I like it though the quality sometimes suffers with a lack of preparation time.

I don't think so. With the new regulations from the CBA where they can only wear pads like once a week anyway or something silly like that, there really isn't a ton of things they do different from week to week. The coaches may try and scheme a little different depending on who they are playing, but mmost of the time it is more talk than anything else. You watch most of the teams and they play the ssame from week to week with few changes. They usually make their adjustments during the game.

 

Aslo these guys are professionals, it's not like it really takes them a long time to pick up a change the coaches want them to do. Man to man will always be man to man and zone will always be zone etc.

The quality of games has to suffer when you guarantee all 32 teams will play a Thursday game. Giants/Bears in most years would be 2 marquee teams. You can't predict this stuff in April.

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I'm not a huge fan. I don't see how these guys can prepare to the fullest with such a short week to prepare. I also hate it due to the rash decisions I have to make fantasy wise.

The quality of games has to suffer when you guarantee all 32 teams will play a Thursday game. Giants/Bears in most years would be 2 marquee teams. You can't predict this stuff in April.

 

If it's guaranteed that all 32 teams will play a game, its' most likely to be sure that all the hardcore fans in each city will buy a subscription to the NFL network. Nothing more, nothing less.

If they scheduled them right they could do it. Simply have teams coming off bye weeks play the thur night games or something. Just a suggestion.

I always forget that they are playing on Thursday

I don't think so. With the new regulations from the CBA where they can only wear pads like once a week anyway or something silly like that, there really isn't a ton of things they do different from week to week. The coaches may try and scheme a little different depending on who they are playing, but mmost of the time it is more talk than anything else. You watch most of the teams and they play the ssame from week to week with few changes. They usually make their adjustments during the game.

 

Aslo these guys are professionals, it's not like it really takes them a long time to pick up a change the coaches want them to do. Man to man will always be man to man and zone will always be zone etc.

 

I don't think the quality of play suffers because of lack of preparation time. I think the quality often suffers because of a lack of healing time from the game they played four days earlier.

Thurs games should only be after by week games.

Thurs games stink.

I'm not much of a fan. Thursday nights are for college football. I don't like having to flip back and forth. It should've remained Thursdays and Satudays for college, and Sundays and Mondays for the NFL.

I don't watch many of these, because most of the games aren't worth watching.

I agree with Nees; I've always watched college football on Thursday night. Wings,

Beer, & college football on Thursday seems like a natural fit for me.

Thurs games should only be after by week games.

 

Bye week teams would have a huge advantage the following.

1. Bye week break

2. then 10 day break after Thur. night game til Sunday a week.

They won't do that.

Is this the best decision the NFL has made in a long time??

 

 

I absolutely love having a game in the middle of the week to watch. I used to always hate having to wait the entire week until we got more football.

 

What does everyone think?

 

Agree 100%