Source: dfw.cbslocal.com --- Friday, December 02, 2016
Follow The Fan: Facebook | Twitter BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – The NFL is re-evaluating its scheduling process in a bid to avoid the short turnaround of having teams playing on Sunday night and then travel to play on Thursday, Troy Vincent told The Associated Press. “That’s tough, and we’ll have to look at that,” the league’s vice president of football operations said during a visit to Buffalo on Thursday. “Ideally, that’s not something that we would like to have.” Vincent was referring to last month, when Washington beat Green Bay in a prime-time game on Nov. 20, and then lost a late afternoon game at Dallas four days later. He said the league prefers that both teams playing on Thursday would be scheduled to play early Sunday afternoon games the previous weekend. Vincent said the issue is on the league’s agenda and has also been raised with the NFL’s senior vice president of broadcasting Howard Katz, who oversees the schedule. That’s welcome news to Washington coach Jay Gruden, who called it a “no-brainer,” when informed of Vincent’s comments. “The recovery time for these players after a physical football game needs to be more than what we got. And then you throw a plane ride in on top of it, it makes it pretty difficult,” Gruden told The AP. “It can be done because we did it. But I think the schedule maker should really look at that and not put somebody in that predicament again.” Days before the game at Dallas, Gruden called the sche ...
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