The final week of an NFL season always features games changing timeslots as the league looks to put key games with playoff implications into primetime and move around the afternoon games. This year, one of the games that got moved between the early slot and the late slot on Sunday afternoon was the New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins game.
Originally slotted for a 1 p.m. Eastern kickoff, the game will now be a 4:25 p.m. game. The switch to the later time slot is part of the league’s balancing of early and late games, while making sure there is not a competitive balance issue between games.