Well, CBS gets another all-NFC matchup on a Sunday afternoon in Week 11 on November 16. The Tiffany Network will get Minnesota at Chicago at 1 p.m. ET. This is due to Philadelphia at Green Bay being moved from 1 p.m. ET to 4:25 p.m. That was on Fox in the early window and will stay on Fox in the late window.
It gives both Fox and CBS four games each in the 1 p.m. window. It puts three games in the late afternoon windows, one on CBS and two on Fox.
In addition, the Sunday night game between New England and Indianapolis will remain in primetime on NBC.
The other games on the schedule for Week 11 will remain in their slotted times.
Here’s the NFL press release.
Week 11 Flex Scheduling: Eagles-Packers Goes to 4:25 PM ET on FOX; Vikings-Bears to 1:00 PM ET on CBS
PATRIOTS-COLTS REMAINS NBC SUNDAY NIGHT GAME
The Week 11 Philadelphia Eagles at Green Bay Packers game on Sunday, November 16 will be played at 4:25 PM ET on FOX and the Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears game at 1:00 PM ET on CBS, the NFL announced today.
The originally scheduled New England Patriots at Indianapolis Colts game remains in place on NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
Following is the final Week 11 NFL schedule:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 (WEEK 11)
(Byes: Baltimore, Dallas, Jacksonville, N.Y. Jets)
BUFFALO AT MIAMI 8:25 PM (ET) NFLN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16
ATLANTA AT CAROLINA 1:00 PM (ET) FOX *MINNESOTA AT CHICAGO 1:00 PM (ET) CBS HOUSTON AT CLEVELAND 1:00 PM (ET) CBS SEATTLE AT KANSAS CITY 1:00 PM (ET) FOX CINCINNATI AT NEW ORLEANS 1:00 PM (ET) CBS TAMPA BAY AT WASHINGTON 1:00 PM (ET) FOX DENVER AT ST. LOUIS 1:00 PM (ET) CBS SAN FRANCISCO AT N.Y. GIANTS 1:00 PM (ET) FOX OAKLAND AT SAN DIEGO 4:05 PM (ET) CBS *PHILADELPHIA AT GREEN BAY 4:25 PM (ET) FOX DETROIT AT ARIZONA 4:25 PM (ET) FOX NEW ENGLAND AT INDIANAPOLIS 8:30 PM (ET) NBC MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17
PITTSBURGH AT TENNESSEE 8:30 PM (PT) ESPN The NFL uses “flexible scheduling” to ensure quality matchups in all NFL Sunday time slots and to give teams a chance to play their way onto primetime and into the late-afternoon 4:25 PM ET time slot on CBS or FOX.
For the first time, flexible scheduling may be applied in Weeks 5-10. During that period, flexible scheduling can be used in no more than two weeks by shifting a Sunday afternoon game into primetime and moving the Sunday night game to an afternoon start time.
Also, for the first time, a select number of games are being “cross-flexed,” moving between CBS and FOX to bring potentially under-distributed games to wider audiences.
The NFL will continue to use flexible scheduling on Sundays in Weeks 11-17. For each flexible scheduling week with the exception of Week 17, the NFL announces the start times of games on Sundays no later than 12 days prior to that weekend. To ensure a Sunday night game and doubleheader games with playoff implications in Week 17, flexible scheduling decisions for that Sunday can be made on six days notice.
That will do it.
