Tag: 2024 schedule release

Broncos to get 2 prime-time games in 2024

The Denver Broncos will have at least two prime-time matchups in 2024

The Denver Broncos announced their 2024 season schedule on Thursday evening. Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton, who is also part of the Walton-Penner ownership group, helped reveal the Broncos’ schedule by eating delicacies that are associated with each team.

The Broncos usually have a few prime-time games each season, and this season is no different.

According to the schedule released by the team, Denver will have two prime-time games in 2024.

Their first prime-time matchup will the highly-anticipated return of head coach Sean Payton to New Orleans, which will be broadcast on Thursday Night Football on October 17. Prior to becoming the head coach in Denver, Payton was head coach of the Saints from 2006-2021, where he helped the franchise win a Super Bowl against Peyton Manning’s Indianapolis Colts.

The Broncos’ only other set prime-time game will a Monday Night Football affair against the Cleveland Browns in Denver on December 2. Denver was able to beat the Browns at home in 2023, 29-12.

The Broncos have the possibility of having two Saturday games at the end of the season, in Week 17 when Denver go visit the Cincinnati Bengals, and Week 18, when the Broncos wrap up the regular season at home against the Kansas City Chiefs. Those dates and times are yet to be determined.

The Broncos look to improve upon the 8-9 record they posted in 2023.

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Why the NFL’s last-minute Christmas plans may be delaying the 2024 schedule release

Let this be a lesson that the NFL never learns anything.

The NFL’s 2024 schedule release is probably supposed to be happening this week. Even though it probably could’ve been a succinct email, we’re supposed to learn when everyone will play each other. But it seems the NFL’s own (unsurprising) last-minute hubris might delay the next part of the calendar, where we breathlessly devote time to the league without a second thought.

According to Pro Football Talk, the league’s relatively recent Christmas plans to play two games on the upcoming Wednesday holiday might have thrown this schedule bonanza for a loop. It’s apparently to the point that the league likely hasn’t even figured out the concrete logistics for Christmas, which has delayed everything else.

More from Pro Football Talk:

“Equally mysterious is the reason for the delay. The most obvious source of the complication is the fairly recent decision to play two games on Wednesday, December 25 — after the league insisted for months that it wouldn’t wedge games onto Christmas when it lands on a Tuesday or a Wednesday. Between picking the teams to play on Christmas and selling the broadcast rights to the games and then having those same four teams play the preceding Saturday, the plan might have thrown a wrench into the gears.”

Do you mean to tell me the NFL might have gotten a little arrogant about its success and growth, which potentially delayed another part of the year it wants to dominate? No. No way. I’m so shocked.