Week 14 is here and that means only 4 more weeks of regular season football.
Broadcast Maps are up: Week 14, Broadcast Maps
Primetime games are as follow:
TNF: Vikings @ Cardinals
SNF: Patriots @ Texans
MNF: Giants @ Dolphins
Vikings-Cards is the rare good Thursday Night Matchup. Important playoff implications are abound here. Cards can shore up the NFC West title with a win. Vikings are coming off a shellacking at home, but are still in a tight division race with the Packers. I do hope JJ Watt destroys Dreamboat. Giants-Fins is a battle of 5-7 teams, don’t you enjoy the saturation of NFC East prime time games.
As for Sunday, we have a terrible 11:2 early to late afternoon ratio. God damn.
CBS early features Steelers-Bengals in a good portion of the country. I am surprised this is not a 4 PM game considering 1) it features two teams with above .500 records (an increasingly rare thing this season), 2) essentially determines who takes the AFC North, and 3) features the Steelers (one of the leagues favorite teams for over-saturation for national games). Jets-Titans is limited to their core markets. Bills-Eagles is also fairly scant in the coverage. I am surprised at the relative paucity of territories in PA which are broadcasting the Eagles. Chargers-Chiefs is also fairly contained to their core markets, though I do enjoy seeing the ever shrinking geographic sphere of influence the Chargers have in California. Colts-Jags have their natural markets plus Houston. The lone late game is Raiders-Broncos, which like most Raiders games is the FEMA quarantine game with a huge chunk of the West plus randomized blotches east of the Mississippi.
Fox early features Falcons-Panthers in the Northeast, parts of the Southwest, CO and WY and Miami (nearly missed that one). I do not think much has been made of the Falcons collapse as it ought to be. It is rather impressive to start the year 5-0 and be well out of playoff consideration with 4 games to go. [*Redacted] s-Bears is featured in a massive amount of the country compared to what it should be. No idea about that one. Washington is an awful road team to boot, but the Bears have been extraordinarily Jekyll and Hyde this year. Just look at how pathetic the Ravens broadcast is in Maryland. HAHAHA FUCK YOU FLACCO. Saints-Bucs is mostly in the Southeast. Who knew the great Brachyura Larcenist could be rather capable. (Brachyura is the animal kingdom order for crabs, no I had to look it up myself, sounds catchy though). Jameis Winston is slowly turning into the Asshole Cam Newton. 9ers-Browns is on and is subjecting more of Ohio then it should to its horror. Lions-Rams is also mercifully limited. Lone Fox late game is Packers-Cowboys, yeah that’s a good one to have for a late game.
Boy that NFC East is always a juggernaut year-in-and-year-out. Wait, are you telling me the networks constantly broadcast their games in marquee slots because the division is all major market teams with significant fanbases and not for the general quality of the teams of the division. One day Goodell will have a division with the Packers, Cowboys, Giants and Steelers and we will never hear or see another team past 4PM.
First college game on the slate — Arizona at New Mexico in the New Mexico Bowl.
Seriously, why even fucking bother?
Does New Mexico get an automatic bid to the New Mexico Bowl every year?
I know I’ve seen them playing in this bowl game before, twice.
There is a CBS play-by-play announcer named Andrew Catalon. I did not know this.
I’m going to have to watch the Bears-Washington game on a crappy pirated feed again, given that for some reason a secondary market is being subjected to Cleveland-SF.
I’m mainly going to watch in hopes of seeing Doktor Zymm at the game, drunk and holding a DFO sign for the cameras.
“TOMORROW; THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD!!”
-Brockos v. Faiders
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Damn it, if I still lived in CLT, I would get Donks/Raiders. Still, will the absurd 11/2 split, I should see most of it on RedZone.
An 11/2 split? Come the fuck on, that’s just deliberate trolling.
As is Giants/Fins.
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“Vikings-Cards is the rare good Thursday Night Matchup.”
I call shenanigans. More than half of the Thursday night games have been good this year. Packers-Lions, Broncos-Chiefs, Steelers-Ravens, Bears-Packers, and Colts-Texas were all good games. But there is a narrative, so whatever.
Packers-Lions featured a 4-7 team squandering a 20 point team against a 7-3 team, I would not call that a well-played balanced game. Steelers-Ravens had an 0-3 team against a Mike Vick (I really do not want to be actually playing this sport) led Steelers. Colts-Texans had Hasselback at the helm of the Colts against a 1-3 Texans who were in the midst of their QB clusterfuck.
I think this is the first time this season it’s featured both teams with winning records. Hence a good matchup.
I stand by my assessment, my good cunt.
Or at least since week 2.
And make that a 7-4 Packers team.
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen “my good cunt” in print and not have it be offensive, I’d have… well, one dollar.
The Vikings may be exposed at this point in the season and, with their defensive injuries on a short week, this game has the potential to be added to your list of bad TNF games. Now, if this game were on the schedule to be played Sunday after MIN had a little time to rest up after facing SEA, it might be a different story.
Or I could be wrong altogether. Everyone in town is all pissed that they are going to be playing with the Fake College Stadium Fake Dome roof open so it won’t be loud enough in there for ARI to win.