NFL flexes Colts-Jets out, Bengals-Chargers in to ‘Sunday Night Football’

As was widely anticipated following the New York Jets’ lackluster start, the NFL has decided to flex its Week 11 Sunday Night Football tilt against the Indianapolis Colts out of primetime in favor of a game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Chargers.

Per NFL PR’s Brian McCarthy on X (formerly Twitter), the Colts-Jets game will be moved to 1:00 p.m. ET on CBS.

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The announcement marks the NFL’s third flex scheduling move of the season. Last month, the league decided to flex the Chicago Bears-Washington Commanders game into a national 4:25 p.m. ET window while moving an Eagles-Bengals game up to 1:00 p.m. ET. That decision turned out to be the correct one, with the Commanders winning on a stunning Hail Mary play that cemented itself as the best finish so far this NFL season. And Week 9’s Sunday Night Football game between the Vikings and Colts was flexed-in in favor of an Eagles-Jaguars game.

The new schedule will also mean that the Kansas City Chiefs-Buffalo Bills game at 4:25 p.m. ET on CBS will air unopposed nationally, so the entire country will get the game.

Week 11’s Colts-Jets game was slated to be the sixth and final primetime game for the Jets this season. Similarly to last year when star quarterback Aaron Rodgers went down during the first few plays of the season, the networks loaded up on primetime Jets games early in the season. And just like last year, the team is now getting flexed out of those windows on account of their below average play on-the-field.

Thankfully, NFL fans won’t have to sit through yet another dreadful matchup featuring the Jets come Week 11. Hopefully the network and league executives that approve the schedule each year have finally learned their lesson about putting the Jets in primetime.

[X/@NFLprguy]