Patriots still in play for NFL’s kickoff in Seattle
NEW YORK — The Bills’ first regular-season sport in their new stadium will probably be in opposition to the Lions on Sept. 17 and can kick off Amazon’s “Thursday Night Football” schedule.
The matchup was one among three introduced by the NFL on Monday as NBC, Fox, and Prime Video made their upfront shows to advertisers.
The Cowboys had been a part of the opposite two unveilings. Dallas will go to the Giants in the primary NBC “Sunday Night Football” sport of the season on Sept. 13 and can host the Eagles on Fox on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26.
The full schedule will probably be launched on Thursday, with different matchups revealed in the approaching days.
The Bills are one among 10 groups to have new coaches this season with Joe Brady taking on after Sean McDermott was fired after nine seasons. The sport will characteristic two of the highest quarterbacks in the league with Josh Allen and the Bills internet hosting Jared Goff and the Lions. Detroit is trying to bounce again after lacking the playoffs final season.
The NFL has historically used Week 2 to showcase new stadiums in a primetime sport.
This is the eighth time in the previous 15 years the Cowboys and Giants are opening the season in opposition to one another. It additionally marks the fifteenth time the NFC East rivals are assembly on NBC’s Sunday night time bundle, the second-most performed matchup because the community began the bundle in 2016.
Dallas is all the time a nationwide tv draw as “America’s Team,” and New York may get extra primetime publicity with Super Bowl winner John Harbaugh in his first 12 months teaching the Giants and Jaxson Dart established because the franchise quarterback coming off his eventful rookie 12 months.
This additionally might be the NFL debuts for a pair of former Ohio State teammates: Giants linebacker Arvell Reese, taken with the fifth choose, and Cowboys security Caleb Downs, drafted not lengthy after at No. 11.
This will solely be the third time, and first since 2014, that the Eagles would be the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving opponent.
Dallas has received its previous 4 Thanksgiving video games, together with a 31-28 victory over the Chiefs final 12 months.
The late afternoon Thanksgiving sport is historically probably the most watched of the common season. Last 12 months’s sport averaged 57.23 million viewers on CBS, making it the most-watched regular-season sport in league historical past.
This would be the second straight season Philadelphia can have the highlight on Thanksgiving week. Jalen Hurts and the Eagles hosted final 12 months’s Black Friday sport and lost to the Bears, 24-15.
Monday’s bulletins imply the Cowboys know the dates for three of their 17 video games. It was introduced a few weeks in the past their sport in Rio de Janeiro in opposition to the Ravens will happen in Week 3 on Sept. 27 and air on CBS.
Dallas at New York in Week 1 additionally means neither of these groups would be the customer at Seattle on Wednesday night time, Sept. 9, when the defending champion Seahawks unveil their Super Bowl banner and kick off the season. Chicago, Arizona, Kansas City, the Chargers, or a title-game rematch in opposition to New England are the remaining potentialities.
