Ever since Damar Hamlin’s collapse and the NFL’s cancellation of the Bills-Bengals game, people around the NFL have been making suggestions for how the league can better manage Week 18 and the games to come.
Former NFL executive Andrew Brandt is no exception as he has an idea for the final week of the regular season. Taking to Twitter, he suggested that the NFL move the upcoming Bills-Patriots game to Sunday and take out the Packers-Lions game.
Brandt said that the NFL can do a lot to show how its respect for the Bills franchise as well as maintain a competitive balance by giving them the final Sunday Night Football game of the year. At the same time, the Packers-Lions game could be played at the same time as the Seahawks-Rams game.
“If the NFL was concerned about both (1) competitive balance and (2) showing respect to the Bills, they would switch Sunday night game from Packers-Lions to Patriots-Bills. Packers-Lions would play same time as Seahawks for better equity; Bills game would have national stage,” Brandt wrote.
It’s not a terrible suggestion, though some people in Andrew Brandt’s comments have pointed out that the NFL might not want to put the Bills in the national spotlight once again and rather let them have their game with a greater sense of normalcy.
The Week 18 schedule is probably good as it is and it may be better to just leave well enough alone.
But it’s not a bad suggestion all things considered. Maybe the league will endeavor to give the Bills more primetime slots early next year to make up for it.