We’re in a time period in football where the youth Ugo Amadi Jersey , is starting to take over the veterans. If you look at some organizations, they have pushed their older players out to allow their young talents to take over. as Tony Romo, DeMarco Murray, Dez Bryant, and Jason Witten are all gone. Now, they have Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and Amari Cooper. Other teams have also become really young, like the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. Going younger takes away from a team's experience, but it leads to a brighter future.Usually Dwayne Haskins Jersey , these teams move forward with their younger talent when they see their younger players’ talent bleed through, while the veterans begin to struggle. Once that becomes apparent, it’s time to make a change. It’s better to give the younger guys experience sooner rather than later.Look at the 2018 rookies; there’s a ton of talent. There are also some players who have struggled this season, who could emerge into NFL stars by next season. Maybe a change is needed this offseason to help their development. Look at all the veterans now, and what the future looks like for them.There comes a time when it’s over for veterans, and next season will be the beginning of some serious downfalls. That doesn’t mean these players’ careers will necessarily be over, but that their struggles will become evident. It’s an exciting time in the NFL for all the younger players, who have the opportunity to let their talents shine, and become longtime stars. More than 40 million people watched the NFL’s two preliminaries for the Super Bowl on Sunday, a drop of more than 8 percent compared to last year’s conference championship games.

The Nielsen company said an average of 43.2 million people watched the games. While that’s down from the 47.1 million who watched the conference championships last year, it was a more heartening report than the NFL had gotten only a week earlier. This year’s divisional championship round had seen a 16 percent dip in audience size.

Night games generally do better in the ratings than afternoon contests David Long Jersey , but not this year. The New England-Jacksonville contest that ended around dinnertime was a better game featuring the league’s marquee player in Tom Brady. That game reached 44.1 million, compared to the 42.3 million who watched Philadelphia blow out Minnesota, Nielsen said.

After seeing viewership erosion all year, the NFL will be anxious to see if that extends to the secular holiday of Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 4. The Super Bowl is the most-watched television event each year.

The NFC game boosted Fox’s new medical soap, ”The Resident,” which reached 8.65 million viewers for its premiere episode on Sunday. Television viewers had their stethoscopes handy, with medical shows ”The Good Doctor,” ”Grey’s Anatomy” and ”Chicago Med” also landing among Nielsen’s 20 most popular programs last week.

With a prime-time football game, Fox won the week by averaging 10.6 million viewers. CBS had 6.9 million, ABC had 4.74 million, NBC had 4.69 million http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/bobby-evans-jersey , the CW had 1.53 million, Univision had 1.47 million, ION Television had 1.3 million and Telemundo had 1.2 million.

Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.65 million viewers in prime time. MSNBC had 1.95 million viewers, USA averaged 1.5 million, HGTV had 1.49 million and TNT had 1.46 million.

ABC’s ”World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 10.4 million viewers. NBC’s ”Nightly News” was second with 9.8 million and the ”CBS Evening News” had 7.4 million.

For the week of Jan. 15-21, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFC Championship: Minnesota vs. Philadelphia, Fox, 42.3 million; ”NFC Championship Post-Game” (9:39-9:47 p.m. ET), Fox Greg Gaines Jersey , 26.53 million; ”NFC Championship Post-Game” (9:47-10:04 p.m. ET), Fox, 18.88 million; ”The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 14.92 million; ”Young Sheldon,” CBS, 13.33 million; ”NCIS,” CBS, 9.88 million; ”This is Us,” NBC, 9.82 million; ”Blue Bloods Christian Wilkins Jersey ,” CBS, 9.45 million; ”The Good Doctor,” ABC, 9.34 million; ”Mom,” CBS, 9.26 million.

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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.

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