Cowboys Getting Flexed Out of Primetime Is Seismic

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The NFL announced today that the Week 15 Sunday Night Football matchup has been flexed: out with Niners-Cowboys, in with Browns-Giants.

It's undeniable that Browns-Giants is a more compelling football game, but it's nonetheless impossible to overstate how wild this flex is. For decades, networks have battled each other relentlessly trying to get as many Cowboys games as possible. You could write them as the biggest ratings draw in Sharpie.

According to 506 Sports, since NFL flex scheduling began in 2006, this is the first time the Cowboys have ever been flexed out of Sunday Night Football.

This season, the 3-9 Cowboys are particularly bad and rudderless, but their decline didn't start in 2020. The franchise has been atrophying for quite some time, and now the dam has burst.





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Ryan Glasspiegel grew up in Connecticut, graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and lives in Chicago. Before OutKick, he wrote for Sports Illustrated and The Big Lead. He enjoys expensive bourbon and cheap beer.