{"id":799047,"date":"2026-05-15T21:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:15:12","slug":"week-16-has-four-options-for-the-two-saturday-nfl-network-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799047\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 16 has four options for the two Saturday NFL Network games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Network lost its schedule-release show. It\u2019s nevertheless gaining a late-season Saturday doubleheader.<\/p>\n<p>In Week 16, on the day after Christmas, NFLN will televise a game at 4:30 p.m. ET and 8:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule identifies four potential games for the two slots: Buccaneers-Falcons, Bengals-Colts, Commanders-Vikings, and Panthers Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>The decision as to which games will slide from Sunday to Saturday will be made during the season.<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with a Thursday night game and three Christmas Day games, Week 16 will have 10 total windows \u2014 one more than Thanksgiving week. That leaves only eight games to be played on the Saturday afternoon windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Network lost its schedule-release show. It\u2019s nevertheless gaining a late-season Saturday doubleheader. In Week 16, on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-799047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}