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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Playing a Thursday game requires that and many teams have to do that including the Broncos who they will be playing.
But the Jets sechedule is flawed and should never have been done by the league.
A night road game.
Followed by an almost cross country road game. Is unreasonable.
If a team is going to play on Thursday night, one of the games should be a home game.
I have no idea. I agree with him that the Sunday/Thursday thing sucks, I just don't have all that much sympathy for them when they could have dealt with this in CBA negotiations. The Thursday games are all about money and, unlike the Monday night games, they leave the players almost no time to recover from one game to the next. However, both the owners and the players chose, once again, to go with money over the health and welfare of the players, so I'm not going to be singing any laments on his behalf.
Playing a Thursday game requires that and many teams have to do that including the Broncos who they will be playing.
But the Jets sechedule is flawed and should never have been done by the league.
A night road game.
Followed by an almost cross country road game. Is unreasonable.
If a team is going to play on Thursday night, one of the games should be a home game.
Meh. I think it is kind of ridiculous. We'd be crying us a river if it was the Pats who had to play on Sunday night, and then again on Thursday night on the other side of the country. You think they would have made sure the Jets played at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Oh well, too bad for them!!
Actually, playing Denver on a Thursday night is about the best break the Jets could have had. What's not to like about playing a QB who throws (literally) a handful of times a game; no real need to game plan your pass defense. And it's not as if their running game is going to be stellar missing their 2 top running backs.
If the Jets don't win this game - easily - they have no one to blame but themselves.
I have already gone over this late Sunday night and early Monday with my brother and friends . . . bottom line the NFL should have done better in this situation, its bad enough that they have Thursday Nights games, which I like btw, but as one is on a short week you do not make prior game a Sunday 8 pm game, which will, and did get over, at 12 AM . . . and now that team has really only one day to get ready, today Tuesday, assuming tomorrow is a travel day . . .
just as the NFL would not schedule a MNF and TNF with the same team, nor should they schedule together a SNF and TNF . . . especially if that SNF team has to travel 1/2 way across this country . . . plain stupid on the part of the NFL . . .
this is issue is not that complicated and I do see why the Jets would be in a uproar, as every game counts in a 16 game regular season. Indeed, I even thought to start a thread on the jets forums to see their thoughts on the matter . . .
to a degree this scheduling "quirk" is not different than what happened to us in 2008, folloiwng our 16-0 season . . . the NFL "scheduled" 3 straight games against us in which the opponent was coming of a TNF game, so we had 3 straight opponents who had 10 days of rest, I complained about that as it was wrong, hopefully that little quirk wont happen again, my thought was that the NFL wanted to stiffened our copetition by given us 3 teams with 10 days of rest . ..
regardless, both situations are little snafus in the schedule and in both cases the fans/teams/players have a right to be angry . . .
It was in 2008, I believe. The Patriots actually had back-to-back road games on the west coast twice that season. On both occasions, they spent the two week period staying out west.Every team has scheduling snafus from time to time. It is the way it happened. Remember about 5 years ago the Pats had back to back West Coast games.
Yes, the Jets don't have the most optimum schedule this week with SNF followed by a Thursday night game, but going into the season people expected the Broncos to suck. Now the Jets have extra time to prepare for a big division rivalry game against Buffalo which may be a crucial game for their Wild Card chances since if the Bill rebound they could be a contender for one of the Wild Card spots. The Bills game is far more important to the Jets than the Broncos' game. Then again at 5-4, they can't afford to lose too many games no matter who the opponent is.
It was in 2008, I believe. The Patriots actually had back-to-back road games on the west coast twice that season. On both occasions, they spent the two week period staying out west.
Huh are you sure about that