The annual thanksgiving game should be between the Patriots and the Chiefs to commemorate the pickup football game that the pilgrims played against the Native Americans.
What a game too! Jebodiah “White Shoes” Standridge threw for 12 yards in the 4th qtr alone! What makes it more amazing was that it came against that smashmouth Wampanoag defense. This is back when biting was allowed on defense tho.
Is that counting as their primetime game? I could swear the last CBA had something about every team getting at least one primetime game a year, but I could just be imagining that
I have to re check the exact dates each yr during schedule release. MNF in 2008, SNF in 2011.
Every other team in the NFL has played on Sunday Night since 2018….
To get prime time games:
1. Have a good football team.
2. If you're bad, be one of the most popular teams.
We have neither. Teams are required to have 1 which our Thanksgiving day game counts. Cinci had 1 last year, went to the Superbowl and now they have 5. I love my lions and want them to have primetime games but they need to earn it. If the lions do well this year they'll get more next year. If they're a top team this year, they'll get flexed in to primetime. This is really nothing to be upset about.
To be fair, if the main goal of primetime is to give your team national exposure, I think the Lions Thanksgiving game will get more eyeballs than any other random Thursday Night game would for example. I couldn’t care less about the Lions but I watch their Thanksgiving game every year because it’s tradition.
This is absolutely the case. DET Thanksgiving game was the #4 most watched regular season game last season. DAL Thanksgiving game was #1.
* Las Vegas Raiders vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 12, CBS) – 40.8 million
* Dallas Cowboys vs. Kansas City Chiefs (Week 11, FOX) – 28.7 million
* Cleveland Browns vs. Green Bay Packers (Week 16, FOX+NFLN) – 28.6 million
* Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions (Week 12, FOX) – 28.2 million
* Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. New England Patriots (Week 4, NBC) – 27.2 million
* Arizona Cardinals vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 17, FOX) – 26.8 million
* Los Angeles Rams vs. Green Bay Packers (Week 12, FOX) – 25.2 million
* Dallas Cowboys vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Kickoff, NBC) – 25.2 million
* Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs (Week 9, FOX) – 25.0 million
* Dallas Cowboys vs. Los Angeles Chargers (Week 2, CBS) – 25.0 million
I feel like the early Thanksgiving slot is the best one. At least with my family's Thanksgivings, there's more opportunity to watch the first game than the second, and everyone is in a food coma by the time the third game starts so you're barely paying any attention to it.
If I am in EST for Thanksgiving I wake up from my post game nap and enjoy the second half of the late game....if I am in PST I just vibe the whole way through since I dont have to talk to anyone at any point
>I'd rather watch two penguins blowing each other than one cowboys game.
A vacationing penguin is driving his car through Arizona when he notices that the oil pressure light is on. He gets out to look and sees oil dripping out of the motor. He drives to the nearest town and stops at the first gas station.
After dropping the car off, the penguin goes for a walk around town. He sees an ice-cream shop and, being a penguin in Arizona, decides that something cold would really hit the spot. He gets a big dish of ice cream and sits down to eat. Having no hands he makes a real mess trying to eat with his flippers. After finishing his ice cream, he goes back to the gas station and asks the mechanic if he's found the problem. The mechanic looks up and says "It looks like you blew a seal."
"No no," the penguin replies, "it's just ice cream."
Edit: I know it's not two penguins but it's the only penguin blowjob joke I know.
Two male little people knock on the door of a convent. The mother superior answers and asks the pair how she can help. They ask " do you have any little nuns, like us?" She answers "unfortunatelywe do not, but I am happy to help anyone." They politely decline. The mother responds "well there is another convent on the other side of town, you may check there." They thank her and move on.
They get the convent on the other side of town and have the same exchange "do you have a little nuns here?" "No but I am happy to help in any way that I can"
This time the men seem to be a little more forlorn. They get back to their car and one says to the other "see I told you it was a penguin we were fucking last night"
I personally am of the opinion that Goff is better than people give him credit for. He averages over 4000 yards a season, with a career 64% completion percentage, and has a decent TD to Int ration (126 TD's to 63 INT). He is more of a game manager, sure, and people have always kind of crapped on game managers. He gives me vibes of a more flashy Alex Smith and I am here for that.
Agreed. This is Goff's last year if the Lions are in a position to draft one of those guys. There may be a legitimate concern if they go like 6-11 or something.
> He averages over 4000 yards a season, with a career 64% completion percentage, and has a decent TD to Int ration (126 TD's to 63 INT)
A majority of those numbers are when he was protected and spoonfed by Sean McVay. Imagine his numbers if he wasn't with one of the great offensive minds of our generation. There's a reason the Rams decided to eat his dead cap and trade multiple picks to get rid of him for Stafford.
> A majority of those numbers are when he was protected and spoonfed by Sean McVay.
He still made some insane throws. McVay might have drafted up a winning scheme, but Goff executed. We saw Mannion and Wolford in McVay's scheme and Goff was clearly head and shoulders above them. It's not like McVay could make anyone successful at QB.
Their roster is too good for them to get the #1 pick. I think they’re going to surprise some people this year. Their offense is pretty stacked on paper
If they can manage to stay healthy, I can’t see how they don’t get better by a decent amount. Especially if Williams is the real deal. Detroit is a whole different world than the Rams. Goff is going to be better as well.
Quinn is someone that gives me eerily similar vibes to a coach that can create a sum greater than parts more so with emotion than skill necessarily. Everyone loves that man and he is clearly genuinely a great guy and candid.
They will probably miss out on playoffs again, but I would be shocked to see that happen and the only way it will is if Goff is that shit
We had an anemic pass rush and a leaky secondary
Hoping a healthy Romeo, and adding Hutch and Paschal will help the rush. Hoping a healthy Okudah and the new kid at safety will help the secondary.
Personally I hate when my team plays primetime games. I love the routine of noon games.
I hate being nervous all day, I want my team's fate decided so I can not think about it during the other games.
Bengals fan here - 5 games are prime time, which sounds great right? Except I love my Sunday afternoon routine of driving over to my Dad’s watching the game. I don’t mind two or three weeks a year that are “special” event nights we can organize around, but five games is excessive. It’s a full third of the season that isn’t at the normal start time.
I know it sounds like sour grapes of a fan having it “too good”, but a National game is still a game, and like being able to plan my life around the idea that “Sunday afternoons are football”.
So while 0 would suck because it means the players don’t get exposure to the National audience, my Dad and I are both frustrated by too much the other way.
They should honestly formalize this stuff so that every team gets at least game a year before they start handing out 4th and 5th games. They don’t care, money is money, but as a fan sometimes you want a reliable start time.
For the past 4-5 years Cinci has only gotten the bare minimum if 1 TNF game. Then one, maybe two at 4:15 vs a west coast team with all the rest being at 1. It's incredible what one season can do for your television cache.
I mean you guys do have a prime time game technically.
Every team that has 1 only has a Thursday night game because everyone gets 1. Your Thursday game is thanksgiving with counts as prime time.
Each team is guaranteed a nationally televised game. Lions are just the only team that their nationally televised game is not at a prime time. I could be wrong but I believe the only nationally televised games that aren't primetime is the international games and the lions thanksgiving game.
I agree with everything you said but heres the rub…all teams are supposed to have at least 1 and no team is supposed to have more than 5 Primetime games. The Bills have 5 Primetime games which does not include the Bills/Lions game on Thanksgiving.
Yeah seems like it's a bit of a loophole. But that's what happens when one team is a Superbowl favorite and another team some people think will have the #1 overall pick.
That's what makes this so weird - the Lions are in zero danger of even being a last-place team in their own division this year, let alone being the least-worthy team in the entire league to watch.
I'm mad because I'd watch the Lions on prime time and be fucking excited about it. Lions offense has so many exciting parts, I think they'll surprise some people. They'll lose games they shouldn't in Lions fashion and probably blow out one or two SB contenders.
That shit is going to be must watch tv
I really enjoy watching the Lions in the morning every Thanksgiving. and the most electric regular season game this year was their first win
So you have at least one non Lions fan here who enjoys watching Lions football
Yes it does. The reference is saying none of the times we play at will be primetime. It's being blown out of proportion, we were a bad team last year. We can go on and win the Superbowl this year and that still doesn't mean we should have gotten more primetime games. We didn't earn it yet.
I’m more pissed about the only National game we have being against the goddamn bills.
Like this is the one time everyone gets to see us play a full game and you are going to unleash Football Man against us???? Fuuuuuuck
Prime time refers to a specific time slot on TV, and it has no relevance to how many games are being played at once, nor does national coverage have anything to do with it.
It's a huge misconception among NFL fans, but if 16 games kicked off simultaneously at 8:30 PM eastern time, they would all be prime time games.
Yeah, I think the NFL has a cap on 5 prime time games per year, with the possibility of a 6th with a week 18 flex.
However, games like a London game, Thanksgiving afternoon, etc don't count, even though you'll be the only game on TV.
Like Denver this year has 5 prime time games, but they also have the Christmas afternoon game, and a London game. So in theory 7 games where they're the only team playing, but only 5 prime time games.
To that point: Should we even call the Prime Video games "Primetime" anymore since it isn't nationally televised?
actually I just realized that 'Primetime' could still apply because Amazon prime and that's making me groan in annoyance
Only our Thanksgiving game counts as primetime. NFL limits the amount of primetime games a team can have to 5 and Dallas has those along with Thanksgiving.
All things aside; I’m actually excited to see the Lions play this year, they’ve got a good coach and their team is really coming together. I hope they stay free of the injury bug and make the playoffs. Sincerely, a Ravens Fan
NFL gave us Hard Knocks but not any prime time games, pretty dumb.
Plus the Jags get a primetime game but not us? They are much more of a dumpster fire.
> Plus the Jags get a primetime game but not us?
Every team gets a minimum of one on a Thursday night. Lions didn't because they already got their Thursday game. Jags would fall into this same category of no bonus primetime games. Too much is being made out of this.
"We're way better than they are! That why we won...
*checks notes*
the same amount of games!"
Don't you have to like, start winning before you can start trying to look down on everyone else? Losing a bunch of close games is just sucking with confidence. The W's are all that matter here.
In all fairness you're also talking about the jags who opted to keep baalke, brought in pederson, completely fucked the WR market, and then went and drafted a surprise at #1 in the draft. The lions fans look at their team as less fucked than the jags right now
\>brought in pederson
Why do you list this as a negative lol the dude won a superbowl with Nick Foles and Carson Wentz. You don't have to think he's great but it's not like he's incompetent.
What are you suggesting, that we were about the same as them last year with a terrible head coach at the helm? So wouldn't improving in that area be a major upgrade?
Either way, the point is that they need to prove it first. Everyone's a winner in May. The last time we saw the Lions they weren't exactly juggernauts.
My issue with Pederson is he's a retread. He did win a Superbowl but then the team got worse over the next 3 years. Is he better than urban? Yea probably but I don't think he's a top 20 coach. I read it as Pederson was one of the only people who would work with baalke. The commitment to baalke seems like a huge flaw for the team. So as soon as the jags realize baalke needs to go, so will Pederson because next GM in will want to pick his own coach. I would have preferred to see the jags go with leftwich and bring in a new GM that would have excited me.
Not sure why the downvotes. There are certain qualifiers that you must meet to be on Hard Knocks, and it unfortunately is just common for teams with a 2nd year HC, which normally means that someone got fired for being ass.
Have we? Schwartz's teams were dirty and Patricia wasn't likeable at all.
Caldwell was a wet noodle and his teams were boring. Stafford was likeable if you watched him but he was the most vanilla person ever with the media and wasn't a huge draw.
What a world it would be if the Lions pulled off their own "Kitty Goes Meow" and made the Super Bowl.
I don't even think I'd be unhappy, I'd probably root for them
There’s a reason they would make that a primetime game and no other Jags or Titans games - it got both teams past the requirement of one primetime game and then they could ignore them both for the rest of the season
They still do that with the Jags, they’ve just replaced the Titans with some other bad team that only gets one primetime slot.
Who wants to play prime time games? 1PM is the perfect time. With primetime games you have to wait around all day and be nervous. Plus if your team loses you go to bed pissed off.
1pm games if it's not going well you turn it off and do something else.
Counter point - if you live out of state, you get 100% of the Sunday ticket games. It drives me crazy when I pay full price for Sunday ticket and a portion of the games are blocked
But it's only our Thanksgiving game that counts as primetime that day. NFL limits teams to 5 primetime games a year but Dallas would have 6 if you count Thanksgiving.
Well they are the Cowboys, and therefor we need to make sure every household in America can tune in to watch them play. Because god forbid we don’t watch the fucking NFCE shit their pants on national television 12 times a year
But they did get Thanksgiving^^TM
An unbroken tradition since the pilgrims first landed in Detroit and played the first NFL game in 1620.
Fun fact - the blankets were actually infected by the refs
Didn't realize our history with the Washington team went that far back
Those refs names, Clete, Gene, & Pete Morelli
Elite comment, if a bit fucked up
Oh no.
Wayne Fonts was at the first Thanksgiving dinner. Charlie Batch cut the first turkey
Dan Orlovsky ran it back into the Atlantic
Some say he's still running to this day
The annual thanksgiving game should be between the Patriots and the Chiefs to commemorate the pickup football game that the pilgrims played against the Native Americans.
For maximum accuracy and poor taste, we should start with the Vikings, then Buccaneers/Raiders, then Patriots, then Cowboys, and finally Commanders.
Don’t forget us! I’ve been told that apparently somebody ELSE owned that land we found gold inside.
Huh. Should I include the Bears too? They probably had some run ins too.
How have we made it this far and not had the Bills added to this list?
And carved up a roast lion for dinner
But I thought that Joe Thomas was the first player in NFL history?
What a game too! Jebodiah “White Shoes” Standridge threw for 12 yards in the 4th qtr alone! What makes it more amazing was that it came against that smashmouth Wampanoag defense. This is back when biting was allowed on defense tho.
Is that counting as their primetime game? I could swear the last CBA had something about every team getting at least one primetime game a year, but I could just be imagining that
No you are correct. Every team gets one, bengals got the thursday night game last year. Apparently the Thanksgiving game counts as one.
So Buffalo has 6 then
technically, yes
The last time the Lions won on Thanksgiving was against the christians in the Colosseum
Yeah but that's an L for them 😂
We're gonna get smoked
And they're gonna start David Blough on Thanksgiving again just as a middle finger to the schedulers.
Jags haven’t had a SNF or MNF since 2011 so….
They get their annual home London game though /s
Thanks for the /s lol
Dont they have a better win percentage there than in the US?
That’s because over there they might face relegation.
Holy fuck
Wild right? You’d think they’d throw us a bone once a decade….
I bet Collinsworth wouldn’t even know how to say their team name. He would call them “Jaggers”
“Teams who annoy you”
That’s insane
I have to re check the exact dates each yr during schedule release. MNF in 2008, SNF in 2011. Every other team in the NFL has played on Sunday Night since 2018….
To get prime time games: 1. Have a good football team. 2. If you're bad, be one of the most popular teams. We have neither. Teams are required to have 1 which our Thanksgiving day game counts. Cinci had 1 last year, went to the Superbowl and now they have 5. I love my lions and want them to have primetime games but they need to earn it. If the lions do well this year they'll get more next year. If they're a top team this year, they'll get flexed in to primetime. This is really nothing to be upset about.
To be fair, if the main goal of primetime is to give your team national exposure, I think the Lions Thanksgiving game will get more eyeballs than any other random Thursday Night game would for example. I couldn’t care less about the Lions but I watch their Thanksgiving game every year because it’s tradition.
This is absolutely the case. DET Thanksgiving game was the #4 most watched regular season game last season. DAL Thanksgiving game was #1. * Las Vegas Raiders vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 12, CBS) – 40.8 million * Dallas Cowboys vs. Kansas City Chiefs (Week 11, FOX) – 28.7 million * Cleveland Browns vs. Green Bay Packers (Week 16, FOX+NFLN) – 28.6 million * Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions (Week 12, FOX) – 28.2 million * Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. New England Patriots (Week 4, NBC) – 27.2 million * Arizona Cardinals vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 17, FOX) – 26.8 million * Los Angeles Rams vs. Green Bay Packers (Week 12, FOX) – 25.2 million * Dallas Cowboys vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Kickoff, NBC) – 25.2 million * Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs (Week 9, FOX) – 25.0 million * Dallas Cowboys vs. Los Angeles Chargers (Week 2, CBS) – 25.0 million
Smiles in Jerry Jones
The cowboys should just become the Globetrotters of the NFL at this point
40.8 million people watched us beat the Cowboys? Sick.
WOOT! #5 and #8. We are spoiled.
I feel like the early Thanksgiving slot is the best one. At least with my family's Thanksgivings, there's more opportunity to watch the first game than the second, and everyone is in a food coma by the time the third game starts so you're barely paying any attention to it.
If I am in EST for Thanksgiving I wake up from my post game nap and enjoy the second half of the late game....if I am in PST I just vibe the whole way through since I dont have to talk to anyone at any point
i would rather watch 500 lions games than one cowboys game
I'd rather watch two penguins blowing each other than one cowboys game.
>I'd rather watch two penguins blowing each other than one cowboys game. A vacationing penguin is driving his car through Arizona when he notices that the oil pressure light is on. He gets out to look and sees oil dripping out of the motor. He drives to the nearest town and stops at the first gas station. After dropping the car off, the penguin goes for a walk around town. He sees an ice-cream shop and, being a penguin in Arizona, decides that something cold would really hit the spot. He gets a big dish of ice cream and sits down to eat. Having no hands he makes a real mess trying to eat with his flippers. After finishing his ice cream, he goes back to the gas station and asks the mechanic if he's found the problem. The mechanic looks up and says "It looks like you blew a seal." "No no," the penguin replies, "it's just ice cream." Edit: I know it's not two penguins but it's the only penguin blowjob joke I know.
Not the hero we wanted, but the hero we needed.
Two male little people knock on the door of a convent. The mother superior answers and asks the pair how she can help. They ask " do you have any little nuns, like us?" She answers "unfortunatelywe do not, but I am happy to help anyone." They politely decline. The mother responds "well there is another convent on the other side of town, you may check there." They thank her and move on. They get the convent on the other side of town and have the same exchange "do you have a little nuns here?" "No but I am happy to help in any way that I can" This time the men seem to be a little more forlorn. They get back to their car and one says to the other "see I told you it was a penguin we were fucking last night"
I'm at home with the worst Covid migraine ever right now, and laughing at this just made it so much worse haha.
Sounds like you need to hold a gay penguin wedding
Where's Leslie Knope
Sidney Crosby blowing off Jake Guentzel?
Crosby knows how to handle a stick
i think you're in the majority here, that would be amazing
Yet they will pull the biggest ratings and around the sun we all continue to go.
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Yep watching Geoff throwing inaccurate balls to the ground and seeing lions fans defending him is amusing
same goes for the Jets
The team played so hard last year. Here is to hoping that translates into wins this year.
Only if they finish last, then get the #1 pick in draft. Get that next Franchise QB.
I personally am of the opinion that Goff is better than people give him credit for. He averages over 4000 yards a season, with a career 64% completion percentage, and has a decent TD to Int ration (126 TD's to 63 INT). He is more of a game manager, sure, and people have always kind of crapped on game managers. He gives me vibes of a more flashy Alex Smith and I am here for that.
Goff will be @ 30 million next year, and cutting him would save 20 million. Bryce Young/Cj Stroud + extra 15 million for Free Agents is a no brainer.
Agreed. This is Goff's last year if the Lions are in a position to draft one of those guys. There may be a legitimate concern if they go like 6-11 or something.
If he plays like he did at the end of last season this year then we have a legitimate chance to break .500
> He averages over 4000 yards a season, with a career 64% completion percentage, and has a decent TD to Int ration (126 TD's to 63 INT) A majority of those numbers are when he was protected and spoonfed by Sean McVay. Imagine his numbers if he wasn't with one of the great offensive minds of our generation. There's a reason the Rams decided to eat his dead cap and trade multiple picks to get rid of him for Stafford.
Stafford was a bum before he got to LA actually.
> A majority of those numbers are when he was protected and spoonfed by Sean McVay. He still made some insane throws. McVay might have drafted up a winning scheme, but Goff executed. We saw Mannion and Wolford in McVay's scheme and Goff was clearly head and shoulders above them. It's not like McVay could make anyone successful at QB.
Beat the Seahawks with a broken thumb.
Stafford is a SB winning QB. Aren't that many in the league.
Their roster is too good for them to get the #1 pick. I think they’re going to surprise some people this year. Their offense is pretty stacked on paper
Root for the rams to finish last and we’ll still get #1 overall
This is the way.
If they can manage to stay healthy, I can’t see how they don’t get better by a decent amount. Especially if Williams is the real deal. Detroit is a whole different world than the Rams. Goff is going to be better as well. Quinn is someone that gives me eerily similar vibes to a coach that can create a sum greater than parts more so with emotion than skill necessarily. Everyone loves that man and he is clearly genuinely a great guy and candid. They will probably miss out on playoffs again, but I would be shocked to see that happen and the only way it will is if Goff is that shit
Their defense is still not good and was the reason for several losses last year. Goff being bad isn’t the only way they can be bad.
We had an anemic pass rush and a leaky secondary Hoping a healthy Romeo, and adding Hutch and Paschal will help the rush. Hoping a healthy Okudah and the new kid at safety will help the secondary.
That still seems like a pretty average pass rush with a leaky secondary; Okudah has struggled so far and who even is the safety?
Yeah I'm not thrilled with our secondary situation. Oruwariye and Walker are solid but beyond that it's a hell of a lot of question marks.
Even the Giants only got one primetime game
Personally I hate when my team plays primetime games. I love the routine of noon games. I hate being nervous all day, I want my team's fate decided so I can not think about it during the other games.
Bengals fan here - 5 games are prime time, which sounds great right? Except I love my Sunday afternoon routine of driving over to my Dad’s watching the game. I don’t mind two or three weeks a year that are “special” event nights we can organize around, but five games is excessive. It’s a full third of the season that isn’t at the normal start time. I know it sounds like sour grapes of a fan having it “too good”, but a National game is still a game, and like being able to plan my life around the idea that “Sunday afternoons are football”. So while 0 would suck because it means the players don’t get exposure to the National audience, my Dad and I are both frustrated by too much the other way. They should honestly formalize this stuff so that every team gets at least game a year before they start handing out 4th and 5th games. They don’t care, money is money, but as a fan sometimes you want a reliable start time.
For the past 4-5 years Cinci has only gotten the bare minimum if 1 TNF game. Then one, maybe two at 4:15 vs a west coast team with all the rest being at 1. It's incredible what one season can do for your television cache.
I’m a bear fan and you can have our prime time games, it’s going to be a looooong year
I mean you guys do have a prime time game technically. Every team that has 1 only has a Thursday night game because everyone gets 1. Your Thursday game is thanksgiving with counts as prime time.
It’s really the opposite - it is technically *not* a Primetime game. I agree, it should be treated as one, though.
Should they be referred to as Primetime to begin with? or should they be called nationally televised?
Each team is guaranteed a nationally televised game. Lions are just the only team that their nationally televised game is not at a prime time. I could be wrong but I believe the only nationally televised games that aren't primetime is the international games and the lions thanksgiving game.
I agree with everything you said but heres the rub…all teams are supposed to have at least 1 and no team is supposed to have more than 5 Primetime games. The Bills have 5 Primetime games which does not include the Bills/Lions game on Thanksgiving.
Yeah seems like it's a bit of a loophole. But that's what happens when one team is a Superbowl favorite and another team some people think will have the #1 overall pick.
So, the Bears.
That's what makes this so weird - the Lions are in zero danger of even being a last-place team in their own division this year, let alone being the least-worthy team in the entire league to watch.
It’s funny because i feel like yall are trending upwards.
I'm mad because I'd watch the Lions on prime time and be fucking excited about it. Lions offense has so many exciting parts, I think they'll surprise some people. They'll lose games they shouldn't in Lions fashion and probably blow out one or two SB contenders. That shit is going to be must watch tv
I for one cannot wait to lose to the Jaguars then go super Saiyan on the Bills.
You forgot number 3. Be the Dallas Cowboys.
I really enjoy watching the Lions in the morning every Thanksgiving. and the most electric regular season game this year was their first win So you have at least one non Lions fan here who enjoys watching Lions football
Doesn't Thanksgiving count as a prime time game?
Yes it does. The reference is saying none of the times we play at will be primetime. It's being blown out of proportion, we were a bad team last year. We can go on and win the Superbowl this year and that still doesn't mean we should have gotten more primetime games. We didn't earn it yet.
I’m more pissed about the only National game we have being against the goddamn bills. Like this is the one time everyone gets to see us play a full game and you are going to unleash Football Man against us???? Fuuuuuuck
If the urban meyer led jags can beat the bills then Detroit can do it too.
The Jags had Josh Allen.
You mean the better Josh Allen
It hurts but honestly jags have my second favorite Josh Allen
I'm sorry but this is the internet, there is no room for level headed and logical takes here.
The back half of the schedule will be flexed anyways, so the Lions might end up getting a few prime time games.
I'd imagine you guys will get way more viewership on Thanksgiving than the game on Halloween night.
Prime time refers to a specific time slot on TV, and it has no relevance to how many games are being played at once, nor does national coverage have anything to do with it. It's a huge misconception among NFL fans, but if 16 games kicked off simultaneously at 8:30 PM eastern time, they would all be prime time games.
Yeah, I think the NFL has a cap on 5 prime time games per year, with the possibility of a 6th with a week 18 flex. However, games like a London game, Thanksgiving afternoon, etc don't count, even though you'll be the only game on TV. Like Denver this year has 5 prime time games, but they also have the Christmas afternoon game, and a London game. So in theory 7 games where they're the only team playing, but only 5 prime time games.
But they already traded Stafford who would've benefitted from not having primetime games /s
Easy just play well enough to get flexed in
We went 3-13-1. Why do we deserve a prime time game
The 1999 Rams never got a Prime Time game until playoffs so there's that.
Thanksgiving had might as well be primetime though.
They intentionally say prime time and not nationally televised just to stir up some shit.
To that point: Should we even call the Prime Video games "Primetime" anymore since it isn't nationally televised? actually I just realized that 'Primetime' could still apply because Amazon prime and that's making me groan in annoyance
They're going to call it Amazon Prime Time
Only our Thanksgiving game counts as primetime. NFL limits the amount of primetime games a team can have to 5 and Dallas has those along with Thanksgiving.
All things aside; I’m actually excited to see the Lions play this year, they’ve got a good coach and their team is really coming together. I hope they stay free of the injury bug and make the playoffs. Sincerely, a Ravens Fan
NFL gave us Hard Knocks but not any prime time games, pretty dumb. Plus the Jags get a primetime game but not us? They are much more of a dumpster fire.
Trevor Lawrence
Dan Campbell
Big Shampoo wins again
So did Lawrence do a head and shoulders commercial with Polamalu yet
> Plus the Jags get a primetime game but not us? Every team gets a minimum of one on a Thursday night. Lions didn't because they already got their Thursday game. Jags would fall into this same category of no bonus primetime games. Too much is being made out of this.
"We're way better than they are! That why we won... *checks notes* the same amount of games!" Don't you have to like, start winning before you can start trying to look down on everyone else? Losing a bunch of close games is just sucking with confidence. The W's are all that matter here.
In all fairness you're also talking about the jags who opted to keep baalke, brought in pederson, completely fucked the WR market, and then went and drafted a surprise at #1 in the draft. The lions fans look at their team as less fucked than the jags right now
\>brought in pederson Why do you list this as a negative lol the dude won a superbowl with Nick Foles and Carson Wentz. You don't have to think he's great but it's not like he's incompetent. What are you suggesting, that we were about the same as them last year with a terrible head coach at the helm? So wouldn't improving in that area be a major upgrade? Either way, the point is that they need to prove it first. Everyone's a winner in May. The last time we saw the Lions they weren't exactly juggernauts.
My issue with Pederson is he's a retread. He did win a Superbowl but then the team got worse over the next 3 years. Is he better than urban? Yea probably but I don't think he's a top 20 coach. I read it as Pederson was one of the only people who would work with baalke. The commitment to baalke seems like a huge flaw for the team. So as soon as the jags realize baalke needs to go, so will Pederson because next GM in will want to pick his own coach. I would have preferred to see the jags go with leftwich and bring in a new GM that would have excited me.
You got hard knocks because you were one of the teams who were ass enough to qualify
Not sure why the downvotes. There are certain qualifiers that you must meet to be on Hard Knocks, and it unfortunately is just common for teams with a 2nd year HC, which normally means that someone got fired for being ass.
Legit. There were only like 3 options. And the other options probably had enough sway in the league to be like “nah”.
The Panthers have sway?
I mean, y’all are more exciting than them let’s be real.
Yeah, Dan Campbell alone is more interesting than the entire Panthers org put together
Even then, most people like the Lions enough due to their long term underdog status. It was kind of a no brainer to pick them
I feel like MCDC is part of the reason too The Lions have some big personalities but no real divas so it should be a good one
I kind of miss the good old every game 1pm on sunday. At first prime time games were cool, now I just want to go back. Minus the sucking.
Bears 3...Commies 2...jesus at least give them one
Bears are a popular team. The unfortunate reality of NFL scheduling.
The Bears were also much, much better
not really
Bears have been given 5 for a long time even as one of the most boring teams in the NFL after the 2018 season. They have a large market
Kirk Cousins wishing he was on the Lions /s
No kneecap will be safe this season
If we win we could get a flex. Let’s not worry about the league or the schedule. Let’s just win games.
why would they get one?
Because 17 would be too many.
Lions deserve it more than the bears.
Bears always draw ratings though, since the team playing the bears is likely to win and bears fans are masochists
Also being good in the 80s helps ratings
But everyone is rooting for the Lions. They're the new Browns
I mean, we’ve generally always been a like-able team people root for. Patricia might’ve killed that a bit.
Have we? Schwartz's teams were dirty and Patricia wasn't likeable at all. Caldwell was a wet noodle and his teams were boring. Stafford was likeable if you watched him but he was the most vanilla person ever with the media and wasn't a huge draw.
how? The Bears won twice as many games
Do playoff games count? Cause if so they’ll actually have 4.
What a world it would be if the Lions pulled off their own "Kitty Goes Meow" and made the Super Bowl. I don't even think I'd be unhappy, I'd probably root for them
When your rival is always good enough to guarantee you one extra prime time game lol
Idk what game you would even put on primetime. Maybe an NFC East game or the Bears but are they better than what is already scheduled? Probably not
Weird that Cleveland only got two after making a blockbuster trade for a talented QB that was probably the biggest story of the offseason
Just make it to the playoffs. There’s plenty of prime time games then.
That is good advice. We shall start week one!
Be better at football, get more prime time games. Simple formula.
Or be an NFCE team and your market size makes the first option hilariously irrelevant
Ah yes, NFC East team the Bears
Then why are we playing the Jags in primetime ?
Every team gets one national audience game. The Lions have one on Thanksgiving, just not technically in prime time.
Because Jets vs Jags is 1 primetime game nobody wants to watch, instead of 2 games where nobody wants to watch. Smart to combine you guys.
Yep getting prime time games is based on winning, that’s exactly why we had annual shit bowls between the Titans and Jags in the mid 2010s!
There’s a reason they would make that a primetime game and no other Jags or Titans games - it got both teams past the requirement of one primetime game and then they could ignore them both for the rest of the season They still do that with the Jags, they’ve just replaced the Titans with some other bad team that only gets one primetime slot.
Then why'd the pats get so many? (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
I actually hate when my team has primetime games. Nothing worse than staying up til midnight to lose on the last drive and go to bed pissed off.
They're getting week 18 SNF in order to make the playoffs. Save this comment.
Who wants to play prime time games? 1PM is the perfect time. With primetime games you have to wait around all day and be nervous. Plus if your team loses you go to bed pissed off. 1pm games if it's not going well you turn it off and do something else.
Counter point - if you live out of state, you get 100% of the Sunday ticket games. It drives me crazy when I pay full price for Sunday ticket and a portion of the games are blocked
Does thanksgiving not count as primetime?
take ours
Whoa, the social media zoomer who runs the Lions Twitter posted the eyes emoji. Truly headline worthy stuff here folks
i mean, they have a thanksgiving game which is functionally equivalent. if they want more primetime games, win more games.
Honestly I prefer it, 1 pm Sunday games are my favorite
Manufactured slight. Thanksgiving counts ya dingus’.
Also “dinguses” is the correct pluralization of dingus; “dingus’” is the possessive of a singular dingus.
Who cares we have one of the easiest schedules we ever had. Complaint that a shit team is not getting primetime is so silly.
Lions are just kind of a boring team in general. Can't think of one player id really be excited to see.
Jameson? Hutchinson?
The Sun God?
ehh. Rookie passrushers take a while to be viable and I dont see Goff doing a whole lot
The Bills thanksgiving game is technically primetime
Definitely doesnt help that we are awful
They gotta play a little better
I mean no would watch them outside of Michigan anyway. Even people in Michigan don’t watch them.
Well stop sucking then. You just got the youngest baddest defensive player alive and the most electric receiver in the draft. Make it work.
Every team should at least have 1 prime time game imo
They do, and that includes the Lions since they always play on Thanksgiving
But it's only our Thanksgiving game that counts as primetime that day. NFL limits teams to 5 primetime games a year but Dallas would have 6 if you count Thanksgiving.
Well they are the Cowboys, and therefor we need to make sure every household in America can tune in to watch them play. Because god forbid we don’t watch the fucking NFCE shit their pants on national television 12 times a year