2025-26 NFL Season

[Georgie56 3661]

With the Hall of Fame Game taking place one week from today, let’s fire up this thread.

 

The Lions have named Jason Benetti and TJ Lang as their preseason broadcast team.

Edited July 24, 2025 by Georgie56

[nomadcowatbk 188]

which markets will be getting the most non national games while what markets won't be getting any?

[Georgie56 3661]

CBS' 2025 roster. No real surprises here.

 

 

[NYAZSporty 196]

36 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

CBS' 2025 roster. No real surprises here.

 

 

ICYW, Tiki Barber left CBS, but will still be busy on Sundays & other days Giants play as well, as he'll be a part of the Giants radio pre & postgame shows. https://www.giants.com/news/giants-and-audacy-s-wfan-extend-play-by-play-partnership-tiki-barber-pregame-postgame-show

[SDHIll1980 150]

CBS has their game and announcer assignments set for the first three weeks of the season...

 

 

https://x.com/CBSSportsGang/status/1953140132703252581

 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by SDHIll1980

[Georgie56 3661]

Time for the annual tradition known as the LNT NFL Preseason Graphics Roundup!

 

Ravens: no change from last year.

 

 

[Viper550 318]

Only significant change I've seen so far, is that the Commanders are now using the 2015 CBS graphics rather than NBC graphics (they had moved to WUSA last year).

[NYAZSporty 196]

3 hours ago, Viper550 said:

Only significant change I've seen so far, is that the Commanders are now using the 2015 CBS graphics rather than NBC graphics (they had moved to WUSA last year).

Giants have refreshed their package from 2 yrs. ago when WNBC last aired preseason games to the pre-2022 SNF graphics. 

[Viper550 318]

Meanwhile, the Jets have the current CBS graphics now, and the Jaguars actually updated theirs (Twitter isn't embedding though)

[Georgie56 3661]

CBS is launching a two-hour streaming spinoff of NFL Today known as NFL Today+.

 

 

[NYAZSporty 196]

CBS will also honor the 50th Anniversary of The NFL Today with Brent Musburger in-studio Week 3 (SH week) 9/21. Also, Adam Schein will do in-game updates full-time this season, he did it on a couple of weeks last year when the studio crew went to Orchard Park (ahead of KC/BUF) & Detroit (ahead of BUF/DET) 

 

 

Edited August 12, 2025 by NYAZSporty

[Georgie56 3661]

Unfortunately, the sacrifice that had to be made for NFL Today+ was That Other Pregame Show, which was canned by CBSSN.

Edited August 13, 2025 by Georgie56

[Georgie56 3661]

In a stunning change, Scott Hanson says that NFL RedZone will have commercials this season.

[abric 227]

The reason I have NFL RedZone is because it was commercial free. If I wanted to watch with commercials, I would watch it on the broadcast network.

[nathannah 2792]

The commercials are going to be...four fifteen second ads throughout the seven-ish hours, game action will remain on screen, and likely not be carried when any team is in the red zone because that's the literal name of the channel, duh. Pretty much what you've seen during extra points or after the kickoff.

 

I know these ads, during baseball games they're just 'here's a word from (beer/casino/gambling platform)' during a break in the action and it allows a quick flip break to see the score of something else or to get something to drink. The Price is Right has that type of ad break before the Showcase Showdown.

 

As Aaron Rodgers said once...relax. They're being upfront about the ads when they could've said nothing. This reminds me of oddballs who claim they'll never watch a network again after a soap got cancelled; a stupidly vocal minority that cannot possibly hold to that pledge. Most of the public is not going to care at all and if you haven't noticed, there's betting, fantasy and tie-in 'sponsored by' segments all over every edition already as-is, so it's already been stealthily carrying ads for years, and we wouldn't expect to have a purely ad-free experience because that would lose money. I'm more concerned with stupid betting odds and other degenerate parlay whatever super 6 things polluting my enjoyment of sports; worry about that over one minute of unmemorable light beer ads.

Edited September 4, 2025 by nathannah

[Georgie56 3661]

The YouTube Chiefs-Chargers São Paulo game is tonight. Here’s the scorebug:

 

 

[TheRolyPoly 3510]

YouTube is handling it beautifully. No problems whatsoever in 1080p/60fps as I'm watching the game as we speak. Yes, its free.

[TheRolyPoly 3510]

Just found out that NBC Sports was producing this game for YouTube, and what a game for Justin Herbert. A great win for the Chargers.

 

Overall, YouTube, I think, had more than enough capacity and bandwidth to handle this, and they handled this live sporting stream event so beautifully and not one moment had any technical problems whatsoever.

Also, Rich Eisen. He's getting a lot of shine, and rightfully so. His stock must be very high right now.

[nomadcowatbk 188]

didn't hear any outrage in KC or Socal about the game going against HS FB games in those areas, but those places don't have a TX level obsession with HSFB

[danderson500 32]

Remember, the law says "after the 2nd Friday in September" so they could do nothing about it.

 

I think if the NFL ever goes to an 18 game schedules, i could see them doing Friday/Saturday games before the 2nd Friday in September and then giving each network a doubleheader (one on Saturday, the other on Sunday) after the 2nd Saturday in December. That way, one network isn't disadvantaged.

 

 

 

[abric 227]

19 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

Just found out that NBC Sports was producing this game for YouTube, and what a game for Justin Herbert. A great win for the Chargers.

 

Overall, YouTube, I think, had more than enough capacity and bandwidth to handle this, and they handled this live sporting stream event so beautifully and not one moment had any technical problems whatsoever.

Also, Rich Eisen. He's getting a lot of shine, and rightfully so. His stock must be very high right now.

I do see YouTube doing more games soon. Also, the graphics were really good.

[nomadcowatbk 188]

15 hours ago, danderson500 said:

Remember, the law says "after the 2nd Friday in September" so they could do nothing about it.

 

I think if the NFL ever goes to an 18 game schedules, i could see them doing Friday/Saturday games before the 2nd Friday in September and then giving each network a doubleheader (one on Saturday, the other on Sunday) after the 2nd Saturday in December. That way, one network isn't disadvantaged.

 

 

 

nothing stopping the NFL from doing a game on Sat this weekend, other than over 100 college FB games that in some places will get more interest than the NFL

[Georgie56 3661]

The new CBS NFL scorebug:

 

 

[abric 227]

So finally all the network scorebugs are centered.

[broadcastfan9751 150]

Much better than the cheap-looking one they used last season.