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Seahawks' Blowout Leads To Slight Overnight Ratings Dip For "TNF" On CBS/NFL Network

CBS and NFL Network combined for an 11.5 overnight rating for the Seahawks 20-3 blowout win over the 49ers on "TNF," down 1% from an 11.6 for Jets-Patriots in Week 7 last year. Seahawks-49ers drew a 43.1 local rating in Seattle and a 19.2 in S.F.-Oakland-San Jose. Through six weeks, "TNF" is averaging a 12.1 overnight, up 9% from an 11.1 through this point last year (Josh Carpenter, Staff Writer).

NOT A FAN OF THURSDAY GAMES: Fox’ David Diehl, who retired in '14 following an 11-year NFL career, talked about playing on Thursday nights, saying it is tough on players because it is "such a quick turnaround" from the previous Sunday's game. Diehl said, "You’re still trying to recover from that game. Physically, practices are basically walk-throughs because you don’t have the recovery time. You’ve got to let your players rest up and get their sleep, and you just can’t go out there and hit. So you have your Monday off, your Tuesday practice, Wednesday’s like a quick kind of walk-through. Throughout this entire time, you’ve got to introduce a brand new game plan. You’ve got to break down the personnel of the other team." He said it is a "short, condensed time to try and go into a game with the best plan you can have." Diehl: "The best physical aspect of the game is that everybody’s healthy, everybody’s playing and the speed of the game is where it needs to be. I think that’s why Thursday games haven’t had that type of appeal as an X’s and O’s game, because of everybody being beat up in it” (“The Dan Patrick Show,” 10/22).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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