NFL Schedule Release Date???

MossWelkowski said:

I wonder if we see the schedule leaked around 6pm

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The earlier the better. I'm planning a few road trips this year and would like to see my options as soon as I can get my hands on them.

I think I made a prediction like this in another thread, but here goes

TNF - @ Jets, late in Season
SNF - @ Packers, early in Season (before week 5)
SNF - v Broncos, November
SNF - @ Colts, October
MNF - v Bears, December

I could see the Pats playing the Jets or Miami at home to open and @KC on Thanksgiving Night.

CelticPatriot said:

I think I made a prediction like this in another thread, but here goes

TNF - @ Jets, late in Season
SNF - @ Packers, early in Season (before week 5)
SNF - v Broncos, November
SNF - @ Colts, October
MNF - v Bears, December

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Those seem logical picks for the opponents for prime time games, the Chiefs game might possibly get it over the Bears game as another pretty strong possibility.

Opening day better be Denver @ Seattle. Seeing Manning make a complete fool out of himself again to start the season would be great.

Less than 8 hours.. Still thinking this leaks in the 4-6 pm timeframe .. Just a hunch

patsinthesnow said:

Opening day better be Denver @ Seattle. Seeing Manning make a complete fool out of himself again to start the season would be great.

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No way they waste a game like that.... Everyone will watch that game no matter who the Seahawks are playing..

MossWelkowski said:

No way they make that a Thursday night game!

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I'm not so sure.... they promised CBS a couple marquee matchups, and this is an AFC contest so Fox won't care if that game is on CBS on a Thursday.... the only other interested party is NBC, but they have no right to complain.

We know they do very well on the opening Thursday night, but I think the league will be very interested in seeing what type of ratings they can get the rest of the season for good matchups on Thursdays.

MossWelkowski said:

Less than 8 hours.. Still thinking this leaks in the 4-6 pm timeframe .. Just a hunch

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We may not get the whole deal, but ya I agree leaks will be starting at any time now.

SB39 said:

Good Lord, another "The NFL loves Manning and hates us" person.

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You're kidding yourself if you don't think the NFL caters to Manning.

SB39 said:

We may not get the whole deal, but ya I agree leaks will be starting at any time now.

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Patsrock said:

The 28 day period before Thanksgiving. So this year will be Thursday October 30th thru Wednesday November 27th.

I am thinking Pats/Broncos will be CBS last Thursday Night game, which happens to be October 30th.

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MossWelkowski said:

No way they make that a Thursday night game!

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In the past I would agree that there was no way that this would be a Thursday night game, but this year is different. CBS will be producing and broadcasting the first eight Thursday night games, and if my calculations are correct this would be the final CBS Thursday game of the season. We got much better games on Sunday night once NBC paid big bucks for those broadcast rights; I would not be surprised at all to see better games on Thursday nights from weeks one through eight as well.

A couple tidbits about those games that I overlooked when the announcement was initially made: CBS will be producing all of the Thursday night games (all sixteen weeks) - i.e., even the games they are not broadcasting later in the season. Many felt the production values of the telecasts were much lower with NFLN than they were with CBS/Fox/NBC/ESPN; this contract addresses that problem. In addition Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will be the broadcasters regardless of whether it's an early (CBS) or late (NFLN) season game; Nantz and Simms are an upgrade over Brad Nessler and Mike Mayock.

Lastly the NFLN will simulcast the early season games along with CBS rather than putting something on head-to-head with the CBS telecast. At first I thought that was odd, but it does make sense. First offf it gets fans used to turning to NFLN to watch games on Thursday nights, and second there's not really anything else worth putting on to fill that time slot. On Sundays they can have a roundtable to discuss all the games that are either being played or that have ended, and same deal with Monday night; by Thursday those games have been analyzed to death, and with only one game being played it makes more sense to watch it than to sit around and talk about it.

NFL partners with CBS on 'Thursday Night Football package - NFL.com

How CBS won Thursday night - Sports Business Daily

1960Pats said:

You're kidding yourself if you don't think the NFL caters to Manning.

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While I don't doubt that, they cater more to a network like CBS that is forking over $275,000,000 for broadcast rights to a mere eight games.

1960Pats said:

You're kidding yourself if you don't think the NFL caters to Manning.

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You sound just like the idiots who think the same thing about the NFL "catering" to Brady.

Tell me, were they catering to Manning or were they catering to Brady last year when they scheduled Pats-Broncos for nighttime in November in Foxboro? Or maybe... just maybe... were they just doing what they could to give their broadcast partners the best matchups at the best time?

Here is a wild guess on my part. If I get 2 right I will be happy

Mon 9/8/2014 Chi
Sun 9/14/2014 @ Buf
Sun 9/21/2014 Cin
Sun 9/28/2014 @ KC
Sun 10/5/2014 Buf
Sun 10/13/2014 @ Mia
Sun 10/19/2014 BYE
Sun 10/26/2014 @ Ind
Thu 10/30/2014 Den
Sun 11/9/2014 @ SD
Sun 11/16/2014 Det
Sun 11/23/2014 @ nyj
Sun 11/30/2014 Oak
Sun 12/7/2014 Mia
Sun 12/14/2014 @ GB
Sun 12/21/2014 @ Min
Sun 12/28/2014 NYJ

[url=http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/23/report-nfl-to-expand-flex-scheduling-by-two-games/]Report: NFL to expand flex scheduling by two games | Pro Football Talk[/URL]

Eventually, the league will announce each week's schedule of games on Wednesday (Thursday night to be announced on Tuesday).

From Curran:

Tom E. Curran @tomecurran
From what I'm hearing, the forecast for the Patriots opener is hot. Real hot.

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Miami? San Diego?

Zeus said:

[URL='http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/23/report-nfl-to-expand-flex-scheduling-by-two-games/']Report: NFL to expand flex scheduling by two games | Pro Football Talk

Eventually, the league will announce each week's schedule of games on Wednesday (Thursday night to be announced on Tuesday).[/URL]

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I'm not sure you're interpreting it right. The Thursday and Monday games are set in stone. All this is doing is allowing for games played earlier in the season to "flex" into Sunday Night Football.

We already knew the NFL was implementing a change this year whereby Fox might broadcast AFC games and CBS might broadcast NFC games on Sunday afternoons. The only news here is that NBC's flex scheduling will start week 5 instead of week 11, with a maximum of 2 "flexes" during that early time period.

However, I expect a lot of scheduling shifts from 1:00 to 4:15 for all sorts of games all season long. Those do not count as "flexing" but still might impact peoples' plans.

dales804 said:

From Curran:

Miami? San Diego?

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If he's talking "real hot" at that time of year, that's probably Miami.

dales804 said:

From Curran:

Miami? San Diego?

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Not San Diego please

I bet it's nyj