this weekend. I refuse to subscribe. Just the beginning of more big games leaving the over-the-air networks & going to Cable/streaming.

[@americangiant1003]

Better than the other big 3 American sports leagues, where most of their playoff games (not counting the World Series, NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Championship) has been on cable for at least 20 years now.

[@ceddycedchin]

I agree. Free TV & elimination of blackouts has made the NFL what it is. The other leagues have suffered. I hope the NFL will be able to stick to this formula.

[@americangiant1003]

@@ceddycedchin Not to get off topic but another thing that has still brought great TV Viewership is this other factor. The legalization of gambling in almost all of the United States.

[@kennethnero2011]

That’s true.

[@adriankendrick4281]

What's the point of Flex schedules if they don't use it

[@seven_donkeys5589]

Yeah, week 8 was a down week for primetime ratings this year. Speaking of, Monday Night Football beat Sunday Night twice in the ratings so far this season, in Weeks 1 (Aaron Rodgers' short-lived Jets debut) and 6 (Cowboys at Chargers). This never happened until this season. It could likely happen again at least once later in the season (Week 11: Eagles at Chiefs).

[@worldsgreatestdude1784]

I’d honestly flex PIT CLE for week 11 SNF

[@marcus813]

The NFL has to be careful about primetime limits per team and the Steelers have a few national windows as it is.

[@sirstewartwallace3917]

Steelers-Browns already played on Monday night earlier this season.

[@williambutler3103]

How about they go back to the old days - no double-header, where both networks have a 1pm and a 4pm (4.25) and no Sunday night game. The double-header came about because the NFL thought there was too much exposure so they cured over exposure with even more televised games. When I lived in DC if the 1pm game ended, the network would go to another game that was close or going to OT but I couldn't see the ending if the Redskins were about to start on the other network. Like I really cared about missing the first 5 minutes of the 1st quarter or heavens forbid, we don't want this guy clicking back and forth between two networks.

[@the6thpackbrewbuck]

Browns Ravens could be Sunday night tbh

[@JavierVelez2007]

Here’s another start: Move every Ravens game to Nickelodeon.

[@Jason_Maier]

Why Nickelodeon?

[@JavierVelez2007]

As a Ravens fan, this is my way to fix SNF and for them to be on national television every Sunday.

[@effend446]

No - Comedy Central

[@luisreyes1963]

🤣🤣🤣

[@chrisguardiano6143]

Even though this is radical, I think the solution for SNF in addition to Fox & CBS being able to protect a 4:25 game is to move it off of NBC entirely & give it back to ESPN or have ESPN split the SNF slate with another broadcaster like Amazon much like what happened from 1990-1997 with ESPN & TNT. Meanwhile Monday Night Football moves to NBC ending 50+ years of being on ABC/ESPN. This way all of the terrible SNF match ups are on cable or on streaming (where the ratings aren't that important) & this helps MNF out as well because it means that they will have a better shot at getting a good game because of the fact that MNF is on over the air TV again (and more people can watch) as opposed to cable. Now in regards to TNF if Amazon ends up splitting SNF with ESPN, those games get moved to NFL Network (the best option) or get offered to a broadcaster that currently does not have the NFL (think Apple TV).

[@TimmyTickle]

The only problem with this is that NBC would have to move arguably their biggest non-sports show (The Voice) to another night (Sunday?)

[@CTubeMan]

Long-term solution for a short-term problem.

[@omarrobles7851]

I remember, NBC got two upcoming Packers game on SNF. Please no.

[@nautgamingnautgaming9949]

That's not the worst part WE HAD to watch packers broncos lol

[@dr.roberts4508]

As season gets longer this situation will happen again and again

[@connorironside6735]

Would that not matter in this situationtho, though, because if they flex that late game to the early window its still the same games too pick from. Making it still making the stipulation that they would have to do the same match up twice or have a team back to back?

[@KevinT7274]

Giants-Cowboys should be a 1:00 game and 49ers-Jags should be the 4:25 national game.

[@embracinglogic1744]

The fact that only a couple games are any good verifies that most NFL teams actually suck!

[@dallasstewart6001]

The primetime schedule in general has been bad this season especially the Thursday night schedule

[@alexe1707]

I would argue the second Window is where the best games are

[@robertjones9595]

Here's how to fix Sunday Night Football don't have all NFC East games

[@RetroJR3379]

2 weeks ago I didnt had a problem if NBC kept Jets/Raiders cause the Jets doing good and the Raiders couldve easily ran the table thier only tough opponents was the Lions. But of course the Raiders had to make the Bears look like the 1985 Bears

[@effend446]

Maybe the league should add another network to broadcast all prime time games - Comedy Central Because the play and coaching of most of these teams have truly been a joke over the last several years.

[@edwardellis3038]

Week 10 could’ve been Browns/Ravens they’re stuck with Vikings vs Broncos.

[@big8dog887]

I'm confused. You're saying that you can only protect a game in the late window, but you can move a game to the late window to protect it. So if CBS moves the 49ers-Jaguars game to the late window, what exactly changes for NBC?

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

It’d be a FOX game. At least a 4:25 game is more nationalized than a 1:00 game, so the goal is to get more people across the country to watch

[@mgb4692]

Niners/Jags is a FOX game. Seeing that this is on the anniversary of "FOX's greatest doubleheader", looks like they're going for the same here (except for the fact that the Giants will probably get week one done again, though there is the hilarity of Leonard Williams playing in the same window as his ex-mates), so probably Joe Davis and Moose like Vikings/Bills last year.

[@KoreanMitch]

Id rather see Seahawks - Rams. At least youd get to see Kupp and Puka.

[@effend446]

Josh McDaniels - 2023 Dumb Decisions Champion

[@justinress2782]

I don’t see a problem here. Why does it always have to be a marquee matchup on Sunday Night? It waters down the other Slates of games.

[@scottybbadd]

JG9, one of the reasons that Josh McDaniels got fired was all of those Dumb Decisions

[@juliuskurtz8143]

Like the 2020 eagles cowboys match up game that was a stinker that game should be flex

[@williamgroves3134]

3:33 There goes your free content.

[@Tubewings]

Prohibition was the 18th amendment. Women's suffrage was the 19th.

[@anthony0358]

I feel there is no answer to this problem. From 1970 to 2005 we had to put up with bad matchups on Monday night. I have no issues with CBS and Fox gaming the system. Also your video did not clarify for me what weeks NBC can start flexing games ? Fox and CBS are already losing games on Thursday night. Back in 1970 it was just Monday night, then in 1987 we started with some Sunday night games. Now Thursday night. One extra game on Thanksgiving. . Based on your potential solution, Fox and CBS and only protect one game during those 9 weeks when they get the doubleheader.

[@MarquisFoxborough2736]

Week 5 is when they can start. Im pretty sure the earliest.

[@anthony0358]

Thank you for the clarity. @@MarquisFoxborough2736

[@thatduderobo1974]

Well at least this coming Sunday night we have Bills vs. Bengals

[@okolo22000]

Leave it to you to find a way to take one last swing at Josh McDaniels after he was fired mid 2nd season (not even the first time mind you.) 😂😂

[@robinhoodhustsle1356]

Monday night football has historically been way worse then Sunday night.

[@franciscodiaz4217]

Raiders and jets draw eyes 👀

[@thegoldfly1]

Yeah but we are getting so many Jets games because of Rodgers, so I say let the NFL eat it. I have no idea why we have so much Raiders though. Maybe if the NFL would stop focusing on teams that don't even have a recent history of success and would start rewarding good teams(instead of stories like Rodgers) they'd make good match-ups again. So my basic solution is start focusing on putting successful teams up again, yeah you'll need to flex sometimes but not every week. Don't say well this team is an interesting story (for 4 snaps) and you won't see it all fall apart and you could try to flex them in. Maybe even one team can't be protected/flexed two weeks in a row to help.

[@XideEagles]

Jags got wrecked. Good thing they didn't flex it