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Week 8 London Lions


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THU, OCT 23 TIME (ET) TV
San Diego at Denver 8:25 PM CBS/NFL

SUN, OCT 26 TIME (ET) TV
Detroit at Atlanta 9:30 AM FOX

 

St. Louis at Kansas City 1:00 PM FOX
Houston at Tennessee 1:00 PM FOX
Minnesota at Tampa Bay 1:00 PM FOX
Seattle at Carolina 1:00 PM CBS
Baltimore at Cincinnati 1:00 PM CBS
Miami at Jacksonville 1:00 PM CBS
Chicago at New England 1:00 PM FOX
Buffalo at NY Jets 1:00 PM CBS
 
Philadelphia at Arizona 4:05 PM FOX
Oakland at Cleveland 4:25 PM CBS
Indianapolis at Pittsburgh 4:25 PM CBS
 
Green Bay at New Orleans 8:30 PM NBC

MON, OCT 27 TIME (ET) TV
Washington at Dallas 8:30 PM ESPN

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Probably something to do with audience figures. If they get high ratings for this, I reckon all the London games from then on will be at 1:30

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All the coverage so far seems to be about the lions, Atlanta are the home team aren't they? Sky normally try and do the bias but this week seemingly not, not sure if Atlanta aren't embracing the fact that they're over here but every news piece I've seen involving the nfl and school kids is the lions

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Non fumble call was head-scratching at best. Still happy with the way the defence is handling things. Such a difference with the healthy group and strong additions.

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Is there a reason why the London game is on so early rather than 6 GMT?

 

Its a test to see if West coast will still watch / if viewing can compete with Soccer in the UK.

 

I believe viewing for this game will be one of the main factors behind the decision to bring a team to GB/London

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I doubt west coast will watch to be honest. A few people I know on the West coast don't watch regular early games since they're on early (10am) so don't see them getting up at 7 or whatever it will be to watch. Even more so with there being no West team involvement.

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What I suspect the NFL will do, as another test of the waters for a London team, is:

* Have every team play a game outside the US every season, most likely an interconference game. Every team loses three home dates over six years. For simplicity, have it where each year all the teams in one conference give up a home game.

* If the two teams involved are eastern teams, then the game is in Europe and will be played in the 930am ET (normally 230pm UK, 330pm in most of Europe) window. Games involving western teams (Denver, Arizona, San Diego, Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle) get played elsewhere or at least in other windows (potentially, when it becomes AFCW/NFCW, the games could be in the Far East/Australia and kick off at 9pm Pacific on Saturday night...)

* Add a week to the season as a bye week

* Teams get one bye the week before their in-season Thursday Night game (not counting the season opener), the other the week after their foreign game

A package of 10 games in the early-middle of the season at 930am is sellable to the likes of Fox Sports 1 or Turner or whoever (probably worth a few hundred million a year). Extra $$$ for the league. The extra bye week adds another round of SNF and MNF: more $$$ for the league from NBC and ESPN. The 930am ET games are also potentially sellable in the Far East (which is the other reason for this experiment, I think). Teams off bye weeks will hopefully make Thursday night games more competitive (which means more $$$ down the road for the league).

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The Jags defense is decimated by injuries and losing Posluszny for the season is a massive blow .  Miami have a pretty tidy run offense so it should be pretty comfortable for the Dolphins today, especially if Bortles keeps putting Tannehill back on the pitch as I expect he may . 

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