NFL will play two games on Christmas Day despite being on Wednesday | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC
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- Roger Goodell says Wednesday football will not be a “regular thing,” but Mike Florio and Chris Simms examine how the league also once said they would never play games on Wednesdays but now they are this year. #NBCSports #ProFootballTalk #NFL
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NFL will play two games on Christmas Day despite being on Wednesday | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC
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The hip drop tackle is about player safety. But also, we're going to play games on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this upcoming year.
Can’t wait to watch
I think that “every day of the week” might’ve worked. It sounds like a song from Rebecca Black.
Yeah
Different teams each day but I got you!!! Lol
@@user-iq6cc3df3l I think the comment went over your head
Florio pulls no punches..keep telling it like it is homie 🙌🏿
He just pounds his chest when he's right. He's wrong alot too, like 2 years in a row he's acted like he has sources saying Andy Reid is retiring. Florio is a clown 🤡
The NFL cares about one thing.💰
you act like that isn't true of basically the entire world and the foundation of our society in general lol
also go ask the players if they'd forfeit their share of the extra revenue from TNF games etc, because i guarantee you the Players Association would have zero interest in that
Um yeah it’s a business lol
The players were more than happy when the salary cap went up 30m…. Where do you think that money comes from?
Absolutely
That PeaCOCK playoff game still burns my ass.
They need two bye weeks a year per team and the Thursday games whenever possible are teams coming off of bye weeks. Same for a Wednesday.
Maybe they could use the extra Christmas day revenue to make sure all fields are natural grass surfaces? 🤔🙃
Shuuuure they will! =)) Someone broke down the cost for every team to go to natural grass.
Literally pennies for these teams. But, player health is paramount.....
One thing I was thinking about. If they move more and more games to days not Sunday that means there will be fewer games on Sunday each week. Fewer games on Sunday cheapens the value of the Sunday Ticket. Just sayin.
Just furthering the progression towards pay preview.
@@BamBamSam12u are wrong paper view will kill football fans will stop paying and stop watching some can't afford it now paper view would be more expensive and Sunday ticket is a form if paper view u can't watch every single game unless u pay for Sunday ticket now
@@robertschoelerman7496 you say I’m wrong but then further my argument by proving payperview started with Sunday ticket and has progressed to streaming(Amazon and peacock, ect)That’s pay per view. So I am right, thanks for making my point though.
I love Christmas games. By the afternoon it relax time and NFL football is a big part of my family. If you don't like it don't watch.
Agreed
Not watching doesn't change the fact that short weeks are terrible for football.
Why not have every team play twice a week?
Football every day would be too much. The secret sauce to the NFL season is the appointment viewing on Sundays. The sprinkles on Mondays, Thursdays, and Holidays draw big numbers because it always feels special. The NBA is every night, and that reduces the must-see aspect of the game, not to mention the 84-game schedule. Thankfully, the NFLPA will never allow football to be played every day on a regular basis.
I live in Canada and agree with what you are saying. I do not even like Thursday night games. I tend to think that in the USA the NFL is so massive that if it were possible to play everyday that it would still have huge ratings.
Great point
It's already too much..And too expensive. I'm not subscribing to 16 streaming services for every day of the week.
I miss when football season was 16 games. I miss when it was just sunday and monday and on Thanksgiving and occasionally Christmas. Sometimes less is more NFL
Yeah...you can thank dictator Goodell, the greedy owners. God forbid Christmas was respected.
Mike, you called it. I doubted your prediction, but you proved to be correct. Way to call it!
Florio may not be accurate on his football predictions but as a lawyer he always smells NFL’s money moves 😂
Wasn't there a time when the NFL only played on a sunday at 1pm and 4pm? Sunday nights were family movie nights. No monday night yet.1970?
Yes monday night football began in 1970 and basically just like in the MLB football also moved to nights. The decade of the 70s changed american sports. For some reason prior to 1970 we believed in daytime sports onlym even those early super bowls involving the packers in the late 60s actually kicked off at like 2pm.
Remember this when they cite player safety.
it's hilarious how people act like you can't possibly take minor steps to increase safety while also chasing profits/growth like literally every single corporation and branch of government in America does... why is the concept that "two things can be true at once" so foreign to people??
but according to many "football fans" around here, the NFL playing football games is unsafe and means they hate players lol i don't get it
Why, does Christmas cause injuries? They teams will still have at least 4 days between games.
@@PianoUniverse4 days is a short week. Just like Thursday games is also a short week. Short week means short rest.
@@jaxboro And the games go on.
@@PianoUniverse They do, because the league only cares about player safety when it doesn’t get in their way, to Florio’s point. When they can cite player safety to pass rules to help scoring…targeting, hip drop tackles, etc…they use it. The league ignores it when it’s convenient for them.
Thursday games are trash. Same with Saturdays. Go back to the Sunday with one or two games on Monday format.
Or just improve the Thursday games.
A team winning or losing on Christmas day is memorable. As bad as I want a revenge game for Raiders and Chiefs, 2 NEW divisional games should be shown. Christmas week should host the revenge games of the prior year.
I wouldn’t be surprised if teams don’t start load managing.
Things always seem to get bigger never smaller.
Any games outside Sunday, Monday and Thanksgiving are a disgrace
When they announced those xmas day games, I immediately thought of that segment.
You knew, we had the chance to know. Show me the money!
Just give the bye week to the four teams playing on Christmas - two teams get bye weekend before the Christmas game, two teams get bye weekend after Christmas game. You can also have two of the teams play on the previous Thursday Night game and then two of the teams play the Thursday Night game the week after Christmas. The four teams playing on Christmas can be divisional opponents and flip them for each Thursday Night game. No team needs to play four or five days after of before Christmas.
How bout NO Xmas games. What an novel idea for Christians..if there are any in the league office.
49ers-Rams, Chiefs-Broncos, Ravens-Steelers
They could help more by having 4 or 6 team swapping opponents, play on Thur/Fri then Wed or Tues followed by Mon/Tues game, with a by week before or after the mid-week games. The players will take the risk or banged up players don't play and you have a lesser team vs 7 days rest, for the additional money and a percentage in their pockets maybe.
Nobody wants to work on Christmas
Work is not like normal working jobs for athletes though. Athletes play games. Middle class normal citizens actually work, blue collared hard core jobs for barely comfortable living, thats the difference. Especially hard when we have a democrat in the whitehouse lol
And we all know what the democrat party stands for. Corruption and fucking over the middle class by taxing the hell out of them in favor of illegals that come to this country for a free ride and our taxes go to them that we work hard for as hard working citizens so once again big difference than how it is for atheletes playing the game of football on a holiday which they are highly paid well for compared to us normal citizens so why not play on christmas? Theyve played on thanksgiving for years so whats the difference
You guys are calling out the NFL. John Facenda was great, with the classical music themes in the background. Then there was Harry Kalas, also a Philadelphia sports broadcaster doing NFL highlights. Terrific stuff.
Hope it isn't Cardinals again. They did it in 21 and 22.
It’s always about safety, unless it’s about money.
Florio we need you to look at the UFC business.. 80/20revenue share with no union or outside competing leagues for non ufc fighters and no protections from the Ali act like boxers.. How is that legal??
It's only a matter of time until they add more games and more teams. Every other sport is becoming a niche sport in the USA. Football in King.
Its ok real football on this Saturday. Yeah.
Roger Goodell needs to remember one thing: Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
Chris Rock Said it best "You will end up like the American Indian Believing White Men and Rules...
Facts
Extend the season to 20 games, give the teams 3 bye weeks and have a game every night.
There should be two byes already.
🦁
It's amazing how many media members (certain one on FS1), just parrot the League's ridiculous stats about short week injuries. Talk about turning a blind eye.
Not sure hot to feel about this. Yay more football but someone’s schedule is gonna be fucked up
who's schedule is gonna be "fucked up" lol the fans who are in no way forced to watch a game they're too busy for? the players who make millions of dollars who might be asked to come into work on a holiday just like anyone else with a job is potentially prone to?
why are people so melodramatic lol
@@mattcarberry368 bc someone will likely play on a Thursday or Friday before the Wednesday game and then that team will play its last game of the season 11 days after the fact. It’s a weird schedule
@@mattcarberry368did you just claim playing in the NFL is just like every other job? So you have no idea how violent and brutal contact is in the NFL? Less rest usually equates to more opportunity for injury. Playing an NFL football game is the equivalent of being in multiple car accidents.
@@paulieprinceton4550 ah yes that's why every Thursday Night players are just being carted off left and right as opposed to Sundays, right? there's literally zero data to back that up whatsoever, and Sat-Wed/Sun-Thurs are literally the exact same time frames..... yeah they once or twice a year have to play a game on shorter rest, forgive me if my response to that is "boo hoo" lol football "fans" love to whine about the supposed danger of that while simultaneously ignoring the fact that they essentially get a mini-bye week after and EXTRA rest after to account for it
and if playing football is like being in car accidents every week and the "safety" is such a raging concern for you, why are you even a fan? shouldn't you absolutely hate this sport if that's your take here?
and no it's not the same as any job, but don't ask me to sit around shedding crocodile tears for guys who worked their asses off to be where they are just because they're occasionally asked to come into work early then given almost an extra week off afterwards
like get a grip here, cut the melodrama lol i'm more and more convinced that most people around here don't even love football, they just love whining about it lol
@@maddrone7814 so your problem here is that a team might play a couple games with 5-6 days rest in between from a Thurs or Fri to a Wednesday, then have a week and a half rest before their next game????
yeah that sounds brutal 😐😐😐🙄🙄🙄 how could some of the greatest athletes on the planet possibly be able to survive that lol
Outrage and acquiescence don't mesh. But it's how we've learned to view the NFL.
it's not that i don't agree with the "NFL is greedy" general take, it's just that i can't subscribe to the notion that it's in any way specific or exclusive to the NFL lol this is how an overtly capitalist corporate driven society operates.... greed, profits, taking more and leaving less... this is literally how our entire society is designed to operate, and anyone who doesn't follow the perpetual growth of profit every quarter is essentially a "failure" in this model... if people have this energy for a sport we all LOVE watching, then i can't imagine how people feel about society in general lol
they *have* consistently taken steps to limit injury risk, and the fact that they consistently chase profit/growth like ANY business/corporation in America doesn't automatically negate that, two things can be true at once....but outside of simply NEVER playing football again it seems that this "greedy NFL doesn't care about the players" take will continue to be cheaply regurgitated by people who claim to be football fans but actually just get off on whining about everything the sport does
(again, imagine if people were coming with this energy on a daily basis towards the corporations who value low wage grunt workers health and well being below that of a 0.02% margin of profit increase... but instead we all sit around shedding crocodile tears for the millionaire athletes who worked their whole lives to be where they are because once or twice a year they're asked to play a football game with less rest lol because you know, nobody else is ever asked to come into work early or something, that's just outrageous huh)
IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE $$$
yeah ask the players association how much interest they have in forfeiting their share of the extra revenue from things like Amazon/TNF etc... like yeah everything is about money, the NFL is greedy, it's hilarious how people say this as if it's some groundbreaking revelation, or as if it's not true of basically the entire world and society in general.... what do you do for free? what income/profit do you turn down in your daily life? THIS ISN'T A TAKE ON THE NFL, it's just recognizing the foundation of overt capitalism our society is built on
Hell why don’t we play football 365.
They get paid plenty. The whole day should be football
Typical TNF gaps:
Sunday >>4 days>> Thursday >>>10 days>>> Sunday
Potential WNF gaps:
Sunday >>>10 days>>> Wednesday >>4 days>> Sunday
It's the same gaps, so this is a potential solution to front load the 'half-bye-week'.
More games, more nights,more opportunities for their betting "partners". More games in doubt.
Personally I don’t think the Christmas games this past season were that great. Defensive struggle in Kansas with the Raiders, Eagles last win, and the 49ers dominated. No really enthralling/epic games. So I don’t even think the players were giving their best efforts that day.
If the Raiders could get Kansas on their schedule a couple times a year, they might manage a winning record.
Coming in 5-10 years 20 game season.
Great it can't come quick enough for me ever since I've followed the NFL thought the season is ridiculously short!
Too much...I love football, family time is more important than sports. What about the players families?😊
Christmas and family don't exist with the NFL anymore. Nor does respecting our flag or our anthem. Unfortunately the NFL is too big to fail...and too many fans won't take a stand for true principles.
Football everyday will be a thing and the only people that will complain are ones that are still bitter over kneeling, aka people who never liked the sport to begin with cause that was 6 years ago
Chargers vs Chiefs & Bengals vs Eagles
More football = better.
Except it’s not more football, it’s the same number of games spread out over more days.
@@richmartin1427also better that’s one more day I’ll actually get to use my tv
20 week schedule with 2 bye weeks...games everyday
I would also give the players a fortnight break for Xmas and New Year pushing the SB back to late March or early April meaning a lot more cities have the chance to host a SB!
Here in the UK- football (soccer) teams play midweek games: the injury rates due to muscular injuries and fatigue are off the scale... those teams that are playing mid week European games for the first time are especially vulnerable.
I love football i wish it was everyday
That doesn't say much for you. We all enjoy ti but there are other things.
@@mrlaw711 speak for yourself i enjoy the escape for 4 hrs
Who would want to play on a Wednesday? Probably someone who likes to play on holidays. I’ll predict falcons vs saints for one of those games, not sure about the other one
Guaranteed I'll NOT be watching NFL or NBA on Christmas
wE cArE aBoUt PlAyEr SaFeTy
Definitely saturating the market
The Christmas games aren't just a money grab; it's also good for the fans. The fact that they are getting this much viewership means that people want to watch them.
It is tough on the players' schedules? Yup. Suck it up. If you get paid that much money to play, you play when it makes the most sense for the league and the fans.
First the NFL gets the American public to stop going to church in favor of watching their games, now it's trying to get Americans to forget about Jesus entirely. Disgusting.
Jesus would not be proud
Excellent news , We in the UK love NFL @ Xmas probably won't be as good as last year ..
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It’s so comical that Florio thinks he’s convincing people that he cares about the well-being of the players. He doesn’t are you kidding me?? He just LOVESSS to criticize others. It’s so obvious that he gets off on lashing out on others from his high horse. That’s Crystal clear
He’s a lawyer, outrage is his business.
When a team's squad is depleted significantly due to injury, then the quality of the product diminishes... too much of a good thing never ends well.
Not even a fan of Florio's obvious politics, but he's clearly a bleeding heart who cares.
You can enjoy criticizing others while also think you're defending people at the same time.
...and the few people who watched the NBA game will watch the NFL instead. The NBA will be crowded out.
They don't care about players safety they only care about dollars and more dollars and placating to people who do not like football
florio seems to think we're all degenerate gamblers who will watch any shit the NFL puts on TV, I've skipped alot of monday, thursday and sunday night games cause of the lousy teams playing.
I disagree with Wrignt’s take. The NFL will play 7 days a week and the people will watch. It’s the new religion in America for so many. Indeed. Surprised only 2 games. Thinking they’ll add another.
9:19 I share Mike’s opinion now that I’m 35 and older I’ve been a Giants fan for I guess close to 20 years if not at that mark. More people should be viewing this video and commenting because it’s really the truth you’re not gonna get this from ESPN or first pay or whatever BS show. Maybe the herd will talk about it but the point is as an adult you realize how terrible the NFL is the people and it’s just another corporation that’s trying to screw you in America.
Will they also sell Trump bibles for $59.99?
I already bought 5
Yes
Simms is terrible. Get him off the air
Hilarious that Florio calls out the NFL for its greediness here when he defended it last year when the league decided to put playoff games on Peacock streaming forcing people to pay for it just because he works for NBC.
Like they say money is the root of all evil I will never do the Amazon or peacock thing I don’t care who is playing you have to be crazy to pay to watch flag football
Well Mike, I listen to your show every day. I can confidently say that you seriously hate the NFL.
seems like most people in this room do too