1. The NFL sucks the fun out of everything. Examples: During the Bears/Colts Super Bowl, the league didn't let a church watch the game on a. Share your videos with friends, family, and the world. The NFL sucks - Its fricking boring that is all. Happy Sunday. Title should read “attending *most nfl games suck”, because decibels and cheering nfl sucks your undefeated team does not suck. 10 years ago.
Why is there so much bad football in the NFL? Injuries to key players have been prevalent — with players rightfully indignant over the lack of mandatory grass fields — and executives grumble privately that the ever-expanding slate of international games doesn't help the quality of play across a regular season that is also longer than ever.
Why is the NFL losing viewers? NFL ratings typically decline in election years, as they did during both 2016 and 2020. In these years, cable news viewership increases, likely stealing away the more casual NFL watchers who throw on the games at night but during election years are more interested in keeping up with the race.
Is the NFL losing millions of viewers? Americans watch far less TV than they did a decade ago. But they watch even more football. Viewership of the NFL is up 6% over last year, as of last week. Much of the growth this year is from Amazon, which has increased the ratings for Thursday Night Football by more than 20%.
How the NFL stays so popular despite its many scandals? The N.F.L. and football, in 2022, are deeply embedded in American culture. It is not merely a game or an entertainment option, but a ritual, a way people connect to their families and communities, a way they identify themselves. It is a unifying institution in a country that has fewer and fewer of them left.
Is football popularity declining? Participation has fallen 17 percent since 2006, when more than 1.1 million boys played the sport, a larger decline than any of the other top 10 most popular boys' sports.
What is the problem with the NFL? But for some, the popularity and success of the sport are overshadowed by its continuing problems around race - from its handling of players kneeling in protest against the killing of unarmed Black people, to lawsuits over racially biased compensation for concussed Black players, to the NFL's inability –or ...
Why are less people watching NFL? Roughly 10% of the people we surveyed refrained from watching and attending the NFL this season for the sake of the players' health. This percentage may increase if the number of individual cases, research, and awareness of the risk of developing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) from playing football grows.
Why is the NFL bad this year? The 2.7 yards per play in the red area is the lowest at this point in the year since 2011. Offensive play is not as sharp early in the year with fewer preseason games, reduced hitting in training camp and less padded practices. The NFL is seeing its lowest yards after catch average (4.97) through Week 7 since 2010.
Are NFL ratings low? The NFL concluded its 2023 regular season in much the same fashion as it began: with the league in a dominant position and only getting stronger. The league averaged 17.9 million viewers per game across all networks for the regular season, up by 7% from a year ago and the NFL's best figure since 2015.
What is the biggest scandal in NFL? New England Patriots Scandals (2007, 2015): The “Spygate” controversy involved the Patriots videotaping the New York Jets' defensive signals. Later, in the “Deflategate” scandal, the Patriots were accused of using under-inflated footballs.
Search forums. Why is the NFL playing bad football now. Thread starter TomRicardo Start date Nov 14, JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. TomRicardo rusty cohlebone. Lifetime Member. SoSH Member. Feb 6, 20, Row Got to say, the NFL games I have been watching this season outside the Pats who are just a bad team with a terrible QB have been terrible.
Like last night's MNF game was a really poorly played football game. It is so late in the season and the only team that looks like they have their shit together is the Eagles. I heard that the Ravens have been pretty together but I will be honest I haven't seen much of them.
I assume the 49ers will get themselves together too but otherwise the NFL has been tough to watch. What is going on. Jul 15, 37, Hingham, MA. Jul 16, 8, Balboa Towers. Not enough practices with contact. Jul 18, 30, I think the "college" offenses that began to predominate were not terribly complex, and that now-more-athletic-than-ever defenses have caught up to and surpassed the schemes of those offenses.
Aug 1, 34, Offensive line play is not good league wide. Nfl sucks Very few teams have both a good QB and a good line, and it shows. Depth at Tackle in particular is bad league wide. Sep 9, 42, AZ. It feels to me as though there is an imbalance between the offensive and defensive lines. I would actually favor a game where QBs got another. But, to me, the biggest problem is that there are not enough offensive linemen in the pipeline, they get injured, and the rules are stacked against them.
I also think that it's putting an emphasis on a particular type of QB that is not the most entertaining. I don't love scramble football -- right now it seems that so many games are decided based on who has a QB that can turn a first down conversions to a by scrambling. To me, scrambling is shit offense and it punishes good defenses.
You can coach up a defense to scheme and defend really well, but you get punished by a super mobile QB who can use the width of the field to pick up first downs against very good defense. It's all part of the game, and I'm not denigrating the teams that do it well because they are taking advantage of the game as it exists. But it's boring football to me, and, more important, the teams that can't do that particularly well are just under constant pressure and it gets boring to watch.
That said, chaos is entertaining too and so last night's game as an example was still ok to watch, though I much preferred the Chargers v. Dec 8, 15, DennyDoyle'sBoil said:. E5 Yaz polka king Lifetime Member. Apr 25, 90, Oregon. I've watched a lot of non-Patriots football this season and the other thing that jumps out to me is that I've seen more -- for lack of a better word -- stupid plays.
Pre-snap penalties, poorly designed plays, simple execution issues and more. Maybe it's practice time problems, but my goodness you can't see a team play a clean game anymore. Mar 26, 30, Sep 6, 36, where the darn libs live. TomRicardo said:. May 11, 10, NH. The decision making league wide is down. Appreciate the thread starter.
It is absolutely noticeable this year. Bergs funky and cold SoSH Member. Jul 22, 21, Apr 23, 6, from the wilds of western ma. Limited practice time per the last 2 CBAs. Teams do not break camp anywhere near clicking on all cylinders, and it seems to be later and later into the season before they do. As noted above, the adoption of college offenses, which are not that complex, and rely more on athleticism, have been caught up with and figured out by defenses.
The game is now absurdly over legislated, and inconsistently enforced. Jan 31, 11, around the way. As much as we want to attribute it to bad QB and bad OL play, I'd argue that defenses are just ahead of the curve at the moment. Much in the way that the league tightened the rules on defending passes twenty years ago, I wouldn't be surprised if the league is looking for ways to slow down QB pressures.
Allowing a little more holding for example. Rogers Moderator. Jun 22, 36, a shotgun shack in a swanky suburb. NFL teams are averaging So if scoring dips a bit as the weather turns cold, this year will be a year low for scoring. Eck'sSneakyCheese said:. Jul 15, 32, It is substantial. One of the factors that contributed to their success was their practice schedule on game week, which was more intense and demanding than the current rules.
According to a former Hogs player, Joe Jacoby, the team practiced twice a day on Wednesday and Thursday, and once on Friday. They also had a walk-through on Saturday before the game on Sunday. The practices were usually in full pads and involved a lot of contact drills, such as one-on-one pass protection, run blocking, and blitz pickup.
The Hogs also had to learn and execute different plays and schemes, depending on the opponent and the game plan. For example, teams are only allowed to have one full-contact practice per week during the regular season, and no more than three hours of padded practice per day during training camp. Brendan allen vs paul craig prediction Apr 12, 42, I'm not going to even get into the officiating.
It's been as bad this year as it's ever been. But I will say that most of the complaints here seem related to the offense. There's been a LOT of great football being played on the other side of the ball that's causing these offenses to look bad. The athleticism on that side of the ball is like nothing we've seen in NFL history.
Absolutely massive humans running 4. The offensive line play is what it is, some teams like the Pats have tons of injuries, which is normal throughout the season. I can't blame lack of practice for any of this, it's week 11 at this point. Speed, speed and more speed in a lot of cases, or just great schemes. I've watched just about every game that I can possibly watch for a long time, and I wouldn't say this year is any different than others as far as stupid plays.
There's been a lot of stupid in the NFL for a long time. I think what we're seeing is defenses catching up to offenses a bit though. And the entertainment value is still there and then some. Mar 31, 22, Jimbodandy said:. I love good defensive football and thought scoring was way too high for a good years.
But do the current games feel more like good defensive football to you. Or bad offensive football. Maybe this is just colored by watching teams like the Pats, Jets, and Giants, but those offenses suck even against bad defenses. Dec 21, 8, Teams don't have any sort of limit with regards to the number of coaches they can have on the sideline, right?
It's amazing to me that with the stakes involved in these games, we still have coaching mistakes with getting the right personell and number of personell on the field. Delay of game penalties, unnecessary timeouts. They've got all kinds of people, telecommunications, etc.
Sep 30, 8, EvilEmpire paying for his sins Moderator. Apr 9, 17, Washington. I think another small factor that is exacerbating the defense vs. There aren't enough good ones to go around and it seems the ones that are or who show potential become head coaches a bit faster than in the past.
Jul 21, 12, Dec 24, 48, Warren Sharp , whom all football fans should know, covered this a few weeks ago: This year, there are far fewer touchdowns less excitement and far fewer points scored less excitement. Nfl sucks Scoring output But somehow, there are also more blowouts less excitement and fewer underdogs barking less excitement. Underdogs are covering at a Case in point: Oddsmakers have set the average point total for games at But they recognize how neutered the game is right now.
However, despite the extremely low expectations for scoring, only The level of offensive impotency we are witnessing this season is simply extraordinary. This is not a slight downturn in scoring nor a blip in the radar. As for defenses. Posted by Marktastic You must enjoy the excitement the 15 minutes of commercials between possessions that college football provides these days.
Posted by UltimateHog. Posted by ugasickem Allatoona. Posted by trussthetruzz Marquette, MI. Posted by sorantable. Posted by tee3 Member since Nov And still more entertaining then the 4 and a half hour college football games. Posted by SeeeeK some where. Posted by financetiger38 Member since Nov I watch curling.
I imagine it was a nice day in River Ridge. Could have gone out and enjoyed it. Posted by Civildawg Member since May The QB play sucks and it doesn't help that one of the best tore his Achilles the first drive of the season. Posted by CBandits Posted by SabiDojo.
I had high hopes this season but damn the product is shite. I don't understand why the nfl doesn't split up the games more evenly either. They have 10 games on at noon and like 3 at 4pm. Return To Board.