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2020 NFL Schedule & Contingency Plans (1 Viewer)

Sports Business Daily reports the NFL considers Oct. 15 the drop-dead date for a 16-game season that could still be completed by February. 

Oct. 15 would be Week 6 under normal circumstances. John Ourand and Ben Fischer report the league would strongly want any 16-game season to be completed by the end of February. In that scenario, regular season bye weeks would be eliminated as well as the traditional off week between the conference championship games and Super Bowl. For now, the league is still planning to release a normal schedule by May 7, but it will be constructed in such a way that allows easy reconfiguration. Ourand and Fischer's entire article is worth a click.  

SOURCE: sportsbusinessdaily.com

Apr 27, 2020, 3:38 PM ET
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The New York Post's Andrew Marchand reports the NFL is considering scheduling more Saturday games if the NCAA college football season is postponed.

It's one way to dominate the weekend. The Thursday and Monday schedules wouldn't be affected, but the NFL could opt for a couple island games on Saturdays if the college season doesn't happen due to COVID-19. The NFL is expected to release its schedule May 9, and there will be built-in flexibility to move some games to Saturdays depending on what the NCAA decides. The NFL could conceivably have a triple-header of sorts on Saturdays like it does during the playoffs with games at 1 PM ET, 4:30 PM ET, and 8 PM ET.

SOURCE: New York Post

Apr 30, 2020, 2:38 PM ET
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Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio reports "there is an extremely small chance that there will be no NFL season in 2020."

Florio's sources have "direct knowledge of both the NFL's deliberations and the current and expected medical and scientific developments in the coming weeks and months." There have been previous reports indicating the NFL could play on Saturdays as well as Sundays if college football is postponed. This surely won't be the last news of developments ahead of next season.

SOURCE: Profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

May 2, 2020, 2:25 PM ET
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English newspaper The Daily Mail reports the NFL is not expected to play its international games in 2020. 

The article is presented through the lens of the Premier League's Tottenham Hotspur, who are contracted to host two NFL games per season, but the entire international slate is expected to be bagged. That includes two games in London's Wembley Stadium and one in Mexico City in addition to the Tottenham fixtures. There's just no way international games can go forward amidst the coronavirus pandemic. 

SOURCE: The Daily Mail 

May 3, 2020, 11:46 AM ET
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ESPN's Adam Schefter reports a source said he doesn't "think any international games (are) coming this year."

This is the second report in as many days suggesting that the NFL won't be playing any international games. The schedule will be released later this week, so the suspense shouldn't last much longer. The Jaguars were supposed to host two London games, the Cardinals have a Mexico City game, while the Dolphins and Falcons were supposed to host a game in TBD location.

SOURCE: Adam Schefter on Twitter

May 4, 2020, 8:51 AM ET
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The NFL announced there will be no international games for the 2020 season.

As expected. The NFL's official statement said, "Commissioner Roger Goodell made this decision after consultation with our clubs, national and local governments, the NFL Players Association, medical authorities and international stadium partners." It remains to be seen what else the NFL will do in order to make games as safe as possible. Clearly traveling across the border won't be among the available options.

SOURCE: NFL UK on Twitter

May 4, 2020, 12:05 PM ET
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John Lynch Goes Inside the 49ers' Blueprint to Get Back to the Super Bowl

Excerpt:

THE SCHEDULE IS COMING

The NFL has promised the schedule will be released by this Friday, and it’ll be a far more newsworthy event this year than it has been in the past, for a lot of very obvious reasons. So over the weekend, I called a few team presidents to take their temperatures on some of the underlying themes that could go into the decision-making in setting the slate up, and how to proceed from there. Some nuggets I gathered:

• The No. 1 thing to watch will be the International Series games. The teams I talked to were skeptical, at best, about the idea that the NFL could proceed with four games in London and a game in Mexico City in the fall. The Jaguars are scheduled to host two games at Wembley, the Dolphins and Falcons are set to host games at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the Cardinals are expected to be the home team for the Mexico game. It’s hard to imagine NFL teams making these trips at this point. So it’ll be interesting to see if the league acknowledges that, or goes forward—which would send five more teams into planning for what likely would be massively complicated trips.

• The second thing to watch will be for collapsible elements to the schedule, which could easily take the number of games down from 16 to 14 or 12. Obviously, the easiest thing to do would be to remove interconference games. So it’ll be interesting to see if those games are clustered in Weeks 2-5 (with Week 1 still set as a celebration of the return of the sport, that could be moved to the top of a modified schedule).

• One question that coastal teams are getting from NFL schedule-makers: Do you still want to have games on the opposite coast set for consecutive weeks, so you can stay in between games (a practice many teams have adopted)? On one hand, teams might believe that could be an effective way of quarantining, with players and coaches sequestered amongst themselves. On the other, teams might not want to spend extended periods of time in other parts of the country. It’s pretty relevant this year, with the AFC East drawing both West divisions in the rotation, and the NFC West drawing both East divisions.

• Will Las Vegas and the Los Angeles teams have their home openers later in the schedule, to allow for construction delays? And, for that matter, will the L.A. and New York teams have their slates backloaded with home games, because their areas have further to go in coming out of the crisis? Will that mean having, say, November and December weekends with one L.A. team playing on Thursday and the other on Sunday; or one New York team playing Sunday and the other on Monday?

• How will the big TV games get clustered? Will we see games like Chiefs-Ravens or Saints-Buccaneers further into the season, to increase the likelihood they’re played in front of fans?

• And that brings us back to how this will all be applied—and college football is a factor here. I’ve heard one idea that the major conferences have thrown around is starting their season on Oct. 1 and eliminating the non-conference schedule in doing so. They’ve also looked at pushing the schedule back altogether, and I’m told major college programs in the north have actually been in touch with NFL teams about using domed stadiums in January or February for home games, if it comes to that.

• Could the NFL move its schedule back, too? I don’t think it’s crazy to consider. Two teams estimated to me that, on average, NFL clubs would lose about $100 million apiece in local revenue if the season was played without fans in the stands. So when I asked if, given the choice, those in charge would rather start Sept. 1 without fans or Nov. 1 with them, one NFC team exec didn’t mince words: “I don’t think it’s even a question. If you could play a full season with fans, I don’t see how you don’t go that way. The economic impact is too major. If it’s possible to play it with fans by pushing it back, I don’t even see what we’d be discussing.” Worse, losing fans at games for a year could have an impact past 2020, in how fans used to going to games would have old habits broken, and may realize it’s easier to stay home and watch from there.

• Of course, the union will come into play on these decisions, and the first place would be connected to the salary cap. If the season went on without fans, and that $100 million figure is a ballpark reality (making the losses $3.2 billion league-wide), we’d be talking about a $48 million hit on the salary cap. In that scenario, the league and union would likely work together to “smooth” the cap (spreading the cap decrease over multiple years instead of dropping it by the full amount in one season), perhaps by borrowing from the benefits money or future years. But that, obviously, would have an impact down the line. And it wouldn’t be surprising to see it slow negotiations with big-ticket players in the coming months, with so much uncertainty ahead.

• So that’s why players and teams would probably be O.K. with moving the schedule back, if it meant preserving that much revenue. It also wouldn’t be too difficult, with most football stadiums having their non-football concert and event dates in the warmer months, giving the league the option of moving games into January, February and March.

• How far could the league move the Super Bowl back? It’s a fair question. A source told me that the league requires, with every Super Bowl bid, that cities hold extra dates in case the game has to be moved. So Tampa presumably has those. That said, one team exec told me the league probably wouldn’t want to move the Super Bowl past the start of the 2021 league year, which comes in mid-March. Moving that date would require negotiation with the union.

• Expect the NFL to work with the major college conferences on this behind the scenes (one key figure could be new Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren, the former Vikings COO). The league, ideally, would like its schedule to sync up with the college season, for combine and draft purposes. So you can bet they’ll be comparing notes, even if their circumstances are pretty different. Along those lines, I can say that at least a few NFL teams have been working with the other pro sports teams in their cities to come up with plans for re-opening. Obviously, the NFL has the advantage of not being in-season, where, in a typical year, we’d be a month into the MLB season and in the midst of the NBA and NHL playoffs. Pro football will gain another advantage if baseball starts in June, as MLB folks have said it will, in that they’ll have a guinea pig to study.

And if it seems like I was all over the place a little with that stuff, it’s because this is a complex thing for every sports league to deal with. Everyone’s hoping we’re in a place to kick off a football season in September. But, clearly, the people in charge have to be prepared for the next steps if that can’t happen—something that I’m sure we’ll see reflected, one way or the other, in the schedule release this week.
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Latest rumor is that the season will start with 4 weeks of the AFC-NFC matchups.

Which makes sense in a way: if you end up losing (part of) the first month, the non-conference games are the "easiest". 

 
Mt. Man said:
Latest rumor is that the season will start with 4 weeks of the AFC-NFC matchups.

Which makes sense in a way: if you end up losing (part of) the first month, the non-conference games are the "easiest". 
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If this is the case, then the TNF opener has to be KC at TB.  Yes, the champs open on the road, but this is the biggest money matchup possible.

I say Pittsburgh at Dallas is the week 1 SNF game

 
Mt. Man said:
Latest rumor is that the season will start with 4 weeks of the AFC-NFC matchups.

Which makes sense in a way: if you end up losing (part of) the first month, the non-conference games are the "easiest". 
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i guess if any of the leaks are to be believed, this is not true. 

 
I guess Houston/KC will be okay, but would have liked KC to face TB or some.  But since it's supposed to be a home game for the champs, I guess that only leaves Houston, NE, and Atlanta as possibilities.

 
just thinking about fairness a little and how it would work if some games are lost and the season is shortened.....and if the greed of the NFL factors in....

for instance if the Chiefs had a choice....they would probably like to not play the TB and say NOS games......and do play the CAR and ATL games....I know there are certain things like #1's playing #1's etc.....but when it comes to overall record at the end......which games/teams you end up not playing will be a huge factor....

like if DEN and KC are tied for the division lead.....and KC ends up having to play TB and NOS but DEN doesn't....thats kind of a big deal....

 
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Deamon said:
I don't understand.
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the NFL wants to make sure the TB vs KC game is played for ratings, etc.....they don't want that to be one of the games KC might lose off of their schedule if the season is shortened...

 
Schedule Leak: #Giants will host Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football in Week 8, per @art_stapleton.

 
The Houston Chronicle reports the Chiefs will host the Texans for the 2020 season's opening game on Thursday Sept. 10. 

The Chiefs kick off their title defense with a reprise of a Divisional Round matchup where they overcame a stunning 24-0 deficit for an easy 51-31 victory. That is, of course, is everything goes according to plan. The season's official start date should not be considered a sure thing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The NFL's entire 2020 schedule will be officially announced Thursday evening. 

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Houston Texans

SOURCE: Houston Chronicle 

May 7, 2020, 5:19 PM ET
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The Saints will host the Vikings for a Friday game on Christmas Day. 

It is a rare Christmas Day game for the NFL on an even-rarer Friday. The NFL has grown more brazen about scheduling Christmas games in recent years, staking more of a claim to what is traditionally one of its few quiet days. Friday games have usually been limited to weather-related changes. The entire 2020 schedule will be released Thursday evening. 

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Minnesota Vikings

SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune 

May 7, 2020, 3:40 PM ET
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Tom Brady's Buccaneers debut will take place against the Saints in New Orleans.  

It will be a 4:25 PM ET tilt. Brady will then make his home Bucs debut the following week against the Panthers. In all, the Bucs will play five primetime games, something that is all about Brady and not their 7-9 2020 record. 

May 7, 2020, 7:30 PM ET
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I don't know all the  bye weeks yet, going over each team but just saw Tampa has a week 13 bye. Those here how play in FFPC redraft leagues we usually have league championship week that week and some other high stakes contest usually have playoffs that week. Week 12 bye's were problematic, this is worse.

 
-OZ- said:
Bye

Week 4 New York, San Francisco

Week 5 Miami, Detroit

Week 6 Buffalo, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Chicago

Week 7 Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Carolina

Week 8 Dallas, Baltimore

Week 9 Cincinnati, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New Orleans

Week 10 New England, Denver, Philadelphia, Washington, Jacksonville, Houston

Week 11 Tennessee, Seattle, New York, Green Bay

Week 12 Kansas City, Los Angeles, Arizona, Minnesota
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I think that is last year 

 
-OZ- said:
Could be. It says 2020 but 🤷‍♂️

https://fantasyfootballcalculator.com/nfl-bye-weeks

They wrote the fine print stupid.

2020 NFL Bye Weeks

Note: This will be updated when the NFL schedule comes out for 2020.

Below are each of the bye weeks for each team for the 2020 NFL season.

I'd heard Tampa had week 13, but this included Las Vegas

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Yes Tampa has a week 13 bye. About an hour ago each team posted their schedule but I was to lazy clicking on all 32 so still don’t know all the byes.

 
Bye weeks from NFL.com schedule:

5    DET
5    GB
6    LV
6    NE
6    NO
6    SEA
7    IND
7    JAX
7    MIN
7    TEN
8    ARI
8    BAL
8    DEN
8    HOU
8    PIT
8    WAS
9    CIN
9    CLE
9    LAR
9    PHI
10    ATL
10    DAL
10    KC
10    LAC
11    BUF
11    CHI
11    MIA
11    NYG
11    NYJ
11    SF
13    CAR
13    TB

 
ZWK said:
Bye weeks from NFL.com schedule:

5    DET
5    GB
6    LV
6    NE
6    NO
6    SEA
7    IND
7    JAX
7    MIN
7    TEN
8    ARI
8    BAL
8    DEN
8    HOU
8    PIT
8    WAS
9    CIN
9    CLE
9    LAR
9    PHI
10    ATL
10    DAL
10    KC
10    LAC
11    BUF
11    CHI
11    MIA
11    NYG
11    NYJ
11    SF
13    CAR
13    TB
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Week 13 byes really suck, that's playoffs

 
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