OFFICIAL: 2024 Opponents List / Schedule Release

Originally posted by Jcool:

NFL schedule leak: The #Chiefs will travel to San Francisco to take on the #49ers in a Super Bowl rematch in Week 7 on FOX, per @Schultz_Report. Tom Brady will be on the call. 4:25pm ET kickoff. pic.twitter.com/lXVQuyLrTJ

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) May 14, 2024

brady may have a hard time doing games, and not playing

Should've been a primetime game 😤

Originally posted by 9erson3:
I'm surprised not there.

For real?

Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:
Should've been a primetime game 😤

It's becoming obvious that primetime and nationally televised games are determined more by how many fans a team has, rather than whether or not they're good. The Monday night game vs the Jets is a good example.

Originally posted by illinois9er:

Originally posted by 9erson3:
I'm surprised not there.

For real?

Yeah cause KC gets all the love. I'm surprised the schedule makers didn't opt KC but no complaints.

Originally posted by Cosmo:

Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:
Should've been a primetime game 😤

It's becoming obvious that primetime and nationally televised games are determined more by how many fans a team has, rather than whether or not they're good. The Monday night game vs the Jets is a good example.

There is a crop of up and comer teams that deserve some love. We've been in a heck of a lot of prime time games over the past years.

Detroit a new darling. Texans cusping. New look Chargers with Harbaugh. Not enough to go around but I bet we still get a good number of games.

Week 13 Sunday Night Football
49ers @ Bills 12/1
via NFL Schedule Leak Twitter

Originally posted by Watsonville49er:
Week 13 Sunday Night Football
49ers @ Bills 12/1
via NFL Schedule Leak Twitter

So that is early december in Buffalo? brrrrrrrrrr

Apparently the Lions will be playing the Rams week 1 on SNF. I like that one of those teams is going to be 0-1. Same with the Eagles and Packers opening their season playing eachother on Friday.

Originally posted by Cosmo:

Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:
Should've been a primetime game 😤

It's becoming obvious that primetime and nationally televised games are determined more by how many fans a team has, rather than whether or not they're good. The Monday night game vs the Jets is a good example.

Scheduling formula-wise, IIRC there's a time zone reason why west coast teams are inordinately chosen for a lot of primetime games, in addition to the reason that the majority of NFL teams are weighted location-wise east of the Mississippi— this combination means there's always going to be a higher percentage of AFC/NFC East/North/South teams that are going to be paired for 1pm and 4pm games (ET) and correspondingly, a AFC/NFC West team in turn will have a greater chance of being left as an outlier that needs a game time slot and the only one left is a primetime game. How good that AFC/NFC West team does also factor in (especially back in the day when there were only SNF and MNF as the prime time games), but with all the extra prime time games and flex scheduling now, if your team is a West team and good, they will nearly always have 4-5+ prime time games regularly.

Niners gonna make a lame schedule release video this yr?

Interesting fact - it was Floyd (our new DE) who sacked Rodgers last season on the play where his Achilles ruptured. Lol

Originally posted by NYniner85:
Niners gonna make a lame schedule release video this yr?

looks like it

Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:
Should've been a primetime game 😤

That KC game is going to be FOX game of the week meaning pretty much the whole country gets it

I'm hoping for XMAS day again.