NFL's Declining Ratings and the Need for Change in Game Selection
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00:02 I guess I'm on the under based on what you just told me.
00:05 Last night went under two.
00:07 I think that the total was 42 and a half.
00:09 I think it landed on 41.
00:10 It's just been that kind of season.
00:12 If we were doing this before the year
00:15 and we predicted what this game would be
00:18 and I gave you the records of both teams
00:21 and told you that Hertz and Mahomes were healthy,
00:24 Mike, you would have said the total in this game
00:26 is at least 50, 51, 52.
00:29 But that's just the nature of the way
00:31 that the games have been played in the NFL this season.
00:34 Look, I don't know.
00:35 I know Warren Sharpe did a ton of research into this
00:38 and sort of why numbers are down and all of that.
00:41 But I think on a more granular approach,
00:43 I think the NFL is gonna change some stuff, man.
00:45 I don't know what's coming.
00:46 I don't know rule changes or whatever,
00:48 less time penalties.
00:49 I don't know the clock.
00:50 I have no idea.
00:52 But the product has to be good
00:54 in every window in the NFL on Sunday.
00:57 Look, they can get away with this
00:58 'cause football is still king.
00:59 But for how long, I'm not really sure
01:01 when you only have one or two games of the entire Sunday
01:04 that are really worth watching and your primetime games,
01:08 I think they gotta change that immediately.
01:09 First three weeks of the season, set those games
01:12 and everything else gets flexed out.
01:13 Now, tonight obviously is a game you wanted to see,
01:15 but I think that's also part of the problem
01:17 is that some of these games on Sunday night
01:20 and especially Thursday night, nobody wants to watch.
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