The biggest challenge of playing on Monday night is the short week it leaves teams returning to a normal Sunday work schedule the following week.
When you take a beating like the Bears did from the Rams and sprinkle in a little controversy to boot as Brian Griese and Nick Foles did the other night, time spent cleaning up the mess makes things even more difficult.
Even ink-stained wretches like me feel the pain as I immediately dove right into the game film – and trust me, that was painful – to get you all my weekly film study report card before it became ancient history.