{"id":333579,"date":"2025-12-09T01:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333579\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:43:17","slug":"nfl-flexes-patriots-ravens-to-prime-time-for-week-16-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333579\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL flexes Patriots-Ravens to prime time for Week 16 showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NFL has flexed the Week 16 game between AFC playoff contenders New England and Baltimore into the Sunday night prime time slot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The league announced the change Monday to move the Patriots-Ravens from a 1 p.m. ET start in regional window to the national TV spot on NBC at 8:20 p.m. ET on Dec. 21. The previously scheduled game between Miami and Cincinnati moves to the early afternoon start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Patriots currently lead the AFC East with an 11-2 record, while the Ravens are one game out of the lead for the AFC North with a 6-7 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Dolphins (6-7) and Bengals (4-9) both have slim hopes for making the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is the first prime-time flex game this season. The NFL has the ability to move late-season games from the afternoon to prime time to create better matchups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NFL has flexed the Week 16 game between AFC playoff contenders New England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-333579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}