NFL Schedule Week 8: TV Start Times, Coverage Map and Live Stream Info

For the second week in a row, NFL fans looking to catch the whole Sunday slate will have to set an early alarm to do so. 

Week 8 sees the Kansas City Chiefs play "host" to the woeful Detroit Lions from Wembley Stadium in London. It's the third NFL International Series contest of the year—International in recent years simply meaning the soggy pitch at Wembley. Last week saw the Jacksonville Jaguars defeat the Buffalo Bills 34-31 in an error-riddled game.

if Sunday's earliest game doesn't seem worth the trouble of getting up—even with the help of the clocks falling back an hour—sticking around for the nightcap will certainly be worth it. Sunday Night Football pits the Denver Broncos at home against the Green Bay Packers. It's a titantic matchup between two of the league's five remaining undefeated teams. 

The undefeated Carolina Panthers finish off Week 8 at home on Monday against the Indianapolis Colts, already with a chance to match its regular-season win total from last season (seven). 

Those are just three of the most noteworthy games of Week 8. If you're looking for the complete list of start times and viewing info, look no further. A coverage map of what regions are showing which games can be found at 506Sports.com.

Sunday, November 1
Monday, November 2
Time (ET)	Away	Home	TV	Live Stream
9:30 a.m.	Detroit Lions	Kansas City Chiefs	FOX	NFL Sunday Ticket (subscription required)
1 p.m.	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Atlanta Falcons	FOX	FoxSportsGo
1 p.m.	Arizona Cardinals	Cleveland Browns	FOX	FoxSportsGo
1 p.m.	San Francisco 49ers	St. Louis Rams	FOX	FoxSportsGo
1 p.m.	New York Giants	New Orleans Saints	FOX	FoxSportsGo
1 p.m.	Minnesota Vikings	Chicago Bears	CBS	NFL Sunday Ticket (subscription required)
1 p.m.	San Diego Chargers	Baltimore Ravens	CBS	NFL Sunday Ticket (subscription required)
1 p.m.	Cincinnati Bengals	Pittsburgh Steelers	CBS	NFL Sunday Ticket (subscription required)
1 p.m.	Tennessee Titans	Houston Texans	CBS	NFL Sunday Ticket (subscription required)
4:05 p.m.	New York Jets	Oakland Raiders	CBS	NFL Sunday Ticket (subscription required)
4:25 p.m.	Seattle Seahawks	Dallas Cowboys	FOX	FoxSportsGo
8:30 p.m.	Green Bay Packers	Denver Broncos	NBC	NBC Sports Live Extra
8:30 p.m.	Indianapolis Colts	Carolina Panthers	ESPN	WatchESPN

A Closer Look

Detroit Lions vs. Kansas City Chiefs

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The Chiefs are 1-1 in the wake of Jamaal Charles' latest season-ending injury, having lost to the Chicago Bears in Week 6 before defeating the Landry Jones-led Pittsburgh 23-13 in Week 7. 

Kansas City managed 33 points combined from those two contests, the offense now wholly un-intimidating without its star tailback. Kansas City has a tough slate of division games coming up—sandwiching a date with the Buffalo Bills—so this contest with Detroit figures to be its best chance at a win for awhile (depending on your views on struggling San Diego).

Charcandrick West rushed for 110 yards against Pittsburgh, providing the balance necessary to allow quarterback Alex Smith—252 yards, one touchdown—to operate with a lackluster pass-catching corps. Working against a defense that's allowed a league-worst 10 rushing touchdowns (tied with Atlanta) and 124.8 ground yards per game, it could be another big day for the nascent starter.

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"They did a great job last week against Pittsburgh,” Lions defensive tackle Haloti Ngata said, via the Kansas City Star's Terez A. Paylor. “They were able to be physical enough to run the ball, and West did a great job at running the ball. He had over a hundred yards and a lot of that was because of their I-line―they did a great job of putting the right guys in the right places."

A balanced Chiefs attack was still only just good enough to top a Pittsburgh offense lacking Ben Roethlisberger at the helm. Turnovers certainly helped the squad, as Jones threw two picks and lost a fumble in that contest, squandering the Steelers' efforts.

Kansas City should have a much tougher task slowing the Lions' Matthew Stafford on Sunday. Stafford has stepped his game up after a rocky start to the season, having thrown for 661 yards, six touchdowns and just one interception the past two weeks.

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It will be interesting to see if he can keep up the good efforts, considering the Lions fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi—among others—after losing to Minnesota 28-19 in Week 7 and will debut new OC Jim Bob Cooter in London. SB Nation's Stephen White believes the firings will be a boost for Detroit, citing questionable play-calling as one of the reasons for Detroit's struggles this year:

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I will say this, I have not watched the Lions offense this season and thought in any game that their game plan was very complimentary between run and pass. What I mean is not just the sheer ratio of running the ball to throwing the ball, but also what runs and what passes were called. How much was play action? How much was boot off of a run action that the Lions actually use? So much of what they did with Lombardi felt like just pulling plays randomly out of a hat so to speak.

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Preventing the big play will be key for Kansas City. Stafford's respectable box score against the Vikings is a bit misleading. He completed 32 passes for 256 yards, but touchdown throws to Calvin Johnson and Eric Ebron accounted for 101 of those yards. The other 30 completions, on 51 attempts, netted just 151 yards.

Tamba Hali will be one to keep an especially close eye on; he picked up two of his three sacks this season last week against Pittsburgh. The always-dangerous Justin Houston and emerging talent Allen Bailey are both due for a couple more quarterback takedowns against a Lions offensive line that gave up seven sacks to Minnesota. 

Green Bay Packers vs. Denver Broncos

In most years, Green Bay-Denver would earn top billing as a a duel between Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning, with the two brilliant signal-callers potentially trading anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better drives and lighting up the scoreboard in the process.

Instead, this matchup is really about Rodgers versus Denver's suffocating defense.

Rodgers has thrown for 15 touchdowns and just two picks in six games this season. His total QBR of 80.8 ranks second in the league, behind only Cincinnati's Andy Dalton, per ESPN.com. He's done it without Jordy Nelson, lost prior to start of the season, and a wide receiver corps that in general has been banged up for much of the campaign. 

Continuing his superlative play against Denver is quite the challenge. The Broncos have allowed just 17 points per game, and the defense rank first in Football Outsiders' efficiency metric, Defense-Adjusted Value Over Average (DVOA).

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Chris Harris Jr. and Aqib Talib are the best cornerback duo not playing for the New York Jets, while DeMarcus Ware and Von Miller arguably do form the league's most fearsome pass-rushing tandem. Rodgers' ability to escape pressure and extend plays will come in handy in this contest. 

Both teams are coming off bye weeks. Green Bay's break hopefully allowed Eddie Lacy time to get over his nagging ankle injury. The extra time to study Denver's wrecking-crew defense couldn't hurt, but it's mitigated by the fact that the Broncos have had just as much time to dissect Green Bay's attack and see what play calls and schemes really make it tick.

NFL Live's Trey Wingo also noted bye weeks have been kind to the two quarterbacks involved:

However, if one quarterback is going to give, it's Manning, who's play has fallen well short of his usual remarkable standard.

The 40-year-old has thrown seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions this season. He hasn't looked this much like a mere mortal since, well, maybe his rookie season.

One AFC scouting director chalked up Manning's poor play to his inability to make the throws he's accustomed to making, per NFL.com's Albert Breer: 

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The whole thing, even when he was younger, was you had to close him in and come up the middle to take his throwing lanes away, and take away the instant shot. But once you'd do that, he reloaded, went to his next progression, and that's when you had to hit him -- and it'd hurt him if you did. The problem for him now is that the intermediate isn't as efficient, and the deep isn't there at all, unless he really has great protection and can step into his throws.

I don't know if that can be fixed.

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Manning's job at this point is just to get out of his own way and not force passes that his diminished arm can no longer make. 

Emmanuel Sanders and Demaryius Thomas can work as all-world possession receivers, and Ronnie Hillman could give the running game some life as he looks to cement his status as top back ahead of the plodding C.J. Anderson (2.7 yards per carry in 2015). Hillman carried the ball 20 times for 111 yards against Cleveland in Week 6.

The only team allowing fewer points per game than Denver happens to be Green Bay. The Packers defense isn't nearly as overpowering, but it's good enough to keep teams from piling up points, especially with Rodgers calmly commanding clock-eating drives. This matchup could be a surprisingly low-scoring affair. 

Indianapolis Colts vs. Carolina Panthers

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Last season, Carolina went 7-8-1. A quirky, losing record, but one that was still good enough to see them win the NFC South (and then, improbably, go on to win a playoff game over the Arizona Cardinals). 

Carolina is already on the verge of winning its seventh game in 2015. It certainly won't be enough to win the division this year though, as the Atlanta Falcons lurk just behind the Panthers with a 6-1 record. 

The Panthers should keep an unblemished record this week at home against Indianapolis, a below-average outfit that somehow leads the dismal AFC South with a 3-4 record. Carolina linebacker Luke Kuechly and his cohorts will be looking to make life difficult for Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, who is stumbling through something of a lost season.

The talented Stanford alum has completed just 56.2 percent of his passes this year, with 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions. Shockingly, he ranks 30th in total QBR at 38.3, per ESPN.com, trailing the likes of rookies Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston, Nick Foles and even Ryan Mallett, who no longer has a team (though that's due to much more than his QB play).

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Stephen Holder of the Indianapolis Star noted Luck's 333-yard, three-touchdown effort against New Orleans in Week 7 wasn't nearly as competent as the box score might indicate: 

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These were depths that Luck had not yet sunk to this season. His first completion came at the 9:14 mark of the second quarter. That, mind you, was long after Luck’s first interception, which came with 2:23 left in the first quarter and led to a quick New Orleans touchdown and 14-0 lead. The Colts went without a first down on their first three possessions as Luck started 0-for-5.

He would throw two interceptions, both seemingly avoidable. His second was a crushing turnover, coming just before halftime when the Colts were driving and hoping for at least a field goal. Instead, Luck threw into double coverage, badly underthrowing Donte Moncrief. Luck was picked off by Kyle Wilson and the Colts trailed 20-0 after two quarters.

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The Colts' best recourse might be to tip the offense more toward the running game. Frank Gore is averaging 4.6 yards per carry this season, fine numbers for a player who, at 32, is considered ancient by his position's standards. Gore has only carried the ball more than 20 times once this season. He can't do it alone, but committing to the run early might take some pressure off Luck. 

Carolina is giving up 4.3 yards per carry this season, per ESPN.com. Linebackers Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis may be tackling machines, but they can't do it alone in the front seven.

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On offense, Carolina has done well with the enigmatic and entertaining Cam Newton. His ability to make plays with his legs—245 rushing yards and four touchdowns—allows the Panthers offense to contend despite his often pedestrian passing numbers.

With running back Jonathan Stewart getting better as the season goes along, as any good downhill runner should, the Panthers have just enough offense to perform. Unless Luck returns to 2014 form on Monday, the Panthers should win a close, defense-led game.