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Not necessarily. This year, the AFC and NFC can have their divisionals all on one day (like both AFC games on Saturday and both NFC games Sunday) since there are four networks involved: CBS, FOX, NBC, ABC/ESPN. (It used to be 1 NBC, 1 FOX or CBS, and 2 for the the one that was not FOX or CBS.) The NFL prefers a 4v5 for Monday, but it could have been a 3v6, for example. In that case, both same-conference games would have to be on one day (most likely on a Sunday to allow for better rest, but we don't know that for an absolute fact). ----------- Second (unrelated) post: I believe the Dolphins and Chiefs will be the first teams to play each other twice in a season with neither game being on an OTA channel outside of home markets (first game was on NFL Network in Germany and the second one is on Peacock).

Haha...yeah, there is a semi-rotation though, and only some is known by the public, the the NFL and networks being tight-lipped. I'll post more about this when I have more time.

Yeah, it is. The AFC South champion usually gets the lowest viewed Saturday late afternoon game, since the entire division consists of small markets. That slot is playfully dubbed the "Houston Texans Invitational". And the NFL apparently wanted a big name to force people to subscribe to Peacock Saturday evening...hence KC. They wanted to reserve the much coveted Dallas for late Sunday, the biggest rating window...so FOX had to get that one. And they had to throw CBS a bone, so they gave them Pittsburgh (a huge rating draw) Sunday early (FOX and CBS were set to have Sunday afternoon, the only thing to be determined was which network got what slot).

Yep...glad you noticed that. If Collisworth had said yes, then NBC could have brought in Al Michaels, who Michaels works well with,. Collinsworth is a wus, lol!

The NFL prefers a 4v5 matchup for the Monday WC since that way only the 1 seed is left in the dark who their opponent will be after Sunday. If it is 2v7 or 3v6, everyone in that conference is held hostage until 11:30 PM Monday.

Agreed. He needs to stop posting his BS here and stop pretending to be a Bills fan.

3-person booth just confirmed for Pittsburgh at Buffalo on CBS! [EDIT: I am told Feely may be the sideline "kicking expert".]

Yeah...nope (I have to do this like every other week it seems):

[My apologies to @djp14150. I just saw his post on page 2, and the search function has been down this whole evening (maybe on purpose?). I do want to be able to edit my table below after each post-season round though, as well as show the teams SOS, since that is an important tiebreaker.] https://www.tankathon.com/nfl 2024 NFL Draft April 25-27 in Detroit Pick Team Record of original team SOS 1 Chicago (from Carolina) 2-15 (Carolina) .522 2 Washington 4-13 .512 3 New England 4-13 .522 4 Arizona 4-13 .561 5 Los Angeles Chargers 5-12 .529 6 New York Giants 6-11 .512 7 Tennessee 6-11 .522 8 Atlanta 7-10 .429 9 Chicago 7-10 .464 10 New York Jets 7-10 .502 11 Minnesota 7-10 .509 12 Denver* 8-9 .488 13 Las Vegas* 8-9 .488 14 New Orleans 9-8 .433 15 Indianapolis 9-8 .491 16 Seattle 9-8 .512 17 Jacksonville 9-8 .533 18 Cincinnati 9-8 .574 19 Los Angeles Rams 10-7 .529 20 Pittsburgh 10-7 .540 21 Miami 11-6 .450 22 Philadelphia 11-6 .481 23 Houston (from Cleveland) 11-6 (Cleveland) .536 24 Dallas 12-5 .446 25 Green Bay 9-8 .474 26 Tampa Bay 9-8 .481 27 Arizona (from Houston) 10-7 (Houston) .474 28 Buffalo 11-6 .471 29 Detroit 12-5 .481 30 Baltimore 13-4 .543 31 San Francisco 12-5 .509 32 Kansas City 11-6 .428 *For Denver and Las Vegas, division tiebreakers were used as both have identical SOS. Teams without a first-round pick: Carolina (traded to Chicago) Cleveland (traded to Houston) Notes: 1. Non-playoff teams get picks 1-18 -- the team with the worst record picks first overall. 2. Teams eliminated in the Wild Card round get picks 19-24. 3. Teams eliminated in the Divisional round get picks 25-28. 4. Teams eliminated in the Conference Championships get picks 29-30. 5. Super Bowl loser gets pick 31. 6. Super Bowl winner gets pick 32. This order applies to all seven rounds of the draft. Clubs involved in two-club ties will alternate positions from round-to-round. In ties that involve three or more clubs, the club at the top of a tied segment in a given round will move to the bottom of the segment for the next round, while all other clubs in the segment move up one position. This rotation continues throughout the Draft. Tiebreakers: Strength of schedule, division tiebreakers, conference tiebreakers, interconference tiebreakers, coin toss Compensatory picks: Weeks before the draft, up to a total of 32 compensatory picks are awarded to teams that lost significant free agents using a proprietary NFL formula -- these picks are made after rounds 3-7. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NBC/Peacock has three wild card games this year, but next year (2024): Wild Card: 2 CBS 1 FOX 1 NBC 1 ABC/ESPN 1 game for bid to the highest bidder (unless Amazon reached certain viewership thresholds, which they didn't) Peacock and Amazon, as well as the other networks, are in the running for this game for bid.

Due to the weather emergency, the PIT-BUF game has been postponed by the NFL until Mondy, January 15 at 4:30 PM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are 3-1 with Nantz and Romo calling our games this year: Week 4 vs. Miami (win) then three weeks in a row for us: Week 11 vs. New York Jets (win) Week 12 at Philadelphia (loss) [Week 13 bye] Week 14 at Kansas City (win) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://nflcommunications.com/Documents/2023 Football Information/Capsules/Wild Card Capsules.pdf NFL Super Wild Card Weekend presented by Verizon 2023 - January 13-15, 2024 Saturday Games: Saturday Late - NBC Saturday, January 13 - 4:30 PM ET: Cleveland at Houston (B) Noah Eagle, Todd Blackledge, Kathryn Tappen Saturday Primetime - Peacock Saturday, January 13 - 8:00 PM ET: Miami at Kansas City Mike Tirico, Jason Garrett, Kaylee Hartung [simulcasts: WTVJ (NBC/6) Miami and KSHB (NBC/41) Kansas City] [Also announced during the BUF-MIA game that NBC affiliates for the two teams will simulcast the game] [Peacock broadcast team was supposed to be the TNF Amazon Prime crew originally (as NBC produces those games for Amazon), but NBC decided to not use Al Michales since he does do well with new play-by-play analysts (viz. the disaster with Tony Dungy last season in the Wild Card) and Kirk Herbstreit was prohibited for contractual reasons). Also, Chris Collinsworth would have worked with Al Michaels, but Collinsworth does not like to do back-to-back games] [both NBC/Peacock Saturday games confirmed by Noah Eagle in paywalled article by Richard Deitsch in The Athletic:] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday Games: Sunday Early - CBS Sunday, January 14 - 1 PM ET: Pittsburgh at Buffalo (A) Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, Jay Feely, Tracy Wolfson [postponed by the NFL until Monday, January 15 at 4:30 PM ET] Sunday Late - FOX Sunday, January 14 - 4:30 PM ET: Green Bay at Dallas (A) Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen, Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi Sunday Primetime - NBC Sunday, January 14 - 8:00 PM ET: Los Angeles Rams at Detroit (A) Mike Tirico, Chris Collinsworth, Melissa Stark [confirmed by Andrew Marchand in NY Post article 12/12:] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday Games: Monday Late - CBS Monday, January 15 - 4:30 PM ET: Pittsburgh at Buffalo (A) Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, Jay Feely, Tracy Wolfson Monday Primetime - ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 Sunday, January 14 - 8:00 PM ET: Philadelphia at Tampa Bay Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters, Laura Rutledge [ManningCast on ESPN2: Peyton Manning, Eli Manning] =================================================================== UK and Ireland: https://www.skysports.com/watch/nfl-on-sky https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/ Saturday Games: Saturday Late Saturday, January 13 - 9:30 PM GMT: Cleveland at Houston Sky Sports NFL and Sky Sports Main Event Saturday Primetime Sunday, January 14 - 1:00 AM GMT: Miami at Kansas City Sky Sports NFL only Sunday Games: Sunday Early Sunday, January 14 - 6:00 PM GMT: Pittsburgh at Buffalo Sky Sports NFL; Sky Sports Main Event joined in progress at 7:30 PM [postponed until Monday] Sunday Late Sunday, January 14 - 9:25 PM GMT: Green Bay at Dallas Sky Sports NFL and Sky Sports Main Event Sunday Primetime Monday, January 15 - 1:00 AM GMT: Los Angeles Rams at Detroit Sky Sports NFL and Sky Sports Main Event Monday Games: Monday Late Monday, January 15 - 9:30 PM GMT: Pittsburgh at Buffalo Sky Sports NFL; Sky Sports Main Event joined in progress at either 10 or 10:30 PM most likely Monday Primetime Tuesday, January 16 - 1:00 AM GMT: Philadelphia at Tampa Bay Sky Sports NFL and Sky Sports Main Event Notes: TV: Sky Sports Main Event will not have MIA-KC due to boxing from Quebec, and will join PIT-BUF in progress after Man United vs Tottenham in the Premier League. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia: All games on both ESPN and 7mate: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand: All games on both ESPN and TVNZ+ (free stream): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Buffalo was the beneficiary of this call:

So there are four possible combinations for Buffalo, assuming no ties anywhere: 1. Houston at Buffalo - Bills win at Miami, JAX wins at TN 2. Pittsburgh at Buffalo - Bills win at Miami, TN wins vs. JAX 3. Out of playoffs - Bills lose at Miami, JAX wins at TN 4. Buffalo at Miami - Bills lose at Miami, TN wins vs. JAX Scenarios 1 and 3 are the most likely, since TN ain't winning vs. JAX. (And Pittsburgh will be praying for a Bills or Jacksonville loss to get them in.)

Last year, 12-5 Dallas had to travel to 8-9 Tampa Bay in the Wild Card. This year, most likely Philadelphia at 12-5 will have to go to a probable 9-8 Tampa Bay. Something is wrong with this picture.

Jack Squirek pick-6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NgUg5FMVps

If we get 2, then no. Interesting idea, but no. I want at least two home games. There is no reason why we can't beat a banged up Miami team that we usually own.

From a Dolphins fan: