Sunday’s NFL slate included a handful of games that looked awfully meaningless to most of us, which is what happens when October gives way to November, and early-season hope is replaced in many markets and locker rooms by the realization that this is not your year. But while you and I can watch football with a sense of resignation and detachment, the players cannot play it that way. Every game matters, whether you want it to or not.
A clear testimonial to that effect followed CBS’s broadcast of the 3-6 Broncos at the 7-2 Chargers; you didn’t even have to touch the remote.