My friend and I are having a debate over what constitutes a game being fun to watch. Some people believe that the concussion bs and anthem kneeling are hurting ratings. I say that the past 3 seasons have seen a decline in game quality and that's the biggest reason for it. Now, trying to keep a neutral of a stance as possible, were both of today's games fun to watch? One side of the argument is saying that the Eagles-Vikes game was not a good game because it was a blowout, the other stating that the game was indeed fun to watch because of big plays on offense and clutch turnovers.
First, answer if you agree/disagree that the past 2-3 seasons have experienced shittier games that are less fun to watch than seasons past.
Second, did you think that both of today's games were good games and fun to watch? If not, indicate which game (or both) you thought was shitty to watch. Include some reasons why if you'd like.
If you have a strong opinion either way because your team won/lost, please just indicate that you are in fact a fan of that team. I'm trying to keep emotion out of this as much as I can.
I'd appreciate as many opinions as possible, even its a simple yes or no.
Yes, the quality of play has gone to shit and yes, your thread is awful
Samuel Gonzalez
Yes, the past 3 seasons have definitely seen a rise in shitty games.
Both the AFC & NFC championship were fun to watch. I'm a Ravens fan so it sucks we were on the outside looking in, but I had a good time watching football today. Foles was slinging it and actually connecting, and the offense in general was getting it done. That's a lot more fun than seeing 4 and outs and penalties all over the place.
Isaac Lopez
Blow outs are the best thing about sports when they're games that matters, like in the playoffs. They're kinda boring in the regular season. Obviously they suck when you're on the losing end
Parker Rivera
Hey, thanks for your opinion man. I'm actually Tim Tebow so I'm going to be positive like they say to be in the bible and pretend you like my thread bro. God bless.
Adam Kelly
Yeah both games were fun to watch. Jags Pats was competitive, and the Eagles looked great out there. I watch football to see big plays, and it 100% delivered on that, at least for one team. It was neat to see Foles go out there and play like an elite QB.
And yes, games were better before the past 3 seasons. Definitely declined in gameplay.
Benjamin Hughes
Who says blowouts aren't enjoyable? I mean, if it gets too out of hand I'll change the channel, but as long as I'm seeing big time plays happen consistently like tonight did, then I'm good.
and yeah I liked both of today's game just fine.
Camden Brown
Bad games have definitely become more common. I enjoyed watching the Vikings smash ass all season though.
And fuck no I didn't like the NFC game. Fuck the Eagles. This was supposed to be /ouryear/
AFC was a fun one tho, especially the 1st half.
Nathan Martinez
if your team is the one doing the raping it's fun
Connor Mitchell
Ratings are falling because there are more options of things to watch, and everyone in the 30 and below age group streams the games. The ratings can't measure the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, that stream games instead of paying
Tyler Thompson
Well duh but I'm a Steelers fan but I will admit that I enjoyed the games. I would've liked the Jags to pull it out, obviously, but it was still a close game, and the Jags looked like they might win at the half. The Eagles were dominant and that too was a fun game.
Grayson Thompson
This has nothing to do with ratings whatsoever. Read the OP. Were today's games good, or not? On the whole, do you think that the past 3 seasons' games have been less enjoyable to watch on the whole compared to the season before it?
Luis Diaz
No. I’ve watched my team get blown out in several conference games. It’s painful as fuck. The decline in quality is there though, especially in the AFL.
Noah Green
27 here, two cable boxes. the only time i've ever watched a stream is when i go to my MMA friend's place which is basically a broom cupboard.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
>change rules from 1980s on to make the game more offensively biased >wonder why blowouts happen Tackling while having a helmet on should never be a 15 yard penalty.
David Butler
Jeez. Read the OP. Of course you don't want to see your team get blown out. In games where your team IS NOT PLAYING, do you think a blowout is enjoyable to watch, or do you think a blowout makes it considered a bad game?
Caleb Baker
The hell are you talking about? Dafuq does tackling while having a helmet on have to do with anything?
Lincoln Young
DPI needs to be changed. Please for the love of god.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Let's be honest though: people would rather see a shootout and points vs. "a defensive struggle" (code for a shitty low scoring game). DPI rules being what they are now opens up routes and forces the defender to play with more finesse just like the WR has to. There should be rules that keep defender's hands off of the receiver until after the catch and play the ball instead. Otherwise we would see even more low-scoring snoozefests than we do now. If a defender is savvy enough, they can get away with holds and such with a bit of sleight of hand and luck, but its a risk every time you attempt it.
Why, what do you think the rule should be instead? Let me guess, you're a Jags fan.
Lincoln Hughes
I bet you're right.
Kevin Cooper
The rules making passing more preferable, and ruining talking and defence in general have hurt the game
Catering to the casuals is only good in the short term and nobody fucking learns this
Brayden Turner
How do you have an American flag but talk like that? And I don't mean how you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Because you do realize that in the past 5 seasons, the team with the #1 RANKED FUCKING DEFENSE HAS WON THE SUPER BOWL 3 OUT OF 5 TIMES?
The two times when it wasn't the top ranked D was the Pats both times and ranked 8 and 10, respectively.
It's always funny when the casual complains about casuals when he in fact is part of the casuals he complains about. Straight up ironic.
David Taylor
I'm talking about average games
Everybody already watches the Superbowl dipshit
Ethan Campbell
wow.. this fucking guy. Are you special needs? Can you read English? The team with the #1 ranked overall regular season defense won the Super Bowl 3 out of the 5 past seasons and finished no lower than #10. REGULAR SEASON. NOT POST SEASON. Apparently their defenses weren't "wrecked" were they, you goddamn moron.
Your response doesn't make a lick of sense. Fucking foreigners man.
Luis Jenkins
Pretty simple.
1) Offense signals to ref there will be a pass play. Obviously this is already done by the patriots since every expert here knows the refs are tipped 100% all game. 2) when the ball is hiked, Official time-out 3) impartial adjudicator rolls table out into middle of field. This person is the Defensive Mitigator, and has complete autonomy with respect to the teams, the league, and all casuals in a 50m radius of the stadium. 4) DM sets up table and each players sits on either side. Them DM then proceeds to request actions from each player. Using a formula similar to QRB, the Far Upfield Catch Criteria is determined using player stats, tactics, and combine scores, taking into account injuries, encumbrance, and any effects from previous play (concussed, shocked, butt pain, etc). 5) Using a random number between 1 and 20 to account for unknown factors (like weather, concentration, being a Bill, etc), the simulation of the play is spec'd and sent to IBM's Watson. 6) The play is then transmitted to the booth, where it is loaded on both an xbox and a playstation, as to remain impartial 7) After visually inspecting the result of the simulation, 3 out of 5 color commentators (1 must actually be colored) eventually either agree with the play call, question the play call, or express shock at the genius of the play call. 8) Once consensus is reached, the minority report is sealed and the dissenting commentators receive a 1 to 3 strikes depending on choosing the "right" ream (wink) 9) By this time, the DM should be off the field. When the signal is given, the Microsoft Surface iPads are brought out to display the Amazon AWS Catch Result (tm) brought to you by Bush's Baked Beans. The secret is in there. 10) start pay clock, start game clock.
> yfw they actually start asking Watson what a catch is, was it DPI, etc > Watson turns out to be a NE fan.
Colton Richardson
although richly detailed, I don't know why we are discussing this exactly.
Jace Price
What did he mean by this?
Tyler Campbell
fucking #savage user
Ryan Rodriguez
I've felt no difference in this past season and the past 3 seasons. It's quite a small sample size so I really wouldn't trust anyone saying they notice a marked difference
I thought both games were interesting today. The Jags Pats by far was better due to the closeness of the game and the David and Goliath aspect. On a similar note the Iggles Vikes game had a discernible underdog but the comparison between the two teams weren't as extreme as the Pats and whoever is unfortunate to play the Pats. I enjoyed the Iggles game because of Fole's rise out of the ashes. He's this stud who peaked for a year and has been a career backup since. Since Wetnz went down he was shit (against good-ish teams) but this was a blast from the past. Foles has reacquainted himself for what many perceive to have been a fluke year of greatness for this one game. I didn't mind the blow out because of the Foles story line.
This is a speaking as a fan of none of the teams mentioned and as a drunk person who probably made no sense at all.
Jacob Adams
I understood what you were saying. I just don't know how you could have watched football over the past couple of years and thought the quality of play stood up to previous years past, especially this season which had some of the best players in the league lost to injury and every single Thursday game being absolute trash all except for one. There have been some true stinkers and disappointing seasons for teams that were supposed to take the next step forward. The amount of teams that I would consider to have been "exciting" this year has been lower than any other season in memory. I have followed football closely for years and keep up with the league. I could usually pick out any game and find at least one reason that I would find it interesting. Not this year at all. I found myself thinking "why would I want to watch these two boring pieces of shit teams play?" more often than not this season. It just wasn't interesting enough and the quality of play wasn't there. Go down the list of 32 teams and tell me which you would consider to have had an "exciting" season.
Spoiler: you're not going to find many.
Isaiah White
no are you retarded? if my team is blowing out their opponent, yes. literally any other time, no
Luis Hernandez
lmaooooo
Adrian Torres
>first diasagree >second Pats game was intense, iggles game got boring there were some fun to watch plays. But they could be watched as highlights the game itself was boring. >why is it gone down Too many commercials, everything is a fucking automatic review which ruins the flow of the game, takes up too much time, is largely unnecessary, and they try and get too cute and make worse calls then the ones on the field. Then casuals, such as yourself hear or feel this decline from fans and blame dumbshit like blowouts, level of play, kneeling or whatever.
Carter Sanchez
Oh OK. So everyone else in this thread must share your sentiment about tonight's game, except they don't. Not really a fan of a consistent offense, are you? More of a fan of kicker's duels? Low-scoring games?
So you think Michael Vick's famous 6-TD game against the Redskins is boring then.
The Saints blowing out the Falcons 23-3 on MNF in their first game returning to the Superdome in 2006 was awful. Who would enjoy that terrible game? Crazy.
You know what was also a shit game? 2009's matchup of the Saints vs Pats on MNF. Brees posted 371 yds and 5 TD's in a 38-17 rout of the Pats. Brees posted a perfect 158.3 passer efficiency rating, but it wasn't fun to watch. Only Saints fans probably liked that one.
The most boring game of all time was in 2007 when the Vikings beat the Chargers 35-17. It was putting me to sleep the entire time. All it was was Adrian Peterson running for 296 yds and 3 TD's. Who wants to see a running back completely dismantle an offense? Pfft. Not me.
What about the.. YOU'RE A FUCKING RETARD. GO WATCH A FUCKING MICHAEL BAY MOVIE OR SOMETHING YOU FUCKING CASUAL. GET OFF MY BOARD REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Brayden Price
thats not true. League has just adapted feom the last attempt to fuck over defensive teams and now good defence and ground/short passing offenses have gotten in the way of your flashy QB shootouts. >amount of teams exciting Lmao you are joking right? Iggles were fucking amazing and crazy fun to watch Vikings, Jags, Rams all had great years out of nowhere. Saints and Chargers had those amazing turn around nobody expected. Chiefs looked awesome for the first half the season.Even the shit teams were okay. Niners gave some teams a good run(even before Garap). yeah but even if its my team a close win sits better in memory. Not that I would complain for a blowout win. But 18-1 Will always have the specialist place in my heart. None of those were good games Favre was a good memory and Im glad he played well. But I was hardly at the edge of my seat. Didnt even watch the fourth quarter. There have been fun shootouts (Romo v.s. Peyton Manning) but you should take your own advice and watch Micheal Bay movies instead of letting Goodell gimp the league further in your favour.
Adam Rogers
So, let me get this straight, you fucking leaf. You think that commercials (whose duration has more or less remained constant over the past 15 yrs) is all of the sudden the reason? Or the NFL review policy, which is brand new this year and did not affect the shitty games the past two seasons before it is? You think that the injuries to star players this year has actually improved the quality of play? Did you enjoy seeing Tom Savage play instead of Deshaun Watson? Who was your favorite Giants WR after ODell Beckham went down? What about David Johnson getting injured in the first game? The Cardinals were a ton of fun to watch after that happened.
Those 2 reasons you gave don't influence the game as much as what I just mentioned did. The reviews take up more time, yes, but its the bad decisions they made that affected the game the most. Football has always been a slow moving game.
Here's what I want you to do for me, my fellow smart Canadian thinker. I want you to tell me which teams you considered to be exciting this year. Make a list, and then we will debate a bit more.
Samuel Gomez
15 years? Try the last 38. Anyone retarded enough to blame commercials hasn't watched football for very long
Austin Brown
Blowouts in the regular season can be boring but blowouts in the playoffs are fucking hilarious.
Charles Lopez
top fucking kek. There has been some hilarious shit in this thread.
Josiah Butler
>Some people believe that the concussion bs and anthem kneeling are hurting ratings. I say that the past 3 seasons have seen a decline in game quality and that's the biggest reason for it. NASCAR: HUUUUGE ratings drop WALKING DEAD: Huge ratings drop
NFL: Still the biggest thing on NBC. But ratings have been dropping for several years - and a lot of it has to do with the league allowing degenerates to stay employed: Ray Rice, Michael Vick...on and on. These are not role models. If you had a kid would you want him cheering on Rice? Would you buy him a Vick jersey for Christmas?
Jackson Gray
Look I also watch Hockey, so "dude its just commercials" doesnt fly with me. I dont watch any commercials except watching sports now so it gives me an aneurysm. >automatic reviews are new They are not new. The updates to the policy this year however, have made them much worse. They destroy the pacing just because "football is Slow" is how you feel does not negate it is a 40 second play clock with three timeouts a half and refs that should blow the play in as fast as possible. The calls have been horrendous anyway. >players got injured It happens >who was your favourite Giant JPP. >which teams were exciting literally all the playoff teams, Chargers, Skins, Loins, Texans until the injury, same as Green Bay, Ravens, 49ers even the Dolphins a bit. IDK user Im more interested in a good well played game. Not "an exciting team!" so it may me different. Im actually looking forward to more good defence and playoff run first teams. >vick jersey Why not dude was entertaining as fuck to watch? not like he fought dogs on the field.
Connor Brown
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Michael Price
yeah, you're a potato. I didn't realize that it was the moron Canuck that had posted the other content too. I'm glad that I can tell its you posting from your little leaf flag now so I know which posts are 100% uninformed bullshit. stick to hockey and getting cold. Please don't try to act like you know what you're talking about when it comes to football. The end result is not good and makes you sound like a moron. Trying to help.
Ethan Jones
>DUDE REVIEWING EVERY PLAY IS GREAT AND CUTTING TO COMMERCIAL DURING THEM CAUSE FOOTBALL HAS STOPS HAHA >Football is just a game about fancy QBs throwing dragons! >lol injuries happened for the first time ever this year really killing the game then you have the audacity to back it all up with nothing more than >FUCKING LEAF lmao plz user go watch niggerhoop or something. Tonnes of scoring no contact!
Justin James
Blowouts are not fun. I'm a Vikings fan, so obviously I didn't enjoy today, but I've been bored out of my mind when they're the ones winning by a lot too.
Caleb Sanchez
>Why not dude was entertaining as fuck to watch? not like he fought dogs on the field.
He ALLEGEDLY would attach electrodes to dog and drop them into drums of water, to electrocute them while they drown. ALLEGEDLY tie them up off the ground and cut them so they'd bleed out. ALLEGEDLY hold them overhead and driving them into a concrete floor. All sorts shit. He ALLEGEDLY enjoyed watching this shit, and would laugh his ass off, apparently. He also ALLEGEDLY tortured them in many other ways. Not to mention running a dog fighting ring. But you're right, he didn't actually do that on the field, so buy your little tyke a Vick jersey.
Noah Carter
Iggles, Vikings, Jags, Rams, Saints, yes. You left out the Steelers and Pats. Chargers were ass and got blown out a lot, missed the playoffs. Chiefs started hot and plateaued. Second half of the season was dismal. Nope. Niners exceeded expectations but were not exciting. I have no idea what "shit teams that are ok" means or even what you're referring to.
My team is going to the Super Bowl and probably put out more exciting games more consistently than any other team. So this isn't me being sour grapes. Only seven (yes, 7) teams are considered to have been exciting and fun to watch this season. 7 of 32. That is pitiful.
Also the way you spell defense is annoying the piss out of me.
Liam Perry
a Canadian is trying to educate us on football, we should listen to him.
Nolan Thomas
>Football has always been a slow moving game.
yeah but still no where near the plodding ad filled space it seems to be now. I've watched the NFL on and off since the 1980s and there was ad breaks like any other event but it was no where near the same run play, ad, kick off, ad, run play, run play, 2 ads. It sort of ruins the feeling of watching the game now. Even if the HD broadcasting + CGI cut aways + score/info on screen all the time (great edition to the games) is better than ever.
I think the contact rules are fine, I think modern free agency helps polarity in the league. Players being criminals and now players being protesters (while many still act like criminals) is not really a huge factor. People are just getting very use to watching what they want, when they want to watch it. The live sports mode of here are two teams we picked to show you play, fuck off it's this or nothing is just not as great of a product anymore. As for close vs blow out games, blow outs are great if you're a hater of a give team's fans (love to see the raiders shit the bed) but other wise they sort of suck. >Raiders being blow the fuck out by Tampa Bay Buccaneers >best Raider hater superbowl ever
Lincoln Allen
>see moronic opinion >look at poster's flag >see a fucking leaf >established track record of being a moron continues >will look at flags before reading posts from now on to prevent wasting time and/or killing brain cells
Isaac Myers
You confuse this with me condoning his action. It was terrible and of course he should of went to jail. Also has nothing to do with football. I can like him as an athlete and hate, at least former him as a person. Just like Spacey is a grest actor, Polanski is a great director, OJ was amazing. Man I swear reading comprehension has gone the way of the dodo. I said and I quote "all the playoff teams" BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PATS AND STEELERS. Well pats are in the superbowl, and Steelers lost the divisional round and that counts them. Chargers would have made the playoffs svae and except a slow start. If you only count "playoff" teams as exciting than you will get the same number every year so holding that against them is retarded. Niners played exciting close games when they were winless then went on a winstreak. I donr care about records. Id qualify that as a shit team doing okay. Hell even the colts had a few fun ones. >my team is going to the superbowl Explains a lot. Not my fault you can't spell defence. Side not why do americans hold up the picture of a fence and the letter D when they spell it "fense" yeah havig commercials before negates the increase. I remeber vividly all the automatic reviews in the Montana era cutting to commercial. Oh no fucking wait. So nice try underager. And yes. >touchdown commercial >kickoff >commercial is too much already.
Parker Wilson
Does this retard think Vick and Rice have played anytime recently? Does he realize that he sounds fucking stupid even if they were? I throw around the word on retard on Sup Forums a lot, but in this case I really think that this guy is mentally disabled.
Andrew Hernandez
JPP is not a fucking WR, oh my fucking god. Please stop posting, I'm begging you.
John Lopez
shit I guess I have reading comprehension problems too. I just read giant. Hence my greentext not includig WR. Though the image of JPP trying to catch a ball with three fingers made me chuckle.
Asher Wood
>>players got injured >It happens
Not like this it doesn't you fucking newfag.
>which teams were exciting >literally all the playoff teams No. No. No. The Bills, Titans, Chiefs, and Falcons were trash. Matt Ryan was awful all season. >Chargers, Skins, Loins No they weren't. They were all uninspired as shit and never competed anywhere near the top of their divisions. >Titans before the injury So six games out of the 16 game season. I don't think I ever saw a single highlight from the Texans remaining 10 games after that.
>The same as Green Bay, Ravens, 49ers even the Dolphins a bit
Fucking, no! They were trash! Rodgers went to the IR and we got to see the awesome Brett Hundley win 3 out of his 12 games.. against the Bears, Browns, and Tampa Bay. Awesome.
The Ravens spent the majority of the season with Flacco posting his worst season of his career. He threw for 28 yds one game. 28 yds! The most yds he threw in a game this year was 288. He was the 32nd ranked QB for the entire bgeinning of the season. Didn't make playoffs. Pitiful. No.
>49ers Last place in their division. Didn't win a game until Wk 10. Jimmy G should give optimism for next season, but the Niners were objectively bad.
>Dolphins Hell no! Cutler was a bust. 6-10 and they had the highest point differential in losses next to Cleveland. Ajayi was a bust.. and then he was traded and ohmygod look he's good all of the sudden! Defense? Bust. Suh? Gonna get cut this offseason. Once they got shut out 40-0 by Baltimore in week 7, they only won 2 games after that.
Bro. You cannot sit here and tell me that you enjoyed watching these teams this season. There is no way in hell. Maybe if you're a Maple Leafs fan and you think your best seasons include being wildly mediocre and missing the playoffs is what you're used to in sports, then I guess I could understand. But dude.. really, stop lying to yourself and pretending to act like you possess football knowledge. You just don't.
Nathan Hill
All of those games sucked because >my team wasn't the winner of these blowouts. You're the only casual here faggot
Aaron Sanchez
>and of course he should of went to jail. >of course he should of went >he should of went >should of went >should of >should of
Should Have. It is Should Have, moron.
Wyatt Lee
Not all of the playoff teams were exciting though..
Zachary Hernandez
okay. So let me get this straight. Your complaint is that teams lost and players got injured? are you retarded. You realize there are the same amount of wins and losses every year? are you mad it wasnt closer? or did you want more dominance by a few teams. I cant comprehend tjis stupidity your complaint about any team being "exciting" is just their record so it cant even be anything more nuanced them the obvious "some teams won, some lost, some made the playoffs, some didnt" Also >Shady Mccoy >ever not exciting what is this fucking grammar school? I'm posting at 3 am on a Mongolian animation BBS.
Adrian James
>I only watch one game a week to fit in with the people around me and don't really actually enjoy the sport
Samuel Gutierrez
>my team is so shit I have to enjoy other team's success to force myself to like the sport Steelers-Browns on week 17 was infinitely more enjoyable than any of those "good" games you listed. Much more interesting for shit team's to keep it close with good teams than have good team's dominate shit teams
Logan Butler
>same amount of wins and losses every year >doesn't understand parity
>record number of star players injured >thinks quality of games remain unchanged
Yes. The games were worse because of parity. I'm not mad about it. Its just an observation. When parity is bad, games are worse since there are more bad teams. When bad teams play each other, bad games happen.
I don't know if I've ever seen SRS ratings so unanimously bad before. In the AFC, there was only one team who wasn't leading their division who had a positive SRS. One! And that was the Ravens.
Brandon Rodriguez
The eagles/vikings game reminded me what it was like watching games 10 years ago
James Brooks
kino
Lincoln Sanchez
Here's the NFC. At least there are 5 teams with positive SRS. But look at how steep the drop off is regardless. Compare that to the AFC. Its never been this bad. The point differentials are pretty horrendous.. but nowhere near as bad as AFC. BAD bad bad.
Asher Edwards
Strength of schedule has always been a meme. also >when parity is bad there are more bad teams isnt even a valid measure. you can have an equal league of equally shitty teams taking turns beating each other. And you can have a great league of great teams and one truly dominant team, or even a team amassing close losses. AFC was week this year for sure, but nothing to write home about. I dont really care about "star player injuries" Im more into good football. Giants got fucked by injuries but it was more Mcapoops fault. Packers are built around Godgers but that's their own damn fault as well. But Peyton Manning missed a season So I'll live. Meanwhile teams actually made turn around this year and we got to see fresh shit. I mean the playoffs were actually exciting this year with teams that would have been laughed off not long ago showing something different. Probably the most exciting (removing gnats homer bias) since the year we got all those meme QBs. kill yourself casual.
Zachary Evans
imagine bragging about paying to get advertised too and owning 2 cable boxes. lmaoing at ur life.
Samuel Davis
>The meaningless last game between the Browns vs Steelers' practice squad was more enjoyable than watching future HOFer's playing the best games of their career.
Mmkay. Say it with me now: B I G B A L L E R
Kayden Jones
umm, aren't ratings measured with surveys of random samples?
it literally wouldn't matter if they streamed it, watched it live or on a friends' TV
Henry Cruz
>you can have an equal league of equally shitty teams taking turns beating each other. And you can have a great league of great teams and one truly dominant team, or even a team amassing close losses
No shit sherlock, what's your point?
>I dont really care about "star player injuries" Im more into good football
>parity isn't even a valid measure
>AFC was week this year for sure, but nothing to write home about.
All false.
I want you to refer to the AFC here Do you see the column marked PD? That means "point differential." If you know know anything at all about football, you could look at the numbers there and immediately know that a) why what you just said is very wrong, b) parity is clearly obvious in having an effect on margins and records.
I don't even care that much about parity. I just don't understand why there's always a select few who sit there and insist that the games have been just as fun to watch this year. Its okay! I'm not trying to convince people to stop watching football! I'm not insulting you personally! But the weirdest thing is the people who insist that the injuries this season are not worse than usual and that they haven't had much of an effect on play. When people say that with a straight face, my jaw hits the floor.
Nicholas Robinson
>Jeez. Read the OP. I can't read. I'm legitimately illiterate and literally illegitimate.
Eli Stewart
close games down to the wire are better than blowouts no matter what happens in said blowout. I can't sit here and believe that someone would rather watch a 49-0 game than a 24-21 game down to the wire just because some player broke some record(s) on a shit team other than that their team is doing the spanking.
Levi Lee
Whatever you say, B I G B A L L E R. Go enjoy your "close" games with the Browns while I enjoy some record-setting NFL history.
William Clark
Can you really not just sit there and believe that, user? Can you? I think if you tried, you could just sit there and believe it.
Kayden Edwards
This.
I don't even finish watching the game when it's my team doing the blowing out.
Jayden Gonzalez
I suppose if I had a gang rape infant fetish i could see the enjoyment of a good team blowing out a shit team
Caleb Sanchez
Same. I fell asleep during Tits:Pats
Thomas Hall
fucking plebs. if you would've quit watching the Eagles win last night and you consider yourself a fan, then go watch some fucking FIFA you faggots.
I can tell your team is used to blowing.
another pleb who's also a pedophile or something, I dunno where he was going with that.. odd metaphor. NSA, if you're listening, check that weirdo's hard drive and browser cache.
this is understandable however.
Brody Edwards
or sad. Dan Marino threw 5 or 6 picks getting BTFO by the Jags in his last NFL game
Henry Cruz
No, ratings are taken from people who have certain cable boxes in their homes that monitors what they watch, Google neilson ratings
Logan Roberts
>I had a gang rape infant fetish
What did he mean by this?
Asher Carter
It depends on which team you're rooting for.
Caleb Robinson
People that think injuries haven't been that bad this year and hasn't affected play is lying. Or a Sup Forums troll on Sup Forums. Pick at least one.
Kayden Gutierrez
Blowouts are fun to watch when they're unexpected. Pats-Titans wasn't fun. Vikes-Eagles sure as hell was.
>were both of today's games fun to watch? Yes imho. Pats-Jags wasn't as good thanks to the scripted feel, but that's only because we've seen that episode before. Otherwise it was a good game.
Also >tfw everyone was predicting vikes-eagles would be a 9-6 defensive slog that would scare away all the casuals
Nathan Cruz
>tfw plebs in the thread claim they would've enjoyed a 9-6 defensive slog instead of the way it actually happened
>tfw your upload fails when you attach a file so you have no face
Levi Parker
He was exaggerating. Basically what he meant was the NFL decided to protect offenses by making penaltys be sticker and more beneficial to the offense. Pass interference is now called on almost any contact by the DB, OPI is never called, and pass interference is a spot foul, rather than a 15 yarder. Look at the Patriots drive at the end of the first half yesterday. About 60 of the yards on that drive were gained solely by penalties.
Jason Scott
well duh, why wouldn't you call PI at the spot of the foul? whats the point of not fouling him beyond 15 yds if you cant make a clean play at the ball and you think the receiver is going to catch it? I find that this argument is often made by those who don't really understand the sport and they need an excuse as to why their team lost.
Lincoln Butler
I'm not reading your long ass post. But to answer your question...nfl blow outs are fun to watch if you're a fan of the team doing the asskicking. Other than that, no, boring. Where's the remote?
Isaiah Thomas
>Are NFL Blowouts Fun to Watch? for fans of the winning team yes, it can be fun to watch your team dismantle their opponent for everyone else probably not
Adrian Mitchell
>if you look at absurd technical stats that don't tell you anything. Uhh yeah boss no. I watch most games and base my opinion off thst. But you jwrk off to meaningless stats that can easily be skewed by outliers and one that factors in literally salty excuses like ""Strength of schedule" every year injuries are bad and effect play. You probably just dont notice because teams having a whole Oline go down or something is just seen as being "bad" to you and then say Aaron Rodgers going down is "everyrhing"cause its easier to recognize.
Nolan Hughes
Out of curiosity where in the PD column does it ahow the miracle in Minneapolis? in fact I calculated the Vikings PD for the playoffs, looks like they were blown out twice, clearly no excitement there.
Matthew Collins
Holy shit, you don't know what point differentials are? go away leaf, you're done. go read a book or something.
Juan Hill
I'll keep watching when the Iggles get blown out by Brady.
Nicholas Gonzalez
"PointsPer GameDifferentialis a statistic that measures the difference between the average number ofpointsa team scores and the average number ofpointsa team gives up each game." I do in fact. Its a meaningless stat vikings playoff PD is shit. so answer it also factors in blowouts with garbage time points as close or close games for 3 quarters as blowouts if they get out of hand late. its stupid. At least calculate the number of games decided by ten or less instead or something if you are going to obsess with silly stats. DESU my complaint was the user defended automatic reviews and insane commercials with "rodgers got hurt and" "well I didn't watch any games but if you look at this number or calculate the variance of X" like nigguh I like ecconometrics, and I didnt even hate stats in school. But this is football not a study of the real estate market. and no 16 games is not big data or a large sample size.
Daniel Clark
Oh. My. God. I'm realizing that there are two Canadians in this thread, and they both are retarded.
You guys aren't even understanding the basics of what I'm saying. I would need an infinite amount of time and smarter people than you two for me to explain it. My brain is hurting just talking to you fuckin leafs.
Kayden Wright
>what am saying You literally just bring up dumb stats. When I said 49ers lost some entertaining games you didnt bring up any and refute them. When I pointed out flaws in yor statistics you didnt analyze any individual game. You must understand I don't give a shit about PD on paper and a win loss does not an entertaining game make or break. Now I get it you are too stupid too say anything other than "I HATE YOUR FLAG SO YOU ARE DUMB" but if you are obsessed with statistics maybe look up education attainment and academic performance by country.
Jack Moore
agreed it should be a spot foul. If someone burns you deep you could just tackle their ass and take the 15 which would be pretty cancer to watch and play
Justin Nguyen
>You literally just bring up dumb stats. When I said 49ers lost some entertaining games you didnt bring up any and refute them
i acknowledged them and you literally just mentioned the 49ers once, saying "Niners played exciting close games when they were winless then went on a winstreak. I donr care about records. Id qualify that as a shit team doing okay". I responded, ya goof.:
>"Last place in their division. Didn't win a game until Wk 10. Jimmy G should give optimism for next season, but the Niners were objectively bad until Jimmy G got there."
Yes, there were some really close games when they were getting shut out twice . Still though, first win might be exciting if it didn't take 10 games to get there. But their stock is definitely rising. They are one the few teams with sub-500 records that they expect to bounce back. But I didn't think that Beathard combined with the Niners' 21st ranked rushing offense made for must-watch football. I didn't know this was a subject you wanted me specifically address , since you weren't clear what you wanted to talk about.
>When I pointed out flaws in yor statistics you didnt analyze any individual game. You must understand I don't give a shit about PD on paper and a win loss does not an entertaining game make or break
You type strangely and confusingly. I thought you wanted stats, so I presented the most accurate way of doing so and you didn't understand it. I thought I had mentioned it in the OP post but I guess I didn't. The reason I created this thread is because I have a friend that who is trying to prove to me the trend of game quality with stats, and I'm the guy saying fuck stats, does it pass the eye test? My friend thinks they eye test is bullshit.
So once again, type more clearly. Your Canadian posts are melting my brain with this.
Cameron Lopez
yeah i forgot American reading comprehension is very rudimentary at best. Why do you keep bringing up stats then? my argument was quality of play didn't go down. quality of matches
