Super Bowl champion Philadelphia will host Atlanta to kick off the 2018 NFL season on Thursday night
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followed by the Los Angeles Rams at Oakland.
The Eagles also will play at England's home of soccer when they take on the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 8 at Wembley Stadium.
That's one of four international games. The other match at Wembley will be the previous week with the Los Angeles Chargers hosting the Tennessee Titans.
Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium, also in London, will be the site for a Raiders
home game on Oct. 14 against Seattle.
For the third straight year, the NFL will stage a game in Mexico City: the Rams will host Kansas City in a Week 11 Monday night game.
Thanksgiving will provide a feast of divisional games. The traditional doubleheader in Detroit and Dallas has the Lions playing the Bears, followed by
the Redskins at the Cowboys. At night, it will be Atlanta visiting New
Orleans.
Other intriguing matchups include Cleveland, which lost all 16 games last season, hosting archrival Pittsburgh on opening day; New England at Jacksonville
in a rematch of the AFC title game in Week 2; the Eagles and Vikings in an NFC
championship game redux in Philly on Oct. 7; and the Steelers vs. Patriots in
Pittsburgh in Week 15.
"We like to open at home in front of our great fans and this will be the second season in a row we do it against the Steelers," Browns coach Hue Jackson
said. "We start with the best in our division."
Fox, which will do 11 Thursday night games, begins its package in Week 4 with the Vikings at the Rams. Those contests also will be televised by NFL Network
and in Spanish on Fox Deportes. NFL Network has seven exclusive broadcasts.
Flexible scheduling in which a Sunday afternoon game can be switched to the evening because it is a better matchup than the previously planned game will be
in use for Weeks 11-17. But two Sundays in Weeks 5-10 also can have a game
flexed to night.
In a new twist, flex scheduling will be used for Saturday games in Weeks 15 and 16. In Week 15, two games will be played on Saturday, Dec. 15: Houston at
the New York Jets and Cleveland at Denver
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scheduled for Saturday: Baltimore at the Chargers, Jacksonville at Miami, the
New York Giants at Indianapolis, or Washington at Tennessee. Start times for
Saturday games for Week 15 and 16 will be announced no later than following Week
8, with the contests not chosen for Saturday to be played on Sunday on the 16th
weekend.
"We knew who our opponents would be, and that we would play seven games against teams that were in the playoffs last year, including two against the
Super Bowl champions, so we knew it is going to be a challenging schedule," said
Pat Shurmur, preparing for his first season as Giants coach. "I don't see
anything remarkable about the schedule, but it is very challenging."
As usual, no Sunday night game has been scheduled for the last day of the season, Dec. 30. That will be chosen after Week 16 games conclude.
The 2018 schedule has three three-game road trips, down from seven last year. The Saints, Rams and Ravens will have those three-game journeys
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are home for three straight weeks, and Baltimore and Indianapolis have a bye in
there, meaning neither club will leave home for a month.
Also, no team plays a road game following a road Monday night match. That occurred last year five times.
The playoffs begin with wild-card weekend on Jan. 5-6. The Super Bowl is Feb. 3 in Atlanta.
"I always look forward to this time of year, getting our players back in the building, getting back to football, and then on top of that we get to see how
our schedule sets up and start our preparation," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
"We've got a lot of work to get done before Sept. 9. I'm excited to get started
and I know Chiefs Kingdom will be supporting us the entire way."
AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed.
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) Dak Prescott’s best test yet as the new face of the Cowboys came two days after owner Jerry Jones once again declared that all
Dallas players will stand for the national anthem and even said they wouldn’t be
afforded the alternative of staying in the locker room.
The star quarterback didn’t pause or stammer. He didn’t stop himself to consider what his peers might think. He made it clear he will stand, and doesn’t
think it’s right to do otherwise.
”Whether I was wearing the star or not, whether I was playing for Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones or any other owner, I believe in what I believe in and
that’s that,” Prescott said Friday in his first session with reporters at
training camp.
Jerry Jones held his usual camp-opening news conference Wednesday, and said his usual things about the anthem
Alex Killorn Jersey Kids , and then some. Son Stephen Jones, executive vice president of personnel, suggested a day later that the Cowboys would cut
any player who stayed in the locker room.
The option of staying off the field was part of a policy owners approved in May, but was put on hold not long after The Associated Press revealed that the
Miami Dolphins would consider suspending players up to four games for kneeling
or otherwise protesting during the anthem.
Just as he did when he showed up two years ago as the overshadowed third quarterback on Tony Romo’s team, Prescott offered his opinion plainly and
simply, and in so many words. There are countless more people listening now.
”He knows how important that is to be one of the faces of the team and he always does exactly what you’d expect, to a script,” offensive coordinator Scott
Linehan said. ”It’s not forced. It’s just part of him.”
Prescott replaced an injured Romo in 2016 and had one of the best rookie seasons for a quarterback in NFL history while leading Dallas to an NFC-best 13
wins and ultimately sending Romo into retirement.
Now 15-year tight end Jason Witten and franchise touchdown catch leader Dez Bryant are gone. The former Mississippi State standout is the leading voice, and
not hesitating to use it.
”I’d never protest during the anthem, and I don’t think that’s the time or the venue to do so,” Prescott said while adding that he respected the right of
others to protest. ”We know about social injustice. I’m up for taking a next
step, whatever that step may be for action and not just kneeling.”
Prescott didn’t have any immediate specifics for that community action, but it’ll be a few months before he can concentrate on it fully. Right now he’s
trying to get the Cowboys back to the playoffs after his encore fell flat.
Dallas missed the postseason at 9-7 last season, clouded by the fight over the six-game suspension that Prescott’s fellow rookie sensation, running back
Ezekiel Elliott, finally had to serve halfway through the year.
”It was just a lot of mental mistakes
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setting an NFL rookie record for passer rating. ”I feel like I thought a lot
about different things last year within the games and that’s something I’m going
to try to eliminate.”
The Cowboys are unproven at tight end and receiver after Witten retired and the Cowboys decided to release Bryant in a cost-cutting move. Cole Beasley has
the longest Dallas tenure among the receivers, and Terrance Williams is the only
other pass-catcher who was on the roster for Prescott’s rookie season.
”Really last year was a struggle. He had some breakdowns at other spots that made it tough on him,” Beasley said. ”Good or bad or ugly, he’s the same person
through and through. That’s what you want from your quarterback. Because that’s
how it is in games.”
Elliott doesn’t have a possible suspension looming this season, and at the moment an offensive line that was an issue a year ago is healthy with a new
piece in second-round pick Connor Williams. The former Texas player is working
as the starting left guard in camp.
Not long before coming to California, Prescott spent time with some of his untested receiving corps in Florida. Now he goes about figuring out life without
Witten and Bryant.
”We’re past that,” he said. ”We had the whole (offseason practices) and minicamps to kind of get over that stage. Those are guys I’ve said before you
can’t replace. But when you get out here, you just see the youthfulness that we
have, how young this team is and the energy.”
With a new leading voice.
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