So how boring is the NFL now?

This is the right answer. No commercials, quality athletes, competitive games, not-stop play.

I've been doing this all season.

American football is too slow, too much inaction, too many commercials, too many injuries, too many rules, too much parity, to much punishment for harmless things (i.e. celebrating), too little punishment for terrible things (i.e. woman beating). It's become incredibly boring

 

If the EPL came on PRIMETIME it would be sweeeeet. But nah, I don't normally get into it so early. No rooting interest. Just a GREAT sport to watch in general though at that LEVEL OF PLAY.

 

I know they say MLB is regional and numbers prove that out. But outside of the Texans I don’t give a flying flip about the NFL.

 

Agree, although as long as Keenum is QB for the Vikings, I watch them as well.

 

Same. And I officially stopped caring for the Texans this year. I can’t watch that offense.

 

Defense has been completely nerfed. Can't tackle, can't hit, can't touch the QB with a feather. No more grit and toughness left in the game.

Result: average QBs regularly putting up 300-yard games -- diluted to the point of meaningless.

NFL's attempt to juice the offense at the expense of defense means no amount of high scoring is enough to win. A 4 touchdown leads mean nothing, just ask the Falcons.

 

Stopped watching; absolutely SICK of the eternal whining of politics. SICK of hearing people calling each other names 24/7. The combo of sports and politics is the worst idea ever. What employer allows political demonstrations during office hours besides the NFL?

 

It's a boring, over-saturated product. Tickets are prohibitively expensive and attending a game is unfathomably boring with all of the stoppages in play. I don't even think I'd accept a free ticket to a Texans game when I factor in the time commitment to watch this offense. The level of QB play is embarrassing across 32 teams (at least Wentz and Goff seem to be catching on). To echo others, it's so much easier to watch a top-tier EPL game in the morning and still have my whole day ahead of me. I can plan around a soccer match that I know will last two hours instead of taking at least 4 hours in the middle of my afternoon to watch a 13-7 Texans game. However, when it comes to pace, nothing is worse than NCAA football.

Finally, I don't see how the talent pool for football doesn't begin to decline as millennials start having children that they won't allow to play the game. Personally, I'd never let a child of mine play football. "League of Denial" cemented that for me years ago and seeing photos of Aaron Hernandez's brain this past week brought it all back to the forefront of my mind. The game itself is structurally unsafe and I think that the quality of play will continue to worsen as kids stop playing it. I say that knowing I'm hypocritical as a viewer. I love watching UT football, but I would understand if the game itself begins to experience a slow death.

 

Fantasy football is the only reason I ever watch NFL.

 

Defense is not why people watch the NFL.

Bone crushing hits? Sure. 3 yards and a cloud of dust? No.

The problem isn't that defense has fundamentally changed.

The problem is that the offenses are the worst they have been in 10 years, and there is almost zero parity (something that has been a hallmark of the NFL for decades).

Dumbarton hit it. Too many stoppages. Too many commercials. Primetime games have sucked. Thursday night games are an abomination. Too many rules. Too many flags. Too many injuries.

The game needs to achieve a better flow that harkens back to its rugby roots and makes it safer long term.

 

AJ Green did not get suspended at all. In other sport it could easily be 10 games. That can stop people from watching

 

How could you suspend Al Green?

 

The league is just scummy. From the owners to the coaches and players. They are just not likeable; none of them. The owners/front office and players hate each other and it is cut throat to the point of being depressing sometimes.

 

This year has been better, but not by much. They seem to have cut the commercials way down.

 

Idk after the whole anthem thing is out of the way the NFL is still pretty sweet to watch. I usually flip between the local game and lemon party.

 

Still haven't watched one second of NFL action since Watson's injury was announced.

Don't miss it at all.

 

It wasn't hard to give up the NFL, and I basically have. I tune in to see scores here and there but watch no games...not even the Texans.

It's amazing what else you can do/accomplish when you get half your weekend back too!

 

Only watching for Case Keenum.

 

Same. Honest to goodness, I couldn't tell you a thing about the NFL this season. I've cut my NFL watching by a little bit each year for the last three or four years and this year it just got to a point where I wasn't watching at all.

Conversely, I watch and keep up with college football more and more each year, and I don't even really have a favorite team at the FBS level. The atmosphere of college games is better, even when you're watching on TV, the variety of offenses makes the games more interesting to watch, and college football has volume on its side. If I miss the games that start at noon, there's a new wave coming at 2:30, 7:00, and 9:00, not to mention games on Thursdays and Fridays.

I've had this discussion with friends of mine who are hardcore NFL fans, and their arguments are always that college offenses won't work in the NFL because of the consistent talent level across the league and that the NFL is a better product because NFL players are better than college players. That may be true, but to me, better talent =/= more entertaining. Give me crazy offenses that would get an NFL coach fired before his first game and dumb mistakes on the field that make games more fun.