NFL Week 10 is a strange week for CBS to have the doubleheader. The network carries the AFC, and the four teams with byes include two of the AFC’s best (New England & Kansas City) and two of the AFC’s surprise playoff contenders (Cleveland & NY Jets). But when you have Peyton Manning in your conference, there’s going to be game worth watching, and Denver-San Diego leads up the TV schedule in the late Sunday afternoon slot.
As TV schedules go, NFL Week 10…how do it put this…well, it kinda sucks (I know, I just blew my chance at an NFL marketing gig). The only really compelling game on the daytime card for Sunday is Dallas-Philly and that’s only because we want to watch two colliding train wrecks and see who emerges alive. The Monday Night fare is completely inedible, as the nation will have the Kansas City Chiefs inflicted upon them when they visit Pittsburgh. But Sunday night has the potential to rescue all of it, with Houston-Chicago, so we’ll begin there in our preview of this week’s games.