Raiders Owner Mark Davis Not Happy With NFL's Schedule Plans

The NFL wants to implement flex scheduling for Thursday Night Football. Multiple high-profile owners are against the idea.

One of those executives is Mark Davis, the owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. Davis voiced his displeasure with the concept of Thursday flex scheduling during Monday's owners meetings in Minnesota.

“Just make the schedule and play it,” Davis told USA TODAY Sports' Jarrett Bell. 

In vintage Raiders fashion, Davis took a jab at a divisional rival when arguing against the proposed changes to Thursday night scheduling.

“If you have a Raiders-Chargers game in Las Vegas scheduled for a Thursday and all of the fans driving from Los Angeles – the Raiders fans and all three Chargers fans – buy their tickets and book their hotels, how in the hell do you schedule it and now say, ‘Sorry, it’s now on Sunday?’ How in the hell do you do that?” Davis told Bell, via Ari Meirov on Twitter.

Along with Davis, New York Giants owner John Mara is "adamantly opposed" to flexing Thursday night games, a stance he made clear at the previous owners meetings in March.

"Flexible scheduling as it is is really inconsiderate to our season ticket holders who fill our stadiums every week," Mara said. "People have gotten used to going from Sunday afternoon to Sunday night. That doesn't mean that they like it. This year, we can be flexed to Monday night, which I think is really inconsiderate to our tickets holders. But to flex a game back to Thursday night is, to me, abusive, and I am adamantly opposed to it."

A vote on the matter was held during the last owners meetings, but fell two votes short of the 24 needed for approval.

"Davis seemed resigned to the possibility that a watered-down version of the proposal will pass during the meetings this week, given a revision that would allow for a Thursday game to be flexed with a minimum of 28 days' notice," Bell wrote Monday. "The original proposal allowed for games to be moved with no less than 15 days' notice."