Advertisement<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for five NFL teams, the league decided that none of them were relevant enough to garner a prime time slot this year.<\/p>\n
As noted by Pro Football Focus, the Tennessee Titans<\/a>, Arizona Cardinals<\/a>, New York Jets<\/a>, Miami Dolphins<\/a> and Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> were all excluded from prime time games for the 2026 regular season.<\/p>\n The Raiders, Jets, Cardinals and Titans were the NFL’s four worst teams of 2025. The Dolphins finished 7-10, but they traded Jaylen Waddle<\/a> and released Tua Tagovailoa<\/a>, Tyreek Hill<\/a> and Bradley Chubb<\/a>.<\/p>\n With Miami in rebuilding mode, the NFL obviously decided that they weren’t worthy of a prime time slot for 2026.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Los Angeles Rams Have the Most Prime Time Games for 2026 (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images)<\/p>\n As noted by Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk<\/a>, the Los Angeles Rams have seven prime time games in 2026. That is tied with the 2023 Buffalo Bills<\/a> and 2025 Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> for the most in NFL history.<\/p>\n The Rams’ game against the 49ers in Melbourne will air on Netflix. Their Week 2 home game against the New York Giants<\/a> will be a Monday nighter on ESPN, with a Sunday Night Football game against the Denver Broncos<\/a> following in Week 3.<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Men’s Journal<\/a> on May 15, 2026, where it first appeared in the Sports<\/a> section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full schedule for the 2026 NFL regular season has been released, and five teams were excluded from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[1258,64,63,130656,1261,1256,5373,1240,1250,1263,6588,1233,1231,1242,1235,593,117931,68106,5875,1262,1254,85,1253,5379,5385],"class_list":["post-672334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bradley-chubb","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-denver-broncos","tag-jaylen-waddle","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-international-series","tag-prime-time","tag-pro-football-focus","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tua-tagovailoa","tag-tyreek-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"<a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1f2e74dc0e464cca6125ce6820da760c.jpeg\"\/)
Matthew Stafford<\/a> calling a play in the NFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n