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Sunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 12
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
View ArticleLast-Minute Remarks on SNF Week 15 Picks
Week 15 (December 16): Tentative game: Philadelphia @ LA Rams Prospects: 5-6 v. 11-1. The Eagles got off the schneid but this game is still worryingly lopsided (and now will mark Rams games in...
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Sunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 13
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
View ArticleLast-Minute Remarks on SNF Week 16 Picks
Week 16 (December 23): Tentative game: Kansas City @ Seattle Prospects: Uh-oh. The Chiefs won and the other three AFC division leaders all lost, meaning not only could the Chiefs lock up the AFC West...
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Sunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 14
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
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Sunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 15
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
View ArticlePredictions for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2019
The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s selections are performed by a panel of 46 leading NFL media members including representatives of all 32 NFL teams, a representative of the Pro Football Writers of...
View ArticleSunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Number of Primetime Appearances...
Here are each team’s number of appearances across the league’s three primetime packages on NBC, ESPN, and Fox/NFL Network for the season, useful for determining what games can be flexed into or out of...
View ArticleWhat Would a Conference-Free NFL Television Schedule Look Like?
Last month, Variety reported that the NFL was looking into the possibility of decoupling its Sunday afternoon television contracts from each conference in its next television contract beyond 2022 (no...
View ArticleWhat to Make of the NFL’s Experiment with Putting the Draft on Broadcast, Part 2
Last year, after the NFL Draft aired on broadcast for the first time ever, I wrote a blog post looking at the resulting ratings and what it meant for the NFL’s desire for “presidential election”-style...
View ArticleI actually accomplished something this month!
I updated my NFL Flexible Scheduling Primer page for the new season! What do you mean I only did it over the course of the last hour if not half-hour of the month and I still may make some further...
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Sizing Up the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team
With the injuries to Drew Brees and Ben Roethlisberger, and with Eli Manning being benched for someone that was considered a massive reach when the Giants took him sixth overall and pretty much...
View ArticleLast-Minute Remarks on SNF Week 6 Picks
Week 6 (October 13): Tentative game: Pittsburgh @ LA Chargers Prospects: 0-3 v. 2-2. As with last year’s early flex, I was surprised this game was picked to begin with, simply because I thought the...
View ArticleSunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 5
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
View ArticleSunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 6
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
View ArticleSunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 7
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
View ArticleSunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 8
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
View ArticleLast-Minute Remarks on SNF Week 11 Picks
Week 11 (November 17): Tentative game: Chicago @ LA Rams Prospects: 3-4 v. 5-3. The Eagles are a good team, but the Bears are now on a four-game losing streak after starting 3-1, raising the prospect...
View ArticleSunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 9
Since it started in its current format as the NFL’s main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC’s Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best...
View ArticleLast-Minute Remarks on SNF Week 12 Picks
Week 12 (November 24): Tentative game: Seattle @ Philadelphia Prospects: 7-2 v. 5-4. Not as lopsided as it could have been, and the Eagles are right in the thick of contention in the NFC East. Likely...
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