NFL Schedule 2014-15

The new NFL Schedule is s'posed to be released tomorrow, 16 April, at 20:00 EDT on The NFL Network and at nfl.com.

DonDiego will be studying the games/dates to plan a visit with teechur to some of the 8 NFL Stadia in which they've not watched a game, . . . mostly northern venues with the exception of Houston and Arlington, Texas.

***Edited to change "May" to "April"***
If you come to Arlington, you and Teechur can stay at my place no charge
It's only April 22. May 16th is a long way away!
They release it tomorrow night.

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Originally posted by: BAGIANT
It's only April 22. May 16th is a long way away!
DonDiego's been having trouble knowing his months lately. Thanks!
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Originally posted by: johnzimbo
If you come to Arlington, you and Teechur can stay at my place no charge
Wow! Thanks for the offer.
teechur and DonDiego try to catch away games for teechur's Cardinals and DonDiego's beloved Eagles. And they like to economize by seeing 2 games at 2 different stadia within a week if the schedule falls right. This year Arizona travels to Dallas and Philadelphia plays in Houston; if those games were within a week they'd move up the prioritization list.

I predict that Denver will play Seattle in Seattle and that Detroit and Dallas will have games scheduled for Thanksgiving Day.

One bit of news seeping out, . . .

From week 5 through week 10 the NFL may "flex" any one Sunday afternoon game, . . . i.e. move it to the NBC Sunday evening spot, . . . but only twice in those 6 weeks. From week 11-on the NFL may flex one Sunday afternoon game each week, as they have been already.
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Originally posted by: DonDiego
One bit of news seeping out, . . .

From week 5 through week 10 the NFL may "flex" any one Sunday afternoon game, . . . i.e. move it to the NBC Sunday evening spot, . . . but only twice in those 6 weeks. From week 11-on the NFL may flex one Sunday afternoon game each week, as they have been already.


Do Fox or CBS get compensated when their best game of the week is pulled from them?
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
Do Fox or CBS get compensated when their best game of the week is pulled from them?

As far as poor old DonDiego can determine: NO.

However, Fox and CBS each may "protect" a total of five [presumedly this will change to ten or eleven] Sunday afternoon games, not more than one per week, during weeks 11–16 [presumedly weeks 5-16] and NBC selects which game they want to air.
_For example, in 2011, NBC wanted a late season game between the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots which featured Tim Tebow as the Broncos quarterback. CBS protected the game and NBC got a game featuring the San Diego Chargers instead.
Networks have the option of waiving designated protection to allow for a Sunday night airing.
_For example, a game between the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs and one-loss Denver Broncos in Week 11 of the 2013 season was protected by CBS, which would have had to air it in the non-national 4:05 p.m. timeslot, because the game was in Denver and the network did not have doubleheader rights that week. CBS thus allowed NBC to pick up the telecast for a nationwide broadcast.

FOX and CBS cannot protect games in week 17. During the last week of the season, the league can re-schedule games as late as six days before the contests so that as many of the television networks as possible will be able to broadcast a game that has major playoff implications, and so that several division races or Wild Card spots are on the line at the same time. The week 17 game on Sunday night is decided exclusively by the NFL.

Ref: wikipedia
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