Patriots/Cards game could be "flexed"

[D-Dogg]

I HATE the Pats. I want to win this game more than the Cowboys and Giants combined.

Man, i am sooo with you. I detest the Pats.

 

[IAWarnerFan]

Man, i am sooo with you. I detest the Pats.

I'm hoping that a warm front somehow moves in. Ditto on detesting the Pats(with the exception of Bruschi of course).

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

i can't imagime them passing on the Carolina/Giants game. That's a no-brainer to me.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

i can't imagime them passing on the Carolina/Giants game. That's a no-brainer to me.

+1

 

[Totally_Red]

i can't imagime them passing on the Carolina/Giants game. That's a no-brainer to me.

PFT said the same thing yesterday if the Panthers won, which they did. It's a no-brainer to pick up that game.

 

[freebyrd]

they ought to take some money and put an environmental simulator in the practice facility something that could provide for cold rain sleet whatever that would be cool
freebyrd

 

[D-Dogg]

i can't imagime them passing on the Carolina/Giants game. That's a no-brainer to me.

+1

PFT said the same thing yesterday if the Panthers won, which they did. It's a no-brainer to pick up that game.

That was addressed in the blog post:

FOX is allowed to protect one game that week, but it already has the Panthers-Giants game and isn't going to give that up.

Fox will protect that game, making our game with the Pats the most attractive to NBC.

 

[abomb]

Apparently Fox didnt protect it, as NYG/CAR is now the SNF for week 16. That gives the Giants back-to-back SNF games.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/giants/2008/12/giants-panthers-flexed-to-nigh.html

 

[D-Dogg]

Apparently Fox didnt protect it, as NYG/CAR is now the SNF for week 16. That gives the Giants back-to-back SNF games.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/giants/2008/12/giants-panthers-flexed-to-nigh.html

If Fox actually had the ability to protect that game and didn't, they are certifiably insane. That game is huge.

 

[Totally_Red]

If Fox actually had the ability to protect that game and didn't, they are certifiably insane. That game is huge.

Hard to know what they are thinking, the NFL did move two Fox games to later in the day for their double-header package....

the Philadelphia Eagles-Washington Redskins and Atlanta Falcons-Minnesota Vikings games on Sunday, Dec. 21 move from 1:00 p.m. ET to 4:15p.m. ET on FOX.

It means the Cardinals game stays with an early start. I was kind of hoping for a later start figuring that might give the Cardinals a better shot at starting faster.

 

[RonF]

They can play the game in Canada for all I care but forget the national coverage. We just don't do well when everybody is watching. It's like having a shy bladder, the harder you try the worse it gets.

 

[Azlen]

I wonder how much arm twisting the NFL did with Fox to get them to give up this game. Its not something you would think that Fox would give up willingly.

 

[IAWarnerFan]

It looks like all those games should be huge and it'd be hard to pick one over the other.

 

[arthurracoon]

We just don't do well when everybody is watching. It's like having a shy bladder, the harder you try the worse it gets.

Everybody will be watching in the playoffs

 

[TheHopToad]

If Fox actually had the ability to protect that game and didn't, they are certifiably insane. That game is huge.

Looks like the Eagles-Redskins game was protected by FOX.
http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/11/expect-nbc-to-only-flex-one-game-this.html

In fairness to FOX, apparently the networks had to submit their list of protected games by the first week of October, so back then the Philly-Washington game looked a lot better.

http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1225739056

 

[rishi62]

it should be but hopefully the cardinals dont lay an egg on national tv again. We need to blow out the patriots in NE, that will give us some love. WE are going to win that first playoff game no matter what, the crowd wills us to victory