John Mara says such flexing would be 'abusive.'
began in 2006 as a means for getting more marquee matchups on NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Games could be moved from Sunday afternoon to Sunday primetime, and vice-versa, with 12 days notice. They could also be moved from 1 p.m. to either 4 p.m. or 4:25 p.m. ET, and vice-versa, on Sundays for CBS and FOX.
As of 2022, the league was allowed to use flex scheduling two times between Weeks 5-10 and anytime between Weeks 11-17. The upcoming NFL season will be the first time the league can flex games in and out of ESPN’s Monday Night Football. As Mara alluded to, it could create issues for fans who plan to attend a game on a specific date.
There are even more issues for fans with Thursday night flexing, but the greater concern falls on players. A Sunday-to-Thursday turnaround gives players just three days off between games, but NFL commissioner Roger Goodell dismissed the premise that the short break leads to more on-field injuries and said some players appreciate the “mini-bye” that follows a Thursday matchup.
“I don’t think we are putting Amazon over players’ interests,” Goodell said. “We’ve always been looking at the data with respect to injuries and the impact on players … and I think we have data that’s very clear it doesn’t show a higher injury rate.”“It’s not enough to just look at how many injuries happen in the game,” Mike Florio said Wednesday on “PFT Live.
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