There have not been a lot of good football games this year…like at all. The Jets/Bills week 1 stands out (which was more entertaining than actually good football but I’ll count it), Eagles/Commanders a few weeks ago was pretty great but like…I gotta rack my brain to find any real memorable games. There’s been so much bad offense, bad reffing, and just total blowouts it’s hard to even get invested in RedZone some weeks, let alone full games.
And with this kind of play it starts to make the bad stuff less forgivable like the insane amount of commercials and ridiculous reffing that stops what feels like every game at some point dead in its tracks. I’ll never stop paying attention, none of us will, but NFL Sundays are starting to feel less fun and more like an obligation.
I think one reason is the lack of elite QB play. Elite QBs are what make the league watch-able.
Brady, Brees, Peyton Manning, etc. retired. Now all we have are Mahomes as the sole top-tier guy, Hurts, Burrow and Allen at the 2nd tier, and…well, a dearth of QB talent below.
No. Defense finally caught up to offense, a good thing in my opinion.
It’s abysmal and it’s incredibly difficult to watch
I like turtles.
Yes.
I hate to say it man, but that’s just you getting older. Eventually you’ll either get over it and love football more than you ever did or you’ll just continue to lose interest until you have no idea what’s going on anymore
It’s because of defenses adapting and scheming better and the adopting of the two high safety look
It’s a few things.
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The schedule is terrible as in, we had 6 byes last week but none this week, it makes no sense.
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Alot of divisional matchups have almost back to back games. We just had a broncos chiefs matchup two weeks ago, had their second matchup now (no cliffhangers later), the cowboys and commanders have almost back to back games, and eagles giants too. These divisional matchups need to be AT LEAST 3 games apart, it’s a mess.
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Lastly, primetime games, the most hyped most watched games, have been terrible matchups.
Bad Primetimes so far and this week
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Steelers Titans
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Raiders Lions
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Bears Chargers
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Bucs Bills
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Giants Bills
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Raiders Packers
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Seahawks Giants
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Giants San Fran
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Eagles Bucs
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Browns Steelers
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Saints Panthers
Why are the giants, the biggest fraud playoff team from last year, hyped and on so many primetime games? Why weren’t the rookie QBs on primetime this week? Did they really honk the raiders would be so fun to watch this year or the bucs losing Brady?
I get the overuse of the chiefs and cowboys, but there are so many better options that they are allowed to flex and they haven’t. But the honest truth is, if we aren’t showing the league with our views what we like and don’t like, why would they change it.
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It doesn’t help when the Giants and Raiders have primetime games every other week.
yes, i’ve been zoning out more than ever lately
a few reasons
first of all, there are some teams that have literally all time great, generational players and are being ruined by a combination of awful QB play and/or coaching.
Just look at the Raiders, Steelers (Tomlin is good still), Browns, Jets, Saints, Chargers, Titans, Colts, Patriots, Commanders, Bears, Packers, Falcons, Buccaneers.
Then there are teams that are obviously rebuilding in Carolina and Arizona.
So I’ve just now listed 16 teams. Half the teams in the NFL are god awful, borderline unwatchable due to a clear talent deficit in the most important places for these teams.
Then there’s the Rams and Giants who obviously still have their stars but a bunch of scrubs so they are just a no man’s land team that isn’t really supposed to be good.
And now the Vikings will be joining the teams without a QB as Kirk went down.
Now we’re up to 19 teams that are basically unwatchable due to awful QB or coaching or rebuilding.
So that leaves us with 13 teams (14 teams make the playoffs) that are playing competitive football right now.
Of those teams only a select few are actually competently good and consistent.
Miami, Buffalo, KC, Ravens, Bengals (assuming they keep their form), Philly, SF (assuming they fix their issues post bye week), Cowboys, Seahawks, Lions.
And then there’s both Jacksonville and Houston which are too inconsistent for me to put up there but the Jags seem to be picking their pieces back together and might go on a run.
So 11 total teams are actually “good” teams and Houston is the only intriguing rebuilding team.
It really feels like the NFL is riding on an unbelievable amount of incompetence as of late.
To me the actual product (games) is one piece of the puzzle of why we like the NFL. On field product may or may not be down this year. I do agree that the refs seem more inconsistent than ever before. Whats perfect about the NFL is playing once a week for 17 weeks and the build up/anticipation between games is unlike the other 3 major sports where they don’t have as many days in between games. Its like watching a tv series back in the day before all 12 episodes were released at the same time. The slow burn! As an Eagles fan this week is pretty hype as its Dallas week. The city/suburbs are a buzz with discussion of how the game is going to go down. And there is the cottage industries around the NFL aheam cough cough gambling and fantasy. So while the product itself may be experiencing some bumps, the slow burn for me is the same. And OP is a Giants fan so its night and day following a 2-6 team vs a better team with a real shot to win in the playoffs (so maybe what I’m saying is I have a higher tolerance to the sub par games since my team is currently doing ok).