NFL Schedule Week 16: TV Start Times, Coverage Map and Live-Stream Info

There’s no better way to celebrate the holiday weekend than with Thursday Night Football.

Don’t think too much about it. With Christmas falling on Sunday, the NFL bumped Week 16’s main slate to Saturday, which concludes which a special edition of Thursday Night Football on the NFL Network. The following day, the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers will clash for the AFC North lead in a Sunday installment of Thursday Night Football.

Changing the title would have been a whole thing, but football by any other inaccurate name remains football. With eight of 12 postseason spots still up for grabs, the penultimate week presents pivotal showdowns in a funky format.

Let’s take a look at Week 16’s unconventional schedule, including broadcast and live-stream information for all 15 remaining games.

Weekend Thursday Night Football

Cincinnati Bengals at Houston Texans

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The 8-6 Houston Texans are two wins away from clinching their fourth AFC South title in six years. The 5-8-1 Cincinnati Bengals, meanwhile, have already sealed their first losing season since 2010, the last time they missed the playoffs.

Don’t assume Houston is the better team.

If the Texans reach the postseason, they will likely get bounced early in similar fashion to last season’s Wild Card Round trouncing by the Kansas City Chiefs. (The two are currently in line to meet again.) Although they hold the division lead over the Tennessee Titans via tiebreaker, they also possess an unattractive minus-44 point differential.

Football Outsiders’ defensive-adjusted value above average (DVOA) paints an even worse portrait of the Texans, who rank third-to-last in overall team efficiency above the New York Jets and 0-14 Cleveland Browns.  

Advanced metrics aren’t necessary to know they’re walking on thin ice. Last weekend, they narrowly avoided an upset at home to the Jacksonville Jaguars, …

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