Football Night In America will announce Dal/Philly schedule pregame tomorrow.

[dbair1967]

Only if AZ gets the Bye do I think this is possible. The Fiesta Bowl is on Monday and I'm not sure if the NFL wants to deal with the 24 hour turnaround from Playoff game to BCS game.

I dont see that as an issue at all. The field isnt natural grass, all they have to do is repaint the logos and endzones.

 

[windward]

I dont see that as an issue at all. The field isnt natural grass, all they have to do is repaint the logos and endzones.

Well in any case I hope you're right as I am off on Saturday and work on Sunday.

I may run a little late if the game is on Sunday.

 

[crazytown41]

What's funny is that if the Pats beat the Texans then the Bengals will have nothing to play for and will likely sit their starters.

 

[bbgun]

I can't believe they opted for that dog game in the Meadowlands. Maybe they didn't want to screw FOX.

 

[windward]

What's funny is that if the Pats beat the Texans then the Bengals will have nothing to play for and will likely sit their starters.

I think the Texans win, though.

 

[jimmy40]

I dont see that as an issue at all. The field isnt natural grass, all they have to do is repaint the logos and endzones.

It isn't ?

 

[dallascowboysfan31]

This is typical NFL. Trying to throw the city of NY a bone when we %$^& all over the Giants comeback season. The Jets playing the Bengals? ***!!!! I guess they aren't interested in seeing the Cowboys set another viewing record! Embrace your greatest franchise NFL. The MLB does it. Oh wait, what city does the MLB's favorite team play in? Hmmmm.

 

[joseephuss]

I dont see that as an issue at all. The field isnt natural grass, all they have to do is repaint the logos and endzones.

Arizona's field is natural grass. That is why they are able to slide the whole field along tracks outside the stadium to get sunlight.

 

[Beast_from_East]

So the Bengals and Jets get flexed???

Wow, the Bengals will have nothing to play for and probably sit starters so the NFL is showcasing the freaking Jets???

The same Jets team that their HC didnt know they were still alive for a playoff berth and thought the season was over???

That game over the NFC East Championship Game???


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[dbair1967]

Arizona's field is natural grass. That is why they are able to slide the whole field along tracks outside the stadium to get sunlight.

didnt know that...assumed it was field turf or a version of it

thanks

 

[WoodysGirl]

Peter King

The Bengals get their prime time moment. The Jets get a chance Rex Ryan thought they'd never have. In the end, the Colts and Saints made the league's decision on which game to flex to the last game of the regular-season Sunday night easy. With no historic unbeaten season in the offing, the NFL could take the game with certain playoff implications and put it on NBC with teams around the league waiting to see how the last spot or two in the playoffs would shake out. Two teams have win-and-they're-in situations: the Jets and Baltimore. The Bengals-Jets game is more desirable than Baltimore-Oakland for a few reasons. It's potentially a more competitive game, it's the last football game in Giants Stadium, the Bengals have been eager to play a prime-time game and have more star power than the Raiders, and it's better to have a 10-5 team on TV than a 5-10 team. I doubt the NFL wanted to put Charlie Frye and 20,000 empty seats in Oakland on the showcase prime-time game of week 17.

Lots of people have asked why the Dallas-Philadelphia game, for the championship of the NFC East, wasn't flexed. A couple of reasons. All things being equal, the league would have preferred an AFC game to be flexed. By the end of the current contract in 2013, the league has to have flexed an equal number of FOX (NFC) and CBS (AFC) games to the Sunday night NFL package on NBC. As of today, the league has shifted four more NFC games than AFC games. So this lowers the margin to three. Another factor is that, by virtue of the Giants losing to Carolina and Dallas beating Washington, Dallas and Philadelphia were already playoff-bound. Now it's just a question of which seed each will be.

One more interesting note from the league's scheduling czar, Howard Katz, late last night: I was under the impression that NBC, with its two wild-card games Jan. 9, got the first choice of which game to put in prime time on that Saturday night. Then FOX and CBS would take an NFC and AFC game, respectively, and NBC would be left with the unchosen game for its second Saturday game.

"I don't know how that ever got started,'' Katz said, "but it's not true. None of the networks get a choice. They all lobby, of course, but it's a league decision.''



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[Doomsday101]

I would not mind seeing FOX move this game up to 3:00. I know Johnston stated that some of the 12:00 games could move up to 3:00 games. I would think FOX will want this to be a feature game

 

[dbair1967]

I would not mind seeing FOX move this game up to 3:00. I know Johnston stated that some of the 12:00 games could move up to 3:00 games. I would think FOX will want this to be a feature game

It's been moved to 4:15 EST

 

[Doomsday101]

It's been moved to 4:15 EST

Thanks, I had not seen the TV listing for the game. It makes sense for FOX to make that their nationally televised game

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Jordan Palmer vs Mark Sanchez! Buckle up!

 

[big dog cowboy]

Thanks for posting this WG!

Lots of people have asked why the Dallas-Philadelphia game, for the championship of the NFC East, wasn't flexed. A couple of reasons. All things being equal, the league would have preferred an AFC game to be flexed. By the end of the current contract in 2013, the league has to have flexed an equal number of FOX (NFC) and CBS (AFC) games to the Sunday night NFL package on NBC. As of today, the league has shifted four more NFC games than AFC games. So this lowers the margin to three.

What BS. Forget putting the best game on now we have to be fair? There would have been far more people watching us than the Bengals and Jets.

 

[brett2223]

Jordan Palmer vs Mark Sanchez! Buckle up![/quo:laugh2:

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Youd think week 17 wouldnt be the best time make the confrence flex closer to equal.

How about that ****fest Min/Car game? I would have preferred any AFC game over that. Or even Bal/Pit instead of Dal/Wsh

The Bengals are gonna rest players. The NFL really butchered the flex these past few weeks.