Football

Dec. 8 Panthers-Saints game moves to Sunday Night Football

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Week 14 Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints game on Sunday, December 8 will be played at 8:30 p.m. ET on NBC and the Atlanta Falcons-Green Bay Packers game at 1:00 p.m. ET on FOX, the NFL announced Sunday.

The NFL uses "flexible scheduling" on Sundays in Weeks 11-17. 

Flexible scheduling ensures quality matchups in all NFL Sunday time slots in those weeks and gives teams a chance to play their way onto primetime and into the late-afternoon 4:25 p.m. ET time slot on CBS or FOX.

For each flexible scheduling week with the exception of Week 17, the NFL announces the start times of games on Sundays no later than 12 days prior to that weekend. 

To ensure a Sunday night game and doubleheader games with playoff implications in Week 17, flexible scheduling decisions for that Sunday can be made on six days notice.