MikePJ76

My point was about the playoffs being carried on a cable channel that needs to be subscribed to through a cable subscription. Even Espn put the Orioles-Royals series on ESPN 2 which can not be subscribed to as a stand alone, so if you pay for espn or Espn+ as a standalone you still couldn't have watched the games without an actual Cable Subscription as part of the package. This is my issue, its a post season issue. Yes, I watch the Yankees on YES and also Prime and Apple TV. That is the regular season though. Personally, I use the MLB App and login to yes for pre and post game stuff with my parents account in NY. The Yankees sell a stand alone YES app subscription for 125 a year but I don't think its available in all markets, for instance I live 15 minutes from the Texas Rangers Globe Life Field and am pretty sure I can not sign up for YES. Cutting the cord is not subscribing to a cable subscription in the traditional sense, the delivery is not what I am talking about. Not sure why you are bringing that up, I mean yea you can subscribe to direct tv, spectrum, fubo, hulutv or sling etc. and just use an app. Not sure why that is relevant. In order to have the channels you need a subscription. As far as MLB never having a black audience I just don't buy that. The history of the game and cooperstown are filled with amazing black players and everyone wanted to watch them. Young black athletes grew up playing baseball and wanting to play in MLB because they watched/listened to their games and wanted to be like them. The game had players who looked like them they admired and looked up to. 19.1 % of the US is Hispanic/Latino, 60% of that is Mexican. 30% of MLB is Latino, 1.6% of that group is Mexican. So it's not the same thing. Kids growing up around this country until the last 20 years or so could turn on an MLB game and see black superstars who came from their neighborhoods and went to their schools and would want to watch and would want to be the next Willie Mays, Reggie Jackson, Rickey Henderson, Ken Griffey, Tony Gwynn etc. They just do not exist in todays game. A 2nd/3rd/4th generation mexican american family is not going to tune into an MLB game because a guy from the dominican is leading the Twins in RBI's. Its just a different thing. yep. I can't remember exactly but I think there is a play in the first quarter of the Giants-Niners 1990 NFC Championship that benefitted the Giants and they kicked a field goal out of it. I have game on DVD somewhere on a shelf from my years of downloading everygame I could get my hands on via ten yard torrents. I think those 3 points were big late in that game. Would have been nice to beat the hell out of Steve Young who was primed to make a mistake constantly at that point of this career in tampa instead of Bill Bellichick and Bill Parcells defense!

So many reasons for the TV rating dominance as you, myself and others pointed out. The new thing over the last 15 years or so that is also driving those numbers is the incredible rise in women watching the NFL. I graduated high school in 1995. I knew tons of girls at school and in my family who watched baseball but I can't remember any girls/women who watched the NFL outside of the Super Bowl. Now It seems women from all ages are watching football, noon to midnight as stated earlier with the rest of us. You would never know this if you listen to sports radio around the country yet though because the ads are still a grouping of ***** pills, Beer, Hooters/local strip clubs, online gambling and oil changes.

I think it was more rest oriented for him.

Its also interesting in this narrative that it seems to always be the same teams in the nfl trading away players just like in MLB. The raiders moving good players for the promise of high round draft picks that they always screw up is no different than the oakland A's moving their young talent the owner is to cheap to pay to keep and then promising a winning season with the new crop of young guys. Just look at the Raiders when they traded Amari Cooper to Dallas, They got a first rounder for him that following season they had 3 first round draft picks yet here they are six years later without a quarterback and trading away another wr for the promise of a draft pick to build with. At least the other time the raiders had Reggie McKenzie in charge and he was competent.

The league needs review though. If you remember or go back and watch some old games from the 80s and 90s etc. there are comical moments where games were decided on terrible calls that today would not happen. There were so many times balls were spotted incorrectly, guys fumbled and it was called etc..it was just accepted then. In today's world having 4k tv's and high def/HDR broadcasts with like a dozen cameras in the stadium catching everything it would be malpractice to not have review.

more social media but of course this place too.

Well if he goes say 2 catches for 9 yards sunday and plays 20 snaps I will check back in to see the level headed responses over this concerning, McDermott, Brady and Allen. I hope he goes 8 for 125 and two TD's in a blowout win too but I do not expect that.

I can go on and on about what has hurt MLB but as far as TV ratings go there are three big reasons. I covered the other two in my other post...regional sport/lacks black superstars and can not hold a black audience. The other major things to me causing ratings being down are, the core baby boomer/Gen-x audience of MLB is slowly dying off. The game insists on playing its playoff games on Cable channels in a country where most have cut the cord. For instance, I didn't miss a single Yankees game all year starting with game 1 of the spring games Feb 22nd, I watch a ton of other games, mainly dodgers and padres late at night in the summer. I do not have cable so I do not have FS1, so after watching the whole season I have been unable to watch the NLCS on FS1. I have been listening to the mets radio broadcasts of the game on the mlbtv app. So having a naturally shrinking audience generationally and playing games on cable channels so many do not have is hurting. MLB is insane for having the masked singer on the other night on the OTA fox national channel while the mets-dodgers are on FS1. That is total insanity. Imagine the nfl playing an AFC Championship game with one of its biggest starts, mahomes and the game is on a cable channel that you can only have with a cable subscription, like if it was on AMC or something. MLB has Ohtani Vs. New York and its on FS1! if General Anthony C. McAuliffe were with us today he would say NUTS to games on FS1 and TBS.

There is more parity in championships recently in MLB than the salary capped NFL. Nothing will ever touch the nfl in tv ratings for so many reasons but mainly, your team plays once a week, this is a nation of gambling addicts and alcoholics who are glued to their tv's/devices while they sit and get drunk and hope to win and not lose money. Then there is fantasy football. Then there is culture, the nfl is a huge part of the culture of social media and sports radio. Its the easiest sport to talk about because no matter what any of us can sit and talk about a quarterback or head coach for like 10 hours straight at any moment. the other three sports have become regional. If your team is in the playoffs you watch, if the city you live in is in it you watch...otherwise people just pay attention the nfl. Major League Baseball has a major problem because they have lost a lot of their black audience and more importantly their black players. It doesn't seem like young black men are interested in playing baseball in america anymore and honestly it doesn't seem like anyone else is the way it used to be either. MLB does not really fit the black culture of the NFL and NBA either so it is hard to sell it to fans 30 and under who have grown up in a sports media driven mostly by the NFL and NBA. The game needs young black superstars. if you are over 45 ish you grew up in a world where major league baseball was king and amazing, artists wrote hit songs about the game which were played before your little league through high school games and it was part of american culture. That is now gone and the NFL rules all in ratings and attention. having said that it was a down year in MLB as far as having one amazing team, mostly because of injuries but still no 100 win teams. However the Playoffs have been amazing so far and I am hoping they get a little better tonight and the yankees grab a 3-1 lead. anyway. I like baseball.

this is the only thing that makes sense. I posted this in the traded thread but will post it here too because I don't think people realize. Many people have not paid attention to the details here. When Cooper was traded to Dallas he didn't play the first week, part of that was he was in concussion protocol and the other part was they wanted to get him comfortable. He was traded on October 18th and didn't play his first game with the cowboys until November 5th after a Bye week. Ironically Dallas lost in Coopers first game to the Titans at home 28-14.

I think he is just being courteous and cautious to the fact that Cooper got to the team a few days ago and enormous expectations are going to be put on him. Cooper had success when he was traded to Dallas in a similar situation but not the first week. Many people have not paid attention to the details here. When Cooper was traded to Dallas he didn't play the first week, part of that was he was in concussion protocol and the other part was they wanted to get him comfortable. He was traded on October 18th and didn't play his first game with the cowboys until November 5th after a Bye week. Ironically Dallas lost in Coopers first game to the Titans at home 28-14. So this idea that McDermott is wrong in slowing down the narrative that Cooper should show up on Wednesday and be an all pro on Sunday is completely foolish.

My humble opinion. The old guard of coaches who demanded excellence are now completely out of the game. The only one left is Reid but he is still the next wave of those old coaches. I think this matters. Also the game is played more like College football than ever before and it is just not as good. Making WR the most important guys on teams has not been great for the quality of the sport. It does not draw the numbers but I have enjoyed Baseball way more recently, probably because I am a Yankees fan and they have been successful but haven't won a championship yet (fingers crossed) and watching Aaron Judge every night for 6 months is pretty amazing. He is like watching Allen only he is better at his sport. just my two cents. I look forward to the insults and hundreds of thumbs down.

No, my opinion is that it was a similar trade as far as draft cost. I don't care what the eagles do with their picks. If they want to give up a top 100 pick for what looks to be a first round bust that is their business. I don't root for the eagles so they could have pulled a Joey Galloway and given two firsts for dotson for all i care.

He doesn't add anything to this roster they do not have and he always is dragging an injury around.

Its similar because Philly sent a 3rd and a late round pick for dotson and a late round pick. Essentially the same trade. thanks for pointing out you noticed a couple of my takes.

I was responding to a comment that he has never shown excitement.

I made this post in another thread about this but I think they have the ends like that to prevent the dumpoff/crossing route that then is setup with a bunch of blockers. Andy Reid did this to Dallas in 2017 with Tyreek Hill. Everyone went deep naturally and the chiefs setup a group of wr to block instead of run the verticals and just dumped it to hill, He scored and they called it the hill mary. Same situation in the game too. I am just guessing this is the kind of thing they are looking to have someone in the middle of the field or the edges for. Of course they could have been guarding the sideline but I do not know why you would do that there. Seems taking both of them and putting them on the hashes about 20 yards downfield would have been better placement.

But simmons is playing hurt and who knows how long he will be able to tolerate it and play at a high level. Needing tommy john surgery can not be very good for a defensive lineman

He sounded just as excited as we all were last year when they beat Miami in Miami and won the division, Sal talked to him as he was headed into the locker room and he was not reserved at all, Could have been one of us for those few minutes.

Good grief No.

I am not participating in this thread anymore but I will say this, I said everything you just said. Its just that the only posts anyone cared about of mine in this thread are the first two. So if you keep reading you will see I said all of this plus pointed out its a very similar trade to the washington-philly trade for jahan dotson.

Cornerback Brownlee Jr, who has been playing for injured chido awuzie is number 7 in pff's rookies this year so far 7. CB Jarvis Brownlee Jr., Tennessee Titans PFF Grade: 79.7 A fifth-round draft pick out of Louisville, Brownlee has started each of the past two games for the Titans and has thrived in doing so. Targeted 12 times in coverage over the past two weeks, he has allowed just six receptions for a total of 21 yards. He has also recorded five tackles that have resulted in defensive stops.

Apparently he has a torn ucl and needs surgery in the offseason. I guess he is playing through it and that has to be pretty tough to deal with.

really? I didn't realize that. What is the stat that is showing him as one of the worst db's? Is he getting beat at the line of scrimmage or something? Their defense has looked pretty good.

I have made a lot of posts in this thread, feel free to read them all and get back to me. now I will add russian bot to the tally of what I have called. and sow discontent, give me a break.