Scheduling Traditions, Thursday night after T-Day game

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So has it been what, the last 3 years now Dallas has played the Thursday night game a week after the T-Day game? How does everyone feel about this. Keep it going, tired of it, do not do it again?

Is this going to be the new tradition as well? How long before KC or Philly, or Mara, or some team complains about it. Or will they care, because they would rather play on Sunday anyway, and not have a short week.

In a way I do not mind it, as it gives us the mini bye a week later for the stretch run. Or do you feel that may be a disadvantage. Take the mini bye after the T-Day game, and get momentum earlier for a playoff run.

What I don't like it is another game too close together, as it is 4 games in a shorter time frame than usual. so it seems. What I do like, is, we only wait a week for another game. I used to hate the long 10 day wait. And yes it is still there, but a week later. Same difference, but I kind of like it.
 

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I am fine with it.

A couple reasons.

1. I feel like we still get the mini bye, after the second Thursday game.

2. Playing another Thursday night game isn’t bad, considering it’s a week from the thanksgiving game. So it’s not like having 2 games a season on short rest.

3. I don’t live in the Dallas area. Where I live, typically about 13-14 games a season are televised, ballpark estimate. I obviously hate the occasional week where the cowboys game isn’t on TV. I’ll go to a sports bar. But I prefer to watch games at home.

So, I am all for as many nationally televised games as possible because obviously I know a Thursday night game will be on TV in my market.
 

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So has it been what, the last 3 years now Dallas has played the Thursday night game a week after the T-Day game? How does everyone feel about this. Keep it going, tired of it, do not do it again?

Is this going to be the new tradition as well? How long before KC or Philly, or Mara, or some team complains about it. Or will they care, because they would rather play on Sunday anyway, and not have a short week.

In a way I do not mind it, as it gives us the mini bye a week later for the stretch run. Or do you feel that may be a disadvantage. Take the mini bye after the T-Day game, and get momentum earlier for a playoff run.

What I don't like it is another game too close together, as it is 4 games in a shorter time frame than usual. so it seems. What I do like, is, we only wait a week for another game. I used to hate the long 10 day wait. And yes it is still there, but a week later. Same difference, but I kind of like it.

It's really not 4 games in a shorter time period than any other team that plays a Thursday game, it's just divided differently with 2 of the games being Thursday rather than just one.
 

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It's really not 4 games in a shorter time period than any other team that plays a Thursday game, it's just divided differently with 2 of the games being Thursday rather than just one.

Right, but not all teams have this scheduling every year. I am not complaining about it, as it is the way it is.
Like Detroit is in the same boat as us in that regard, but they do not have that 4th game a week later in there. They get the 10 days off. But they do play at Washington the Sunday before their T-Day game.

At that point, I do not think that extra time is really all that of a big advantage, as I said, we soon get that 10 days.
 

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The complaint some of the owners have had is that the Cowboys always got more prepare/rest days for the game following TDay and at one time Landry had an impressive record in those games so there was some fire to the smoke. This eliminates that but they still get those additional days after that Th game following TDay, no way around that.
 

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I am in favor of whats fair to all NFL teams because I want to know who can team build the best and eliminate unbalanced schedules.
 

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What I don't like it is another game too close together, as it is 4 games in a shorter time frame than usual. so it seems.
Sun-Sun-Thu-Thu-Long Break
is exactly the same time frame as
Sun-Sun-Sun-Thu-Long Break
 

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If we’re always gonna be playing two Thursday games, I prefer they be back to back, with a week in between.

That way, instead of two separate sets of short-week/long-week segments, each of which interupts the normal routine, there’s only one.

Not to be a schedule complainer, but when you factor in the two Thursday night games, plus usually two Sunday night games and at least one Monday night game — every season — is there another team which must alter the normal NFL week-to-week routine as often as the Cowboys?
 
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