49 replies to this topic

[CMPunk]

http://profootballta...-of-prime-time/

Great, the whole country will watch us get embarrassed. The NFL needs to hop off of our schlongs with all of these primetime games.

[Solomon]

I think good or bad, Eagles/ Cowboys games generate a lot of ratings.

[iluvdaeagles]

eagles get to 5-7....giants lose 2 straight.....

we are 1 game back

crazier things have happened

[mayanh8]

iluvdaeagles, on 20 November 2012 - 12:08 PM, said:

eagles get to 5-7....giants lose 2 straight.....

we are 1 game back

crazier things have happened

That's crazier than your Vick talk.

[iluvdaeagles]

mayanh8, on 20 November 2012 - 12:10 PM, said:

That's crazier than your Vick talk.

i will always believe in my eagles no matter who is the QB

we arent mathematically out of it so i will still root and believe

to each its own

[bdbd20]

iluvdaeagles, on 20 November 2012 - 12:08 PM, said:

eagles get to 5-7....giants lose 2 straight.....

we are 1 game back

crazier things have happened

Like an OL coach getting a job as a DC?  Or perhaps a rookie QB going 14-15 with 4 TDs?

[mike030270]

This is laughable. Both teams suck and they want to showcase it. Have they redone a poll to see if Cowboys are still "America's Team"?

[cowboy_ron]

“The Cowboys are a brand like no other,” said NBC’s Al Michaels, who will call play-by-play of Sunday night’s game at Cowboys Stadium alongside Cris Collinsworth. “If Dallas is in the mix, that’s an interesting game.”

Indeed, in conversations last week with representatives of all four NFL network partners - NBC, Fox, CBS and ESPN - none could come up with a doomsday scenario in which the Cowboys might be swept aside as if they were the likes of the Jacksonville Jaguars, St. Louis Rams or the once-proud Oakland Raiders.

“The Cowboys play to national audiences, not regional audiences,” said Jim Nantz, CBS’ lead play-by-play voice. “If I could pick one team today to play in our Super Bowl at the end of this season, from a business perspective, it would still be the Cowboys.”

Mike Mulvihill, senior vice president of research and programming at Fox Sports, said he could see only one scenario in which the Cowboys would drop from his network’s wish list of games.

“Short of Texas seceding from the Union, the Cowboys will always remain in demand for our network and all networks,” Mulvihill said.

Echoed Leah LaPlaca, vice president of programming and acquisitions at ESPN, “We would always take as many Cowboys games as we could get.”

Those kinds of statements may sound hollow to Cowboys fans who can count on one hand the team’s playoff appearances this millennium and need only one finger to count postseason victories. Indeed, the ratings reveal Cowboys television audiences in Dallas-Fort Worth are down this season.

“But if the average Cowboys fan studied the national numbers we study every week, they’d understand our appetite,” said Fox’s Mulvihill

[djbigf]

this is a perfect storm scenario.  the schedule is littered w/ bad matchups this week.  only game that would be worth flexing would be giants-redskins, but they don't flex MNF games.  1st time in a long time that MNF > SNF.

[McNabbIsGone]

iluvdaeagles, on 20 November 2012 - 12:08 PM, said:

eagles get to 5-7....giants lose 2 straight.....

we are 1 game back

crazier things have happened

  Morris . . . is that you?

[NCTANK]

this is the year of bad prime time football.....all in the name of ratings.


enjoy the suckage

[dba042681]

CMPunk, on 20 November 2012 - 12:02 PM, said:

http://profootballta...-of-prime-time/

the whole country will watch us get embarrassed.

Good.

[iluvdaeagles]

hope the boys play good ball and go get this W tonight

[CMPunk]

dba042681, on 02 December 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

Good.

How is that good?


They could have flexed either TB-Denver or NE-MIA

[ChimpKelly]

Won't this be our second primetime game in a row with another one coming up vs the Bengals?

Of course the year they get all this primetime they suck

[vox populi]

CMPunk, on 20 November 2012 - 12:02 PM, said:

http://profootballta...-of-prime-time/

Great, the whole country will watch us get embarrassed. The NFL needs to hop off of our schlongs with all of these primetime games.

Don't worry. Almost nobody will be watching around the nation.

[ronlandis]

nuff said

[iluvdaeagles]

vox populi, on 02 December 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:

Don't worry. Almost nobody will be watching around the nation.

i disagree

SNF will still be watched tn

[Wallyhorse]

cowboy_ron, on 02 December 2012 - 04:42 AM, said:

“The Cowboys are a brand like no other,” said NBC’s Al Michaels, who will call play-by-play of Sunday night’s game at Cowboys Stadium alongside Cris Collinsworth. “If Dallas is in the mix, that’s an interesting game.”

Indeed, in conversations last week with representatives of all four NFL network partners - NBC, Fox, CBS and ESPN - none could come up with a doomsday scenario in which the Cowboys might be swept aside as if they were the likes of the Jacksonville Jaguars, St. Louis Rams or the once-proud Oakland Raiders.

“The Cowboys play to national audiences, not regional audiences,” said Jim Nantz, CBS’ lead play-by-play voice. “If I could pick one team today to play in our Super Bowl at the end of this season, from a business perspective, it would still be the Cowboys.”

Mike Mulvihill, senior vice president of research and programming at Fox Sports, said he could see only one scenario in which the Cowboys would drop from his network’s wish list of games.

“Short of Texas seceding from the Union, the Cowboys will always remain in demand for our network and all networks,” Mulvihill said.

Echoed Leah LaPlaca, vice president of programming and acquisitions at ESPN, “We would always take as many Cowboys games as we could get.”

Those kinds of statements may sound hollow to Cowboys fans who can count on one hand the team’s playoff appearances this millennium and need only one finger to count postseason victories. Indeed, the ratings reveal Cowboys television audiences in Dallas-Fort Worth are down this season.

“But if the average Cowboys fan studied the national numbers we study every week, they’d understand our appetite,” said Fox’s Mulvihill

Translation (at least to me): FOX likely protected Cowboys-Bengals next week and Saints-Cowboys in Week 16 or we likely would have seen two Flexes done: Eagles-Cowboys for Colts-Lions (only realistic chance for the NFL to have flexed in the Colts and Andrew Luck, a game CBS didn't protect as they protected Steelers-Ravens this week) and then next week Lions-Packes would have been flexed out with Cowboys-Bengals flexed in.

Only other reason likely this didn't happen was because CBS likely would have then taken Cardinals-Jets from FOX to compensate for losing Colts-Lions (not unprecedented, when Colts-Pats was flexed out for Lions-Saints last year, the NFL had to compensate FOX by moving Broncos-Vikings from CBS to FOX).

[Wallyhorse]

djbigf, on 02 December 2012 - 07:08 AM, said:

this is a perfect storm scenario.  the schedule is littered w/ bad matchups this week.  only game that would be worth flexing would be giants-redskins, but they don't flex MNF games.  1st time in a long time that MNF > SNF.

Colts-Lions likely would have been flexed in except as noted, FOX likely protected Cowboys-Bengals next week and the NFL likely would have had to move Cardinals-Jets from FOX to CBS to compensate CBS for losing Colts-Lions.

[dba042681]

CMPunk, on 02 December 2012 - 12:04 PM, said:

How is that good?


They could have flexed either TB-Denver or NE-MIA

I meant good in that them getting embarrassed on national TV can only get us closer to a full house cleaning, including, hopefully, the general manager.

[CMPunk]

dba042681, on 02 December 2012 - 05:28 PM, said:

I meant good in that them getting embarrassed on national TV can only get us closer to a full house cleaning, including, hopefully, the general manager.

I gotcha now. I'm getting sick of the national media defending Andy so I wouldnt mind getting blown out (within reason) on National Television today. We'll be 3-9 and the talking heads will have no excuse.

Unbelievable. When the Giants want Coughlin gone: "They're just passionate fans voicing their opinions. LOLZ"

When we want Andy gone: "Those ungrateful Philly fans!!!1111"

[H-field Hero]

Solomon, on 20 November 2012 - 12:04 PM, said:

I think good or bad, Eagles/ Cowboys games generate a lot of ratings.

Vick, Shady, and Jackson being out could impact ratings.  Dallas is a draw, but often for the wrong reasons if you're a fan of them.  Jerry Jones  (enough said), the national fascination with Tony Romo meltdowns, and the national fascination with the entire team collapsing and missing the playoffs.

[McNabbIsGone]

No ****! Really?!? I'm shocked . . . SHOCKED!

[CMPunk]

McNabbIsGone, on 02 December 2012 - 05:49 PM, said:

No ****! Really?!? I'm shocked . . . SHOCKED!

No reason for the sarcasm. Two underachieving teams. One of which is without their 3 most popular players. It was perfectly reasonable to think that the game could get flexed.

[iluvdaeagles]

CMPunk, on 02 December 2012 - 05:51 PM, said:

No reason for the sarcasm. Two underachieving teams. One of which is without their 3 most popular players. It was perfectly reasonable to think that the game could get flexed.

the league will never take a cowboys game out of primetime....

[iinvincible]

I wish Vick was starting.

[CMPunk]

iinvincible, on 02 December 2012 - 06:16 PM, said:

I wish Vick was starting.

I don't. I want the entire country to see what a true specimen Nick Foles really is. I want them to witness the greatness of Nick Foles, live.

[inhumanehuman]

The whole world hates the Eagles and the Cowboys and both teams are horribly underachieving, Why wouldn't anyone wanna watch?

[iluvdaeagles]

inhumanehuman, on 02 December 2012 - 06:20 PM, said:

The whole world hates the Eagles and the Cowboys and both teams are horribly underachieving, Why wouldn't anyone wanna watch?

both teams draw numbers