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According to Wikipedia's explanation of the rules, up to three teams can make 6 primetime appearances, and the limit for remaining teams is 5. Currently Baltimore is scheduled for 5 PT games so if correct they would still be elegible for getting flexed in week 17. But your point still stands, if the NFL has it's eye on a week 17 BAL game, it might make them more likely to flex out BAL before then. However I don't think you can rule out a potential week 17 game where DET is playing for a playoff bid and GB is playing for 16-0. For the record I counted up the big ones in terms of scheduled PT appearances, it looks like this. There may be some other 4's, not sure. The ? on DAL and GB is if the Thanksgiving games count since they were national games (despite not actually being in prime time).NO - 5PIT - 5DAL - 5 (6?)NYJ - 5PHI - 5GB - 4 (5?)ATL - 4NYG - 4CHI - 4
Doesn't CBS hold the first right of refusal on this; to hold the game at its current time to potentially use it themselves?
According to the506.com, which is probably the best place on the Internet for info on this stuff, during the six flex weeks (11-16), CBS and FOX may each protect four games. But the protection decision is made after week 6, so it's unlikely they circled this one for protection. If I had to guess which games they chose at that time, I would say:12 NE-PHI13 PIT-CIN14 OAK-GB16 SD-DET
IMO, the Ravens destroy the Chargers. The Patriots will probably also beat down the Broncos, but Tebow could make it more interesting.
Tebow drafted in the first round by satan's disciple (McDaniels). satan's disciple criticized on many fronts as a precursor to his firing in denver, but first and foremost was for the "dumb" investment in mile high jesus.Who the heck doesn't want to see Tebow vs Belichick (antichrist). Classic good vs evil.
Apparently you cared enough to post and edit.
I'm with you. Tebow has as much name recognition as anybody in the NFL (no, really) and now he's winning games in dramatic fashion. It's a huge story, casual fans and football diehards alike will tune-in in droves for this.I take it you disagree.I'd be willing to wager it will be at least top three.Doesn't even seem like a controversial opinion to me.
The fragmentation of the viewing audience brought on by cable television means no football game today will ever be able to touch some of the historic records. Monday Night football is now on cable, so it will never touch the old MNF numbers. And Sunday Night football doesn't rate nearly as highly as MNF used to.The most watched regular season game ever was the 85 MNF Bears-Dolphins game, which pulled a Nielsen rating of 29.6 and a 46 share (percent of TVs in use tuned to one program). This year's Week 1 Sunday Night game between the Cowboys and Jets was the highest-ever rated Sunday Night game on NBC -- it drew a 15.3 rating and 25 share.It will be a huge game and the most watched show of the week, if it happens, but it won't come close to the historic numbers.I take it you disagree.I'd be willing to wager it will be at least top three.Doesn't even seem like a controversial opinion to me.
One problem with all of this.Week 17 has no night games this year.....According to Wikipedia's explanation of the rules, up to three teams can make 6 primetime appearances, and the limit for remaining teams is 5. Currently Baltimore is scheduled for 5 PT games so if correct they would still be elegible for getting flexed in week 17. But your point still stands, if the NFL has it's eye on a week 17 BAL game, it might make them more likely to flex out BAL before then. However I don't think you can rule out a potential week 17 game where DET is playing for a playoff bid and GB is playing for 16-0. For the record I counted up the big ones in terms of scheduled PT appearances, it looks like this. There may be some other 4's, not sure. The ? on DAL and GB is if the Thanksgiving games count since they were national games (despite not actually being in prime time).NO - 5PIT - 5DAL - 5 (6?)NYJ - 5PHI - 5GB - 4 (5?)ATL - 4NYG - 4CHI - 4
Week 17 is intentionally left open for the NFL to flex the best game into. Networks have zero say in week 17 - CBS & FOX can't protect, NBC gets no input into which game airs. Biggest game of the week will air at 8:15 on NBC that day no matter what.
Interesting... I thought this year was intentionally left off for the new year. I'm glad I'm wrong.
The SNF site says "Week 17:TBD", so I think there is a game.
Hopefully it will be snowing in Denver so the dark lord can wear his hoodie for the crucifiction.
Last year was the first year with the concept, it was neat in that it gave us a virtual playoff game in week 17 (winner of Seattle-St. Louis game would win the division and go to the playoffs). Obviously it was a bit dissapointing though as far as the quality of the teams. I don't expect we'll have the same problem this year, between BAL@CIN, DAL@NYG, DET@GB, TEN@HOU, there will almost certainly be a game between quality teams with playoffs on the line.Interesting... I thought this year was intentionally left off for the new year. I'm glad I'm wrong.
I think my point about Baltimore was off the mark (or was irrelevant to the week 15 flexing) as just thinking about it you have buried Chargers team that is probably firing everyone and under-performing facing a team from a pretty small market (Baltimore) that when it's playing well is run-oriented. Contrast that with Jesus vs Sith with a compelling story line and meaningful game and it's a no-brainer.Thanks to Reepicheep for that cool chart, though. I would think only the NFL Network game would count against national appearances since the Detroit and Dallas games are on FOX and CBS.-QGLast year was the first year with the concept, it was neat in that it gave us a virtual playoff game in week 17 (winner of Seattle-St. Louis game would win the division and go to the playoffs). Obviously it was a bit dissapointing though as far as the quality of the teams. I don't expect we'll have the same problem this year, between BAL@CIN, DAL@NYG, DET@GB, TEN@HOU, there will almost certainly be a game between quality teams with playoffs on the line.Interesting... I thought this year was intentionally left off for the new year. I'm glad I'm wrong.
No offense to Ravens fans, but their games tend to be a snooze-fest. They aren't an exciting bunch.
Is the set still extremely lopsided?
If the Chargers beat Buffalo this week (and it's a big if), they'll still have a legitimate shot at winning the division and that Ravens game will be huge for them.
I think CBS had the option of protecting the Den/NE game and chose to protect another instead, so NBC may have a decent argument. CBS left the game open to being flexed.
Rules are rules I guess. I just think the schedules should stay set unless the primetime game is really bad and they should do this as far ahead of time as possible. I'm thinking more of the fans who've purchased tickets having to adjust their schedules with less than two weeks notice.
It happens in college all the time and really isn't a big deal.
Only if Detroit is in a win-and-they're-in scenario. For Week 17, the NFL is committed to having a meaningful game in prime time. Imagine Detroit finds out at 4 p.m. that they're eliminated -- sucks a lot of interest out of the game.
For Christmas (week 16) there's no flex game.Interesting... I thought this year was intentionally left off for the new year. I'm glad I'm wrong.
Ah, I forgot that they missed out on
last week because the game got switched to FOX. CBS played good soldier now so they surely would feel like they were shafted if gets flexed on them to NBC. Makes a lot more sense now.-QG
It is also my understanding that Kraft has some business ties with CBS. Probably not significant enough to be the reason to pipe up about this though.
Unless oakland and denver start losing and the chargers keep on winning this does not make a whole lot of sense.I guess there was to many other variables involved, but what is the point of having the flex option if we are going to probably be viewing a less appealing game?
