NFL Week 13 Flex Scheduling: Patriots-Texans and Broncos-Chiefs

New England Patriots-Houston Texans game will be played at 1:00 PM ET on CBS and the Denver Broncos-Kansas City Chiefs game will be played at 4:25 PM ET on CBS, the NFL announced today. The New York Giants-Washington Redskins game on Sunday, December 1 is still tentatively scheduled for NBC’s Sunday Night Football.  The final Week 13 schedule will be announced no later than Tuesday, November 19.

Following is the updated Week 13 NFL schedule:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28 (WEEK 13)

GREEN BAY AT DETROIT 12:30 PM (ET)

FOX

OAKLAND AT DALLAS 3:30 PM (CT)

CBS

PITTSBURGH AT BALTIMORE 8:30 PM (ET)

NBC

                                                  

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1

TAMPA BAY AT CAROLINA

1:00 PM (ET)

FOX

JACKSONVILLE AT CLEVELAND

1:00 PM (ET)

CBS

TENNESSEE AT INDIANAPOLIS

1:00 PM (ET)

CBS

CHICAGO AT MINNESOTA       

12:00 PM (CT)

FOX

MIAMI AT N.Y. JETS

1:00 PM (ET)

CBS

ARIZONA AT PHILADELPHIA

1:00 PM (ET)

FOX

*NEW ENGLAND AT HOUSTON

12:00 PM (CT)

CBS

ATLANTA AT BUFFALO (TORONTO)

4:05 PM (ET)

FOX

ST. LOUIS AT SAN FRANCISCO

1:05 PM (PT)

FOX

CINCINNATI AT SAN DIEGO

1:25 PM (PT)

CBS

*DENVER AT KANSAS CITY

3:25 PM (CT)

CBS

*N.Y. GIANTS AT WASHINGTON

8:30 PM (ET)

NBC

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2

NEW ORLEANS AT SEATTLE 5:40 PM (PT)

ESPN

The NFL uses “flexible scheduling” on Sundays in Weeks 11-17.  Flexible scheduling ensures quality matchups in all NFL Sunday time slots in those weeks and gives 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 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.

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