NFL viewership drops 8% from last season

The product has become lame... the QB play after about ten of them falls drastically.... the league looks like arena football with a bigger field..... is oversaturated and the luster has worn off from the sport... I have it on just for the noise factor..... the playoffs will be decent. But the Raiders vs. the Texans will be a brutal watch......

stop TNF, let players "play", let players have fun and show emotion, stop the pink shite in October (which they are, i know), stop with the arbitrary commissioner rulings, put the focus back on the "real" game, not the "fantasy" shite...

there... it's fixed... you're welcome, NFL

Let them flex the Monday matchups

Agree with both of those.

Additionally, they need to make more games available on Sunday. I'm fortunate to have access to all of the games, but some of these matchups you're stuck with on Fox and CBS are terrible.

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Outside of Saints games I don't think I watched a full quarter of another NFL game.

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While I watched slightly more than a quarter, I think plenty of viewers echo your viewing pattern. the Saints game is over, I just check my phone for scores and fantasy updates. I don't care about watching the actual games at that point.

You can not Flex Monday games, very hard for hotels and etc

Thursday games should either come after a bye making them divisional games or be dropped all together unless Thanksgiving.

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While I watched slightly more than a quarter, I think plenty of viewers echo your viewing pattern. the Saints game is over, I just check my phone for scores and fantasy updates. I don't care about watching the actual games at that point.

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this will probably be me in a few more years. I still tuned into to other games sometimes at home but if I was at a bar the MNF game or the SNF game couldn't hold my attention as much. Thursday night games.. frick no. I only watched the Saints-Panthers all the way through this year in that time slot.

watching live games is basically all I do now (and like I said some of them can't measure up like before).

No extra viewership for pregame/postgame thoughts from the major networks for me. I don't care what any of them have to say anymore.

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Additionally, they need to make more games available on Sunday. I'm fortunate to have access to all of the games, but some of these matchups you're stuck with on Fox and CBS are terrible.

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this is a biggie, we're the past the point now of "its football, so they'll watch it and like it" now. They need to update the way they do tv for an audience that's changed.

There's no reason a large % of your audience is stuck watching the Bills and Jets play a shittastic game because of some archaic rule of how you do tv, while an actual entertaining game is going on at the same time.

it was because of the election, once it was over, viewers will be crowding their tv's.


sincerely,

NFL and their shill media outlets(espn)

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i can't stand the way they officiate defenses now. Can't do shite, not only you can't do shite but defenders must go out of their way to turn their heads when they have perfect defensive coverage on a WR just because the WR feels like he should be able to go through a defender w/ position to get to a ball. its all bullshite.

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I don't like how officials affect the outcome of games. I looked at it earlier in the season, and average margin of victory was at an all time low. I want to say only 5 of 32 teams had a MOV greater than a touchdown. I truly believe they are being told to keep it close if possible.