The first three weeks of the NFL season have come and gone, but more football is on the way as Week 4 action unfolds this weekend.
TSN is the spot for NFL action, with all of the prime-time games available to watch on the TSN Network with additional games and NFL RedZone streaming on TSN+.
Here is a game-by-game look at all of the action taking place on TSN in Week 4.
Seahawks, Cardinals kick off Week 4 on Thursday Night Football
An NFC West showdown gets the action underway on Thursday, with the Arizona Cardinals hosting the Seattle Seahawks.
The NFC West has been the league’s most competitive division early on, with the four teams playing to a combined 9-3 record through three weeks.
Seattle and Arizona both enter the contest at 2-1, with the Seahawks coming off a 44-13 drubbing of the New Orleans Saints a week ago, while the Cardinals dropped their first game of the season in Week 3, a 16-15 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on a last-second field goal.
This has been a one-sided rivalry in recent years, with the Seahawks claiming three season sweeps in a row over the Cardinals, and wins in 11 of their past 14 contests against their division rivals. Arizona and quarterback Kyler Murray will look to buck that trend at home on Thursday, even without star running back James Conner, who suffered a season-ending injury in their loss to the 49ers on Sunday.
“JC is everything, means everything,” Murray said after Sunday’s game. ”I really don’t want to talk about it right now.”
Vikings, Steelers meet in Dublin to start Sunday’s action on TSN+
Irish fans get their first taste of live NFL action on Sunday, as the Minnesota Vikings face the Pittsburgh Steelers in Dublin for the first regular-season game ever played in Ireland.
The Vikings (2-1) are tied atop the NFC North division after a blowout 48-10 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals a week ago. Isaiah Rodgers’ historic game - he became the first player in NFL history to force two fumbles and score two defensive touchdowns in one game - was the headliner, but veteran QB Carson Wentz was solid in his first start in a Vikings uniform to replace the injured J.J. McCarthy.
The Steelers (2-1) are also tied for the division lead in the AFC North, and are coming off a 21-14 victory in which the defence overwhelmed the New England Patriots, forcing five turnovers and finishing with five sacks.
Pittsburgh will be keen to get the offence moving after a sluggish game against the Patriots in which they totaled just 203 yards from scrimmage. The Vikings may be just the answer for that malaise for QB Aaron Rodgers.
Rodgers has thrown for more yards (7,401) against the Vikings than any other team in his distinguished career, and his 59 touchdowns passes against the Vikings rank second of teams he’s faced.
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Undefeated foes meet in Eagles-Buccaneers clash
NFC powerhouses meet in the afternoon slot as the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles travel to Tampa Bay to take on the Buccaneers.
The Eagles (3-0) rallied for an improbable 33-26 victory over the Los Angeles Rams a week ago, and this game against the Buccaneers marks the third consecutive game against a playoff team from last season for the defending Super Bowl champions.
Philadelphia hopes to ride the momentum from that comeback victory, in which they trailed by 19 points in the second half, into this game against the Buccaneers.
“It’s exciting,” quarterback Jalen Hurts said. “There isn’t another group of guys that I want to play with.”
The Buccaneers (3-0) have been no stranger to the comeback victory this year. Each of their three wins have come from a go-ahead score in the final minute of action - the first time that has happened in NFL history.
Quarterback Baker Mayfield has continued to evolve for Tampa Bay, and his strong start (615 yards, six touchdowns, no turnovers) has been at the heart of the Bucs’ early success.
“There’s nobody I’d rather have than Baker right in the two-minute drill at the end,” offensive lineman Ben Bredeson said.
Additionally, TSN+ subscribers can watch the Los Angeles Chargers (3-0) take on first-round draft pick and newly-minted starting QB Jaxson Dart and the New York Giants (0-3).
You can also watch seven hours of uninterrupted action from around the NFL on NFL RedZone, which streams on TSN.ca and the TSN App with a subscription to TSN+. That coverage begins at 1p.m. ET / 11a.m. PT and runs until 8p.m. ET / 5p.m. PT.
Potential AFC Championship game preview pits Ravens against Chiefs
AFC heavyweights meet in a battle between the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs in the late afternoon on Sunday.
However, unlike recent years, both the Ravens (1-2) and Chiefs (1-2) enter the game with losing records after slow starts.
The Ravens have faced a gauntlet to open their season, with losses against Super Bowl contenders in the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions in Weeks 1 and 3. The Chiefs have just been out of sorts early, with losses to the Chargers and Eagles in their first two games before bouncing back with a 22-9 win against the Giants a week ago.
“Week 1 was a wake-up call. Last week was a wake-up call,” two-time MVP quarterback Lamar Jackson said. “We’ve got to find a way to win.”
“The biggest problem is we didn’t play good defense,” coach John Harbaugh said after the 38-30 loss to the Lions in primetime on Sunday. “There’s nobody in that locker room that thinks that’s good enough. That’s not who we are. It cannot be who we are. It’s not acceptable.”
The Chiefs have made the Super Bowl in five of the last six seasons (winning three of them), while the Ravens have won at least 10 games in six of the last seven seasons - a drop to 1-3 will be a shock for both franchises.
Parsons returns to Dallas in prime time as Packers face Cowboys
A showdown between hallmark NFL franchises in the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers is always an easy sell.
But this game took on a whole new level of intrigue when the Packers acquired superstar pass rusher Micah Parsons in a deal with the Cowboys in August.
Parsons starred in Green Bay’s dominant 27-13 win over the Lions in Week 1, but the Packers (2-1) were upset 13-10 against the Cleveland Browns a week ago and need a bounce-back effort against the Cowboys.
The Cowboys (1-2) have struggled on defence this year without Parsons, and were throttled 31-14 by the Chicago Bears a week ago. The absence of Parsons has put a huge strain on the Cowboys’ defence, as they’ve allowed 30.6 points per game - sixth worst in the NFL.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has been in the headlines throughout this season after his treatment of Parsons during negotiations, and he had more to say of the former Cowboys star in a radio appearance earlier this week.
“Of course, I’ve said this time and time again, I think the world of Micah as an individual and of course know him well. I might say, ‘I wish him well,’ except it’s obvious I don’t this weekend in terms of Green Bay winning the game. And so, it makes for an exciting time.”
Jets and Dolphins kick off Monday Night Football double-up, with Bengals and Broncos to follow
AFC East rivals meet to kick off the action on Monday Night Football, as the New York Jets (0-3) and Miami Dolphins (0-3) look to get their seasons turned around.
The Jets rallied in the fourth quarter but fell just short, losing 29-27 against the Buccaneers in Week 3. Outside of a clunker against the division-leading Bills, the Jets have played well under first-year coach Aaron Glenn despite having no wins to show for it.
Glenn is looking to prove they aren’t the “same old Jets” against the hapless Dolphins on Monday night.
“Overall as a team, I will go back to just how resilient our guys (were) when it comes to getting to that second half, sometime in that middle of the third quarter, and finishing it out and giving us a chance to win,” Glenn said. “At the end of the day, that’s what you have to do as a football team. You have to give yourself every opportunity to win a game. And our guys did that.
“Now, obviously, we didn’t close it out at the end.”
Starting shortly after, the Bengals take on the Denver Broncos from Empower Field at Mile High in Denver.
Cincinnati was crushed by the Vikings in Week 3 in Jake Browning’s first start of the season in place of the injured star QB Joe Burrow.
Browning has thrown five interceptions in a game and a half this year, and the Cincinnati running game has struggled mightily in three games this year.
“I think it’s unfair to put it on a player,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said after Sunday’s game. “It’s on all of us offensively, collectively, to find a better answer.”
The Broncos dropped to 1-2 after a loss on a walk-off field goal against the Chargers a week ago. Both of Denver’s losses this year have come on the final play of the game.
“We weren’t good enough [Sunday],” Broncos guard Mike McGlinchey said. “I’m proud of the way we keep battling, but we’ve just got to be better.”
