{"id":292976,"date":"2025-08-16T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/292976\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:51:17","slug":"flex-buffalo-bills-week-16-home-game-vs-patriots-moved-to-late-afternoon-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/292976\/","title":{"rendered":"Flex! Buffalo Bills Week 16 home game vs. Patriots moved to late afternoon slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Week 16 game between the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots is getting flexed, the NFL announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Originally slated for 1 p.m., Bills vs. Patriots at Highmark Stadium on Dec. 22 will now start at 4:25 p.m. EST. The game will remain on CBS.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills set NFL history during their 48-42 road win over the Lions in Week 15, tying the NFL record for most consecutive games with 30+ points scored (8 games). Buffalo has a chance to set the NFL record this Sunday against New England.<\/p>\n<p>With the start time change, Buffalo has now been in the 4:25 p.m. kickoff slot in four of the last five games.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\/tickets\/single-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BUY SINGLE GAME BILLS TICKETS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Week 16 game between the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots is getting flexed, the NFL announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,199,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-292976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-newengland","12":"tag-newenglandpatriots","13":"tag-news-announcements","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115039009745662685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}