There have not been a lot of good football games this year…like at all. The Jets/Bills week 1 stands out (which was more entertaining than actually good football but I’ll count it), Eagles/Commanders a few weeks ago was pretty great but like…I gotta rack my brain to find any real memorable games. There’s been so much bad offense, bad reffing, and just total blowouts it’s hard to even get invested in RedZone some weeks, let alone full games.

And with this kind of play it starts to make the bad stuff less forgivable like the insane amount of commercials and ridiculous reffing that stops what feels like every game at some point dead in its tracks. I’ll never stop paying attention, none of us will, but NFL Sundays are starting to feel less fun and more like an obligation.

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    11 months ago

    Just fucking sucks man… die hard bear fan. Was so mad after The first throw bagent had too mooney was called down… that woulda made the game so different. Poor dude can’t get a fair shot on his first fucking play of his second start. Hate these refs so much

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    11 months ago

    I think one reason is the lack of elite QB play. Elite QBs are what make the league watch-able.

    Brady, Brees, Peyton Manning, etc. retired. Now all we have are Mahomes as the sole top-tier guy, Hurts, Burrow and Allen at the 2nd tier, and…well, a dearth of QB talent below.

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    11 months ago

    Eh, I would say the opposite. Been a lot of parity this year and no team really stands out as a clear SB favorite.

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    11 months ago

    Hate hate hate hate these takes so much, long term trend wise offense is just getting more and more and more prominent and the game is becoming closer to college. We are spoiled now and wanna see every game be 41-34. There’s a shit ton of young coaches and QBs in the league right now and some unfortunate injury situations. The high flying offenses will return as the current young core of star QBs gain experience and refball continues to make good defense impossible. Stop supporting the watering down of the sport. Soon we will be watching 2 hand touch arena league

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    11 months ago

    The product has definitely gone downhill. Goodall has always been a disaster ; they took a product that was bulletproof and ran it into the ground . It’s all hype and nonsense. You been to a game recently? Blasting music telling us to cheer , tv timeouts stopping play after every big play , incredible prices on everything starting when you hit the parking lot . Rules so messed up that we have to watch multiple replays in slow motion to decide where the ball is placed whether a reception is completed or a touchdown scored . It’s pathetic. I’ve been watching games since the 1960’s and it’s never been worse . Just because a game is close doesn’t make it good football.

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    11 months ago

    I hate to say it man, but that’s just you getting older. Eventually you’ll either get over it and love football more than you ever did or you’ll just continue to lose interest until you have no idea what’s going on anymore

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    11 months ago

    I’m tired of seeing DBs get called for pass interference on underthrowm balls that are 8 yards short of the receiver just because the receiver jumps up and collides with the DB.

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    11 months ago

    It’s because of defenses adapting and scheming better and the adopting of the two high safety look