NFL Schedule leaks

[ExWNYer]

3 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

But it DOES make a lot of sense. It’s all about being the sport that owns our attention. All year ‘round.

 

Sure it makes sense. I would not argue that. If you look up 'attention whor*' in the dictionary, I believe you may just find the NFL shield. ?

Edited May 4, 2020 by ExWNYer

[416BillsFan]

11 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

I may have to try to find the audio. I went back and checked my texts from that day, and they do mention being the top requested team.

 

Either way, I disagree that the Cowboys and Pats were the draws. We had very high ratings for the Steelers game too. The common factor across all the highest rated regular season games last year was the Bills. It may have been people wanting to see how the young, upstart Bills do against those teams, but the Bills were the draw.

Bills-Steelers was NOT one of the highest rated games of the year, or even one of that week (Rams vs you guessed it, the Dallas Cowboys earlier that day had almost 5 million more viewers). Every single Dallas SNF game had higher ratings. I'm love that the Bills are getting respect and viewers, but they aren't a top draw quite yet. Hopefully they will be!

[jimmy10]

50 minutes ago, nucci said:

even though people here trash him, Allen is considered an exciting QB around the league

Buddy of mine who is a Cowboys fan (and a former sports anchor in a SEC market) texted me during the Thanksgiving game to say how exciting Josh is to watch. 

Edited May 4, 2020 by jimmy10

[wagon127]

1 hour ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

I may have to try to find the audio. I went back and checked my texts from that day, and they do mention being the top requested team.

 

Either way, I disagree that the Cowboys and Pats were the draws. We had very high ratings for the Steelers game too. The common factor across all the highest rated regular season games last year was the Bills. It may have been people wanting to see how the young, upstart Bills do against those teams, but the Bills were the draw.

The steelers game high ratings, were cleverly phrases as, "highest rated prime time program of that week." Most SNF games are the highest rated primetime program of the week. The bills vs. Steelers game ratings were not any higher then any other SNF game, i think they were on the mid to lower end.

Edited May 4, 2020 by wagon127

[DrDawkinstein]

1 hour ago, 416BillsFan said:

Bills-Steelers was NOT one of the highest rated games of the year, or even one of that week (Rams vs you guessed it, the Dallas Cowboys earlier that day had almost 5 million more viewers). Every single Dallas SNF game had higher ratings. I'm love that the Bills are getting respect and viewers, but they aren't a top draw quite yet. Hopefully they will be!

 

Never said it was? Only that it got high ratings. And it did.

 

5 minutes ago, wagon127 said:

The steelers game high ratings, were cleverly phrases as, "highest rated prime time program of that week." Most SNF games are the highest rated primetime program of the week. The bills vs. Steelers game ratings were not any higher then any other SNF game, i think they were on the mid to lower end.

 

Highest rated prime time is still a good selling point that stations notice.

[buffalobillswin]

I feel like the Bills are going to get a lot of 4 pm games based on their away opponents:

 

@ Arizona

@ Denver

@ Vegas

@ San Fran

 

Then home games against the two LA teams and Seattle.

 

Guaranteed 4 and potentially 7. Not a good season for anyone who likes 1 pm games

[dwight in philly]

3 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

One of the NFL scheduling guys was on WGR a couple weeks ago and said the Bills were the #1 most requested team for prime time games by the tv stations. They looked at the ratings for the Thanksgiving and Pats Saturday night games and see the Bills as the hottest ticket.

 

That said, I personally am not a fan of getting the Prime Time games since I'm an old fogey. I'll take 16 games at 1pm Sunday please.

 

But I expect the Bills to get at least 3 Prime Time games.

Same here!.. 

[Buffalo03]

This guy put this as a response to the original tweet saying that they put all the non conference games for each team up front in case they had to postpone the season. I swear if we have to play the Pats the 2nd to last game for the 4th year in a row, I'm gonna be annoyed. The schedule makers need to get more creative

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

6 hours ago, whatdrought said:

I’m sure Khan hates it

 

[Gugny]

2 hours ago, 416BillsFan said:

Bills-Steelers was NOT one of the highest rated games of the year, or even one of that week (Rams vs you guessed it, the Dallas Cowboys earlier that day had almost 5 million more viewers). Every single Dallas SNF game had higher ratings. I'm love that the Bills are getting respect and viewers, but they aren't a top draw quite yet. Hopefully they will be!

 

You mad, bro?

[PromoTheRobot]

3 hours ago, 416BillsFan said:

Bills-Steelers was NOT one of the highest rated games of the year, or even one of that week (Rams vs you guessed it, the Dallas Cowboys earlier that day had almost 5 million more viewers). Every single Dallas SNF game had higher ratings. I'm love that the Bills are getting respect and viewers, but they aren't a top draw quite yet. Hopefully they will be!

 

Can you cite your source because I have ratings that show the Bill-Steelers games was the most-watched individual game that weekend with a 10.47 share, 18.1 MM viewers.  Perhaps you're referring to the Sunday 4pm ratings of 13.12 rating/23 MM viewers, but that's for ALL games shown, not just the Cowboys.

 

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/skedball-weekly-sports-tv-ratings-12-9-12-15-2019.html

 

Further, Bills-Dallas drew a 13.53 rating, 32.6 MM viewers. Top rated football game.

 

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/skedball-weekly-sports-tv-ratings-11-25-12-1-2019.html

 

 

Edited May 4, 2020 by PromoTheRobot

[HappyDays]

Here are my predictions for prime time games, assuming a full season:

 

vs Patriots - Monday night

vs Pittsburgh - Sunday night

at Dolphins - Thursday night

[eball]

I think Bills/Chiefs is almost a guaranteed primetime game.  @49ers screams primetime as well.

[Bronxbomber21]

I would love another Sunday night game 

[mead107]

Hope no night games at our stadium.  

[Giuseppe Tognarelli]

The schedule is expected to be released on Thursday night per PFT Live.

[Mark Vader]

49 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

Here are my predictions for prime time games, assuming a full season:

 

vs Patriots - Monday night

vs Pittsburgh - Sunday night

at Dolphins - Thursday night

Interesting predictions.

 

I don't see the Bills getting two prime time games at home.

[purple haze]

7 minutes ago, mead107 said:

Hope no night games at our stadium.  

I think you will be disappointed.  They are bound to get 1 night game at home.

[Buffalo716]

5 hours ago, ExWNYer said:

 

I think they'll get at least three...Thursday Night and Monday Night for sure and probably their first ever scheduled Sunday Night game.

 

 

That's the 'contingency schedule'. The out of conference games would be front loaded in the event that the schedule needs to be contracted for a later calendar start. OOC games would be the first to be eliminated because conference games would be more important for playoff tiebreakers.

It wouldn't be our first ever scheduled Sunday night game

 

The Patriots routed us in 07 if memory serves

[Franco_92]

Just now, Buffalo716 said:

It wouldn't be our first ever scheduled Sunday night game

 

The Patriots routed us in 07 if memory serves

I believe that was flexed, and I believe the poster means SNF games scheduled that way right from the start 

[KD in CA]

1 hour ago, Buffalo03 said:

This guy put this as a response to the original tweet saying that they put all the non conference games for each team up front in case they had to postpone the season. I swear if we have to play the Pats the 2nd to last game for the 4th year in a row, I'm gonna be annoyed. The schedule makers need to get more creative

 

That would be a very cool schedule IMO....blocking all NC, division and conference games like that.

[CSBill]

I hope whatever prime time games there are, they are away games. Home games at 1:00 on Sunday suit the Bills. And, I have no interest in navigating to TBD for a night game, any night.

[MJS]

27 minutes ago, CSBill said:

I hope whatever prime time games there are, they are away games. Home games at 1:00 on Sunday suit the Bills. And, I have no interest in navigating to TBD for a night game, any night.

I bet some of the players would feel differently. A home prime time game feels so different than an away prime time game for the players.

 

I would assume if they have to play at night they would prefer to do it at home.

[416BillsFan]

2 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Can you cite your source because I have ratings that show the Bill-Steelers games was the most-watched individual game that weekend with a 10.47 share, 18.1 MM viewers.  Perhaps you're referring to the Sunday 4pm ratings of 13.12 rating/23 MM viewers, but that's for ALL games shown, not just the Cowboys.

 

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/skedball-weekly-sports-tv-ratings-12-9-12-15-2019.html

 

Further, Bills-Dallas drew a 13.53 rating, 32.6 MM viewers. Top rated football game.

 

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/skedball-weekly-sports-tv-ratings-11-25-12-1-2019.html

 

 

Here (https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/nfl-tv-ratings-viewership-nbc-cbs-fox-espn-nfln-regular-season-playoffs/), shows that the Buff-Pitt game was the 11th highest rated out of 17 SNF games. You're right - it is the FOX window I was referring to, Dallas-LAR  - seen in 87% of the markets. Again, I'm not trying to argue that the Bills are ratings poison, I like that the networks see them as viable for national exposure. Go Bills:)

Edited May 4, 2020 by 416BillsFan

[stinky finger]

Wait - no Int'l venue? 

 

Where will the Jags play their home games?

[YoloinOhio]

 

[stinky finger]

8 hours ago, ExWNYer said:

 

I think they'll get at least three...Thursday Night and Monday Night for sure and probably their first ever scheduled Sunday Night game.

 

 

That's the 'contingency schedule'. The out of conference games would be front loaded in the event that the schedule needs to be contracted for a later calendar start. OOC games would be the first to be eliminated because conference games would be more important for playoff tiebreakers.

 

Agree.

 

I think we get 4. 

[stinky finger]

7 hours ago, nucci said:

even though people here trash him, Allen is considered an exciting QB around the league

 

Those who trash him - I am NOT one of them - would contend train wrecks are exciting too.

[Don Otreply]

8 hours ago, One Buffalo said:

 

I’ll bet that every international game was canceled by the host countries. 
No way are they going to chance a infection spike happening in their countries with the way our national government has handled this pandemic. I am certain they told the NFL very nicely,  no F ing chance buddy...

[djp14150]

10 hours ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:

 

With all the west coast games they have this year, I think they also will have a couple more 4:25 double header games too ( as opposed to a 4:05 regional west coast game) 

 

 

I could see with two consecutive west games...one on Sunday 425 and other on Thursday night.

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

Maybe I’m weird but I wish there were no leaks. I look forward to that release all off season and it kind of sucks to know half of it before the show. I know I can just “not look” but it’s hard to not.

[MJS]

1 minute ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

Maybe I’m weird but I wish there were no leaks. I look forward to that release all off season and it kind of sucks to know half of it before the show. I know I can just “not look” but it’s hard to not.

I think it's amazing the effort and hours that go into figuring out the schedule from different leaks. People spend days putting together all the pieces and usually don't get it all until right before it is actually released (or not at all).

 

I mean, why not just relax and let them tell you what the schedule will be? Is it so gratifying to know it a few minutes before it is released?

[YoloinOhio]

1 minute ago, MJS said:

I think it's amazing the effort and hours that go into figuring out the schedule from different leaks. People spend days putting together all the pieces and usually don't get it all until right before it is actually released (or not at all).

 

I mean, why not just relax and let them tell you what the schedule will be? Is it so gratifying to know it a few minutes before it is released?

Quarantine boredom?

[MJS]

3 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Quarantine boredom?

That's a good excuse this year, but not every other year.

 

Don't get me wrong. More power to those who like to dig through Twitter and piece together the puzzle.

[Gugny]

17 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

Maybe I’m weird but I wish there were no leaks. I look forward to that release all off season and it kind of sucks to know half of it before the show. I know I can just “not look” but it’s hard to not.

 

Weirdo.

[Bills fan since 87]

This is always a fun thread.  It stinks the dark cloud that hangs over the schedule release this year, but one of my favorite non competition sports days of the year.  Right there with selection Sunday for me.

[IDBillzFan]

4 hours ago, MJS said:

I bet some of the players would feel differently. A home prime time game feels so different than an away prime time game for the players.

 

I would assume if they have to play at night they would prefer to do it at home.

 

I'm certain the players feel differently. And for every person who feels like CS does, there are 10,000 ready to fill the stadium on prime time. I don't need another Bills player to talk about how much they love playing at home for that crowd.

 

That said, I've learned to hate Bills prime time games because for years they have almost always ended badly. Cowboys game with Romo is a perfect example. Crap game, crap night, crap next day. Just crap.

 

But this team is different. By the time they took took it to the Steelers and Cowboys this past year, I no longer feel a sense of dread going into a prime time game. And with Brady telling everyone his Buccaneers are on his buckenhead, we no longer walk into the razor expecting our semi-annual gang raping.

 

Bring on prime time.

[batmanfreek]

We will get our usual Thursday as does the rest of the league and probably one Monday night game against the Jets. We may get a flex later in the season if we don’t collapse. 
 

While we did make the playoffs we still don’t have the media/league love outside of the same 2 people who pick the Bills every year.  Brady and the Bucs will get their share. Along with KC and Ravens.  You can count on Dallas getting their usual 3+ games and the 9ers, Seahawks, Pittsburg, saints and rams.  Browns because they are still a media darling. 
 

 

[CajunBillsBacker]

5 hours ago, CSBill said:

I hope whatever prime time games there are, they are away games. Home games at 1:00 on Sunday suit the Bills. And, I have no interest in navigating to TBD for a night game, any night.

Do you also like road playoff games over home field advantage?

[Rocky Landing]

Hopefully, the season doesn't get postponed. The Raiders will be hosting the Bills in Las Vegas, and apparently the mayor has no problem turning the entire town into a giant petri dish. That city has about 1,000 deadly, infectious diseases floating around on any given Sunday, anyway. I'll just have to get a motel room in Baker on my drive back to LA, and quarantine myself for about two weeks so I don't end up wiping out my whole family upon my return. Totally worth it to see the Bills in Vegas.