DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Tailgate Forum Rant: Why Does the NFL network suck so bad usually?

I'm sitting here on Sat morning, getting ready to go fishing. Drinking a coffee, and watching a little sportcenter. Flip to NFL network and 2007 Patriots vs Giants.
IMO opinion that simply sucks. I'm wondering of other dawgs think so, and what you'd want to see on NFL network (who owns all the footage ).
What I'm talking about is there has been ACTUAL football going on. For THIS freaking year!. Heck start doing Total Access every other half hour like ESPN does with sportscenter. Something. I saw one shot last night in front of the Cowboys training center. That's it.
I'm a junkie........show me anything about football that concerns this upcoming season. Reading some of the posts in Pure football made me realize how much there is to football. Here's what I would do to NFL network if I were in charge.
1. Develop Total Access to more like Sportcenter. Or Keep Total Access the way it is, and make a new show. Shorter, faster paced show, half an hour, and 2 or three versions a day. morning and 6pm at least.
2. More use of old game footage, but only as it relates to the upcoming year. Show team analysis, but WHY they think say a team can run, but showing more and better footage. All the positions, from zooming in on the left side of the line then the right side, running backs QB, Blocking of WRs. All the stuff you don't get to see in games.
3. Have more shows on each team or division.
4. A show showing various techniques for each position. Like showing the top ten left tackles in the league and what makes them good. Like how to use your hands effectively. And footwork.
5. Some will hate this, but a half hour fantasy football only show.

There's five fast ideas. That networks just wastes SO much time with stuff that isn't usually very interesting.........like the top ten show. Who cares who the top ten "snakebit" franchises are? (that was on thursday, and usually once a week) Especially when there IS football to show/talk about. What do you think?

I'm witht you for the most part, especially on this one:

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More use of old game footage, but only as it relates to the upcoming year. Show team analysis, but WHY they think say a team can run, but showing more and better footage. All the positions, from zooming in on the left side of the line then the right side, running backs QB, Blocking of WRs. All the stuff you don't get to see in games.
3. Have more shows on each team or division.

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I'm a fairly avid watcher of NFL Network... not as much lately but have watched for several years now.

For one thing they don't do enough on the teams, I agree... they'll go weeks without barely mentioning some teams, on the flip side they beat some things to death. They pounded the Jay Cutler thing into the ground last March....
... other things I don't like: they're always way behind the times with some teams, Warren Sapp and Marshall Faulk both get on my nerves. I like Fran Charles, I hated Adam Sphincter.

I realize these guys for the most part are shills for the NFL, but how about a little tiny bit of objective journalism once in awhile???? Stories maybe on the threat of franchise moves in the NFL (don't we know it), good human intrest stories (one good one they did a couple years ago was ex-Brown and now Saints tight end Mark Campbell, who filmed a documentary on hurricane Katrina. There's gotta be a lot of good guys in the NFL, not just TO and Mike Vick and other criminals.

I agree about making Total Access 30 minutes but doing them two or three times a day... especially during the season, playoffs draft and TC. Maybe they're cheap???

I like the Top 10s, myself. I like the Classic games, but too may of them are from recent seasons.

And could they please get their heads out of the rear ends of teams like Dallas, NY Jets & Giants and New England?

Just a few thoughts

Sucky or otherwise,, I wish I had the NFL Network... Time Warner and the NFL have yet to reach an agreement...

I doubt they ever will the way it's going.

i wish they'd show more games. and i watch nfln all the time and haven't seen a broadcast for any browns game since the season ended. lame. how about replaying the browns/giants game?

the top ten shows are stupid. they're all subjective.

and they play the same nfl helping in the community commercials, eli mannin, bob sanders, santana moss, and adrian peterson, seriously, new commercials. you're the freaking nfl.

That's what kills me too. I mean that channel should be HUGE, but they screw it up. Tonight there is nothing new on at all until total access. . theres another top ten show, TA, footballs greatest games for 4 HOURS!! (then TA again and repeat the 4 HOUR greatest games. )
I mean they own the footage!! It's the NFL!! Show us the Top 10 current players at each spot and then back it up w/technical footoge. Something. Training camps are going on!! Players are getting hurt already (Tavaris Jackson is down for a little while). Other players are/will be getting cut........who are they, and are they usefull for someone else?
Drives me nuts!!

It's a crappy channel. The only reason I added it to my package is the Thursday night games they show live come about mid season.

If they didn't have those, I wouldn't watch...I may have scanned it 3 weeks ago.

When I first started getting it, it was good. Had decent shows like what camp life was like, or behind the scenes during the season. The "news" shows were decent.

but it did seem the last couple of years they just regurgitate the same crap over and over. It seemed like they had original programming 1 day a week, then replayed everything the rest of the week.

It is for that reason I didn't mind having to give it up when we were looking to shave our budget a bit.

It dosen't sound much different than the big 10 network which I watch maybe 10 times a year at most between buckeye football and basketball games.

I can sort of understand just a little bit where TIme Warner is coming from. But how many other crappy channels do they have on the basic package that regurgitate the same stuff over and over. <cough vh1 etc...etc...etc...> Basic Cable in general sucks, they could add it and it wouldn't hurt them.