PFT on Pats not in primetime on week 1

WHY NO PATS IN WEEK ONE PRIME TIME?
Posted by Mike Florio on April 1, 2008, 8:02 a.m.

So we’re listening to Man-Girl & Meatball in the Morning and they’re trying to suggest that the NFL left the New England Patriots off the Week One slate of prime time games because of the lingering questions involving Spygate, I and/or II.

Both of them seem to be convinced that the move was the sole result of the issue that so many in the media seem to be hoping will become a huge story.

While they might be right (after all, there’s a first time for everything), we think that the omission has more to do with the fact that no team can appear in prime time more than six times in a single season. Why burn one of the appearances in Week One, when we’ll all flock to watch a Packers team without Brett Favre play a Vikings teams with Brooks Bollinger, and then we’ll chase it with three hours of Broncos-Raiders?

So there’s simply no reason to waste an appearance in prime time from teams like the Patriots or the Cowboys (the two biggest regular-season draws in 2007) during the first week of the season, when (as we all proved last year) we’d even watch the 49ers and the Cardinals, a game that generated only one real highlight.

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Mosi Moose said:

I watch M&M in the morning, every morning -- and I have to say that "Man-Girl" will come up with ANY reason to try to bash the Pats or try to come up with some controversy against the Pats. It's so ridiculous. When he went to commercial break and said that when he saw the prime time games schedule for week 1 he said he didn't think it was a coincidence that the teams picked were picked -- so during the break I thought to myself "none of the teams that are playing each other really have a storyline -- I'm sure he's going to pull the Pats into this somehow" ---- and low and behold. I'm glad PFT called them out.

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Mosi Moose said:

I watch M&M in the morning, every morning -- and I have to say that "Man-Girl" will come up with ANY reason to try to bash the Pats or try to come up with some controversy against the Pats. It's so ridiculous. When he went to commercial break and said that when he saw the prime time games schedule for week 1 he said he didn't think it was a coincidence that the teams picked were picked -- so during the break I thought to myself "none of the teams that are playing each other really have a storyline -- I'm sure he's going to pull the Pats into this somehow" ---- and low and behold. I'm glad PFT called them out.

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Tommysgirl said:

What does this board have against Mike and Mike. I watched it and he was actually having more of a WTF? attitude about it. They were both saying that it didn't make sense that the team that sets viewing records wouldn't open in primetime. Then they specualted that maybe the NFL wants to take the focus off of them.

Greeney is a Jets fan but he ALWAYS gives the Pats their due. I don't get why thsi board hates them so much. he's allowed to root for a team as much as you and I are.

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