Ravens request for afterwards bye week after Greater london game

Posted by maying on April 14th, 2017

The Baltimore Ravens have a request for the NFL's program makers: A later bye 1 week.

Team president David Cass confirmed to reporters that this Ravens asked to don’t you have a bye after every week 3 tilt versus your Jacksonville Jaguars in Birmingham.

Clubs playing overseas are usually given a week away from following for Madden NFL 17 IOS Coins their trip throughout the pond. Last season the Indianapolis Colts became the 1st team to request to play the week after their London contest and be handed a later bye. Indy beat the Bears 29-23 in that home contest.

Similar to the Ravens in 2017, the Colts game in London recently came early in the season (Week 4). Indianapolis was given an even more centralized Week 10 ok bye week.

Desiring a later cya makes practical sense. An early bye signifies the Ravens would have to play 13 straight game titles to close out the season, which would be a grueling stretch to get a team with aspirations connected with winning the AFC To the north. ESPN noted that the Ravens have experienced a bye in Full week 4 or earlier 4 times (1996, 2002, 2005 and 2008) as well as made the playoffs in one among those seasons (08).

The full 2017 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE schedule should come out over the following couple weeks. Mike North, Sr. Director of Broadcast Arranging, who leads the timetable build held an in-depth conversation with NFL Network's Andrew Siciliano and fans during the Combine earlier this yr, explaining how the NFL schedule is created.