Are We Week 17 Flex Candidates?

[KendrickPanther]

If the Carolina Panthers are going for the 16-0 Perfect season, do they flex us to prime time? When the Patriots played the Giants in week 17 on NFL Network they made a special exception and aired the game over Network Television. A precedence has been set for making a big deal out of this milestone. 

Our opponent, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are surging. They are currently on 6 wins with the following opponents:   

Saints @ Home 

Rams Away

Bears @ Home 

It's possible they could run the table and be playing for a 10 win season and Wild Card spot. 

The other games will be enticing. Card & Seahawks, Packers & Viking, and of course any NFC East Championship game always gets flexed.

Tickets for that Buccaneers game are absurdly high on NFL Ticket Exchange right now. Lower Bowl Seats start over $300. I would personally love to throw a party in Charlotte that Sunday night. We can invite Rodney to step out of his Ivory tower in NYC and see whats up.

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

I would say possible bc of us, not the Bucs. The Bucs aren't surging; in fact they lost in flat fashion to the lowly colts last week. They will be completely out of it in a few weeks, plus look at seattle's schedule for the final WC spot. 

[nosuchthingasapanther]

the game will be flexed if the panthers still have the chance to go undefeated...it was the reason today's game was flexed.

[LUUUUUKE]

I sure as hell hope so! My mom won tickets and is gifting them to me

[PanthersATL]

info from: http://sports.morganwick.com/category/football/nfl/snf-flex-scheduling-watch/

For Week 17, NBC will only show a game with major playoff implications. That pretty much rules out TBvsCAR.

For Week 16: FOX will likely keep CARvsATL due to not wanting to lose out revenue. Could they move the game to 4p? Depends on whether CAR has cinched the first round bye or not, IMO.  

Week 15, I could see NBC grabbing CARvsNYG for two reasons: CAR being undefeated and NYG having a broad national appeal with Eli etc... but the Giants may have already played their max number of National Games (there's a rule for that?).

HTH

 

[Skydivingcows]

I highly doubt it

Giants and GB have one more game left to use on primetime and I think they would want to save that for the final week of the season.  Good site with analysis if interested.

http://www.morganwick.com/

[JJT]

5 hours ago, LUUUUUKE said:

I sure as hell hope so! My mom won tickets and is gifting them to me

"Gift" is not a verb. 

[Mother Grabber]

3 minutes ago, JJT said:

"Gift" is not a verb. 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gift

check out #2.

[JJT]

Dictionary people are the problem here. They are the same people who made up the "historical present tense," another abomination. 

[JJT]

Never verb nouns. 

[Icebox]

12 minutes ago, JJT said:

Never verb nouns. 

Well, since the word "verb" is a noun, you just did what you decry.

[JJT]

8 minutes ago, Icebox said:

Well, since the word "verb" is a noun, you just did what you decry.

Obviously, you do not understand humor. 

[Icebox]

7 minutes ago, JJT said:

Obviously, you do not understand humor. 

I understand humor, but you aren't funny.

You weren't funny when you interrupted a discussion about football to incorrectly proclaim it grammatically incorrect for someone to use the word "gift" as a verb -- something you were wrong about, by the way. You weren't funny when you complained about dictionaries and the historical present tense. You weren't funny when you said, "never verb nouns." And you weren't funny when you quoted me and said I don't understand humor.

No one enjoys reading those kinds of posts. The best reaction you can hope for from that kind of mess is not a chuckle, but an eye roll.

I think most people are here to talk about football, not the proper use of the Oxford comma.

[JJT]

Another abomination.