Originally Posted by
Madden
"What happens is there are not a lot of good teams, and they have too many windows to put these games in. When you think of an early Sunday window, a late Sunday window, a Sunday night window, a Monday night window, a Thursday night window. They all want good games, and there's not enough good teams.
"Just look at the list of teams playing. It takes two. It's not just one good team. You have to have two to have a great game, and there's not a lot of great games. And we're spreading it out more and more with fewer good teams, which makes it doggone impossible to have good games. If the games aren't good, that's part of it. Now there are other things: the Millennials, iPhone, and the stuff people do as they live differently.
"Something has to be done about Thursday night football. It just doesn't work. It's not only a fan thing, it's a team thing. It's a safety thing. It's a competitive thing. It doesn't work. I know about money, and I know about business. Maybe you have to tweak stuff a little more. To help teams, maybe you get a bye the week before."
That last point is a really solid one. If the product - sloppy TNF matchups - is a bad one, give teams the extra time they need to recover from their previous game and, as Madden might say, BOOM! You've got a more competitive contest with healthy, prepared players.
"I remember in my coaching days, as players get older, it takes them longer to heal up from a Sunday game," Madden added, "and guys weren't ready to play until Thursday or Friday."
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