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"THE NFL ON CBS" WEEK 8 HIGHLIGHTS PITTSBURGH-CLEVELAND, N.Y. JETS-CHICAGO AND DENVER-KANSAS CITY

 

  

 

THE NFL ON CBS, home of Super Bowl LIII, continues its 59th season on Sunday, Oct. 28 as Jim NantzTony Romo and Tracy Wolfson call the N.Y. Jets-Chicago game from Soldier Field in Chicago (1:00 PM, ET) in leading CBS' coverage into Week 8 of its Super Bowl season.  This season marks the 20th time CBS will broadcast the Super Bowl - the most of any network.

 

The day begins with THE NFL TODAY (12:00 Noon, ET) and THAT OTHER PREGAME SHOW on CBS Sports Network (8:00 AM-12:00 Noon, ET) live from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City.

 

THE NFL TODAY analysts Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason break down some of Week 8's games.  Click links for preview:

 

Pittsburgh at Cleveland: https://bit.ly/2JiycTC

N.Y. Jets at Chicago: https://bit.ly/2EJxRLh

Denver at Kansas City: https://bit.ly/2JiygTm

And NFL TODAY analyst Bill Cowher reviews other Week 8 games: https://bit.ly/2RcSDUL 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

James Brown, along with analysts Boomer Esiason, Bill Cowher, Phil Simms, Nate Burleson and NFL Insider Jason La Canfora, lead THE NFL TODAY into its 51st year.

 

THE NFL TODAY previews Week 8 including the N.Y. Jets-Chicago, Cleveland-Pittsburgh and Denver-Kansas City games, as well as the Baltimore-Carolina game with a feature highlighting Panthers WR Curtis Samuel, WR Devin Funchess and TE Greg Olsen.  In addition, Jim Rome will be in-studio giving his take on the season so far; a fun, short feature on "working overtime" due to this NFL season's record rash of overtime games through seven weeks; and talk of Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes also will be part of the show this week.   

 

Drew Kaliski is producer and Bob Matina is director of THE NFL TODAY.

 

 

           

 

        

 

1:00 PM, ET
 N.Y. Jets at Chicago

Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, Tracy Wolfson
Jim Rikhoff (Lead Game Producer), Mike Arnold (Lead Game Director)

 

    

 

1:00 PM, ET

Baltimore at Carolina

Greg Gumbel, Trent Green, Bruce Arians, Melanie Collins

Ken Mack (Producer), Suzanne Smith (Director) 

 

        

 

1:00 PM, ET
Cleveland at Pittsburgh

Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts, Evan Washburn

Mark Wolff (Producer), Bob Fishman (Director)

 

        

 

1:00 PM, ET
Denver at Kansas City

Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon, Steve Tasker
Jonathan Segal (Producer), Chris Svendsen (Director)

 

 

4:00 PM, ET
Indianapolis at Oakland

Andrew Catalon, James Lofton, Amanda Balionis
Jason Ross (Producer), Andy Goldberg (Director)

 

 

 

 

THAT OTHER PREGAME SHOW (TOPS) (8:00 AM, ET; CBS Sports Network) is hosted by Adam Schein with analysts Amy Trask, London Fletcher, Brandon Tierney and Dana Jacobson, along with fantasy experts Keith Irizarry and Jeff Ratcliffe discussing the week's issues and biggest games, along with fanstasy football advice and information.  Deb Gelman and Brian Raab are producers and Jay Kincaid is director.

 

The following are announcer assignments for Week 9 (subject to change):

 

November 4

 

1:00 PM, ET

Game 

 Announce Team

Producer/Director 

N.Y. Jets @ Miami

Andrew Catalon/James Lofton 

Jason Ross/Andy Goldberg

Pittsburgh @ Baltimore 

Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts//Evan Washburn

Mark Wolff/Bob Fishman

Kansas City @ Cleveland  

Greg Gumbel/Trent Green/Bruce Arians// Melanie Collins

Ken Mack/Suzanne Smith

 

4:00 PM, ET

 Game

Announce Team  

Produce/Director 

L.A. Chargers @ Seattle

Kevin Harlan/Rich Gannon//Steve Tasker

Jonathan Segal/Chris Svendsen

Houston @ Denver 

Tom McCarthy/Steve Beuerlein 

Deb Boulac/Andy Freedman 

 

The entire 2018 NFL ON CBS schedule will be streamed live on CBS All Access platforms.  CBS All Access subscribers will receive NFL ON CBS games that are broadcast in their local market.

 

 

Sean McManus is Chairman, CBS Sports and serves as the Executive Producer for THE NFL ON CBS.  David Berson is President, CBS Sports.  Harold Bryant is Executive Producer and Senior Vice President, Production, CBS Sports.

 

 


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