Tonights game pits the 1-7 Panthers against the 2-7 Bears. I for one am incredibly excited because I believe TNF is about watching bad football.

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My favorite TNF game of all time was the WK 14 2013 game pitting an awful Texans squad against my own awful Jaguars. Jaguars would go on to win an incredibly ugly and penalty filled (22 of them) 27-20 with Matt Schaub, Case Keenum, Chad Henne, and MJD putting on a show for a national audience that probably went to bad that night with the same feeling as you would have after going minor league hockey game.

What are some other wonderfully awful TNF Matchups that we can remember?

  • Patient-Post-9146@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Cardinals @ eagles in like 2016. Possibly the game right before Chip Kelly was fired in season? I as actually there in person. Awful game.

  • BatMean2045@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The best thing about tonight is how many times Michaels just unloads about what a crap matchup this is.

  • redsyrinx2112@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think my favorite TNF game was Giants-Eagles in 2020. It was Daniel Jones vs. Carson Wentz. I knew it was going to be comical and the game did not disappoint. The best of the night was the Daniel Jones 80 yd run where he tripped.

  • bigpig1054@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I for one love the fact that TNF was willing to take a bullet for MNF. Ever since Thursday night games started, Monday Night Football has featured notably better games.

  • LaphroaigianSlip81@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t know why the NFL doesn’t just schedule post season rematches for the first 3 TNF games. Of course they should try to schedule an entire season of good prime time games before hand. But they should Then have the ability to flex the remaining TNF games based on current season performance.

    Take last year for example. How many prime time games did the broncos have? Should have been flexed out of all of them as soon as it became apparent they were dumpster fires.

  • Zaza1019@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be easier to list good TNF games? Because every TNF game aside from maybe Thanksgiving day games are bad.

  • Kershiser22@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I love the NFL.

    I hate Thursday games. (I’m not even a huge fan of the Thanksgiving games, because I rarely get to watch them due to Holiday activities.)

    Part of what makes the NFL great is the “once per week” aspect. Then one last game on Monday to cap it off. Thursday games just ruin the flow. Not to mention the Thursday games put a bit of a wrench into fantasy football and office pool timelines.

    And then to cap it all off, by forcing (nearly?) all teams to play a Thursday game each year, by definition it puts too many bad teams in those matchups.

  • Reasonable-HB678@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A statically all-time worst quarterback play, by Andy Dalton of the Bengals, giving Browns fans everywhere false hope in the 2014 game which had to be around Halloween.

  • Glangho@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I thought TNF could flex games this year what did we do to deserve this

  • Dday22t@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Is it in Bears bear interest to lose or win? Regarding draft order. Or would a tie be best? Since they have their 1st and Carolina’s 1st next draft.

    Either way this has to be an all worst matchup on Prime Time Game this late in the season, as far as team records are concerned.