NFL Regular Season Schedule and More Recent Update

The NFL 2014 are going on here. Come here everybody to get more recent update news. Today on 7th December, exciting 14 match will be start. The whole information of NFL regular season has benn shown here.

The 2014 NFL season, the 95th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL), began on Thursday, September 4, 2014, with the annual kickoff game featuring the defending Super Bowl XLVIII champion Seattle Seahawks hosting the Green Bay Packers, which resulted with the Seahawks winning 36–16. The season will conclude with Super Bowl XLIX, the league's championship game, on Sunday, February 1, 2015, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

The 2014 league year began at 4 pm EST on March 11, which marked the start of the league's free agency period. The per-team salary cap was set at US$133 million, a $10 million increase from the previous year.The so-called "legal tampering" period during which time agents representing prospective unrestricted free agent players (though not the players themselves) were allowed to have contact with team representatives with the purpose of determining a player's market value and to begin contract negotiations, began at noon (EST) on March 8.

Schedule For 7th December, 2014

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Steelers vs Bengals CBS 1:00p ET

Colts vs Browns CBS 1:00p ET

Buccaneers vs Lions FOX 1:00p ET

Texans vs Jaguars CBS 1:00p ET

Ravens vs Dolphins CBS 1:00p ET

Jets vs Vikings CBS 1:00p ET

Panthers vs Saints FOX 1:00p ET

Giants vs Titans FOX 1:00p ET

Rams vs Redskins FOX 1:00p ET

Chiefs vs Cardinals CBS 4:05p ET

Bills vs Broncos CBS 4:05p ET

49ers vs Raiders FOX 4:25p ET

Seahawks vs Eagles FOX 4:25p ET

Patriots vs Chargers NBC 8:30p ET

A total of 471 players were eligible for some form of free agency at the beginning of the free agency period.In addition, a number of highly paid players were released after the start of the league year to allow their teams to regain space under the salary cap. Among the high profile players who changed teams via free agency were cornerbacks Darrelle Revis (left the Buccaneers, joined the Patriots), Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (from Broncos to Giants), Aqib Talib (from Patriots to Broncos) and Alterraun Verner (from Titans to Buccaneers); safeties Jairus Byrd (from Bills to Saints) and T. J. Ward (from Browns to Broncos); defensive ends DeMarcus Ware (from Cowboys to Broncos), Lamarr Houston (from Raiders to Bears), Willie Young (from Lions to Bears) and Michael Johnson (from Bengals to Buccaneers); offensive tackles Jared Veldheer (from Raiders to Cardinals) and Branden Albert (from Chiefs to Dolphins); defensive tackle Jason Hatcher (from Cowboys to Redskins); wide receivers DeSean Jackson (Eagles to Redskins), Steve Smith (Panthers to Ravens) and Eric Decker (from Broncos to Jets); and linebacker Karlos Dansby (from Cardinals to Browns).

Four players were assigned the non-exclusive franchise tag by their teams, which ensured that the team would receive compensation were the player to sign a contract with another team. These players were defensive end Greg Hardy (Panthers), tight end Jimmy Graham (Saints), placekicker Nick Folk (Jets) and linebacker Brian Orakpo (Redskins).Two other teams used the transition tag, which offers the player's current team a chance to match offers from other franchises and also guarantees draft pick compensation (at a lesser level than the franchise tag) if a tagged player signs elsewhere. Players given the transition tag were Jason Worilds (Steelers) and Alex Mack (Browns). Mack signed a five year, $42 million offer sheet with the Jacksonville Jaguars which included $26 million in guaranteed money and a player option to void the contract after two seasons. The Browns matched the offer and retained Mack who became the league's highest paid center.

One restricted free agent switched teams in 2014: wide receiver Andrew Hawkins of the Bengals was signed by the Browns.Restricted free agents are players with three or fewer seasons in the league whose contracts have expired. Teams may tender contract offers which allow them to match offers from other teams (i.e. the player's current team gets "right of first refusal") and may trigger draft pick compensation to be received from the signing team.Hawkins was tendered at the minimum level, which means the Bengals would not receive any draft compensation.The Browns signed him to a $13.6 million, four-year offer, which the Bengals declined to match.Saints safety Rafael Bush signed an offer from the Falcons, but the Saints retained Bush by matching the offer.

The 2014 NFL Draft was held May 8–10, 2014, in New York City.The draft process began with the NFL Scouting Combine, where draft-eligible players were evaluated by team personnel, which was held in Indianapolis on February 19–25.This year's draft included a record number of 98 non-seniors.The event was delayed roughly two weeks compared to its traditional position on the NFL calendar in late April due to a scheduling conflict at Radio City Music Hall,which has been the draft venue since 2006. In the draft the Houston Texans made University of South Carolina defensive end, now outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney the first overall selection.

There was discussion leading up to the draft as to the future of the event in New York City, where it has been held since 1965. Given the increased interest in the draft over the past decade, there is a belief that the event may have outgrown Radio City Music Hall, which has been the venue for the past nine drafts. The possibility of extending the draft to four days was also being discussed. On October 2, 2014, Auditorium Theatre in Chicago was announced as the official site for the following year's draft.

Training camps for the 2014 season were held in late July through August. Teams may start training camp no earlier than 15 days before the team's first scheduled preseason game.

Prior to the start of the regular season, each team will play at least four preseason exhibition games. The preseason schedule got underway with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game on Sunday evening, August 3. The Hall of Fame game is a traditional part of the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame induction weekend celebrating new Hall of Fame members. It was played at Fawcett Stadium which is located adjacent to the Hall of Fame building in Canton, Ohio. The game, which was televised in the U.S. on NBC, featured the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills, with the Giants winning 17–13. Continuing the recent trend of scheduling teams that are associated with former players being inducted into the Hall, the 2014 class included former Giants defensive end Michael Strahan and former Bills wide receiver Andre Reed. The others who were inducted into the Hall of Fame are linebacker Derrick Brooks, punter Ray Guy, defensive end Claude Humphrey, offensive tackle Walter Jones, and defensive back Aeneas Williams.The 65-game preseason schedule wrapped up on Thursday, August 28, a week before the start of the regular season.

The 2014 regular season will feature 256 games to be played out over a seventeen week schedule which begins on the Thursday night following Labor Day. Each of the league's 32 teams will play a 16-game schedule with one bye week for each team scheduled between weeks four and twelve. The slate features seventeen games on Monday night including a doubleheader in the season's opening week. There will be seventeen games played on Thursday, including the National Football League Kickoff game in prime time on September 4 and three games on Thanksgiving Day. The schedule also includes two games played on Saturday, December 20, in the season's sixteenth week. The regular season concludes with a full slate of 16 games on Sunday, December 28, all of which, as it was since 2010, are intra-divisional matchups.

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