Despite losing their star quarterback Aaron Rodgers just four plays into their season, the New York Jets — for the first time in a long time — appear to be a big draw.
According to the New York Jets official Twitter account, their Sunday afternoon matchup against the previously undefeated Philadelphia Eagles on Fox racked up over 26 million viewers, making it the most-watched game of the 2023 NFL season so far.
That’s not all, though, as the next two most-watched games of the season also featured Gang Green: their Week 2 matchup against the Dallas Cowboys and their Week 4 Sunday Night Football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Sunday's game vs. Philadelphia is the new most-watched game of the @NFL season…
…passing two of our other games that now sit No. 2 and No. 3. pic.twitter.com/fStrZwaPQj
— New York Jets (@nyjets)
NBC, however, has disputed the Jets/Fox’s claim that it was the most-watched game of the season, according to Front Office Sports:
On Wednesday, NBC pointed out it had already reported three games with higher viewership. They were the network’s season-opening telecast of Kansas City Chiefs vs. Detroit Lions (27.5 million), Chiefs vs. Jets (26.7 million), and Dallas Cowboys vs. San Francisco 49ers (26.3 million).
According to NBC, the discrepancy boils down to how Nielsen measures NFL audiences on different networks as well as the audience figures supplied by those networks. Nielsen includes Fox’s streaming numbers. But it does not include NBC’s, which are measured by Adobe Analytics.
Having already played two primetime games this year (and a third 4:25 Fox “Game of the Week” against the Eagles), the Jets still have a bevy of primetime matchups still to come: November 6 against the Los Angeles Chargers, November 12 against the Las Vegas Raiders, November 24 (Black Friday) against the Miami Dolphins, and December 28 against the Cleveland Browns.
They also have a 4:25 p.m., likely nationally televised game against the Buffalo Bills on November 19.
This weekend, Week 7, the Jets are on a bye week before returning to action next week for a matchup against the New York Giants.
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