I’m not sure I agree with your police work there. Of course it’s not possible to know for sure if a matchup will be good or bad in April, but they can make some reasonable projections.
I count 30 of 36 teams on the SNF schedule (counting the season opener on Thursday) who made the playoffs in 2021 (83%), vs 18 of 32 playoff teams (56%) on the Amazon TNF schedule. Every single SNF game feature at least one playoff team, 12 feature two playoff teams, none feature no playoff teams. In contrast, TNF has only 6 scheduled games with two playoff teams, and 4 with neither team having been in the playoffs. All of that of course before any flexing. Moreover, SNF has what I will identify as the 4 most desirable teams (Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Brady’s, and the two Super Bowl Teams) a total of 11 times in 18 games (61%) while TNF has them only 4 of 16 games (25%). I suppose I would need to do some more to show that the TNF are worse than the other Sunday day games, so I will modify my claim to say that Michaels had to know he was going to get significantly worse games than he got on SNF (Or MNF when he was at ABC, which got one of the two best games when Al was there). On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 at 9:37 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > The NFL schedule comes out in April and there’s no way to tell which teams > will be good or which matchups will be compelling in mid-October. Thursday > football has never been a good idea and maybe now coaches and players are > adjusting to it. Michaels can’t lobby for better games because nobody knows > what will be a good game when the schedule is drawn up. > > The Dan Snyder story is long and complicated, mostly because the league is > controlled by the owners and they have no interest in institutionalizing > forcing an owner to sell. ESPN has a really long article explaining the > situation and it’s clear that no comment made during a game broadcast can > influence a decision. > > > https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34778123/washington-commanders-owner-dan-snyder-claims-dirt-nfl-owners-roger-goodell > > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 8:14 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No doubt I am overthinking it. But, while bad, I don’t think the games >> have been any worse than they have been in recent years (indeed, while >> inartful, they have at least been competitive), and are just what he should >> have expected them to be. >> >> My hypothesis that he is lobbying to get better games assigned to Amazon >> is an attempt to be charitable to him. If not, I see him less as honestly >> telling it like it is, and more as a rich and entitled asshole who took a >> lot of money to call bad games and then angle to get cheap ratings by >> taking a public dump on the predictably bad teams whose games he had to >> call. >> >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 at 2:42 AM JW <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > So why complain so much when he is only getting what he signed up for? >>> It >>> > makes me suspect Amazon wants him to in order to try to pressure the >>> NFL to >>> > give them better games next year. >>> >>> I suspect you're overthinking it. I'm sure Al knew that he'd be getting >>> lesser matchups on Thursdays; what neither he nor viewers expected was >>> games as awful as the last two Thursday nights. 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