Tap's Thursday Night Pick

We have come to an end with this blog post. It is the final Thursday night game for the National Football
League meaning this blog post ceases to exist. I mean we could do NBA games, but that's probably not in the cards.  People have said multiple times how much they hate Thursday night games, but honestly, I think finally players are starting to figure out how play on a short week. The last five weeks we have had close football games and they were played at a pretty high quality. I feel like this is an encouraging sign for the future of Thursday night games especially when NFL is flirting with the idea of a second Thursday night game.

I feel like we are at a juncture where Goodell is going to pull a Charlie Day and go WILDCARD BITCHES YEEHAWWWW with the schedule in the coming years. We already saw it with the 8:30 am game in London next year with Atlanta-Detroit.  I would be shocked if the NFL does not make a deal with Google to stream games on YouTube for a price of course. That is the great frontier right now. NFL is too smart to not recognize more and more people are not cable subscribers and they could make a massive deal with Google meaning even if someone owns say an XBOX 1 or Playstation 4, they can stream the game right from their video game. If they do not want to stream fully, it might be the Thursday games at very least.

Notice I said games because I do believe they will try to add a second Thursday night game although I have no idea how they would do the TV schedule. I guess one game would begin at 6 pm and the other one would be 9:15 pm meaning the second game will have to feature one of the West Coast teams at home. Although the other thing they could do is start the first game at 6 pm and the next one at 8 pm with the game saying the game will be shown on YouTube and then on the NFL Network when the first game is over. I am real interested to see where the NFL goes from here.

As for the game tonight pitting Denver Broncos (10-2) against the puzzling San Diego (6-7) with Broncos being a 7.5 point favorites at home in chilly Denver where temperatures are expected to be a low of 29. Peyton Manning will be able to exploit the San Diego defense, and even with Phillip Rivers' December record, I do not think they have enough to overcome the Broncos at home in a primetime game.
Denver 35 San Diego 24 

Charlie.