How to watch Monday Night Football: Saints vs Chiefs everything you need to know (original) (raw)
New Orleans Saints' Alvin Kamara (Image credit: Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
Before Thursday night or even Sunday night was saved for NFL football each fall, Monday Night Football was bringing fans primetime football for more than 50 years. As we get ready for the 2024 NFL season, Monday Night Football looks to have another great slate of games for fans to enjoy.
How to watch Monday Night Football
What to Watch has you covered with how to watch this and all of the primetime NFL offerings, including Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Football, as well as the Sunday NFL on Fox and NFL on CBS games.
But here is everything that you need to know how to Monday Night Football this season.
How to watch Monday Night Football in the US
Monday Night Football airs on multiple channels throughout the season, including ESPN and ABC. For select weeks it'll also be available to live stream on ESPN Plus.
Week 4's Monday Night Football slate is actually a doubleheader, with the Tennessee Titans vs Miami Dolphins games airing exclusively on ESPN and the Seattle Seahakws vs Detroit Lions game airing on ABC and streaming on ESPN Plus.
ESPN is a cable channel, requiring viewers to be subscribers to a traditional pay-TV or live TV streaming service (Fubo, Hulu with live TV, Sling TV and YouTube TV). With a subscription to one of these services, in addition to being able to watch ESPN on your TV or connected device, viewers can watch Monday Night Football through the ESPN app or ESPN.com.
NFL Plus is also an option to stream Monday Night Football live. You must be a subscriber and the live stream is only available through a mobile device.
When Monday Night Football games are on ABC, meanwhile, the networks is available through pay-TV and live TV streaming services, but as one of the four major networks also has local stations in each US TV market that can be received via a TV antenna.
To stream the Monday Night Football games on ESPN Plus when available, you must be a subscriber to the sports-centric streaming platform.
How to watch Monday Night Football in the UK
Sky Sports is the home for NFL football in the UK, offering live game broadcasts to Sky TV subscribers. The games also are available free-to-air on My5.
NFL Game Pass is also an option. The international version of this subscription service offers live broadcasts of games as well as the opportunity to watch the full broadcast on-demand or a condensed version of the broadcast that only features the plays.
How to watch Monday Night Football from anywhere
If you're going to be away from your normal TV setup but still want to watch Sunday Night Football, you might run into some problems. Thankfully, you can solve this exact issue with a Virtual Private Network (VPN).
A VPN lets you change your IP address to that of the area of what you want to watch, meaning you can tune in to your favorite events or other content even if you're not there. Our favorite is NordVPN, which is the No. 1-rated VPN in the world right now according to our sister site, TechRadar.
How to use a VPN to watch any stream:
- Download the app at NordVPN
- Choose the location of the streaming service you want to watch (UK, US, etc)
- Navigate to the streaming service and start watching!
Monday Night Football week 5: Saints vs Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes (Image credit: Cooper Neill/Getty Images)
The New Orleans Saints head to Kansas City to see if they can be the first team to beat the defending Super Bowl Champion Chiefs in week 5's Monday Night Football game.
The Saints started the season off hot, with a pair of blowout victories where they had the best offense in the league, amassing 91 points. However, they've now dropped two straight games and have only scored 36 points in the two losses combined. Part of the offensive struggles is that quarterback Derek Carr has thrown two interceptions to only one touchdown, while star running back Alvin Kamara has been held to less than 100 yards rushing in back to back weeks. Not helping that has been injuries to the Saints' offensive line, where they will be starting their third-string center on Monday Night. That could put pressure on the Saints defense to keep the game close so, though they have been a slightly below average unit in yards allowed per game thus far. They're bend but don't break, however, as the team is top 10 in points allowed through four games, and they're also pretty solid at generating turnovers.
The Chiefs have started 4-0, but it's been a bit shaky if most are being honest. Every game has been one possession and a couple were won on literally the final plays of the game. Star quarterback Patrick Mahomes has not looked his best to start the season, as he has thrown five interceptions through four games and just six touchdowns. Not helping are the injuries to offensive playmakers, including running back Isiah Pacheco, wide receivers Rashee Rice and Marquise Brown, all of whom have been placed on injured reserve and will miss much of the season. That limits the Chiefs offensive options a bit. The good news for the Chiefs is their defense has been playing solid, led by linebacker Nick Bolton and defensive lineman Chris Jones. They may have to continue to carry the load unless/until the offense figures out how to get out of their recent funk.
Monday Night Football schedule
Check out the complete schedule for Monday Night Football during the 2024 NFL season. We've ID'd games that are on channels other than just ESPN.
- Week 1: New York Jets 19, San Francisco 49ers 32
- Week 2: Atlanta Falcons 22, Philadelphia Eagles 21
- Week 3: Jacksonville Jaguars 10, Buffalo Bills 47
- Week 3: Washington Commanders 38, Cincinnati Bengals 33
- Week 4: Tennessee Titans 31, Miami Dolphins 12
- Week 4: Seattle Seahawks 29, Detroit Lions 42
- Week 5: New Orleans Saints vs Kansas City Chiefs
- Week 6: Buffalo Bills vs New York Jets
- Week 7: Baltimore Ravens vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 8:15 pm ET/5:15 pm PT, ESPN
- Week 7: Los Angeles Chargers vs Arizona Cardinals, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT, ESPN Plus
- Week 8: New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Steelers, ESPN/ABC
- Week 9: Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Kansas City Chiefs
- Week 10: Miami Dolphins vs Los Angeles Rams
- Week 11: Houston Texans vs Dallas Cowboys
- Week 12: Baltimore Ravens vs Los Angeles Chargers
- Week 13: Cleveland Browns vs Denver Broncos
- Week 14: Cincinnati Bengals vs Dallas Cowboys, ESPN/ABC
- Week 15: Chicago Bears vs Minnesota Vikings, 8 pm ET/5 pm PT, ABC
- Week 15: Atlanta Falcons vs Las Vegas Raiders, 8:30 pm ET/5:30 pm PT, ESPN
- Week 16: New Orleans Saints vs Green Bay Packers
- Week 17: Detroit Lions vs San Francisco 49ers, ESPN/ABC
- Week 18: TBD
The schedule for which of these games will get an Manningcast alternate broadcast has not been announced as of yet.
Monday Night Football FAQs
What time is Monday Night Fooball?
Unless otherwise specified in the schedule above, Monday Night Football game broadcasts begin at 8:15 pm ET/5:15 pm PT.
What channel is Monday Night Football on?
Monday Night Football primarily airs on ESPN, though ABC, ESPN2 and ESPN Plus are also going to carry games, live streams or alternate broadcasts (ie the Manningcast) of the games occasionally throughout the season.
Monday Night Football commentators
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman call the games from the Monday Night Football booth, while Lisa Salters is on board as the sideline reporter.
Before the Monday Night Football game kicks off, ESPN airs a pregame show, Monday Night Countdown. The team of hosts and analysts consist of Scott Van Pelt, Ryan Clark, Jason Kelce, Marcus Spears, Adam Schefter, Michelle Beisner-Buck.
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