West Coast NFL teams that have to travel to the East Coast for games don't have a good track record.
The body clocks are all screwed up by the 10 a.m. PT kickoff.
The 49ers and Raiders will have to adjust to East Coast games three and four times, respectively, during the 2020 season.
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And according to NBC Sports NFL analyst Peter King, both teams asked the league to pair at least two of those East Coast games together in order to limit travel.
"I heard that eight teams asked to have two distant games paired so those teams could take one long road trip instead of two," King wrote in the latest "Football Morning In America" column. "The Chargers (at Bucs, Saints), Rams (at Eagles, Bills), Jets (at Seahawks, Rams), Dolphins (at 49ers, Broncos), Cardinals (at Panthers, Jets) and Raiders (at Falcons, Jets) all got their road requests answered. My favorite two: San Francisco plays in MetLife Stadium in Weeks 2 and 3—at Jets on Sept. 20, at Giants on Sept. 27, both 10 a.m. PT body-clock games."
The Patriots also will play back-to-back games against the Rams and Chargers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
After opening the 2020 season at home against the Arizona Cardinals, the 49ers will head to New York where they will play two straight games in MetLife Stadium.
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The 49ers have routinely stayed on the road when they have back-to-back games a long way from home. In recent years, they've used Youngstown, Ohio as their home base between games.
The Raiders, who will be playing their first season in Las Vegas, are scheduled to play in Atlanta in Week 12 and New York in Week 13.
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With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic impacting travel all over the United States, it makes sense for teams to limit how often they put their players on planes.