Because they need time to travel and they need time to practice
Yes, he can play the 3rd week of the NFL season
No such thing as a B.U.Y week in the NFL. Did you mean BYE week? A bye week is when the team doesn't play that week. Every team has a bye week. Starts a few weeks into the season.
There are very few weeks in the season when every NFL team is playing in the same week. The last time all 16 NFL home teams won in the same week was never.
The Atlanta Falcons.
All NFL teams play sixteen games in a seventeen game regular season. Each team gets one "bye week," a free week off.
The NFL TV schedule for Preseason Week 1 in 2013 is quite extensive. The schedule can be found on the NFL official website and includes information on where teams are going. The Baltimore Ravens for example will play against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in week 1.
Did not participate.
The Saints played the Rams in week 15 of the 2013 NFL season. The Saints lost the game 27-16.
NFL Films Game of the Week was created in 1965.
In a typical NFL week, there are 16 games played.
According to Pro Football Reference, through Week 16 of the 2008 season UCLA has had 265 players play in the NFL (20 currently active) and Miami has had 261 players play in the NFL (43 currently active).
Once a week