{"id":586735,"date":"2025-12-09T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/586735\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:52:10","slug":"dolphins-vs-bengals-flexed-out-of-sunday-night-football-in-week-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/586735\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins vs. Bengals flexed out of ‘Sunday Night Football’ in Week 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL flexed the Miami Dolphins<\/a> out of prime time in Week 16, the league announced Monday night.<\/p>\n

Instead of the Dolphins facing the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> on Sunday Night Football, it’ll instead be the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens<\/a>. The Dolphins’ duel with the Bengals will kick off at 1 p.m. ET with television coverage via CBS.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins have kept a sliver of postseason hope alive by winning five of their last six and four straight heading into Week 15. But the Bengals are now guaranteed a losing record after blowing a 10-point fourth quarter lead against the Buffalo Bills<\/a> and falling to 4-9 on the year. Neither Miami nor Cincinnati are eliminated from postseason contention, but both could be in Week 14.<\/p>\n

The NFL opted against flexing the Dolphins out of their Monday night matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers. It will be the fourth prime time game of the season for Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL flexed the Miami Dolphins out of prime time in Week 16, the league announced Monday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[247,265,184,117,228,215,214,53,861,874,227,256,862,217,7699,7,20842,216,251,2087,248,267,246,88,6,35196,245,264,169,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-586735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens","12":"tag-bengals","13":"tag-bills","14":"tag-buffalo","15":"tag-buffalo-bills","16":"tag-cbs","17":"tag-cbs-corp","18":"tag-cincinnati","19":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","20":"tag-corp","21":"tag-dolphins","22":"tag-fl","23":"tag-football","24":"tag-hub","25":"tag-miami","26":"tag-miami-dolphins","27":"tag-miamidolphins","28":"tag-national","29":"tag-national-sports","30":"tag-neutral","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-nfl","33":"tag-nfl-hub","34":"tag-overall","35":"tag-overall-neutral","36":"tag-ravens","37":"tag-sports","38":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115688999804842868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586735","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=586735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}