The Los Angeles Chargers have performed their approach into one other prime-time look.
Justin Herbert & Co. have had their Week 16 dwelling sport towards the Denver Broncos flexed from Sunday, Dec. 22, to Thursday night time, Dec. 19. Friday’s announcement makes this the primary time a sport has been flexed to the Thursday night time spot.
The league amended its coverage final season in order that Thursday night time video games in Weeks 13 via 17 may very well be flexed with at the least 28 days’ discover previous to the sport, and groups might make multiple look on Amazon Prime Video’s 16-game bundle. Solely two video games per season within the five-week window will be flexed.
The matchup of AFC West division rivals — who’re each contending for playoff spots — bumps the sport between the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals to Sunday afternoon.
Regardless of the hiring of Jim Harbaugh as coach, the Chargers have been one among six groups and not using a Thursday sport when the NFL schedule was launched in Might.
It’s the second time the Chargers have been flexed into prime time this season. Their 34-27 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals final weekend was on NBC’s “Sunday Evening Soccer” after bumping the matchup between the Indianapolis Colts and New York Jets.
Los Angeles, which is 7-3 and on a four-game profitable streak, hosts Baltimore this week on “Monday Evening Soccer” within the third matchup between brothers John and Jim Harbaugh as coaches.
The Chargers’ Dec. 8 sport at Kansas Metropolis can also be on a Sunday night time.
Denver (6-5) had a Thursday night time sport Oct. 17, defeating the Saints 33-10 in coach Sean Payton’s return to New Orleans. The Broncos have a Monday night time sport towards Cleveland on Dec. 2.
“We would quite be flexed in than flexed out,” Payton stated after Friday’s follow. “… It is an actual good workforce (the Chargers) that is enjoying actual good. And it flexes Cincinnati out who we play the next week … It’s what it’s. Simply inform us once we’re enjoying.”
The Chargers beat the Broncos 23-16 in Denver on Oct. 13. That was the sport the place Harbaugh briefly went to the locker room on account of an irregular heartbeat.
Data from The Related Press was used on this report.
