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.
There have always been issue with and calls and penalties in the NFL but the frequent and seemingly arbitrary nature of penalties in the modern game really take away lots of the natural tension, when a penalty is just as likely to bail a team out over having to make a play.
Plus streaming and red zone over the years has made ads intolerable for me and watching a stand-alone game really tries my patience.