Bills and Dolphins cannot be flexed to a primetime game
The Buffalo Bills are gearing up for the highly anticipated contest against the Miami Dolphins. Tua Tagovailoa and his high-powered (and league-leading) offense head into Orchard Park to take on the Bills and their number 2 defense. The big question that we had was, why didn't this game get flexed to a primetime spot? Well, […]
The Buffalo Bills are gearing up for the highly anticipated contest against the Miami Dolphins. Tua Tagovailoa and his high-powered (and league-leading) offense head into Orchard Park to take on the Bills and their number 2 defense.
The big question that we had was, why didn't this game get flexed to a primetime spot? Well, the NFL, in our opinion, made a big mistake that has Buffalo and Miami forced into this slot.
We want to preface this by saying we absolutely love normal 1 p.m. ET kickoffs. Not sitting around all day eagerly anticipating the contest and trying to find things to do to ease our stress happens far less when it's a normal Sunday game.
However, this is arguably the best matchup of the week but the NFL did themselves no favors before the season even began in giving this game a chance to be flexed to a primetime slot. Conversely, the Buffalo Bills are probably a little thankful that they can't with their upcoming London matchup rapidly approaching.
As the Buffalo News reported, there are a myriad of factors in why the NFL is unable to flex this game, even if they wanted to. First, NFL flexing rules for Sunday night games can't start until Week 5. With this being Week 4, they simply cannot do it. What's more, and as the Buffalo News reported, each network gets to protect one game per week from being flexed and we can only imagine CBS sees dollar signs with the Bills-Dolphins matchup.
That's not all, in order for a game to be flexed, it requires 12 days of notice. Monday nights have been included in the flex mix for this season but that's only for Weeks 12-17, furthering their decision to not flex this contest.
Had the scheduling gods smiled upon us and moved this game just one week, the team could've very well been flexed into a primetime slot. Before the season began, the NFL pitted the Chiefs and Jets together in Week 5. Now, with Rodgers going down for the season and the Jets collapsing behind him, this would've been the perfect opportunity to flex Buffalo into a primetime spot.
Selfishly, we just want to see Josh Allen under the bright lights of primetime football and the resurgence of this classic rivalry has brought some incredible games over the past few seasons.
The NFL made a mistake, but at least we won't have to pace around our homes for an extra 12 hours on Sunday. It's going to be a battle, get your popcorn ready.
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