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NFL Network Sees "TNF" Overnight Ratings Increase With Dolphins' Win Over Bills

The Dolphins' 22-9 win over the Bills on "Thursday Night Football" earned a combined 5.7 overnight rating on NFL Network and the local over-the-air stations. That is up 12% from a 5.1 rating for the comparable Colts-Titans game last year. The game drew a 38.8 local rating in Buffalo (5.3 on NFL Net, 33.5 on WIVB-CBS), while Miami drew a 19.8 rating (5.9 on NFL Net, 13.9 on WFOR-CBS) (Josh Carpenter, Staff Writer). FIVE THIRTY EIGHT's Neil Paine wrote the NFL this season has been "full of noncompetitive games in primetime, when you’d expect the league to showcase its most compelling matchups." It has "probably been the NFL’s least exciting primetime season of the past eight years." ESPN has "seen relatively competitive matchups" for its "MNF" games. However, "TNF" games have "been less thrilling," and "SNF" has "seen the biggest snoozers of all" (FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.com, 11/13). ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert asked, "Is the NFL failing to deliver one of its most reliable products: dramatic and entertaining games? Or have a few high-profile clunkers skewed perception of the entire season?" The primetime games "have been its least competitive in the nine years ESPN has maintained the applicable databases." The Sunday afternoon games, "which overlap in many cases and thus aren't seen as widely, are off slightly but are still much closer to the norms of recent years." But the average margin of victory for all NFL games this season is 12.99 points, "the highest margin since" at least '01 (ESPN.com, 11/13).

MANIC MONDAYS: In N.Y., Phil Mushnick writes ESPN's "MNF" broadcasts are "often made insufferable by the here-we-go-again, super-caffeinated analysis and extensive nonsense-talking of Jon Gruden, now in his sixth year of proving that he and boothmate Mike Tirico can’t be improved or won’t be improved." Mushnick: "Is there still no one at ESPN to prevail upon Gruden to cease saying nothing?" ESPN "apparently has no one in-house to save Gruden from himself, save the audience from Gruden and save or distinguish Monday Night Football from the same junk presented at all other TV stops" (N.Y. POST, 11/14).

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