NFL Preseason Schedule: Denver and Seahawks play First Preseason week for NFL

+NFL preseason schedule 2014: +Seattle Seahawks, +Denver Broncos meet again

David Steele
+Sporting News

Hoping Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos get a crack at revenge for the Super Bowl beatdown by the Seattle Seahawks? Look no further than the first weekend this August—if you're ready to put that much weight into the first full week of the NFL preseason.

The rematch of Super Bowl XLVIII, a 43-8 Seahawks win, takes place at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver the weekend of August 7-10, according to the preseason schedule the NFL released Wednesday afternoon.

Peyton Manning (AP Photo)

Dates and times for most of the 65 games were not released—only for the eight nationally-televised games, carried by NBC, Fox and ESPN. The Seahawks-Broncos game is not scheduled to be aired nationally. NFL Network routinely airs all preseason games, most of them on a delayed basis.

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One preseason game has been known since February— the annual Hall of Fame game in Canton on August 3 , between the +Buffalo Bills and +New York Giants. Seven new Hall members, including former Bill Andre Reed and former Giant Michael Strahan, will be enshrined the day before.

The regular season schedule is expected to be released later this month. The Thursday night opener usually hosted by the defending Super Bowl champion (this year, in Seattle), will be September 4.

Week 1 also features a rematch of the previous year's Super Bowl as San Francisco visits Baltimore, which means another Harbaugh Bowl, between head coaches Jim of the +San Francisco 49ers and John of the +Baltimore Ravens.

The final week of preseason brings New England to MetLife Stadium to face the New York Giants, who defeated the Patriots twice in Super Bowls in a five-year span.

The full week-by-week schedule, with national TV games noted:

AUGUST 3, HALL OF FAME GAME

NY Giants vs. Buffalo at Canton, Ohio (NBC)

WEEK 1 – AUGUST 7-10

Buffalo at +Carolina Panthers

+Cincinnati Bengals at +Kansas City Chiefs

+Cleveland Browns at +Detroit Lions

+Dallas Cowboys at +Chargers

+Green Bay Packers at +Tennessee Titans

+Houston Texans at +Arizona Cardinals

+Indianapolis Colts at +New York Jets

+Miami Dolphins at +Atlanta Falcons

+New England Patriots at +Washington Redskins

+New Orleans Saints at +St. Louis Rams

Oakland at +Minnesota Vikings

+Philadelphia Eagles at +Chicago Bears

+Pittsburgh Steelers at +New York Giants

San Francisco at Baltimore

Seattle at Denver

+Tampa Bay Buccaneers at +Jacksonville Jaguars

WEEK 2 – AUGUST 14-18

Jacksonville at Chicago (ESPN, 8/14)

Kansas City at Carolina (FOX, 8/17)

Cleveland at Washington (ESPN, 8/18)

Arizona at Minnesota

Atlanta at Houston

Baltimore at Dallas

Buffalo at Pittsburgh

Denver at San Francisco

Detroit at Oakland

Green Bay at St. Louis

Miami at Tampa Bay

NY Giants at Indianapolis

NY Jets at Cincinnati

Philadelphia at New England

San Diego at Seattle

Tennessee at New Orleans

WEEK 3 – AUGUST 21-24

Oakland at Green Bay (CBS, 8/22)

New Orleans at Indianapolis (CBS, 8/23)

San Diego at San Francisco (FOX, 8/24)

Cincinnati at Arizona (NBC, 8/24)

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia

Jacksonville at Detroit

Tennessee at Atlanta

Chicago at Seattle

Tampa Bay at Buffalo

Dallas at Miami

Carolina at New England

NY Giants at NY Jets

Washington at Baltimore

St. Louis at Cleveland

Houston at Denver

Minnesota at Kansas City

WEEK 4 – AUGUST 28

Arizona at San Diego

Atlanta at Jacksonville

Baltimore at New Orleans

Carolina at Pittsburgh

Chicago at Cleveland

Denver at Dallas

Detroit at Buffalo

Indianapolis at Cincinnati

Kansas City at Green Bay

Minnesota at Tennessee

New England at NY Giants

NY Jets at Philadelphia

San Francisco at Houston

Seattle at Oakland

St. Louis at Miami

Washington at Tampa Bay

Four men will make their NFL head coaching debuts: Houston's Bill O'Brien, at Arizona; Washington's Jay Gruden, at home against New England; Cleveland's Mike Pettine, at Detroit (with its new head coach Jim Caldwell), and Minnesota's Mike Zimmer, at home against Oakland. Besides Caldwell, also debuting with their new teams are Tampa Bay's Lovie Smith, at Jacksonville, and Tennessee's Ken Whisenhunt, at home against Green Bay.

The preseason will also feature the debut of the NFL's latest replay tweak , in which referees can consult with the officiating command center in New York for video review. That was the biggest rule change approved for next season at last month's league meetings, but not the only one to be instituted starting in the preseason:

— Goal posts will be extended by 5 feet, to help officials see whether kicks are good.

— The NaVorro Bowman rule—making recovery of a loose ball in the field of play reviewable—goes into effect.

— Roll-up blocks on the side of the leg will now be penalized along with those on the back of the leg.

— The game clock will no longer stop after a sack, except in the last two minutes of each half.

Also, only in the first two full weeks of the preseason, extra-point kicks will come from the 20-yard line, an experiment inspired by the proposal to move the kicks to the 25.

Two teams, the 49ers and Vikings, will move to new homes during the preseason. The first game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara will be Sunday, August 24 (Week 3), against San Diego. The Vikings' opener against Oakland will begin the first of two seasons at TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota; the only other outdoor home game the Vikings have played since 1981 was a December 2010 game moved to the campus stadium after a blizzard collapsed the Metrodome roof. Their new downtown stadium is scheduled to open in 2016.