Buccaneers-Falcons averages 12.3 million viewers

Thursday night’s overtime thriller between the Bucs and Falcons generated big numbers, as regular-season streaming goes.

Thursday night’s Amazon Prime broadcast of the Week 5 game averaged 12.3 million viewers.

That’s five percent more than last year’s Bears-Commanders game in Week 5, and 27 percent higher than the Colts-Broncos stinker of all time from week 5 of 2022.

It’s still a sharp drop from last week’s Cowboys-Giants game, which was a Amazon Prime record of 16.22 million.

Even though last night’s game was better, the two teams do not have the same pulling power. In other words, and in light of the approaching holidays: “Well, they can’t all be winners, right??”

Through four matches Thursday night football has an average of 14.17 million viewers. That’s a 20 percent increase over last year’s full-season average, and 48 percent higher than the 2022 average.