Speaking of Josh Gordon and the Browns failures...
Crazy But True: Almost 30% Of Patriots Roster Is From The 2013 Cleveland Browns - Daily Snark
Pats are straight making money off the Browns coaching failures. I don't know what else to call it but coaching failures if one coach can make them play well and other coaches don't know how to utilize them properly. I bet Hue Jackson is losing his mind over this article...
That's an interesting article about why tv viewership is down. I don't have cable or any form of pay tv anymore. All we have is internet at the house and I stream redzone or stream specific games. IMO, the NFL should be finding ways to make it very easy and affordable for me to do this with high quality streams.
It takes 4 hours to watch a game with commercials but the game of the week replay without commercials takes an hour without? Commercials easily add an hour to the games and they suck. Commercial tv in this country is dying. I hate all forms of advertisement and I pretty much make it a point not to by stuff that annoys the shit out of me with advertisements. Geico? fuck them.
I don't think it's refs or player injury or the national anthem stuff. If they want to reach Generation Z I think the NFL needs to pipe redzone to the phone or at a minimum live highlights of a fans team to their phone.
I think fantasy has helped the league. Once I got involved with fantasy I actually started caring about players on all teams, both sides of the ball instead of just players on my team or the Randy Mosses of the league. That makes it so any game I watch I know players and can quickly engage in the game.
Everyone hates Goodell and the haphazard way he doles out "justice". Does ANYONE care if players are punished for whatever they do off the field? I honestly don't give a damn. We have a legal system for that. I don't give a shit about most things players might do. I don't like the Suh stomp or when Haynesworth stomped the Dallas Center.