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Peter King hints that Browns could play Eagles Week 1 in Brazil

The Browns could be heading to São Paulo in September

The 2024 NFL schedule is months away from being released, but one NFL insider has stated he is “feeling good” about the chances the Cleveland Browns will be the team to take on the Philadelphia Eagles in São Paulo.

NBC Sports’ Peter King has confidence that the Browns will be traveling to take on the Eagles at Corinthians Arena for the first-ever NFL game in Brazil. The Browns have played one international game, a 33-16 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in London in 2017.

To be honest, who is to say a Week 1 game in Brazil is too much more difficult than a Week 1 game in Philadelphia?

NFL names home team for all 2024 international games, none for Bills

No #Bills in Brazil or anywhere outside the USA in 2024… but here’s who will be the home teams:

The NFL has named all five teams that will be the home side in their games to be played internationally during the 2024 season.

The league will play three games in England, one game in Germany, and one game in Brazil.

The Buffalo Bills’ full list of opponents next season was finalized following the end of this year’s regular season. Buffalo was considered the “home” team when they played the Jacksonville Jaguars in October in London.

Previously we at least knew Buffalo would not be playing “overseas.” However, there was still the fifth and final contest to be named and that’s finally had the home team named.

With that answer revealed, we now know the Bills will not be playing anywhere outside of the United States next year. We know this because the NFL named all of the teams that will be considered the “home” side in each of those contests.

Buffalo is not scheduled to play any of them on the road next season. Therefore, get used to the U.S.A.

For those curious, here are those five home teams hosting an opponent internationally in 2024:

Could the Panthers open their 2024 season in Brazil?

The Eagles are hosting their season opener out of Brazil next season. Will the Panthers, one of their nine away opponents, meet them there?

Could the newest era of Carolina Panthers football kick off in South America?

As part of his annual pre-Super Bowl media availability on Monday afternoon, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the Philadelphia Eagles will hosting their first home game of 2024—a Week 1 outing—from São Paulo, Brazil. And hey, look at that—the Panthers are one of nine home opponents for the Birds next season.

Here are the other eight:

  • Atlanta Falcons
  • Cleveland Browns
  • Dallas Cowboys
  • Green Bay Packers
  • Jacksonville Jaguars
  • New York Giants
  • Pittsburgh Steelers
  • Washington Commanders

But will it be the Panthers making the trip to meet the Eagles in early September?

Well, considering that they already have some vacation plans for next year, it seems rather unlikely.

Last month, the Panthers announced that they’ll be hosting their own international matchup out of Munich, Germany. The game will be played in Allianz Arena, home of FC Bayern Munich.

Plus, Carolina—at least in their current state—may not be the most, um, savory offering the NFL can provide to a fresher audience. There are quite a few considerably better options on the table in Dallas and Green Bay.

So, we wouldn’t advise you to start saving your pennies, Panthers fans.

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Broncos won’t play in London or Germany next season

The Broncos will not play in England or Germany next season. Teams for the Brazil game have not been announced yet.

The NFL has announced four designated “home” teams for international games in 2024, and the Denver Broncos are not among them.

The Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars will “host” games in London, England and the Carolina Panthers will be the “home” team for a game in Munich, Germany next fall.

We know the Broncos won’t be the “away” team for the London or Germany games because the Bears, Vikings and Jaguars are not on Denver’s 2024 schedule, and the team’s game against the Panthers will be played at home.

There is one more international game on the NFL’s 2024 schedule set to be played in São Paulo, Brazil, but the Broncos are also unlikely to play in that contest.

The Miami Dolphins seem likely to be chosen as the “home” team for the Brazil game, but that has not been officially announced yet (the NFL said Thursday that the Brazil home team will be revealed “in the coming months”).

If Miami is the Brazil host as expected, Denver won’t have an international game next season because the Dolphins are not on the Broncos’ list of 2024 opponents.

Denver will play an international game by 2030 because every team is required to play at least one international contest every eight years (the club played in London in 2022).

If the Broncos are selected as a future “home” team, their most likely international destination is Mexico. The NFL will not play an international game in Mexico in 2024 due to Estadio Azteca renovations, but the league plans to return to Mexico City once those renovations are complete.

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Will the Dolphins play in Brazil in 2024?

Brazil will host an NFL game in 2024. Dot-connecting leads one to believe the Dolphins might be a strong candidate to play in the game.

The NFL confirmed Wednesday that a to-be-announced regular-season game will be played at Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil in 2024. The designated “home” team for that game is expected to be announced in January.

The NFL’s Global Markets Program (formerly called International Home Market Areas) might provide clues as to who will “host” that game.

There are 14 countries in the program and most of them have multiple teams designated to them. Brazil has just one designated team: the Miami Dolphins.

Back when the program was announced in 2021 as IHMA, the NFL said: “The league will use its best efforts to ensure clubs play their international games in their international HMAs, where possible.”

So that doesn’t mean teams will exclusively play international games in their designated market, but when possible, they will. Given that the Brazil market was awarded to Miami, the Dolphins might be a strong candidate to “host” the South America game in 2024.

Miami just played an international game in Germany earlier this year, so that might make a trip to Brazil in 2024 less likely, but the league will begin playing up to eight international games per season in 2025. Once that happens, half the league will play an international game every year. So playing outside the U.S. frequently could become the norm soon.

Miami is also one of the league’s most willing teams to play internationally (only the Jacksonville Jaguars have played more games outside the USA). Last year, Peter King of NBC Sports wrote that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross “may push for a game in Brazil or Spain as early as 2024.”

Earlier this month, John Sutcliffe of ESPN Deportes reported that the Brazil game could be played in Week 1, and he also named the Dolphins as a potential candidate to feature in the game.

For now, Miami playing in Brazil next season is just a possibility. Based on the language of the league’s Global Markets Program, though, Dolphins fans should probably be following NFL’s upcoming international announcements. We’ll find out more in January.

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South America’s Team? NFL to play in Brazil in 2024; will Cowboys make the trip?

From @ToddBrock24f7: The league will play on the South American continent for the first time next year, but don’t pencil in the Cowboys quite yet.

The NFL is coming to the South American continent in 2024. A regular-season game will be played in São Paulo, Brazil next season, according to an announcement made Wednesday at the owners’ meetings in Dallas.

While the teams who will participate have not been revealed, Cowboys fans have already begun wondering if it’s time for their team to update their passports.

The game will be staged at Corinthians Arena, the home stadium of Brazilian soccer club SC Corinthians. The venue has been used in FIFA World Cup play as well as the Olympic Games in recent years. The arena normally has a capacity of just over 49,000, although temporary seating was added in 2014 to accommodate up to 65,000.

“There’s a lot of interest in the NFL,” league executive vice president Peter O’Reilly said during a September interview on The Adam Schefter Podcast. “I mean, we saw it. We did a Super Bowl viewing party last year down in Brazil, and it was packed, and the energy is there.”

The expansion to Brazil is part of an initiative to increase the slate of internationally-played games from four to eight per season in 2025. The NFL’s International Series currently has a regular presence in England, Mexico, and Germany.

Spain was also reportedly a finalist for the 2024 schedule. The city of Madrid, home to iconic soccer club Real Madrid, will continue to be considered as a likely site for future expansion.

But São Paulo mayor Ricardo Nunes claims that Brazil has the third-most NFL fans of any country in the world, behind Mexico and the United States. And the league was almost certainly eager to plant its flag on a new continent before setting up shop in yet another European city.

The Cowboys have not played on foreign soil since their 2014 trip to London to face the Jaguars. (Only the Steelers have gone longer without an international game.) To that end and to fill eight global games each season, owners passed a resolution Wednesday that requires every team to play an international game at least every four years.

Thanks to having an extra home date in 2024, the NFC will be designated as the “home” team for the first-ever Brazilian contest. Given that and their long absence from international play, some might naturally assume that Dallas’s number is up. But team owner Jerry Jones may not be so quick to let his Cowboys become gauchos, even if only for one Sunday, as a home date at AT&T Stadium is seen as too lucrative to just let go without a very compelling reason.

“You’re required to give up a home game, but we’re so committed to Mexico,” Jones explained Tuesday, per the Dallas Morning News. “When we talk about playing away and not having a home game, that would be my first thought. I don’t want to not remember where our design is. If we give up a game, it would be a desire to make it a Mexican game.”

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The Cowboys already have commercial rights in Mexico under the NFL’s global markets program, but the league will not return there in 2024 due to planned renovations to Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.

Theoretically, Dallas could still end up playing in Brazil- or another of the international locations- as the visiting team once 2024’s international matchups are announced.

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NFL will play in Brazil in 2024 — could the Broncos play in the game?

The NFL will play a game in Brazil next season. Could the Broncos play in that game?

For the first time in NFL history, the league will play a regular season game in South America next fall.

The NFL announced Wednesday that a game will be played at Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil in 2024. The stadium with a 68,727 capacity previously hosted World Cup games in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016.

The league will announce five “home” teams for its 2024 international schedule early next year, presumably in January. The NFL prefers (but does not require) “home” teams to play in their designated “Global Markets Program” country.

Only one team — the Miami Dolphins — has Brazil listed as their designated country, so the ‘Phins might be a decent bet to “host” the game at Corinthians Arena in 2024.

The Denver Broncos have Mexico listed as their international market, but the team could be a “road” team for an international game in a different country. The Broncos will face the same-place finisher in the AFC East on the road in 2024, so it’s possible that Miami could be on Denver’s 2024 schedule.

Right now, the Broncos are in second place in the AFC West. The corresponding team in the AFC East right now is the Buffalo Bills. For Denver and the Dolphins to finish in the same spot in their respective divisions (barring something crazy), the Broncos would have to win the AFC West or Miami would have to finish in second place in the AFC East.

As things stand now, Denver seems unlikely to play in Brazil next season. But the NFL plans to expand from four international games in 2024 to eight international games in 2025. Once that happens, half the league will play an international game every season (unless a team volunteers for more than one game). So starting in 2025, it seems likely that most NFL teams will have an international game at least once every other season.

So after playing in London, England in 2022, the Broncos seem likely to play another international game in the not-too-distant future. It might not be in Brazil, but Denver will play outside the United States again. Mexico seemingly remains the team’s most likely destination.

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NFL targeting Brazil for a 2024 International Series game

The NFL is targeting Brazil for a 2024 International Series game. Which stadium could play host? Would you want the Saints to make the trip?

Now this is interesting. Multiple reports from NFL ownership meetings in Dallas say the league’s decision-makers will be voting on a potential 2024 regular season game to be played in Brazil, with a verdict coming as soon as Wednesday afternoon.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has made the league’s International Series a point of emphasis on his annual agenda — we may never see a Super Bowl played overseas or have an NFL team headquartered outside America, but Goodell clearly sees room for expansion in international markets. After kicking off games in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Mexico, he’s looking to Brazil as the next hotspot in 2024 (plus Spain in 2025, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports).

So where could that game be played? Venues used for recent international NFL games include London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (seating over 60,000) and Wembley Stadium (seating more than 85,000), Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca (capacity for 78,000 seats) as well as Germany’s stadiums in Munich (the 69,000-seat Allianz Arena) and Frankfurt (Deutsche Bank Park, seating about 51,000).

That’s an average capacity of about 68,600 seats. If that’s in the ballpark of what the NFL is looking for in a venue, São Paulo has one clear option: the Estadio do Morumbi (which opened in 1960, easily seating 66,000). The city is also home to the Arena Corinthians (opened in 2014, seating 49,000) and Estádio Prudentão (built in 1982, seating 45,000) as alternative sites.

Now, what you’re really here for: could the Saints be involved? The answer to that is a soft “maybe.” New Orleans will not lose another home game to an international game in 2024 after doing so in 2022’s matchup with the Minnesota Vikings in London. NFL ownership previously agreed that every team would play a “home” game overseas once every eight years, but they’re voting soon on whether to shorten that to a four-year gap, so the Saints could make the trip as visitors.

An NFC team is expected to host the game in Brazil (if approved by league ownership), per Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer, and the Saints have away games scheduled in 2024 with the following opponents in their conference:

  • Atlanta Falcons
  • Carolina Panthers
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • Dallas Cowboys
  • New York Giants
  • Same-place NFC North team (right now, the Green Bay Packers)

We can rule out the Packers, Falcons, and Buccaneers because they have “hosted” international games in recent years, leaving the Panthers, Cowboys, and Giants as options to host. We should acknowledge the Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings, and Chicago Bears are eligible to host the game in Brazil if the Saints end up playing a difference NFC North team in 2024, depending on how the final divisional standings shake out.

But there’s another factor to consider: the NFL’s international marketing rights for Brazil have been awarded to just one team, the Miami Dolphins. It’s likely they would want the Dolphins to be involved because of that (or at least, the Dolphins would want to be involved), even if they’re playing as visitors. Miami has made a number of overseas appearances including a game in Frankfurt this year. They’re a likelier fit than the Saints.

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Report: Warriors using 14th roster spot to sign Brazilian F Gui Santos

The former second-round pick will reportedly sign a three-year deal with the Warriors.

With an open roster spot at the start of the season, questions focused on how the Golden State Warriors would fill out the end of the bench. Would it be a veteran they worked out during the offseason? Would it be a center? On Monday, the Warriors reportedly provided an answer.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski and Kendra Andrews of ESPN, the Warriors are finalizing a three-year deal with a former second-round pick out of Brazil, Gui Santos. 

Via @wojespn on Twitter:

Santos has been playing with the Warriors summer league team and Golden State’s G League affiliate in Santa Cruz. Last season, Santos averaged 12.7 points on 50% shooting from the field and 33.3% from beyond the arc to go along with six rebounds and 2.2 assists per game.

Following a strong performance in Santa Cruz, Santos was named G League Sixth Man of the Year.

This post originally appeared on Warriors Wire! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! 

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Ferrari sweeps busy opening Brazil GP practice

Ferrari has topped a busy sole practice session at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix after both McLaren drivers abandoned laps that likely would have put them in top spot. Carlos Sainz took to the track late on softs and clocked the Interlagos circuit at 1m …

Ferrari has topped a busy sole practice session at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix after both McLaren drivers abandoned laps that likely would have put them in top spot.

Carlos Sainz took to the track late on softs and clocked the Interlagos circuit at 1m 11.732s. Teammate Charles Leclerc followed him at 0.108s adrift. But most drivers opted not to use the soft tire for a one-lap simulation in a difficult-to read session focused largely on long-run performance for the sprint and the grand prix.

Just eight drivers sampled the red-marked tire, including the Ferrari teammates. Mercedes’ George Russell in third used a new set of mediums for his flying lap early in the session and ended up just 0.133s off top spot, placing him in a theoretically better position accounting for the differences between compounds.

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Oscar Piastri was another driver to break in a set of softs. The McLaren rookie claimed purple sectors at the first two splits and set for a time that would have put him among the Ferrari drivers but bailed into pit lane before setting his time, instead completing the rest of the session on the hard tire.

Teammate Lando Norris did likewise with a fresh set of mediums, getting to within around 0.15s of his teammate before abandoning the lap. They instead propped up the time sheet at the bottom of the pile.

Nico Hulkenberg was fourth fastest on a set of softs at 0.196s off the pace but ended the hour complaining of a loss of power after rumbling over the curbs exiting Turn 4. The German also ends the session facing a stewards investigation for an unusual collision with Norris at Juncao.

Hulkenberg appeared to be on a cool-down lap on the racing line when Norris came steaming behind him, forcing him to dive down the inside. Norris ran slightly deep, resulting in contact as Hulkenberg turned in. Neither car was damaged in the incident.

Alex Albon was fifth for Williams on softs ahead of Lance Stroll, who was next-best on medium tires in sixth. The Aston Martin was 0.404s off the pace ahead of fellow medium-shod Pierre Gasly, while Zhou Guanyu used softs on his way to eighth.

American rookie Logan Sargeant endured a difficult session with rear suspension problems that sent him spearing over the run-off at the first turn and otherwise left him three-wheeling around much of the circuit. Quick repairs late in the hour got him out in time for a run on softs, putting him ninth ahead of Kevin Magnussen.

Fernando Alonso used the hard tire on his way to 11th ahead of Lewis Hamilton and AlphaTauri teammates Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo, the Australian suffering floor damage early in the hour required ad-hoc repairs.

Esteban Ocon led home Max Verstappen — who used only one set of hard tires for the entire hour — Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez, who likewise used just the white-walled tire for the session.

The unrepresentative Norris and Piastri completed the order in 19th and 20th.