(02-27-2013 03:01 PM)RUScarlets Wrote: (02-27-2013 02:55 PM)stever20 Wrote: TNF from week 1 on a failure? Using what metric? Ratings were solid. Is it because you don't like it infringing on the college Thursday games? It's possible you will see a bit better quality of game this year... Even with that- still had 3-4 really good TNF games last year.
I'm sorry but it was garbage. You had Jacksonville in there. Cleveland (even though they played Baltimore tough), Miami/Buffalo. Tennessee. I'll admit the quality of some games were good despite the disparate talent (still didn't watch most weeks), but that's because teams are on short rest, and I think the heavy underdog relishes the only prime time opportunity they have. So in that regard, it may have led to closer games. But it is bad for player health. They need to make them all division games because the travel day in the middle is ridiculous, and that cuts your flexibility in what teams get slotted there.
Chi/GB- good game
NYG/Car- wouldn't be classified as garbage goign into the year last year
Bal/Cle- dog
stl/Az- dog
Ten/Pit- Ten was 9-7 the year before. Tough to call this a dog entering season.
SF/Sea- good game
TB/Min- dog(but one that when played was a good game)
SD/KC- dog
Ind/Jax- dog
Buf/Mia- dog
Atl/NO- great game
Den/Oak- tough to call dog based on prior year
Cin/Phi- tough to call dog based on prior year
so of the 13 games, 6 dogs, 3 really good games- and then 4 that if you look prior to season you would think good game- but wound up as dog.
Even with what you think:
NFL Network’s expanded schedule of Thursday Night Football broadcasts set rating and viewership records for the network in 2012. Including the audience from over-the-air broadcasts in local markets, Thursday Night Football finished with a record-high per game average audience of 7.3 million viewers in 2012, marking the fourth consecutive year that Thursday Night Football has set an all-time high viewership mark for NFL Network.
For the season, Thursday Night Football on NFL Network averaged a 4.6 US HH rating (including OTA’s), another record for the network. The 4.6 US HH rating represents an 8% increase from the 2011 season. Each week of the 2012 Thursday Night Football schedule, NFL Network’s game telecast was the day’s most-watched program on cable television
I'd say it's hard to say for the NFL it was garbage in any aspect at all...