What to know about how the two ‘Monday Night Football’ games will work on ABC, ESPN

In March 2021, the NFL announced its new television contracts with CBS, NBC, Amazon, Fox and ESPN/ABC. That included some adjustments to game coverage on the networks beginning in 2023.

But the NFL sprinkled in some of the changes in those deals to the 2022 schedule, including two “Monday Night Football” games that are not a doubleheader. There will be three sets of those contests next year, but the first pair of games will air Monday to conclude Week 2.

Rather than starting the games one after the other, the game times will be a 75-minute gap between kickoffs. The Bills will play host to the Titans at 6:15 p.m. (Central time), and the Vikings-Eagles contest starts at 7:30 p.m. (Central time) in Philadelphia.

“We’ve got side-by-side Monday night games one week next year where we’re going to have one game on ABC and one game on ESPN, two different games,” Mike North, the NFL’s vice president of broadcasting said on Sal Capaccio’s podcast in April. “So a bit of an overlap there, if not one after the other. So there’s a lot of new wrinkles that are coming in this year’s schedule as we’ve accelerated some of the rights forward from the new deals.”

Here is how the two games will work, via ESPN.

The Titans-Bills game will be on ESPN with Steve Levy, Dan Orlovsky, Louis Riddick and Laura Rutledge calling the game. In Philadelphia, Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Lisa Salters will be the broadcasters for the contest on ABC. Officiating expert John Parry will be used as needed in both games.

When the two games are taking place at the same time, ESPN said it will be “activating a double-box view, allowing simultaneous viewing for periods of time.”

During the Eagles-Vikings game, there will be a small score box of the Titans-Bills game. Viewers watching Buffalo and Tennessee will see a small score box from the other game.

ESPN+ will simulcast ABC’s telecast of Vikings-Eagles, while ESPN Deportes will air the entire Titans-Bills game. When that ends, it will join Vikings-Eagles in progress. The entire Spanish-language broadcast of the Eagles-Vikings game will be shown on ESPN+, the network said.