NFL TV deal getting close to getting done. And how that could effect this year.

[ducky]

NFL is inching closer to finalizing another 10 year deal with all the networks.

Long and short is that it looks like all the major networks will continue to carry their respective packages. The only change is that it looks as if Amazon will win the Thursday night package.

The other take away is that the league is going to be flush with cash. A 75% to 100% increase in cost to the networks.

10-year TV deals could be done "within a month" - ProFootballTalk

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Why this is important right now: There are some people who believe the NFL will steal a little of this future money and apply it to the 2021 cap. So instead of just having $180M for cap ceiling, we could all of a sudden see a $200M cap. That would dig an awful lot of teams out of a cap hell that they are about to find themselves in.

 

[PDay8810]

been saying for awhile that it's just a matter of time. Just couldn't see a season where so many teams were up against the cap from the start

 

[Battlelyon]

Good on Amazon

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

What cap problems!?!?!?!?

 

[Shanemansj13]

Browns would go from $20M to $40M in cap space. Hell yeah

 

[Debbie Does]

As long as they keep scheduling stinker games for Thursdays, I'm fine with that.

 

[ducky]

been saying for awhile that it's just a matter of time. Just couldn't see a season where so many teams were up against the cap from the start

It'll be interesting to see how they do it.

It was possible for the NFL to get by with a $180m cap because of how easy it is to manipulate the cap. Most teams would have just converted base salaries into signing bonuses and kicked the can down the road because they know that the 2022 cap is going to likely be around $225M+ (low estimate). But what is the point of that? It would have just resulted in a ton of a unneeded movement and a lot of vets being cut and salaries squeezed.

There are really only a handful of teams that this would really help. Phili, Pitt, the Saints are the most obvious ones. All teams that have had poor cap management in the years previous and have so many contracts restructured in years previous that they cant alleviate the cap hits this year as much.

But while it might benefit some teams more than others, smoothing out the cap is what is good for the league as a whole and most certainly good for the NFLPA and its players. A lot of players were going to earn significantly less or be forced to take on more risk by having to play out 1 year contracts without a cap smoothing.

 

[PDay8810]

But while it might benefit some teams more than others, smoothing out the cap is what is good for the league as a whole and most certainly good for the NFLPA and its players. A lot of players were going to earn significantly less or be forced to take on more risk without a cap smoothing.

BINGO

 

[ducky]

I also was tempted to go back and pull up all the old posts about how NFL ratings are suffering and why.

Suffering so much that they are going to see their revenue from TV almost double. Talk about failing up.

The NFL is a TV behemoth. They were never in trouble and all the idiots who thought the kneeling or politics or whatever was hurting the NFL simply couldnt see the forest for the trees. While the number of eyeballs on a NFL game are less, they have over the last decade become the most watched thing on TV by far. All TV shows have suffered because of cord cutting and streaming options. The NFL has suffered a lot less and this deal is a reflection of that. They are one of the only shows left that you can count on week in and week out to get a lot of people to watch. And the fact that it is a show that last 3 hours instead of 30 minutes makes it all the more powerful.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Very interesting thread. Going to be a fascinating offseason.

 

[CaptainStubing]

I hope Amazon gets TNF

I have that but not nfln

 

[redseat]

Pretty soon the NFL will be solely "streamed" online with a new network ala Discovery +

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

Pretty soon the NFL will be solely "streamed" online with a new network ala Discovery +

It already is... pretty easy to just Google live streams... Using TOR/VPN isn't really even necessary lol. Only thing that sucks is you suffer a 30-60 second stream delay..

 

[redseat]

It already is... pretty easy to just Google live streams... Using TOR/VPN isn't really even necessary lol. Only thing that sucks is you suffer a 30-60 second stream delay..

I mean games solely going online instead of NBC,ABS,CBS,ESPN etc

 

[PDay8810]

Pretty soon the NFL will be solely "streamed" online with a new network ala Discovery +

solely?
Not in yours, mine or our grandkids lifetime

 

[redseat]

solely?
Not in yours, mine or our grandkids lifetime

Certainly hope not but we all know everything else is

 

[Battlelyon]

 

[Southieinnc]

solely?
Not in yours, mine or our grandkids lifetime

Really? I remember "in my lifetime" where people were predicting we'd have to pay to watch TV.....

 

[Cave_Johnson]

17 games is still dumb as fuck.

 

[Jiddy]

Is Sunday Ticket/out-of-market streaming going to move away from just DirecTV finally? Or is that sh*t still gonna continue? I dumped DirecTV this year but would still like the option of watching Bears games at home...