NFL: Thanksgiving Games

[AUTiger7222]

(12-27-2012 11:38 AM)ATLBound Wrote:  Yea that schedule is fine. You're making it seem like the Monday after that Thursday night game was when the Packers played but it was 2 Mondays after.

For example they played on the 9th (Sunday)

Then they played 4 days later like everybody else did so it wasn't a disadvantage on Thursday, the 13th

Then they played on Monday, the 24th. Not Monday, the 17th. So they gave them an extra bye week. That's 11 days. Basically each team makes up the short time spent playing on Thursdays by getting a "mini bye week"

As far as injuries, where were they in relation to Thursday night games. Players were no more injured this year than in previous years.

As far as being a football fan and wanting to watch all the games, I can only name 2 or 3 TNF games I didn't enjoy and those came at the end of the season.

And the Falcons v Saints game was a bad game to choose. Not everybody enjoys just a offensively oriented game. I love defensive games and other people do as well. The entertainement factor goes both ways.

But a team shouldn't play a Monday game after playing a Thursday game. That gives them an extra day of rest and preparation.

I like defensive games if they are good games played on both sides of the ball. But a lot of the TNF games were low scoring because of terrible offense, not great defense.

Not all division games are good. Most of the time division games end up being 1-sided or just bad altogether.