Get your planners prepared. The 2025 NFL schedule can be launched quickly, giving followers an opportunity to plot their fall itineraries. Forward of the massive day, listed below are questions (and solutions) to get you ready.
1. When will the 2025 schedule be launched? How can I watch it?
Through the 2025 NFL Draft, the league introduced the date for the schedule announcement: Wednesday, Might 14. The NFL likes to make a spectacle out of every thing.
ESPN2 and NFL Community will cowl the schedule reveal with separate broadcasts starting at 8 p.m. ET.
2. Who do groups play?
Each crew already knows its 2025 opponents.
Groups play division opponents twice, making up six of the 17 video games. In addition they play all 4 groups from two different divisions — one AFC, one NFC — bringing us to 14. The ultimate three opponents are depending on the place every crew completed in its division the earlier season. They embrace two intraconference and one rotating interconference sport.
Here is a fast refresher of who every division performs (Notice: Asterisk is for the division with one opponent):
• AFC East (AFC North, NFC South, NFC East*)
• AFC North (AFC East, NFC North, NFC West*)
• AFC South (AFC West, NFC West, NFC South*)
• AFC West (AFC South, NFC East, NFC North*)
• NFC East (NFC North, AFC West, AFC East*)
• NFC North (NFC East, AFC North, AFC West*)
• NFC South (NFC West, AFC East, AFC South*)
• NFC West (NFC South, AFC South, AFC North*)
3. Will video games be introduced earlier than the complete schedule launch?
Sure. On Monday (Might 12), “choose video games” can be revealed on NBC, Fox and Prime Video, per NFL.com. Maybe then we’ll study who the Eagles will play to start out the season and who’s on the docket for Amazon’s Black Friday or Christmas night sport.
On Tuesday (Might 13), ESPN will share a sneak peek with “Good Morning America,” and the worldwide slate can be introduced on “Good Morning Soccer.” CBS will reveal a sport Wednesday (Might 14), when Netflix may even share one in all its Christmas Day video games.
4. What are the very best choices for the Thursday Evening Kickoff?
The Philadelphia Eagles will have a good time their Tremendous Bowl LIX win by internet hosting the primary sport of the 2025 season.
They’ve a number of intriguing choices for Week 1, together with a possible NFC Championship Sport rematch with the Commanders. In addition they play the Rams, who almost beat Philly within the divisional spherical at Lincoln Monetary Area, in addition to final 12 months’s NFC No. 1 seed, the Lions. Each can be stable Week 1 choices. (Memo to league: Please spare us the Cowboys on this opener.)
If the league needs to save lots of these video games between 2024 playoff groups for later within the season, it may put the Broncos, coming off their first playoff look in 9 seasons, in prime time. The Bears, beneath first-year head coach Ben Johnson, can be fascinating to look at and are one other robust choice.
5. What number of worldwide video games are scheduled?
Seven are scheduled, with the Chargers (São Paulo), Browns (London), Jets (London), Jaguars (London), Colts (Berlin), Steelers (Dublin) and Dolphins (Madrid) already introduced because the designated dwelling groups.
6. How a lot will watching video games value?
Followers would possibly as nicely begin saving now. If there is a subscription-based streaming service, the NFL might be linked to it.
Whereas video games on Fox, CBS and NBC can be found over the air with no cable or app subscription, it is an funding to look at each notable weekly sport.
Since 2022, Prime Video ($14.99 per thirty days) has had unique rights to the league’s Thursday night time package deal. In 2023, it added a Black Friday sport to its stock.
ESPN Plus ($11.99 per thirty days) will air an unique sport for the fourth consecutive year, whereas NFL Community has broadcast worldwide video games, which might be considered with an NFL Plus subscription ($6.99 per thirty days).
For the second consecutive 12 months, Netflix ($7.99 per thirty days with advertisements) will air two video games on Christmas Day.
Peacock ($7.99 per thirty days) may even air one regular-season sport, whereas the league is trying to spin off its Week 1 Friday night time worldwide sport in Brazil to a different companion, with Max ($16.99 per thirty days) being a possible streaming dwelling. (h/t CBS Sports).
Followers have wanted a cable subscription to look at “Monday Evening Soccer” on ESPN for years, though that may change this season. Per reports, Disney, ESPN’s guardian firm, quickly plans to disclose a direct-to-consumer ESPN subscription app, which is predicted to value between $25-$30.
Folks can count on to pay over $200 to look at each Thursday and Monday night time sport, plus different streaming unique video games — or extra in case you neglect to cancel these pesky subscriptions.
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