Networks go all in on Chiefs, Cowboys, Jayden Daniels for upcoming NFL season.
Kansas City will play in prime time Week 1 on Friday, Sept. 5, when it faces the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chiefs will play onin Week 17. In addition, the Chiefs will play on Thanksgiving in Week 13. That’s a total of eight stand-alone games.
The Chiefs are also scheduled for four games in the national 4:25 p.m. ET slot. If you’re one of those people who have Chiefs fatigue, you won’t be getting any kind of reprieve in 2025.• The NFL seems to be all-in on dynamic Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels. Washington will be featured in seven stand-alone windows, including Christmas Day against the Cowboys at 1 p.m. ET.Week 4 will feature Jets-Dolphins at 7:15 p.m. ET and Bengals-Broncos at 8:15 p.m. ET.Week 7 will feature Bucs-Lions at 7 p.m. ET and Texans-Seahawks at 10 p.m. ET.• Thanksgiving has a chance to be an all-time day for the NFL. The Packers will play the Lions at 1 p.m. ET on Fox. What’s notable here is that the NFL has changed the traditional Thanksgiving start time for the annual Lions game from 12:30 p.m. ET to 1 p.m. ET. CBS gets what will be the most watched game of the season at 4:30 p.m. ET when the Chiefs visit the Cowboys.• With Christmas Day falling on a Thursday this year, we will get a tripleheader, with the first two games on Netflix and the night game on Amazon.• The Amazon schedule is about what you’d expect. They have a very good game in Week 1 with Commanders-Packers. A solid game in Week 12 with Bills-Texans. And the rest is just ho-hum. • The Titans, Browns and Saints are the only teams that do not have prime-time games in 2025. The only interesting thing about that is you’d think the NFL might want to showcase No. 1 pick Cam Ward at least once to a national audience.The Giants will be featured in prime time three times , but only play one game at 4:25 p.m. That gives them 12 games at 1 p.m. Meanwhile, the Jets have two prime-time games and one 9:30 a.m. game. The remainder of their 13 games are at 1 p.m., which means the Jets and Giants will be going head-to-head in the New York market many weeks in 2025.Jimmy Traina is a staff writer and podcast host for Sports Illustrated. A 20-year veteran in the industry, he’s been covering the sports media landscape for seven years and writes a daily column, Traina Thoughts. Traina has hosted the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast since 2018, a show known for interviews with some of the most important and powerful people in sports media. He also was the creator and writer of SI’s Hot Clicks feature from 2007 to '13.
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