NFL Week 8

[Cubswin11]

I love seeing older players like Moss still showing their skills. I don't get why TO and Ocho still are out of a job.

Being crazy, a huge distraction and a bad clubhouse guy on the wrong side of 30 all while beating your wife tend to keep guys out of the league.

[cubbyvirus00]

I love seeing older players like Moss still showing their skills. I don't get why TO and Ocho still are out of a job.

Being crazy, a huge distraction and a bad clubhouse guy on the wrong side of 30 all while beating your wife tend to keep guys out of the league.

 

Football-wise I think they're better then most number 2 and 3 wideouts. I think much of the off the field stuff is overblown by the media.

[Careless]

Assuming the same people were picking games for ABC and ESPN, it's a trend that started a few years before ABC stopped airing it.

I don't know if its true or not but I feel like MNF matchups were much better pre-ESPN. For some reason when ESPN got the rights, it seems like Sunday Night Football has been given the higher priority with matchups.

[Cubswin11]

Holy [expletive] what a catch by Michael Floyd

[CubColtPacer]

I don't know if its true or not but I feel like MNF matchups were much better pre-ESPN. For some reason when ESPN got the rights, it seems like Sunday Night Football has been given the higher priority with matchups.

 

That's absolutely true.. For example, when Colts-Patriots was getting huge ratings, in 2005 they were on Monday Night football on ABC. The next year MNF and SNF had switched, and that game was on NBC the next 3 times they played at night on SNF. ESPN has always gotten the lesser priority of matchups whether they were broadcasting SNF or MNF.

[Andy]

I don't know if its true or not but I feel like MNF matchups were much better pre-ESPN. For some reason when ESPN got the rights, it seems like Sunday Night Football has been given the higher priority with matchups.

 

That's absolutely true.. For example, when Colts-Patriots was getting huge ratings, in 2005 they were on Monday Night football on ABC. The next year MNF and SNF had switched, and that game was on NBC the next 3 times they played at night on SNF. ESPN has always gotten the lesser priority of matchups whether they were broadcasting SNF or MNF.

Which is funny because ESPN pays like twice as much for the MNF rights as NBC does for SNF.

[Cubswin11]

Part of it could be that MNF draws viewers in and of itself regardless of the matchup. Since they have to give every team 1 (or is it 2?) primetime games they know they can stick MNF with lesser matchups and the ratings/viewership will still be good.