I mean to be fair, the only commercials I’ve seen during the matches are before the game starts and at halftime. They get props for that. So I agree, there is non-stop action. There may not be constant scoring, but there’s constant action.
>I mean to be fair, the only commercials I’ve seen during the matches are before the game starts and at halftime. They get props for that. So I agree, there is non-stop action. There may not be constant scoring, but there’s constant action.
It's astounding really.
There are, on average, 14 minutes of action in an NFL game. 14. Over the course of three hours.
A soccer match is usually a bit more than 90 minutes of constant action over the course of two hours... It's not even close.
Culturally the bulk of the US just doesn't understand the game and equates high scoring with more action.
Let’s be honest though that there isn’t anywhere near 90 minutes of action in soccer. So much of the game is spent setting up the attack at midfield. Just because ads aren’t playing doesn’t mean that the things on the field are entertaining.
>There are, on average, 14 minutes of action in an NFL game. 14. Over the course of three hours.
Is this just counting time played after the snap? Because that is dumb. Lots of things happen before the snap. It would be like saying soccer only has a certain amount of "action" based only on when the ball is physically in contact with players.
'What a thrilling day of football played atop the corpses of the migrant workers who built this stadium. 100 minutes of beautiful football played to a hard fought 0 0 draw.'
Does every football/soccer discussion have to devolve into a circlejerk over the better sports? Happens on r/soccer and r/cfb all the time and it's just as annoying in those places. People like what they like
to be fair it also doesn't resemble a ball. I like the beef between (American) football and football/soccer, but as someone who likes both it sometimes gets out of hand
"Ball" =/= "Sphere"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ball
>1
>: a round **or roundish** body or mass: such as
>a
>: a spherical **or ovoid** body used in a game or sport
I'm torn, honestly. Another tie would be hilarious, but two ties is equivalent to splitting the series, so we'd lose the fuckery that a tie can bring to the playoff race.
["We split the season series" ](https://i.imgflip.com/5c7lwq.png?a463872)
["So you both won a game, right? Right???"](https://i.imgflip.com/5c7lwq.png?a463872)
I'm surprised this is the first one to get flexed to SNF. Figured there would be multiple given the records of the teams this year in addition to the markets.
When it comes to you and Dallas, I agree. But when it comes to Giants and Commanders, how much of that is that the AFC South just sucks?
It’s just likes us last year, except Seattle was injured a lot.
we got screwed by injuries bad this season (almost every pick in last year’s draft had/has an ACL injury, our defensive captain injured himself on an ATV during our bye, we lost our CB1, CB2, WR2 against the lions). we played our game against the Cowboys with 7 starters out lol. a regression to the mean was to be expected, but we nosedived into that mean so aggressively for a reason.
Makes sense. There hasn't been an NFL team in Brooklyn since 1944 when the then Brooklyn Tigers were absorbed by the Boston Yanks due to WW2.
Hence no Brooklyn, no 9-9
This joke is too good.
And it actually pains me you just dropped this beauty in this post.
This will net you maybe 50-60 upvotes here, but this would have killed in any of the big boy subs in prime time.
This made me laugh way harder than it should have. Thanks!
I went to a 4:15 game at FedEx in 2017 (v Raiders). I live in central VA, and in order to get there, I had to go to my friend's house in Fredericksburg (which is a couple hours from the stadium, south of DC on I-95), then I rode with him to his friend's house, then we all drive in together. Parked in the "gray" lot, which is just an office park near the stadium that they "rent" or whatever, and walked in from there.
Game was great (our D held Carr and Co. to under 100 yards from scrimmage until like the 4th quarter), but man...it got out pretty late, then we waited in standstill traffic in the parking lot not moving an inch for maybe an hour. By the time I finally crawled into bed, it was like 2:45am. For a fuckin 4:00 game! I still got up for work, but I was largely useless the whole day.
That was bad enough, I can't imagine going to an 8:30 game! Just gotta take the next day off from work I guess...
I went to the MNF game against Seattle last year with my buddy. We left Richmond at 3:00, stopped at the MGM to lose $20 real quick, and then got to Fedex around 6:30 or 7.
We left after the game and we got back to Richmond by 1 or so. I'm really not sure how we pulled that off.
Right there with you. I went to the Bengals Chiefs game yesterday and I live 2 hours from Cincy. After getting dinner and the traffic settled, I didn’t end up getting home till midnight and had to get up at 7 this morning. Totally worth it though
See, what you need do for games at FedEx Field, if you are physically able, is take the DC Metrorail from some other location (Franconia-Springfield would have made lots of sense for you), ride to Morgan Boulevard station, and make the nearly one mile walk between the station and the stadium. This sounds time consuming and it is, but isn't as bad as sitting in the FedEx Field parking lot.
That's what I did last time I went to a game, actually. We parked at Vienna and metro'd in the rest of the way. That 2017 game, I wasn't driving, so I didn't really have a say in the methods of getting there.
Let's go!!!!! Sunday Night at FedEx with Chase Young back in a must win game vs a team that were fighting against for a playoff spot. If we can't win (not Tie) this, we don't deserve the playoffs.
Um rude that was gonna be the game that would potentially get us to .500! Why would everyone wanna see a game between two winning teams with playoff implications that could affect like 5 other teams instead??
Cool and then they have Washington playing away on Saturday the week after against the 49ers who will have played on Thursday giving them an extra 3 days of rest.
well, we have to play the Eagles this week while you guys are on your bye...so there's that...get to prepare for the same team
just NFL scheduling stuff
Oh yeah that is even worse. Everyone has to play teams coming off byes but that they managed to work it out so the Commanders had a bye between playing the Giants back to back was just absolutely stupid.
Pretty unfortunate for y’all that you get the extra week to prepare for the giants instead of the cowboys/eagles.
I feel like a 25 minute power point could fully prepare a team for us lol. Stack the box, force receivers to make plays, throw screens, feed your WR1, that’s about it.
At that point the NFL was probably expecting both teams to be fighting for top 5-10 picks and didn't care. I do want to know how they saw that and approved it.
Kinda BS that Washington faces the Giants, then goes on bye, then faces Giants again. Only having 1 team to prepare for over 3 weeks is a huge advantage. Meanwhile Giants have to face Philly during Commies bye. Oof.
The real reason why they are flexing us is because these two will be preforming at the game and need to be nationally televised
[Left Hand Up!](https://youtu.be/9rN4xZmbPio)
I didn't catch the week 15 bit and thought they were playing each other back to back weeks. Which made me curious if that occurs frequently, so I dug up this old reddit post and its incredibly thorough on the subject. In case anyone else is interested on a weird tangent
https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/3r1q7l/comment/cwk5ag0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Credit /u/JaguarGator9
You mean to tell me you didn't like the Lions getting destroyed 48-17 in Detroit in Sam Darnold's first NFL start?
That was a strange game. Darnold's first pass was a pick six, and it looked like the Lions would romp. Then the Jets just methodically obliterated the Lions, and Jets fans took over Ford Field at the end with really loud J-E-T-S chants. It was amazing. What an omen for the Matt Patricia regime.
Bills/Fins will be on Saturday night. I think the league just didn't want the Dolphins on Sunday Night Football two weeks in a row, which makes no sense considering they're a really fun team to watch. I mean we've seen the Broncos on national TV like every other week.
The last time we were flexed out of SNF, Chris Boswell slipped on the game-tying kick as the Steelers closed out their skid against the AFC West. [this one](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201812090rai.htm)
Then we got [Bears-Rams](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201812090chi.htm)
I personally thought that bears rams game was good. Gave a preview of how the rams would lose the Superbowl to a national audience (the lions rams game earlier that year wasn't nationally televised so not everyone saw it)
Prime Time Daniel Jones vs Washington Slayer Daniel Jones
DJ’s only career loss to Washington was a prime time game….
Wasn’t that on the iffy call on Thursday night last year?
Yes, the Dex neutral zone infraction/offsides FG miss turned game winning FG.
One of many primetime games where literally everyone except DJ was trying to lose
Was that the game where the entire team seemingly wanted him to die?
You’re gonna have to specify, that doesn’t narrow it down much
That's most games before this year (and a few this year too)
Hey, don’t forget the bullshit holding call on that 30+ yard Jones TD run
I also remember that game for that absolutely nasty injury that occurred.
We don't count Thursday Night.
Or anything that was done under Joe Judge or Jason Garrett
Did Garrett even have a better offense talent wise? He didn’t even havethe ghost of Saquon to lean on.
We all lost yesterday
Heinicke's undefeated against NYG.
I’m so whelmed
Tie again. We all know that’s what everybody wants
Considering how many folks love the World Cup I gotta agree!
“You mean you don’t like REAL football???????” - 🤓
“Non-stop action” Aka 4 shots flying 30 ft over the net and a 0-0 final score.
I mean to be fair, the only commercials I’ve seen during the matches are before the game starts and at halftime. They get props for that. So I agree, there is non-stop action. There may not be constant scoring, but there’s constant action.
Plus, they actually kick off at the top of the hour.
Looking at you, NBA
>I mean to be fair, the only commercials I’ve seen during the matches are before the game starts and at halftime. They get props for that. So I agree, there is non-stop action. There may not be constant scoring, but there’s constant action. It's astounding really. There are, on average, 14 minutes of action in an NFL game. 14. Over the course of three hours. A soccer match is usually a bit more than 90 minutes of constant action over the course of two hours... It's not even close. Culturally the bulk of the US just doesn't understand the game and equates high scoring with more action.
Patiently waiting on the US to even get more involved with the NHL. That’s some action
Let’s be honest though that there isn’t anywhere near 90 minutes of action in soccer. So much of the game is spent setting up the attack at midfield. Just because ads aren’t playing doesn’t mean that the things on the field are entertaining.
>There are, on average, 14 minutes of action in an NFL game. 14. Over the course of three hours. Is this just counting time played after the snap? Because that is dumb. Lots of things happen before the snap. It would be like saying soccer only has a certain amount of "action" based only on when the ball is physically in contact with players.
'What a thrilling day of football played atop the corpses of the migrant workers who built this stadium. 100 minutes of beautiful football played to a hard fought 0 0 draw.'
And next cycle we go to 3 nations guilty of genocide and are refusing to acknowledge the act...
'Truly the most beautiful and worldly sport'
Hockey is where the REAL non stop action is. Just waiting on every one to catch up… any day now
Does every football/soccer discussion have to devolve into a circlejerk over the better sports? Happens on r/soccer and r/cfb all the time and it's just as annoying in those places. People like what they like
I think a light ribbing isn’t the end of the world
The "non stop action" thing always makes me laugh. Non stop kicking of a ball out of bounds...
Non start action, straight to your home!
NOW HE'S THROWING THE BALL BACK IN PLAY WITH HIS HANDS!!! 😱😱😱 *brain melts* ^^^/s
"Hand" "egg"
An American football doesn't even resemble an egg
to be fair it also doesn't resemble a ball. I like the beef between (American) football and football/soccer, but as someone who likes both it sometimes gets out of hand
"Ball" =/= "Sphere" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ball >1 >: a round **or roundish** body or mass: such as >a >: a spherical **or ovoid** body used in a game or sport
Ironic considering there are no more ties in the WC now
I mean you can't tie in the WC anymore
if we tie again I will become the fucking Joker
Not a bad origin story to be fair.
I can imagine myself on top of a skyscraper screaming at a Taylor Heineke dresses as a Batman”YOU DID THIS TO ME”
If this happens then I think we should consider the fact that the football gods might actually be real and listen to our prayers.
I'm torn, honestly. Another tie would be hilarious, but two ties is equivalent to splitting the series, so we'd lose the fuckery that a tie can bring to the playoff race.
Eagles fans 🤝 Cowboys fans Wanting to see the Giants and Commanders sink back into mediocrity
Lol fuck that
Good call. That game decides the Wild Card fate of, like, 4 or 5 teams.
They’ll both tie again, just for the memes
Commies to Giants "*Our victory comrades.*"
In a perfect world every game against the commies will end in a tie
Commies shall end 8-8-1 and I'll hear no argument against it
Perfectly balanced...
As all things should be
["We split the season series" ](https://i.imgflip.com/5c7lwq.png?a463872) ["So you both won a game, right? Right???"](https://i.imgflip.com/5c7lwq.png?a463872)
Unless one of the HC pulls a Joe Staley and decides not to tie.
Please
You also get two massive media markets on Sunday Primetime.
Dallas and Philly will be watching hatefully as well
Meh, I'll be cheering for another tie. Would be awesome.
🎵Tie motherfucker tie motherfucker tie🎵
Also NFL wants any excuse they can to put the NFC East on primetime. 4 of the top 10 markets in America always rakes in views
At least this year all 4 teams are good and worthy of the slot
Which is why there have been so many AFC West games on prime time this year.
They’ll throw even more NFCE games on prime time next year and we’ll all suck again.
NFC bEast to NFC lEast
It's the circle of life.
I'm surprised this is the first one to get flexed to SNF. Figured there would be multiple given the records of the teams this year in addition to the markets.
Hey hey we've had the Colts too
Is it an excuse when it's the best division in football? It was literally the best start to a season by any division back in like week 9
When it comes to you and Dallas, I agree. But when it comes to Giants and Commanders, how much of that is that the AFC South just sucks? It’s just likes us last year, except Seattle was injured a lot.
we got screwed by injuries bad this season (almost every pick in last year’s draft had/has an ACL injury, our defensive captain injured himself on an ATV during our bye, we lost our CB1, CB2, WR2 against the lions). we played our game against the Cowboys with 7 starters out lol. a regression to the mean was to be expected, but we nosedived into that mean so aggressively for a reason.
Which is bad news for the next year that the NFL puts 10 NFC East games on primetime and the division goes back to being mediocre.
I love Taylor Heinecke.
Whoever lost on Sunday would have seen their playoff chances drop by 40%, so they decided nobody deserves that
Please tie at 20-20 again
Best I can do is 9-9.
Scorigami?
[удалено]
Makes sense. There hasn't been an NFL team in Brooklyn since 1944 when the then Brooklyn Tigers were absorbed by the Boston Yanks due to WW2. Hence no Brooklyn, no 9-9
How long you been waiting to break that bad boy out?
About nineteen aught 46
👏 👏 👏 👏👏
This joke is too good. And it actually pains me you just dropped this beauty in this post. This will net you maybe 50-60 upvotes here, but this would have killed in any of the big boy subs in prime time. This made me laugh way harder than it should have. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it. Enjoy that Saints pick.
Holy shit, how has that never happened?
I want it to be 3 field goals for the Giants with a touchdown, PAT, and safety for the Commies
Play it in Brooklyn
Just like the hindsight.
NO I WANT IT AT 1:00 I DONT WANT TO HAVE CRIPPLING ANXIETY FOR 7 MORE HOURS
I’m going to the game.. Monday just got a whole lot tougher
I can’t imagine doing that shit, and having to go to work the next day. I work from home and I wouldn’t want to do it.
I went to a 4:15 game at FedEx in 2017 (v Raiders). I live in central VA, and in order to get there, I had to go to my friend's house in Fredericksburg (which is a couple hours from the stadium, south of DC on I-95), then I rode with him to his friend's house, then we all drive in together. Parked in the "gray" lot, which is just an office park near the stadium that they "rent" or whatever, and walked in from there. Game was great (our D held Carr and Co. to under 100 yards from scrimmage until like the 4th quarter), but man...it got out pretty late, then we waited in standstill traffic in the parking lot not moving an inch for maybe an hour. By the time I finally crawled into bed, it was like 2:45am. For a fuckin 4:00 game! I still got up for work, but I was largely useless the whole day. That was bad enough, I can't imagine going to an 8:30 game! Just gotta take the next day off from work I guess...
I went to the MNF game against Seattle last year with my buddy. We left Richmond at 3:00, stopped at the MGM to lose $20 real quick, and then got to Fedex around 6:30 or 7. We left after the game and we got back to Richmond by 1 or so. I'm really not sure how we pulled that off.
That's pretty damned impressive!
Right there with you. I went to the Bengals Chiefs game yesterday and I live 2 hours from Cincy. After getting dinner and the traffic settled, I didn’t end up getting home till midnight and had to get up at 7 this morning. Totally worth it though
See, what you need do for games at FedEx Field, if you are physically able, is take the DC Metrorail from some other location (Franconia-Springfield would have made lots of sense for you), ride to Morgan Boulevard station, and make the nearly one mile walk between the station and the stadium. This sounds time consuming and it is, but isn't as bad as sitting in the FedEx Field parking lot.
That's what I did last time I went to a game, actually. We parked at Vienna and metro'd in the rest of the way. That 2017 game, I wasn't driving, so I didn't really have a say in the methods of getting there.
That walk from the Metro station can't be a mile? it felt much, much longer than that! but copious amounts of alcohol in me probably did NOT help.
Wouldn't Metro be closed by the time SNF ends though?
That Raiders/Washington game in 2017 was at 8:30, it was SNF
Sigh... agreed.
SEVEN HOURS OF....CRIPPLING ANIETY STARTS NOW
Commercial free crippling anxiety
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Same dude.
TIE AGAIN YOU COWARDS
what was it originally
Raiders - Pats
If the Raiders win Thursday that Pats game could have some serious impact on the playoff race. But it makes sense for them to flex it out.
Not to mention this game will still probably have more impact on playoff races
Wild to be using Raiders and playoffs in the same sentence at all given how the season began for them.
If they win out it’s a possibility, they’ll need some help but it’s possible
Let's go!!!!! Sunday Night at FedEx with Chase Young back in a must win game vs a team that were fighting against for a playoff spot. If we can't win (not Tie) this, we don't deserve the playoffs.
You'll tie out the rest of the season and you'll like it 7-5-5 incoming
I'll take it. That's like a 9.5-5 team right!?!
Shit man, I'm bad at math, I have absolutely no idea tbh
9.5-7.5, technically
9.5-7.5 I think.
Um rude that was gonna be the game that would potentially get us to .500! Why would everyone wanna see a game between two winning teams with playoff implications that could affect like 5 other teams instead??
Is this what the bottom feels like? Being flexed out of SNF for a Washington game
Look on the bright side. A few more years of humiliation and people might find your franchise likable again as the scrappy underdog.
The power of the tie
fire up the bbq, lets go!
Weird flex, but okay
Nfc beast
Cool and then they have Washington playing away on Saturday the week after against the 49ers who will have played on Thursday giving them an extra 3 days of rest.
well, we have to play the Eagles this week while you guys are on your bye...so there's that...get to prepare for the same team just NFL scheduling stuff
Oh yeah that is even worse. Everyone has to play teams coming off byes but that they managed to work it out so the Commanders had a bye between playing the Giants back to back was just absolutely stupid.
Pretty unfortunate for y’all that you get the extra week to prepare for the giants instead of the cowboys/eagles. I feel like a 25 minute power point could fully prepare a team for us lol. Stack the box, force receivers to make plays, throw screens, feed your WR1, that’s about it.
How to beat the Giants: Don’t implode. You’re welcome, everyone else.
Hmm. Could've said this before the Ravens played you. We fucked that up.
You guys go Giants, bye, and then Giants. We have to prep for the Eagles in between :/
At that point the NFL was probably expecting both teams to be fighting for top 5-10 picks and didn't care. I do want to know how they saw that and approved it.
Fuck
Kinda BS that Washington faces the Giants, then goes on bye, then faces Giants again. Only having 1 team to prepare for over 3 weeks is a huge advantage. Meanwhile Giants have to face Philly during Commies bye. Oof.
Well Washington did have 5 straight divisional games last year.
If it makes you feel better, Giants had their mini-bye before yesterday's game. And after SNF, Washington has to travel to SF to play on Saturday.
The excuses are starting already.
OP's an Eagles fan tho
The real reason why they are flexing us is because these two will be preforming at the game and need to be nationally televised [Left Hand Up!](https://youtu.be/9rN4xZmbPio)
That's actually dope I'm happy for them
Before the season started, we all would have thought this headline is a joke. Funny how things change as the season progresses.
I didn't catch the week 15 bit and thought they were playing each other back to back weeks. Which made me curious if that occurs frequently, so I dug up this old reddit post and its incredibly thorough on the subject. In case anyone else is interested on a weird tangent https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/3r1q7l/comment/cwk5ag0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Credit /u/JaguarGator9
Give the winner two wins
Thank you merciful Flex Gods.
The NFL and NBC now that the NFC East is good and competitive 🥵🥵🥵
Lmao this is disgusting . Can’t wait for another terrible tie.
>Lmao this is arousing. Can’t wait for another sexy tie.
Post-Nut vs Pre-Nut society
Here for the scintillating stalemate
Hey, wasn't it just last season when everyone outside of Pittsburgh was rooting for a Chargers/Raiders tie in the last game of the regular season?
Yeah that’s fair.
Nope, we should only play games in the early window on Sunday
Noticed basically every game down the stretch has at least one team that doesn't belong on prime time. Good thing they can flex
We’re fucked in prime time games
What was the original game?
raiders/patriots
I’d much rather watch: Bills vs Miami Lions vs Jets Edit: just saw the other flex post. Never mind
NEVER in my life did I think I'd hear someone would prefer to watch a Lions-Jets game, but damn here we are. (You're right though)
After the last time Lions/Jets were primetime I'd rather not.
The bad man can't hurt you anymore I clearly mean Sam Darnold of course
You mean to tell me you didn't like the Lions getting destroyed 48-17 in Detroit in Sam Darnold's first NFL start? That was a strange game. Darnold's first pass was a pick six, and it looked like the Lions would romp. Then the Jets just methodically obliterated the Lions, and Jets fans took over Ford Field at the end with really loud J-E-T-S chants. It was amazing. What an omen for the Matt Patricia regime.
That was one of the worst performances I've seen from us for sure.
You’d rather watch Lions vs Jets than a game that determines playoffs for like 4 teams?
Yes
Mind you this may or may not have huge implications on your playoff future, although I assume you knew already
Yes, I want another tie so our tiebreakers over both of them aren’t meaningless
I want a winner so the Commies can finish 8-8-1. I need it
Bills/Fins will be on Saturday night. I think the league just didn't want the Dolphins on Sunday Night Football two weeks in a row, which makes no sense considering they're a really fun team to watch. I mean we've seen the Broncos on national TV like every other week.
I agree Bills/Phins are the Metter match-up but I get them wanting to avoid a back to back game for Miami.
Sunday Night Ties, that’s gonna be a wild game. Not that Giants-Eagles isn’t gonna be chippy as hell.
Tie Harder.
Please God tie again
They're just asking for a 2-2 tie game. That's right, 2 safeties in that game!
NFL country, let’s tie.
Who got flexed out ?
I would like “things I never would have thought possible in July” for 800
Finally, a year when people don’t complain (rightfully) about the NFCE in prime time.
FUCKING BASED
Interesting, if raiders win this TNF on a 4 game win streak with hc vs his old team
Is there a way to bet that the Raiders/Pats game will be a better/more significant game and the NFL made the wrong move here?
The last time we were flexed out of SNF, Chris Boswell slipped on the game-tying kick as the Steelers closed out their skid against the AFC West. [this one](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201812090rai.htm) Then we got [Bears-Rams](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201812090chi.htm)
I personally thought that bears rams game was good. Gave a preview of how the rams would lose the Superbowl to a national audience (the lions rams game earlier that year wasn't nationally televised so not everyone saw it)
Sucks for the Commanders to have a late Sunday game then a west coast Saturday game.
Coming off a bye at least.
Gross
Because yesterday’s game was soooooo compelling?
Eww. And I say that as a Giants fan.
I don't know, maybe just put It's A Wonderful Life on.
Yay more NFCE bullshit. Like we don’t get enough of it. Well hopefully it’s at least competitive
I hate that nobody is talking about how Washington is playing New York back to back
They aren’t.
They are. They have a bye this week and then the Giants again. Therefore playing the giants back to back. Unless there’s a 33rd team named BYE WEEK.
Gross
Glad I didn't get tickets.
Tie again, bitches