The NFL has announced the closing nationally televised contests of the normal season, two of that would maybe be on Saturday and the along with the closing “Sunday Night Football” matchup of the year. Listed right here are the three matchups flexed for Week 18:
Saturday, Jan. 8
Sunday, Jan. 9
The Saturday doubleheader is unusual for the closing week of the normal season. ESPN’s contract now involves two Saturday games with playoff implications all over the closing week of the season, provocative teams taking part in to get alive for a wild card berth, division title, conference seeding, or first-round bye. These games would maybe be conducted on ESPN and ABC simultaneously.
The NFL has had the different to flex the “Sunday Night Football” finale for the reason that 2006 TV contract — which gave NBC the rights to the Sunday evening package deal. The 2017 season used to be the lone year the league didn’t assert the approach to whole the season on Sunday evening, on account of the closing Sunday of the season being on Unique Yr’s Eve.
The Week 18 game is determined exclusively by the league, which approach neither CBS nor Fox can “give protection to” that game. The league seeks to flex a matchup wherein at the least one crew have to take hold of in present to qualify for the playoffs, no topic what occurs within the other Week 18 games — therefore why the Raiders and Chargers were selected for the “Sunday Night Football” matchup.
The networks for every game would maybe be announced Monday.
Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m.
Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m.
Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m.
Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.
Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.
Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m.
Washington at Unique York Giants, 1 p.m.
Seattle at Arizona, 4: 25 p.m.
Unique Orleans at Atlanta, 4: 25 p.m.
Unique York Jets at Buffalo, 4: 25 p.m.
San Francisco at Los Angeles Rams, 4: 25 p.m.
Unique England at Miami, 4: 25 p.m.
Carolina at Tampa Bay, 4: 25 p.m.
