Overreaction football weeks

Chances are, if you watch NFL games you have the pattern down by now. The games are played Sunday and then the next few days are filled with either gloom and doom or euphoria depending on the results from Sunday. Next thing you know, the games are being played again the following Sunday.

While the games are entertaining, the overreaction to what happens on the field is tiresome.

American sports media does not know how to fill time. The result are days of talking heads, television segments, podcasts and more that say way too much of nothing useful.

Are the Indianapolis Colts done at 0-1-1? They are half a game out of first in the AFC South with 15 games to play. I think it’s too soon to declare season over.

The Cincinnati Bengals are 0-2 as their chances to return to the Super Bowl are surely done. Of course, that’s not true either. Both of Cincinnati’s defeats were weird and wonky as they will bounce back.

Everyone buried the Dallas Cowboys after week one and the Cowboys came back and won in week two.

Buffalo is 2-0 and is now a lock to win the Super Bowl. Six weeks from now, sports media folks might be asking if Buffalo can still right the ship?

The media and fans have not caught on to the fact the expanded playoff of 14 teams and the extra week of the season that each week means less. With that said, the NFL is still entertaining and I struggle to turn it off. I have succeeded in watching less pregame coverage.

I guess that is a victory to talk about.

Nathan Pace is the Sports Editor of the Greene County Daily World and can be reached at npace@gcdailyworld.com. His “Low Budget Sports Show” airs weekly on Facebook Live.