Last-Minute Remarks on NFL Week 13 Flex Scheduling Decisions

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	7-3	6-4
	9-2	3-8
	2-9	9-2
Sunday Afternoon Flex Candidates (11/30)
	8-2	6-5	CAR: W12 MNF
	5-5	8-2	@HOU: W18
	4-6	7-3

Week 13: Even with the Vikings below .500, flexing in Vikings-Seahawks for Giants-Patriots might actually be justifiable, but flexing it in for Broncos-Cavalry might be iffy. But the question at this point is whether Fox can be convinced not to protect Rams-Panthers and whether the league thinks it’s worth a flex.

Giving a team consecutive Monday night games by flexing in a game in the second of the two weeks is more acceptable than the reverse because it doesn’t change the rest mismatch, just the total amount of rest for both teams, but I suspect it was probably still a bridge too far for the league in Week 13 last year, which could put Rams-Panthers off-limits for a Monday move. I’m also increasingly inclined to think that, given the choice between a Monday and Sunday night flex, the league would decide to keep the game pitting two big markets on the less important primetime package, especially since, as this article points out, moving games across days is especially dicey on Thanksgiving weekend when everyone is already juggling travel plans.

With Thanksgiving thinning out the slate of good games, Fox’s best 1 PM ET game if it loses Rams-Panthers would be Cardinals-Bucs, and while Vikings-Seahawks wouldn’t have markets as big as Los Angeles chewing up the distribution Fox is allowed for a late singleheader game like it did for Seahawks-Rams, nonetheless I wouldn’t expect too many people to be able to see it without Sunday Ticket or RedZone regardless of the quality of the early slate. So there’s a case to be made that Fox would actually be better off protecting Rams-Panthers – which does bring a big market of its own, albeit one lukewarm to its own teams – than Vikings-Seahawks. If that happens I think the league would stand pat and hope Jayden Daniels happens to be playing in the Sunday night game (and even if Rams-Panthers is available I suspect the league might be reticent to flex in a team with no name value that might not be as good as their record), and I also don’t think they’d flex a below-.500 team to Monday night on Thanksgiving weekend. But I don’t have a good read on this situation at all, and I wouldn’t be surprised by either game being flexed to Sunday night or Vikings-Seahawks being flexed to Monday night. Final prediction: no changes.