The NFL announced Friday that a Week 8 game between the Houston Texans and Oakland Raiders at NRG Stadium has been flexed to a late-afternoon time slot. The league maintains this allowance for flexible scheduling to get the most-compelling matchups into the largest audience possible. This one change doesn’t immediately impact the New Orleans Saints, but it does signal the start of the league’s window to reschedule games between different time slots on Sundays moving forward. Here’s a quick review of the league’s flex rules.
Flexible scheduling as we now know it starts in Week 5, and remains an option throughout the regular season.