Week 12 Sunday Night Football (1 Viewer)

[JaxBill]

Somebody please tell me they're going to swap out the Eagles @ Pats. I really don't want to see another Eagles national TV debacle. The problem is that with Thanksgiving weekend, the options are limited.

Washington (5-3, Road: 2-2) 1:00 pm EST Tampa Bay (5-4, Home: 4-1) FOX Seattle (4-4, Road: 1-3) 1:00 pm EST St. Louis (0-8, Home: 0-4) FOX Minnesota (3-5, Road: 1-3) 1:00 pm EST NY Giants (6-2, Home: 3-1) FOX Oakland (2-6, Road: 1-3) 1:00 pm EST Kansas City (4-4, Home: 2-2)CBS Buffalo (4-4, Road: 1-2) 1:00 pm EST Jacksonville (5-3, Home: 2-2) CBS Houston (4-5, Road: 2-3) 1:00 pm EST Cleveland (5-3, Home: 4-1)CBS Tennessee (6-2, Road: 3-1) 1:00 pm EST Cincinnati (2-6, Home: 2-2) CBS Denver (3-5, Road: 1-2) 1:00 pm EST Chicago (3-5, Home: 1-3) CBS New Orleans (4-4, Road: 2-2) 1:00 pm EST Carolina (4-4, Home: 0-3) FOX San Francisco (2-6, Road: 1-3) 4:05 pm EST Arizona (3-5, Home: 2-1) FOX Baltimore (4-3, Road: 1-3) 4:15 pm EST San Diego (4-4, Home: 3-1) CBS Philadelphia (3-5, Road: 2-2) 8:15 pm EST New England (9-0, Home: 4-0)NBC

 

[JohnDoe]

Flexable scheduling does start in week 11. We should know by noon EST on 11/6 if there is going to be a change in the Sunday night game for that week.

Only Sunday afternoon games are eligible to be moved to Sunday night, in which case the tentatively scheduled Sunday night game will be moved to an afternoon start time. Flexible scheduling will not be applied to games airing on Thursday, Saturday or Monday nights.Just as the six major college football conferences have done for many years, the NFL will have the flexibility to move the start times of games on Sundays, using a 12-day notice format.For example, a game scheduled for a Sunday could move from a 1:00 p.m. ET kickoff to an 8:15 p.m. start, but the change would be made and announced no later than the prior Tuesday, 12 days prior.

Based on this report I think you can rule out any of these games being moved to prime time.

Three Week 11 game times have been changed to accommodate broadcast patterns, the NFL announced today.Dallas at Washington on FOX has been moved from 1:00 PM ET to 4:15 PM ET; Pittsburgh at New York Jets on CBS has been moved from 1:00 PM ET to 4:05 PM ET; and New York Giants at Detroit has been moved from 4:15 PM ET to 1:00 PM ET.A final Week 11 schedule of games will be released no later than 12 days prior to that Sunday, as per NFL flexible scheduling guidelines.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

And considering the Pats have been moved to primetime the week before, what are the odds that even the way things are going with them, the NFL will allow them to be on NBC in consecutive weeks?

 

[AB in DC]

I think each team is limited to four primetime appearances in the regular season.

 

[LILB811]

I'm not too sure about this, but I will take a stab. My guess would be that if a Sunday night game were to get moved to a 1 or 4 o clock start, the network that it would be moved to (Fox in the Eagles-Pats case), would be the network giving up a game for Sunday night. This is just speculation of course, but seems to make the most sense to me.

I would bet the Vikings-Giants gets switched to Sunday night instead of Eagles-Pats. For week 11, if any game gets switched instead of Bears-Seahawks, which it probably won't, I would guess Saints-Texans, simply because of the Texans passing on Bush deal.