The NFL, in anticipation of Rodgers’ first season with the Jets, slotted the team into five primetime games (three at MetLife Stadium) last year. This season the Jets will again be under the bright lights, with four primetime games at home (the home opener after two to open on the road vs. New England, Thursday, Sept. 19; vs. Buffalo, Monday, Oct. 14; vs. Houston, Thursday, Oct. 31; and vs. Indianapolis, Monday, Nov. 17). They will also face Pittsburgh at night on Sunday, Oct. 20. In all, that’s six primetime games in the first 11 weeks of the season, and four through Week 9.
“There are more primetime windows,” North said. “So we’ve got more mouths to feed, whether it’s those side by side for ABC and ESPN on “Monday Night Football,” obviously the standalone game in London [vs. Minnesota on Sunday, Oct. 6]. Those are becoming more prevalent. There’s probably going to be seven or eight of them maybe next year. You look down the stretch, obviously we added some new windows here with our little Christmas round robin [a Wednesday doubleheader live on the Netflix streaming service].
“So the days when you had seven, eight, nine being played on CBS and Fox on a Sunday afternoon and the vast majority of our games being played at 1 o’clock. That’s not really where this project is going. That’s not really where fan consumption is going. So we’ve got a lot more mouths to feed, a lot more national windows, and the teams that are most interesting to our fans and our partners [CBS, ESPN/ABC, NBC, Amazon, Netflix] are probably gonna find themselves in one or two more national windows now than they probably would.”
The Jets — who own the international marketing rights in the UK and also have the added connection via Chairman Woody Johnson who recently served as the US ambassador to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland — will be returning to London for the first time since 2015. The game against the Vikings will be played at the home stadium of the Premier…
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