The NFL is set to release its regular season schedule Thursday night, when the league will fill in the blanks for the 2023 slate. Here’s what we know and don’t know entering Thursday’s announcement.
The NFL plans to reveal details for a few high-profile games before Thursday night’s full schedule-release show.The Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars will play games in England this year, and the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots will play in Germany. The dates and opponents for those games will be announced Wednesday on NFL Network and ESPN .For the first time, this season will feature a game on Black Friday , the day after Thanksgiving.
The playoffs begin Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, with two first-round games, followed by three more Jan. 14 and another on the night of Jan. 15. The second round is Jan. 20-21, and the conference championship games will be played Jan. 28. Super Bowl LVIII is Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.We know who and where each team will play, but the dates for every game won’t be known until the full schedule reveal Thursday night.
Except for a three-season stretch between 2014 and 2016 when they played three straight conference teams, the Cowboys have alternated between NFC and AFC opponents on Thanksgiving. They played the Giants last year, meaning their Thanksgiving opponent could be either the Patriots or New York Jets, the two AFC teams Dallas will play at home this season . The Cowboys also host Washington, Philadelphia, the New York Giants, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle and Detroit .
As for the prime-time Thanksgiving game, it has featured division rivals in all but three years since 2012, though the past two have featured nonconference opponents.Christmas falls on a Monday this year. The last time that happened, in 2017, the NFL scheduled two games on Saturday, Dec. 23; 12 on Christmas Eve; and two on Christmas Day .
The Sunday of Week 17 this season is New Year’s Eve. The last time that happened, in 2017, all 16 games that week were played on Dec. 31 . But the NFL has added a week to the regular season since then, so we could be getting Week 17 games on Thursday and/or Monday this season.Starting in Week 5, the NFL has the option to move games from Sunday afternoon to the prime-time NBC slot on “Sunday Night Football.
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