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Week 18 in the NFL had every team in action. However, not many of those teams were playing for much.
It’s the final Sunday of the NFL regular season. Every team, good or bad, had a game to play. If this season has taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected and then some. Unfortunately for Fox and CBS, they received a large amount of questionable content to air.
On Saturday, two important games took place. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers topped the Carolina Panthers. Then, the Seattle Seahawks dominated the San Francisco 49ers. On Sunday night football, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Ravens are playing for the AFC North title.
That meant man games for Week 18 on Fox and CBS meant nothing.
“This Fox/CBS slate is something on the final Sunday of the regular season,” longtime sports media critic Andrew Marchand wrote.
This Fox/CBS slate is something on the final Sunday of the regular season
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) January 4, 2026
ESPN personality Chris “Mad Dog” Russo also ripped the scheduling for the final week of the season.
“I’ll be careful with this because the producers are all worried about it, and thank god we have both games here on Saturday with the Carolina-Tampa game, and of course Seattle and San Francisco,” Mad Dog said on ESPN. “[The NFL] left CBS and Fox with absolutely nothing on Sunday. There’s nothing to watch. The Sunday night game is fine. But there’s nothing in the daytime to watch. They gave all the good games to the primetime. You gotta leave one of these games here for Sunday afternoon at 4:30. …It’s the last week of the year, I gotta have something to watch!”
Only one of the stations received a big moment in Week 18. Myles Garrett got a sketchy sack against Joe Burrow to break the sack record. That happened on CBS.
Fox, unfortunately, was left with the Cardinals-Rams and Patriots-Dolphins matchups. Ouch.
