Which Baltimore Ravens game do you wish was primetime?
Ravens fans have become used to a nationalized schedule. Call it the “Lamar Jackson Effect,” but since his first MVP year, the Ravens are scheduled for nationally televised games with frequency.
Currently, the Ravens have four nationally televised games, four at night against the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals. They also have two in the mid-game window against the Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns.
But what is weird is that despite Lamar Jackson’s impact, there are 10 teams with more night primetime games than the Ravens. Uniquely, the San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys have more, though none of which exceeded above .500 last year.
With so many other teams having more prime-time games than the Ravens, it leads us to today’s topic.
Today’s question of the day is:
Which game would you make primetime?
My answer: Los Angeles Rams
While another division game popped into my head, I deferred in a different direction, between the Rams and Minnesota Vikings.
The Vikings are a compelling team this year with new quarterback J.J. McCarthy, the superstar factor in wide receiver Justin Jefferson and the fact they were one win from being the No. 1 seed in the NFC last season. Combine that with the “first time against Brian Flores since the lauded Thursday Night Football in Miami against Lamar Jackson Cover 0” story, and you’ve got exciting television.
Nevertheless, I decided upon the Rams.
McCarthy is a mystery. If he isn’t great his first year, it ruins the prime time appeal. But there is a good chance this is the last time Jackson and Matthew Stafford meet up.
The last time the Ravens and Rams faced off, 2023, was Game of the Year worthy. The back and forth, Jackson and the Ravens taking the lead with under two minutes in the fourth on a 3rd-and-17 touchdown pass and two-point conversion, only for the Rams to tie it up with no time left.
All of it culminating with “The Ty-Breaker.” A 76-yard punt return walk-off touchdown in overtime from Tylan Wallace.
Tylan Wallace takes it all the way for a walk-off punt return TD! pic.twitter.com/VWBqUd82VN
— NFL (@NFL) December 10, 2023
It would be mighty challenging for the sequel to live up to the first, but I would have loved to see it on prime time. Instead, it’ll be a 1 p.m. ET matchup in Week 6.
What game would you have liked to have seen on primetime? Share in a comment below!