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Anyone else not a fan of the flexible scheduling for Sunday Night Football starting week ten in which NBC gets to select which one o'clock game to move to primetime.
At first I thought this was a great idea. We are guaranteed to see an intriguing game during prime time every week. This would avoid having those lackluster Green Bay-Baltimore and New England-NY Jet Monday Night games late in the year.
So what is there not to like?
I noticed some other scheduling quirks the NFL has used this year that I assume is a direct result of the flexible scheduling.
1.) in the last few weeks of the season when college football is over, there is only one NFL game scheduled on Saturdays. In the past the NFL usually goes with three games on Saturday, 12:30, 5:00, and 8:30 start times. I figured that if NBC, CBS, and ABC were going to go along with the NFL scheduling, then they would want more games to be on Sunday to have a bigger pool of games to choose from. The downside is that we have two less games to watch on Saturday.
2.) starting from week 10 and on, I noticed that ALL of the four o'clock games on Sunday are games in which the home team is on the west coast. Sure, it makes sense that all the games on the west start at 4 (time zone issue), but in the past there have also been great games schedules for 4 o'clock regardless of geographical location. CBS and NFL alternate weeks of being able to show doubleheaders, and usually the 4 o'clock game is a great matchup that everyone wants to see. Now, if we see a great matchup at 4 o'clock it will happen to be just due to the fact that it is occuring on the west coast.
This is once again a result of having all the games at 1 o'clock so that NBC will have a bigger pool of games to choose from for their prime time flex scheduling.
The big downside to this is that most of the games will be happening at 1 o'clock and we will be stuck with watching the same teams over and over for the four o'clock games.
You'll notice that for the first 9 weeks of the season there are still some intriguing matchups scheduled for 4 o'clock regardless of geographical location (because no flex scheduling). For instance.....
New England-Cincy
Denver-Pittsburgh
Dallas-Philly
Dallas-Jacksonville
Jacksonville-Washington
Kansas City-Pittsburgh
Washington-Indy
all these games are 4 o'clock starts and take place on the East Coast, but none of these is after week 9, and why.....because of flex scheduling.
3.) Sunday Ticket Subscribers should be unhappy. THere will be less games to flip through and choose from for the four o'clock games. In fact, there is one week (week 12) when there is ONLY ONE 4 o'clock game (oakland at san diego).
so after thinking about, maybe I'm not such a fan of flex scheduling
At first I thought this was a great idea. We are guaranteed to see an intriguing game during prime time every week. This would avoid having those lackluster Green Bay-Baltimore and New England-NY Jet Monday Night games late in the year.
So what is there not to like?
I noticed some other scheduling quirks the NFL has used this year that I assume is a direct result of the flexible scheduling.
1.) in the last few weeks of the season when college football is over, there is only one NFL game scheduled on Saturdays. In the past the NFL usually goes with three games on Saturday, 12:30, 5:00, and 8:30 start times. I figured that if NBC, CBS, and ABC were going to go along with the NFL scheduling, then they would want more games to be on Sunday to have a bigger pool of games to choose from. The downside is that we have two less games to watch on Saturday.
2.) starting from week 10 and on, I noticed that ALL of the four o'clock games on Sunday are games in which the home team is on the west coast. Sure, it makes sense that all the games on the west start at 4 (time zone issue), but in the past there have also been great games schedules for 4 o'clock regardless of geographical location. CBS and NFL alternate weeks of being able to show doubleheaders, and usually the 4 o'clock game is a great matchup that everyone wants to see. Now, if we see a great matchup at 4 o'clock it will happen to be just due to the fact that it is occuring on the west coast.
This is once again a result of having all the games at 1 o'clock so that NBC will have a bigger pool of games to choose from for their prime time flex scheduling.
The big downside to this is that most of the games will be happening at 1 o'clock and we will be stuck with watching the same teams over and over for the four o'clock games.
You'll notice that for the first 9 weeks of the season there are still some intriguing matchups scheduled for 4 o'clock regardless of geographical location (because no flex scheduling). For instance.....
New England-Cincy
Denver-Pittsburgh
Dallas-Philly
Dallas-Jacksonville
Jacksonville-Washington
Kansas City-Pittsburgh
Washington-Indy
all these games are 4 o'clock starts and take place on the East Coast, but none of these is after week 9, and why.....because of flex scheduling.
3.) Sunday Ticket Subscribers should be unhappy. THere will be less games to flip through and choose from for the four o'clock games. In fact, there is one week (week 12) when there is ONLY ONE 4 o'clock game (oakland at san diego).
so after thinking about, maybe I'm not such a fan of flex scheduling