NFL Week 15: The Cowboys are in prime time again

Third week in a row, fourth if you include Thanksgiving. This one against the Bucs could be a fun one.

Elsewhere, the Patriots go to Denver and can deliver ... not a knockout blow but a standing eight count to the defending champs. The Lions visit the Giants and encounter possibly brutal weather. Titans at Chiefs is suddenly interesting.

And, if you're in London, GET TICKETS NOW FOR THESE 2017 MATCHUPS!!!!

Baltimore vs. Jacksonville
New Orleans vs. Miami
Cleveland vs. Minnesota
Arizona vs. Los Angeles

 

Denver has been the scene of many decades worth of Patriots disasters, but I just don't see how the Broncos can score more than 14 points in a game as they are currently constituted.

 

Sending the Rams to play in London was somewhat acceptable this year as the sched has already been set when they moved to LA. But again? The freaking game will be starting at like 7 am in LA and AZ. Are they trying to set a new record for lowest-rated game in London?

 

I believe the London games are now night games so it'd start at 10 a.m. Pacific just like an East Coast game.

 

So the marketing in London is gonna be "We been waiting all day for Sunday night..with the Cardinals and the Rams."

 

The Rams agreed to several years of London games as part of the agreement with moving the team. This isn't news.

The 6:30 am London games are history. Not doing them in 2017.

 

Like the Giants to roll given Stafford's injury. Last time he tried to play through a broken finger on his throwing hand he threw nine interceptions in three weeks. He had two in the fourth quarter last week -- his first picks since Week 4.

Edit: My bad. Stafford threw one interception between Week 4 and Week 14.

 

BTW just looked it up -- the MNF matchup next week is Detroit at Dallas.

So that ratings crisis will right itself as long as the Cowboys never play in the afternoon ever again.

 

Isn't there a limit on how many times one team can be shown in primetime? I thought it was five. Or does that go out the window if games are flexed?

 

The limit is 16 per season.

 

It's five but there's some sort of exception where I think it's two teams can have six appearances so that flex options are greater in the last two weeks.

(Edit: Just looked it up at The 506. Week 17 is exempted from the rules for flex purposes.)