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Compared the crapfest we’re hearing today on CBS? Greg’s in a different league

Awful Announcing is running a poll for who the best TV announcer booths were (it's broken down by booth, so some individual names appear more than once if they had different partners over the season (or if they happened to handle any one-off games, like for Netflix) Let's see if we can ensure Greg is awarded his well-deserved "A" rating (and maybe tank/influence those who truly are horrible) https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/grade-announcer-booths-2024-season.html

Goddell is on record of saying that fans in the local markets will always get the games for free over broadcast stations, even if the games are on a streaming service for everyone else

There's a lot of culture building going on: From NBC Sports: Half of Carolina’s wins this year have happened in overtime. Quarterback Bryce Young now has five career wins; four have come via game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime.

So good so good so good Christmas came early pie

KEEEEEP......

And... a correction to almost everything I said earlier in the thread According to 506 Sports: the Fox network made the initial decision to air PHI-WSH. The way I understand it (and I may be wrong), the Greensboro and Greenville stations found out about it early enough to raise hell and get it changed. Raleigh and Wilmington did not. But the network makes the final decision.

The NFL won't allow broadcast partners to stream the games on their own. ie any local FOX station that does a streaming simulcast of their local programming has to blackout the NFL game from their stream configuration as they don't own the streaming rights for that content Can only imagine that the same rule applies to the teams themselves

Home markets are determined by DMA categorization. There are over 200 unique DMAs. A single broadcaster should be able to cover a single DMA area, so it's easiest to just say "a station's coverage area" rather than get into the specifics of how DMAs work. But here we are. Based on 2022-2023 data, Charlotte is #21 (ahead of Indy, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Nashville, Kansas City....), so definitely not "small market" compared to other NFL towns Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville/Anderson is #37 Greensboro/High Point/Winston Salem is #47 Greenville/New Bern/Washington NC is #102 It'd be weird for a single DMA to split NFL broadcast coverage. There'd have to be a place where stations would overlap (two FOX stations in the same house assigned to a single DMA region))

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It's gotten more complicated with the change of CBS and FOX no longer being exclusive AFC/NFC partners From a home team perspective, the NFL requires the home market (which is typically the broadcast reach of the station airing the game) to carry the game. For times where there is a conflict (let's say, FOX Charlotte is airing some major news event) then the broadcast will go to a local station that FOX Charlotte has an arrangement with -- like the CW, maybe. Only in super-rare instances would local FOX throw the game over to a major competitor like to WSOC/ABC. But it could happen This is how games that are "exclusive" to streaming will end up being broadcast by a local channel in those home team markets -- because the NFL wants the local market to be able to see the game. Amazon TNF games will always be available on some local channel in those teams' markets, for example. Or the upcoming Netflix games For TV markets that do not have a local team, then the local station gets to choose from what's available. Ideally, they'd choose a regional game or one that is close in the conference. In Atlanta, for example, we would typically get one of the NFC South matchups for times when the Falcons aren't playing.

Agree

Zod really needs to add an LOL pie graphic

Note that it's not FOX corporate making that decision, it's the local Fox affiliate Also, that those local FOX affiliates pivoted from the CAR game to the WAS game. It was a management decision If you want them to air the CAR games, call the local stations and voice your opinion. They need to know that there are Panthers fans in the region that outnumber the WAS fans

Firing a head coach in year two is not helping the consistency/stability requirement

His release would be a black eye on the Falcons organization with Atlanta having to pay Cousins $90 million for 1 partial season of work where they wound up benching him. This would go down as the worst free agent signing of all time https://overthecap.com/kirk-cousins-contract-breakdown

From the innterwebs: Falcons would owe $37.5 million in dead money if they trade Cousins at full freight. If they designate him as a post-June 1 release, Falcons would be on the hook $65 million in dead cap over two years, and a team like the Browns could sign him for the minimum, a la Russell Wilson with the Steelers.

So nice to hear Greg's analysis compared to the crap we've been forced to listen to all season long

Greg Olsen is calling the game, so that'll be fun

i think everyone played this starting out. FUN

At least one of them needs to sleep occasionally

Been saying this for a while - once he put Dan/Dave together, there has been nary a word from the T's It's very possible that lessons have been learned

Canales' reputation as a QB Whisperer appears to be growing in legitimacy

B+ Panthers For the third straight week, the Panthers were a huge underdog, and for the third straight week, they went toe-to-toe with their opponent. The defense held the Eagles' high-powered offense to under 300 yards and a big reason that happened is because the Panthers were able to get a lot of pressure on Jalen Hurts, who was sacked four times. Offensively, Chuba Hubbard (92 rushing yards) and Adam Thielen (nine catches for 102 yards) kept making big plays, which kept Carolina in the game. Bryce Young is also doing his best to convince the Panthers that he can be their quarterback of the future. At the beginning of the season, the Panthers were the laughingstock of the NFL, but now, no one is laughing because this is a dangerous team that could play the role of spoiler down the stretch https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-14-grades-cowboys-get-b-for-wild-monday-loss-to-bengals-steelers-earn-a-for-beating-browns/