NFL 2024-2025 Season

[Bruce]

It is in 4K. Just not HDR.

from my TV, using the 2024 Roku Ultra, says HD right under the title-

 

[Bruce]

Kansas City is just embarrassing Pittsburgh.

 

[meStevo]

Yeah it's HD, just not HDR. The bitrate is so good that apps/TVs upscaling it look really great.

From a browser -
Playing bitrate (a/v): 128 / 6000 (1920x1080)
29.97fps

Steelers look like they're on pace to slide into the playoffs on a 4 game skid if they can't turn things around next week, only to then have to go to the Texans, Ravens or Bills, all of which are pretty unfavorable matchups.

Most convincing win by KC all season if this holds, and against a playoff team, however hobbled.

Pacheco dinged, glad he was back to help take the load off Hunt a bit, but Hunt seems more than capable and Pacheco hasn't been the same after his injury.

Lots of backups should be expected next week in Denver for KC, should be Wentz and Steele running the KC offense. Will have big playoff implications for Denver and a number of other teams though.

Next meaningful game for the Chiefs will be January 18th.

 

[Bruce]

Geez, Houston is worse than Pittsburgh, how the hell has this team won 9 games.

For Netflix having 2 games with all four teams with winning records, both games have been boring and uneventful.

 

[b4pjoe]

Geez, Houston is worse than Pittsburgh, how the hell has this team won 9 games.

For Netflix having 2 games with all four teams with winning records, both games have been boring and uneventful.

Yeah I subscribed to their cheapest package @ $6.99 just to watch those two games. I think I got cheated.

 

[Jimbo]

No, 1080P, similar to Paramount+, Amazon, ESPN+ and Peacock.

Also, a much higher bitrate then you get from Satellite/Cable TV.

Do we know what the bit rate is ?

Yeah it's HD, just not HDR. The bitrate is so good that apps/TVs upscaling it look really great.

From a browser -
Playing bitrate (a/v): 128 / 6000 (1920x1080)
29.97fps

Steelers look like they're on pace to slide into the playoffs on a 4 game skid if they can't turn things around next week, only to then have to go to the Texans, Ravens or Bills, all of which are pretty unfavorable matchups.

Most convincing win by KC all season if this holds, and against a playoff team, however hobbled.

Pacheco dinged, glad he was back to help take the load off Hunt a bit, but Hunt seems more than capable and Pacheco hasn't been the same after his injury.

Lots of backups should be expected next week in Denver for KC, should be Wentz and Steele running the KC offense. Will have big playoff implications for Denver and a number of other teams though.

Next meaningful game for the Chiefs will be January 18th.

Steelers have had a Brutal back half of thier schedule ... not sure why the NFL did this to them, they didn't and never have to anyone else.

They have 3 other teams in thier division, and going into week 8 or 9 they hadn't played ANY of them yet, so they played both thier division match ups in the last 8 weeks along with the Eagles, Bills and Chiefs (Ravens twice in their division).

Thats ridiculous ... I understand why they are beat up and under manned ... major players injured.

 

[meStevo]

Yeah, they had a really soft schedule aided by their 3rd place finish in the division last year. When the rubber hit the road this season the team wasn't ready or wasn't as good as their record suggested it seems.

A lot goes into the schedules and a lot of teams face adversity, you can find aberrations every year.

Chiefs went 3-0 in 11 days and somehow turned in their best performance of the whole season (by point differential) today and collectively excelled by a whole host of other metrics (1 sack, no turnovers over the 3 games).

Steelers went 0-3 in 11 days and lost all 3 games by multiple scores. Chiefs made a lot of mistakes today, and with no Chris Jones still ended up with 5 sacks, a season high. Steelers just seemed to struggle to do anything outside of a handful of runs and chuck and pray shots down the sideline. Seems like Russell Wilson still can't throw down the middle and the Steelers look like they're probably going to end up giving him $35-40m/year to stick around for a few years.

Maybe they'll finally make some bigger changes, but that's not usually the Steeler way - but that way means more seasons like this.

 

[Jimbo]

No, 1080P, similar to Paramount+, Amazon, ESPN+ and Peacock.

Also, a much higher bitrate then you get from Satellite/Cable TV.

Do we know what the bit rate is ?

Yeah it's HD, just not HDR. The bitrate is so good that apps/TVs upscaling it look really great.

From a browser -
Playing bitrate (a/v): 128 / 6000 (1920x1080)
29.97fps

Steelers look like they're on pace to slide into the playoffs on a 4 game skid if they can't turn things around next week, only to then have to go to the Texans, Ravens or Bills, all of which are pretty unfavorable matchups.

Most convincing win by KC all season if this holds, and against a playoff team, however hobbled.

Pacheco dinged, glad he was back to help take the load off Hunt a bit, but Hunt seems more than capable and Pacheco hasn't been the same after his injury.

Lots of backups should be expected next week in Denver for KC, should be Wentz and Steele running the KC offense. Will have big playoff implications for Denver and a number of other teams though.

Next meaningful game for the Chiefs will be January 18th.

Steelers have had a Brutal back half of thier schedule ... not sure why the NFL did this to them, they didn't and never have to anyone else.

They have 3 other teams in thier division, and going into week 8 or 9 they hadn't played ANY of them yet, so they played both thier division match ups in the last 8 weeks along with the Eagles, Bills and Chiefs (Ravens twice in their division).

Thats ridiculous ... I understand why they are beat up and under manned ... major players injured.

Yeah, they had a really soft schedule aided by their 3rd place finish in the division last year. When the rubber hit the road this season the team wasn't ready or wasn't as good as their record suggested it seems.

A lot goes into the schedules and a lot of teams face adversity, you can find aberrations every year.

Chiefs went 3-0 in 11 days and somehow turned in their best performance of the whole season (by point differential) today and collectively excelled by a whole host of other metrics (1 sack, no turnovers over the 3 games).

Steelers went 0-3 in 11 days and lost all 3 games by multiple scores. Chiefs made a lot of mistakes today, and with no Chris Jones still ended up with 5 sacks, a season high. Steelers just seemed to struggle to do anything outside of a handful of runs and chuck and pray shots down the sideline. Seems like Russell Wilson still can't throw down the middle and the Steelers look like they're probably going to end up giving him $35-40m/year to stick around for a few years.

Maybe they'll finally make some bigger changes, but that's not usually the Steeler way - but that way means more seasons like this.

The Steelers have been this way for years ....
Ever since Big Ben started into the twilight of his career.

Just good enough most years to make the back end of the playoffs and lose in the 1st round.

This never gets you the picks high enough to build.

KC is just another typical year where every thing goes thier way.
All year.

They have become the Patriots ... the team to hate because of it.
They have a Long way to go to do what the Patriots did, but they are on thier way.

 

[meStevo]

You can't really credit just luck / things going your way to get to 16-1. Would be like blaming bad luck for losing 3 games in a row by multiple scores.

People are just unhappy when another team builds a sustainable franchise and is successful.

There won't be another Patriots, just like there won't be another Reid/Mahomes Chiefs.


View: https://x.com/BaldyNFL/status/1872246226110025868

 

[Jimbo]

You can't really credit just luck / things going your way to get to 16-1. Would be like blaming bad luck for losing 3 games in a row by multiple scores.

People are just unhappy when another team builds a sustainable franchise and is successful.

There won't be another Patriots, just like there won't be another Reid/Mahomes Chiefs.


View: https://x.com/BaldyNFL/status/1872246226110025868

And the O line.

 

[Yespage]

You can't really credit just luck / things going your way to get to 16-1. Would be like blaming bad luck for losing 3 games in a row by multiple scores.

People are just unhappy when another team builds a sustainable franchise and is successful.

There won't be another Patriots, just like there won't be another Reid/Mahomes Chiefs.

Got to wonder, if there was no Patriots, would there even be a Chiefs?

The Patriots were a surprise because they managed to win 3 in 4, in an era where that wasn't thought to be possible any more with free agency the way it is. And they did so with relatively little top shelf talent. Then they went 3 in 5 a decade later, after going a brief 0-2 in a spell, which included becoming the only 18-0 team in NFL history.

Belichick and the Patriots organization found a way to manage sustained greatness. The Chiefs are stealing their methods. It requires HOF head coach (with a good game plan and ability to get team not to commit penalties) / QB (who is willing to be paid less for Super Bowl success), an ability to continually replace talent like Ty Law or Tyreek Hill, and manage injuries. It is very rare. Chiefs win this year, they'll set a new bar of short -term nauseating greatness, on a longer path to potentially epic greatness! It is a grind to be that good for that long.

Still pulling for the Bills.

 

[Jimbo]

Got to wonder, if there was no Patriots, would there even be a Chiefs?

The Patriots were a surprise because they managed to win 3 in 4, in an era where that wasn't thought to be possible any more with free agency the way it is. And they did so with relatively little top shelf talent. Then they went 3 in 5 a decade later, after going a brief 0-2 in a spell, which included becoming the only 18-0 team in NFL history.

Belichick and the Patriots organization found a way to manage sustained greatness. The Chiefs are stealing their methods. It requires HOF head coach (with a good game plan and ability to get team not to commit penalties) / QB (who is willing to be paid less for Super Bowl success), an ability to continually replace talent like Ty Law or Tyreek Hill, and manage injuries. It is very rare. Chiefs win this year, they'll set a new bar of short -term nauseating greatness, on a longer path to potentially epic greatness! It is a grind to be that good for that long.

Still pulling for the Bills.

Having Star players take less money to play with the others helps greatly.
QB and others.

 

[Bruce]

Great ratings for the Netflix games-

In the U.S. alone, Nielsen says the tally was 27.2M viewers, up just slightly from the fast national data. It was the most-watched Christmas Day NFL game on record (since 2001) among the 18-34 demo, with 5.1M tuning in.

What that means, Netflix will be on the hunt for a season package, like a Sunday/Monday/Thursday Night Football game of the week, when the NFL takes the option to get out of the current TV contract-

When the NFL signed the long-term media agreements with Disney, Amazon, NBCUniversal, Fox, and Paramount, the league added an opt-out clause for the conclusion of the 2028-29 season on all of the packages except Disney’s. The league can opt out of the Disney deal after 2030, per the report.

Netflix Boasts Impressive Audiences For Christmas Day NFL Games; 27M Viewers Tune In For Beyoncé

Netflix's Christmas Day NFL game viewership peaked with Beyoncé's halftime show during the Texans-Ravens matchup.

deadline.com

The NFL Could Opt Out of Its TV Contracts Sooner Than Expected | Cord Cutters News

The media landscape of the NFL could soon change just years after the league agreed to an 11-year, $110 billion media rights agreement. The 2023 season was the first year that the NFL’s latest media deal went into full effect and runs through the 2033 season. Fans can find live NFL games on...

cordcuttersnews.com

 

[Jimbo]

NFL may as well Drop the Sunday Ticket ....
Very soon, you'll only be getting 1/2 the games and twice the price.

 

[meStevo]

The doom and gloom is always so comical and overstated here, everything from the league or a team failing to their multi-billion dollar TV packages doubling in price 'so they should drop it' ???

 

[Jimbo]

The doom and gloom is always so comical and overstated here, everything from the league or a team failing to their multi-billion dollar TV packages doubling in price 'so they should drop it' ???

You missed my point entirely ....

It use to be that all but 2 games were on the Sunday Ticket (a game played on Sunday afternoon)
Now they are talking about having games almost every day of the week ....
Thus diminishing the ST every time they do such a thing.

We have games on Sunday night, Monday night ... forever.
Now Thursday night and now whatever day Christmas is on and Saturdays on the back end of the season, theres talk about Fridays ...

The value goes down every time they add another game.

When Netflix gets thier package coming up, that will take even more games away.

 

[meStevo]

You missed my point entirely ....

It use to be that all but 2 games were on the Sunday Ticket (a game played on Sunday afternoon)
Now they are talking about having games almost every day of the week ....
Thus diminishing the ST every time they do such a thing.

We have games on Sunday night, Monday night ... forever.
Now Thursday night and now whatever day Christmas is on and Saturdays on the back end of the season, theres talk about Fridays ...

The value goes down every time they add another game.

When Netflix gets thier package coming up, that will take even more games away.

No, your point was clear. A few fewer games in a single week not on a Sunday and 'they should forgo billions of dollars and drop the package' and also 'it's going to double in price'

'Now Thursday...' you must be stuck in the past, Thursday Night games have been played for almost 2 decades now. Having to bring up Sunday/Monday... I mean, shows how desperately you are to try and make this point make any sense. Were you confused and expected any of this to have been included in Sunday Ticket? No? Then why are you mentioning them, they were never part of the value proposition.

Christmas, Fridays... there's your actual point... 3-4 games a year. Oh no. I shouldn't want to watch hundreds of other games a year I pay for the option to watch and miss multiple games played by my favorite team. Yeah, no. Fridays? There was 1. But guess what, before we bought into the package this year, we already knew about all of those games - and spoke with our wallet.

We knew exactly what you meant, it's nonsensical hyperbole.

 

[Jimbo]

No, your point was clear. A few fewer games in a single week not on a Sunday and 'they should forgo billions of dollars and drop the package' and also 'it's going to double in price'

'Now Thursday...' you must be stuck in the past, Thursday Night games have been played for almost 2 decades now. Having to bring up Sunday/Monday... I mean, shows how desperately you are to try and make this point make any sense. Were you confused and expected any of this to have been included in Sunday Ticket? No? Then why are you mentioning them, they were never part of the value proposition.

Christmas, Fridays... there's your actual point... 3-4 games a year. Oh no. I shouldn't want to watch hundreds of other games a year I pay for the option to watch and miss multiple games played by my favorite team. Yeah, no. Fridays? There was 1. But guess what, before we bought into the package this year, we already knew about all of those games - and spoke with our wallet.

We knew exactly what you meant, it's nonsensical hyperbole.

Never mind ....
Its not worth discussing with you.

$450 for slightly over half the games is getting ridiculous.

 

[Bruce]

Never mind ....
Its not worth discussing with you.

$450 for slightly over half the games is getting ridiculous.

Well, if you switch to YouTube TV, as you have hinted is a possibility, it will be a lot less.

 

[meStevo]

Never mind ....
Its not worth discussing with you.

$450 for slightly over half the games is getting ridiculous.

As usual, run away when you can't back up your point. Even this comment - total hyperbole. 'Slightly over half the games' ... might want to check that math again (or better yet, stop making statements not based in fact / you have no intention of standing behind).

Complaining about the price of Sunday Ticket 18 weeks into the season .