NFL Week 9 -- You like that?!

[Cosmo]

Baby bird Kirk comes back to Landover. So cute.

Thursday night
Philadelphia (-13/44) at Houston, PRIME

Sunday early
Minnesota (-3.5/43.5) at Washington, FOX
L.A. Chargers (-3/49) at Atlanta, FOX
Miami (-4.5/44) at Chicago, CBS
Carolina at Cincinnati (-7.5/43.5), FOX
Green Bay (-3/49) at Detroit, FOX
Indianapolis at New England (-5.5/39.5), CBS
Buffalo (-13/47) at N.Y. Jets, CBS
Las Vegas (-1/48) at Jacksonville, CBS

Sunday late
Seattle at Arizona (-1.5/50), FOX
L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay (-3/42.5), CBS

Sunday night
Tennessee at Kansas City (-12.5/46.5), NBC

Monday night
Baltimore (-3/48) at New Orleans, ESPN

BYE: Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, N.Y. Giants, Pittsburgh, San Francisco

THOUGHTS: Pretty underwhelming slate. I'll be pretty heavily invested in Vikes-Commies, but the late afternoon window is a dud. Would much rather watch Seahawks-Cards than Bucs/Rams, though you could argue that's an elimination game for a wild-card spot, at least. Tampa can still win that awful division and get in that way.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Take those Miami points and run.

 

[playthrough]

Not liking my Bengals at all laying 7.5 on a short week to suddenly feisty (and off a bye) Carolina.

 

[BTExpress]

???

Carolina's bye isn't until Week 13. They lost in OT last week.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Not liking my Bengals at all laying 7.5 on a short week to suddenly feisty (and off a bye) Carolina.

Carolina played Sunday. They lost to Atlanta because their receiver took off his helmet and the kicker choked.

 

[playthrough]

Carolina played Sunday. They lost to Atlanta because their receiver took off his helmet and the kicker choked.

Sheesh, I'm an idiot. But I'd still take them and the 7.5!

 

[Cosmo]

There are a lot of people bitching (on social, at least) that the NFL and MLB refuse to work together to move either the World Series or the NFL game since they're both Philly-Houston affairs. If anyone should move up to 5 p.m., it should be the NFL since it's regular-season vs. World Series, but why would they? If there's any game a Phillies/Eagles fans can blow off, it's this Texans game. And NFL advertising dollars through Amazon are likely dictated by those games being on in primetime. Just get a second screen and stop crying.

 

[BTExpress]

Just wait. In 2045 the baseball season will be stretched into December, and the NFL playoffs will compete with March Madness. Cause we always gotta have more more more. More teams in the league. More weeks in the season. More playoff teams. Longer playoff series. More bye weeks. More travel days.

 

[LanceyHoward]

There are a lot of people bitching (on social, at least) that the NFL and MLB refuse to work together to move either the World Series or the NFL game since they're both Philly-Houston affairs. If anyone should move up to 5 p.m., it should be the NFL since it's regular-season vs. World Series, but why would they?

It will be interesting to see which game gets better ratings nationally. I would guess the World Series because the Thursday night game involves the Texans. But I bet it is close. If the Eagles were playing a decent team I think football would win.

 

[da man]

There are a lot of people bitching (on social, at least) that the NFL and MLB refuse to work together to move either the World Series or the NFL game since they're both Philly-Houston affairs. If anyone should move up to 5 p.m., it should be the NFL since it's regular-season vs. World Series, but why would they? If there's any game a Phillies/Eagles fans can blow off, it's this Texans games. And NFL advertising dollars through Amazon are likely dictated by those games being on in primetime. Just get a second screen and stop crying.

Given the way the the current NFL season has gone, I wouldn’t be shocked if this is the game that lets the ‘72 Dolphins pop the cork.

 

[da man]

Just wait. In 2045 the baseball season will be stretched into December, and the NFL playoffs will compete with March Madness. Cause we always gotta have more more more. More teams in the league. More weeks in the season. More playoff teams. Longer playoff series. More bye weeks. More travel days.

And get off my lawn!

 

[outofplace]

It will be interesting to see which game gets better ratings nationally. I would guess the World Series because the Thursday night game involves the Texans. But I bet it is close. If the Eagles were playing a decent team I think football would win.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a regular-season NFL game draw more viewers than a World Series game, though I'm curious to see how they do in the Houston and Philadelphia. Maybe the football game will lose some viewers because it is on Amazon Prime? I haven't really paid attention to those ratings, but I find it annoying enough that I haven't been watching those unless I had a rooting interest.

 

[Cosmo]

That's why they're the Lions?

 

[LanceyHoward]

I wouldn't be surprised to see a regular-season NFL game draw more viewers than a World Series game, though I'm curious to see how they do in the Houston and Philadelphia. Maybe the football game will lose some viewers because it is on Amazon Prime? I haven't really paid attention to those ratings, but I find it annoying enough that I haven't been watching those unless I had a rooting interest.

Prime time NFL games have historically rated higher than World Series games through about game four. But Thursday night football is the weakest night for prime-time football and Amazon Prime is not available in every home.

I did a bit of research. In the first four weeks Amazon averaged about 11 million viewers for TNF. WS Game One last Friday night drew 9.7 million viewers. If a streaming service like Amazon does pull higher ratings than a network I think it will go down as the day televised sports starts to migrate to streaming en masse.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

 

[MileHigh]

I wouldn't be surprised to see a regular-season NFL game draw more viewers than a World Series game, though I'm curious to see how they do in the Houston and Philadelphia. Maybe the football game will lose some viewers because it is on Amazon Prime? I haven't really paid attention to those ratings, but I find it annoying enough that I haven't been watching those unless I had a rooting interest.

The NFL game will be on over-the-air in the Houston and Philadelphia markets.

 

[MileHigh]

NFL has a long memory. In 2013, the Ravens were supposed to open at home as the defending Super Bowl champions. But the Orioles had a home next door the same day and wouldn't budge off moving the game or playing it earlier. So the Ravens opened the season in Denver. So the NFL will be in no hurry to help out MLB.

 

[outofplace]

The NFL game will be on over-the-air in the Houston and Philadelphia markets.

My bad. I should have remembered that.

 

[da man]

That's why they're the Lions?

I mean, it’s not like they gave him away. They’re getting a 2 and a 3 for Hockenson a 4 and a conditional 4.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

I mean, it’s not like they gave him away. They’re getting a 2 and a 3 for Hockenson a 4 and a conditional 4.

TJ Hockenson is a better player than the other first round tight ends they drafted
That said, they had no business taking a tight end with the eighth pick in the draft
Ed Oliver and Brian Burns were among the guys they passed up
THAT’s why they’re the Lions