Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Christmas Scheduling Shenanigans. NFL Week 17 Preview

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Remember during the 2020 season I mentioned that after successfully shuffling games around to different days during the pandemic, they will come up with ways to put games on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday? Then last season they gave Amazon a Black Friday game because why the fuck not? Now the NFL got a 3-year deal with Netflix to air Christmas games (I'm sure the NBA is thrilled with the NFL encroaching on their big day). That means the next games will be on a Thursday (Amazon won't like that) and a Friday. They will have to extend the deal to 2029 before getting a Christmas game on a Tuesday, but they probably will have it on Apple TV+ by then. It just annoys me that Wednesday starts this week off instead of the usual Thursday.


THE GAMES


2024 NFL season week 17 Kansas City Chiefs vs Pittsburgh Steelers
Kansas City Chiefs    27
Pittsburgh Steelers   10

I would be pissed about playing on Christmas. It's not like I receive a cut of that Netflix money.


2024 NFL season week 17 Baltimore Ravens vs Houston Texans
Baltimore Ravens    7
Houston Texans     24

But if Beyoncé was performing the halftime show, I'm out there watching it like Lamar Jackson.


2024 NFL season week 17 Seattle Seahawks vs Chicago Bears
Seattle Seahawks   23
Chicago Bears        16

Amazon must be pissed about getting upstaged by Netflix during Christmas season.


2024 NFL season week 17 Los Angeles Chargers vs New England Patriots
Los Angeles Chargers   20
New England Patriots    21

If 2 Wednesday games wasn't enough, we also have a Saturday tripleheader on NFL Network.


2024 NFL season week 17 Denver Broncos vs Cincinnati Bengals
Denver Broncos         23
Cincinnati Bengals    37

These seem to be the games that no one cares about shoved to a network no one cares about.


2024 NFL season week 17 Arizona Cardinals vs Los Angeles Rams
Arizona Cardinals      38
Los Angeles Rams    20

Involving teams no one cares about.


2024 NFL season week 17 Indianapolis Colts vs New York Giants
Indianapolis Colts   16
New York Giants      17

Speaking of teams no one cares about...


2024 NFL season week 17 New York Jets vs Buffalo Bills
New York Jets   10
Buffalo Bills      17

This season can't end soon enough for the Jets my God.


2024 NFL season week 17 Tennessee Titans vs Jacksonville Jaguars
Tennessee Titans         20
Jacksonville Jaguars    6

If the Hurt Syndicate aren't champions by Summer, then Tony Khan is a fucking idiot.


2024 NFL season week 17 Las Vegas Raiders vs New Orleans Saints
Las Vegas Raiders     17
New Orleans Saints   12

The Raiders have sucked this year but TE Brock Bowers became the 3rd rookie TE to gain 1,000 yards and 1st to catch 100 passes. Despite the prediction, he has a good chance to break Mike Ditka's TE record of 1,076 and surpass Puka Nacua's rookie catch record of 105.


2024 NFL season week 17 Carolina Panthers vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Carolina Panthers            14
Tampa Bay Buccaneers   41

The Bucs really screwed the pooch losing to the Cowboys on SNF. Now they need to win the rest of their games and hope the Falcons lose since Atlanta has the tiebreaker over them.


2024 NFL season week 17 Dallas Cowboys vs Philadelphia Eagles
Dallas Cowboys          9
Philadelphia Eagles   41

Following a hard-hitting win with getting bitch slapped by your rival is such a Cowboys move.


2024 NFL season week 17 Miami Dolphins vs Cleveland Browns
Miami Dolphins      26
Cleveland Browns   0

Myles Garrett wants to retire as a Brownie but he doesn't want to be part of another rebuild. I don't see this trash ass franchise getting good anytime soon so expect him to go to the Chiefs.


2024 NFL season week 17 Green Bay Packers vs Minnesota Vikings
Green Bay Packers    34
Minnesota Vikings     13

Despite the amount of trash ass teams in the NFL, this league still has the most parity out of any sports league in the world because anybody can beat anybody. Case in point, the Packers 34-0 MNF win over the Saints was the first shutout of the season. All it took was 16 weeks!


2024 NFL season week 17 Atlanta Falcons vs Washington Commanders
Atlanta Falcons                     3
Washington Commanders   15

It's Christmas so here's a collage of NFL cheerleaders, fans, mascots, players and other people.
Collection of NFL cheerleaders, mascots, players, fans and other people from the past month.
Not my best collage I admit.

2024 NFL season week 17 Detroit Lions vs San Francisco 49ers
Detroit Lions               23
San Fransico 49ers    28

I should just use AI to write up a story about each FBS Playoff game and call it a day.


LAST WEEK:   12-4
OVERALL:      145-95

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