DirecTV Sunday Ticket vs. NFL Game Rewind

I could use some advice from anyone who has used NFL Game Rewind before.

For years I've used DirecTV Sunday Ticket at a discounted price. It used to be you just threatened to leave and they'd give you a discount. Every year. But now (maybe because of the AT&T thing?) they aren't budging. It's full price or nada. That's $240 for the games alone, and $340 if I want the package that include Short Cuts, which I like because they make grading faster and easier and they reduce used DVR space by like 80%. That might just be too much money for me. Plus, I hate the principle of the thing. ALL I want is the game and the shortcut of ONE team, but I'm paying for every game for every team, plus all of their short cuts, plus a list of like 10 more features I have no use for, most of them fantasy-related. Plus I'll only use it for 9 or so weeks anyway, because the game is available for 5 night games, plus a couple others that will spring up for me randomly. I swear, if they would let you pay a la carte I'd never leave them.

Here comes along NFL Game Rewind. From what I understand, for $30 I can watch every Steelers game online (hours after it ends though, not live) and I'll get "condensed games", which I assume is the same as the Short Cuts offered on DirecTV.

The downside of course is that I'd HATE to not see the games live and either live in a cave all day or know the score and what happens before I see it. If I can't take it, might wind up in a restaurant or bar during game time, which would cost me another $10 per game that I can't see live at home (about 9 games).

My questions for anyone that's used it before:

-Are the Condensed Games as good as the Short Cuts?
-For the $30 package the Coach's Film is only for "select plays." How select? Like touchdowns and turnovers?
-How good is the Coach's Film? Is it worth the extra $40 to get it for every play?

Gun to my head prediction, I'm probably leaning towards dropping Sunday Ticket and buying the rewind, plus going to a bar & grille to watch the games live and pay for an appetizer or something. That'd run me about $120 and it's a bigger hassle, but at least it'd save me $150 I wouldn't feel as much like a sucker. What say yinz?

 

I don't mean this in a bad way toward either of you , but I think in Directv's eyes you guys are in a very small minority.
$240 is really cheap when you think about what you're getting. Not much more than a tank of gas and dinner and a movie out with the wife.
17 weeks of any game you want to watch, I love it!
I know money is tight these days so I understand that. It would be nice if they just offered a team package for say $99 for a season or $9.99 per game.
Snack you talk about grading the players, do you do that for a blog or work? Just curious.

 

I got the same discount as Steel_Elvis by saying I would drop.

When I tried NFL Game rewind a few years ago I wasn't happy with the quality. Most of that is likely due to my crappy Brighthouse ISP connection though. Also, if I remember right you cannot watch anytime a game is on TV, which is alot of my free time so it didn't work well with my schedule.

I liked the idea of the coaches tape but in reality I didn't use it much.

 

to late...lol

 

Where do you take your wife to dinner?? Taco Bell + a good spot just outside the drive-in fence = $6.99 for the night.

There's two ways of looking at it - if you compare it to the cost of attending all of those games, it's a steal. If you compare it to the cost of watching TV, it's not a steal at all. And what really gets me is the packages. Not just the idea of packages, but specifically the way they've arranged it. You HAVE to buy ALL this stuff that I think lots of people don't care about. I don't think I'm in the minority when it comes to the reason I watch (to follow my favorite team). How many people need to see every team every week? And the fantasy stats that are inescapable anyway online and on the screen during games?

I think a lot of people are in my boat. There's one game a week they need to see that they can't, and that happens 9-11 times per year. That's $27 per game, $38 per game if you spring for the short cuts. And they can rationalize it by saying they're giving me all this other stuff I have no interest in. To me it's like if McDonald's charged $100 for a hamburger, and then when you got it they included 20 fish sandwiches. And in this scenario, I'm a hamburger addict along with the rest of the country, and McDonald's is the only place in the world that has any hamburgers. It's price gouging. And the real situation is even worse, because there's probably little to no overhead by giving me all those extra games, compared to the cost that would actually exist if McDonald's gave me 20 fish sandwiches. DirecTV could easily provide a product we all want at a reasonable price (a hamburger for 5, 10, or even 20 dollars), but it refuses to do so in the name of jacking up the price.

I grade for my own knowledge, although I would totally take a paid position somewhere if you're hiring. I mostly want to be able to know when to agree with PFF and when to call them a big pile of ****.

 

I am with TTF. I did fail to get it last year was working multiple jobs and the slow start to our season sent me in a state of depression.lol. The all 22 is very good tape ,you can watch all the individual spots you want to.

 

What exactly is it like? How many camera angles to you get? I know it has the end zone camera and the super far back camera that shows all 22 players, but can you also get individual matchups or sideline views or anything?

 

Thanks for the answers. I'm thinking I'll start with the "one team" package, and upgrade later if I feel like I want to see more. I'm assuming they'll be willing to take my money later.

Luckily, DirecTV had a free preview today, and we play night games the next two weeks. I don't have to decide for 3 more weeks.

 

Mainly End Zone ,but you can zoom, and you do have multiple angles on most plays. Not sure if it changed going to get it after we beat the Ravens.