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The 10 Worst Sunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Decisions
For 16 years the Sunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch has been the most popular part of this blog, in various incarnations, by a significant margin, being most of the reason anyone pays...
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Cantonmetrics: 2024 Preliminary Nominees
Offseason Snapshot | Senior/Coach/Contributor Semifinalists | All-Snub Team Each September, the Pro Football Hall of Fame typically names around 95-125 modern-era players, who played at least part of...
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Introducing the New NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch
The Bengals have had an unexpectedly slow start to the season with Joe Burrow not being the Joe Burrow the team needs him to be. The much-hyped arrival of Aaron Rodgers with the New York Jets came to...
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Last-Minute Remarks on NFL Week 8 Flex Scheduling Decisions
Week 8 (SNF early flex #1): Here’s the situation: flexing in any Fox game other than Rams-Cowboys would force Bears-Chargers over to CBS, unless the league is willing to have Fox deliver Los Angeles a...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 6
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of the Thursday night game. Apologies for this coming out so late, but I wanted to make sure I got the rules spiel below right and was satisfied with it...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 7
After a week riddled with upsets, it’s looking surprisingly plausible that we might not have any flexes this year. It had started to look like we had a pretty firm group of “bad teams” – in no...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 8
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of the Thursday night game. I decided to wait and see what the Vikings did at the trade deadline before I began writing this post, to inform what I say...
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Last-Minute Remarks on TNF Week 14 Flex Scheduling Decisions
Week 14 (TNF only): Will the first test of TNF flexing involve taking out the mighty Patriots and Steelers in favor of the name-value black hole known as the Houston Texans? Will the first flex...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 9
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of the Thursday night game. On this week’s “Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast”, SportsBusiness Journal’s John Ourand explained how the rule...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 10
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of the Thursday night game… mostly. See the Week 13 section for how late-breaking news could affect flex decisions in the very near term. On Tuesday...
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Last-Minute Remarks on NFL Week 13 Flex Scheduling Decisions
Week 13: Given the name value that both teams in the Sunday night game bring, the Packers’ win likely shuts the door on what little chance there was that it would be flexed out, leaving the Burrow-less...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 11
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of any of the Thanksgiving or Black Friday games, or the first half of the early Sunday games. There’s a good reason for my lateness this week: NFL Vice...
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Last-Minute Remarks on NFL Flex Scheduling Decisions Following Week 12
I ended up putting out the Week 11 Flex Schedule Watch post about halfway through Sunday’s early games, so if you haven’t read it, do. I have a lot of thoughts about Mike North’s comments on various...
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Cantonmetrics: 2024 Semifinalists
Offseason Snapshot | Senior/Coach/Contributor Semifinalists | All-Snub Team Each November, the Pro Football Hall of Fame names at least 25 modern-era players (more if there’s a tie for the last spot),...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 12
I thought I might have a chance to get this post up before we got too far into the Thursday night game, but the NFL caught me off guard by announcing Week 15 flexes for both Saturday and Monday night...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 13
On Monday the New York Post‘s Andrew Marchand sent a newsletter exploring “why more flex has meant less flex” for the league this year. It’s locked behind a paywall so I haven’t read it myself, but I...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 14
So in the early part of this year’s iteration of this feature, I was able to fill this introductory section with some discussion of how the week’s results shaped the flex scheduling picture on a high...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 15
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of the Thursday night or Saturday games (mostly). So despite my use of a “cheat sheet” after what happened in 2021 this post came pretty close to going...
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Cantonmetrics: 2024 Finalists
Offseason Snapshot | Senior/Coach/Contributor Semifinalists | All-Snub Team Each year, the Pro Football Hall of Fame names at least 15 modern-era players (more if there’s a tie for the last spot),...
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NFL Flexible Scheduling Watch: Week 16
Note: This post does not incorporate the result of the Thursday or Saturday night games. Perhaps predictably, over the past week social media has erupted with people moaning about why Dolphins-Ravens,...
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