Pittsburgh Steelers’ leaders are not the only ones who are impatiently waiting for a decision by Aaron Rodgers to find out if he plans to play football this season. NFL planning manufacturers also followed the saga of Rodgers very closely.
Rodgers had discussions on the signing with Pittsburgh, but did not make a final decision if he wants to play in 2025, leaving the Steelers with Mason Rudolph and the recruit Will Howard currently at the top of the depth painting.
The League has always given the Steelers four games during prime hours and an international autonomous match in Ireland in the week 4 in the Schedule published WednesdayBank that the strong monitoring of the team and the history of success under the coach Mike Tomlin will make them an attractive team for networks No matter what Rodgers decides.
“We tried to play in the middle,” NFL planning director Mike North said on Thursday. “We know nothing more than anyone.
North said that the Steelers opener against one of the former Rodgers teams, the New York Jets, would probably not have been in a regional window in UDT at 1 p.m., the League had certainly known that Rodgers would play.
But the League made sure that a potential match between Rodgers and the Green Bay packers, for whom he won four MVPs and a Super Bowl, received a treatment during great listening hours during week 8 on the Sunday evening of NBC instead of having cluttered it in an afternoon window.
“If he fell on a Sunday afternoon, for example, it becomes a dominant story of the day, Aaron’s first match against his former team,” said North. “So, put it in a national window, if Aaron is a quarter, it’s an excellent story. If Aaron is not a quarter, it’s still Packers-Steelers Football in week 8. It looks like a football match.”
Young QBs get high -level games
The success of the quarter-recruit class last season was obvious in the calendar led by Jayden Daniels de Washington obtaining eight autonomous games, including five at Prime Time, and three others in the double-headed window at the end of the afternoon.
The other five QBs in the first round of the 2024 draft also obtained their share of high -level matches, JJ McCarthy and the Vikings obtaining seven autonomous games, including a Monday opening match against Caleb Williams and Chicago, Two international games.
Michael Penix and Atlanta have six independent games, with Williams and the Bears and Bo Nix and the Broncos de Denver by obtaining five each, and Drake Maye and New England by obtaining three.
“When we meet all the distribution partners at the start of this process, and they make their” hey, here are some of the games and some of the teams that interest us most “,” said North. “Obviously, you have your healthy dose of Dallas and Kansas City there. But a defined Lions representation, Washington, Denver, teams that have played their way in the largest national television windows.”
The NFL goes from the head to CFP
For the second consecutive year, the NFL will compete against university football the day when the university football playoffs planned three games in the quarter -final. The NFL gave FOX a double heap with a match match for the NFC title between Philadelphia and Washington and an NFC North Division force test between Green Bay and Chicago.
NFL director Hans Schroeder said the League did not intend to leave the matches this weekend, even with the CFP now in place, saying that the NFL had played matches on the third Saturday in December in 37 of the last 40 seasons.
“It’s a day of the NFL,” he said. “We believe that our fans like to have football that day. We like to have football at the end of the year. There are a lot of stories to tell at that time while we meet the playoffs in our pursuit for the playoffs. This is what we focused on. You have to ask the CFP how they think about the future.”
Just or rude
With the opponents of each team determined by a formula and known since the day the last season has ended, a large part of the attention of liberation days is on other factors.
The one who has drawn more attention in recent years foreigners is the disparity of rest, certain teams forced to play more matches against teams that have been conferred or Thursday evening than other teams.
The NFL said that it had found that the teams on more rest had only a slight advantage. This means that even if it is a factor in the choice of a schedule, it is only one of the many, including obtaining the best games in the best television windows, the availability of the stadium, the balance between network partners, international games, Bye weeks and long trips on the road.
After having been at the end of the stick with a less disparity of rest than less-20 in each of the last two seasons, the 49ers of San Francisco were on the positive point this season without match against teams who were bye and an advantage of more than 9 days.
“We certainly hope to have found a schedule this year which was not an important total negative disparity for the 49ers,” said North. “We arrived. But I would not say that if we thought that the best schedule on the whole had the 49ers at less-8 or less-10 or less-12 that we could not have played it. It would have been a factor, but perhaps not disqualifying.”
Raiders have the worst difference in rest this season at least 15 days, and Washington is the only team with four games against the opponents who conducted themselves.
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