Last year the San Diego Chargers, Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, New England Patriots, and New Orleans Saints won ten or more games. Those teams are scheduled to play each other once this year on ESPN's Monday Night Football (New England at Baltimore 12/3). Those teams are scheduled to play each other three times on NBC's Sunday Night Football (San Diego at New England 9/16, Indianaplis at San Diego 11/11, Indianapolis at Baltimore 12/9), once on NBC on Thursday Night Football (New Orleans at Indianapolis 9/6), and the flex scheduling for NBC can only improve the attractiveness of their slate of games.
I'm glad the elite games are on network television though and not cable, because if ESPN had NBC's slate of games they could charge even more for cable providers to carry their networks. I would pay whatever it took to see hand picked HD NFL games late in the season. In fact I applaud the NFL for sticking it to ESPN. Chicago at Minnesota on the next to last Monday Night game of the season, who the hell wants to see that? Michael Wilbon and Prince, that's it.
People rip on the Bears quarterback situation, but the Vikings have Tarvaris Jackson, Brooks Bollinger, and Drew Henson on their roster. Since they didn't sign a legitimate veteran QB, they go into the season with Jackson as their starter, a second round pick last year, or they draft Brady Quinn and they give up on Jackson after one year. So either their front office is so smart they can draft a QB who can start right away in the second round when teams have trouble finding guys like that in the first, or they're so stupid they have to cut bait with a second round pick after one season. Genius moves like this gets them on Monday Night Football?
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