The week kicks off with the Vikings-Eagles on TNF, Amazon's first game of the season. Amazon felt a little burned in their first adventure into the NFL last year by drawing some real dogs for matchups, hence the league has appeased them by adding a flex schedule and have required some teams, us being one of them, to play twice on Thursdays.
I've been an Amazon Prime subscriber for for years, so it was no problem for me to watch the games. If you've never seen a game televised by Amazon, it's a little different as they have options for seeing real time stats provided by Next Gen and they superimpose lines/arrows/circles on receivers as the play unfolds. I don't particularly care for those options but some people might like them.
Our game at Detroit is going to be crucial. If we start the season 0-2, losing to two teams that failed to make the playoffs last year, we could be on a runaway train heading for a washed-out bridge. Our schedule is backloaded, with both Niners games, Eagles, and Cowboys all coming on or after the Thanksgiving.
There's a double header on MNF this week and they overlap, with Saints-Panthers starting at 4:15pm PT, and Browns-Steelers at 5:15pm. I guess they didn't like the late start for the 2nd game. I'll be having to multi task.