Flexing ‘Thursday Night Football’ By NFL Is An Idea Which Is Not Appreciated By Neither The Players Nor The Coaches!

The NFL will now routinely let clubs appear in numerous Thursday Night Football games in the same season as part of a number of new regulations and guidelines put in place during this week’s NFL owner’s meetings.

Flexing ‘Thursday Night Football’ By NFL Is An Idea Which Is Not Appreciated By Neither The Players Nor The Coaches!

In a gesture towards player safety, the league has seldom permitted teams to play on numerous Thursdays with a short week of preparation. As a result, the participants are likely to disagree with this choice.

“We’re interested in making sure that we get exposure for all of our clubs. We also believe that these national windows are for clubs that are playing well,” Brian Rolapp, the NFL’s executive vice president/chief media and business officer, said. “We want to put the best teams in the best windows.”

The Thursday schedule will be set when the schedule is released in May, but late in the season, Thursdays should feature the teams with the highest TV ratings. The Texans are among the clubs that most likely won’t play any prime-time games this season, including Thursday nights.

Teams that end up playing in multiple Thursday Night Football games on short rest will no doubt be upset over that schedule. It remains to be seen what effect the plan might have on injury frequency.

For a proposal to pass, it must receive 75 per cent of the vote, meaning that 24 of the NFL’s 32 owners must vote in favour of the proposal. Even though it goes against the interests of coaches, players, and fans, it is fair to assume that the owners will approve of the idea given the NFL’s dedication to making money.

Read the price that Amazon paid for the streaming rights to “TNF” by scrolling back up. That is one billion dollars annually, capital B. Naturally, the league has an incentive to attempt to deliver the greatest product possible for that price on the pitch.

Why NFL coaches and players oppose flexing ‘TNF’

Football is a risky sport. Nobody in the NFL is unaware of that reality. However, it becomes challenging to even play the game when a player’s pattern is disturbed.

Devin McCourty, a retired player, spoke to Albert Breer in Sports Illustrated about his experience playing consecutive “TNF” games.

“It was just so awkward,” McCourty said, per Breer. “Because if you just play the Thursday night football and then you go back to a regular Sunday, to me, it becomes normal again. Like, ‘Alright, I’ll push through this and now, we’ll be back on a normal routine.’ Once you mess that up, I think it’s harder.”

Imagine having that attitude but only receiving 28 days’ warning before your routine could be disturbed and 15 days’ notice before it is guaranteed to happen. It came to the owners’ meetings after receiving the broadcast committee’s approval, as expected. According to Breer, there was the point that Mara, Rooney, and George McCaskey objected.

 

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