L.A.'s NFL TV Week 10: Welcome back to Thursday's Maybe See TV

The ongoing NFL Network vs. cableworld squabble has reached some recent peaks and valleys, most of which we'll get into later in the week.

The bottom line is that the NFL Network, which is guaranteed to be on Channel 212 on DirecTV and not guaranteed to be on any other cable channel (especially Comcast or Time Warner), launches its first of eight games with a Thursday night tidbit, Denver at Cleveland, and the debut of the non-Bryant Gumbel at the mike team of Bob Papa (shoulda been Spero Dedes, but the Lakers put their foot down) and Cris Collinsworth (coulda been someone else, but NBC and HBO love the cross promotion).

Next Thursday (Nov. 13), it's the N.Y. Jets at New England.

Other stuff of note this week:
=Dallas, last in the NFC East, has a bye, throwing all the nets for a loop.
=Sunday, it was originally Raiders vs. Chargers going head to head in the 1 p.m. window, but Fox declined the Carolina-Oakland afternoon matchup and went with Green Bay-Minnesota in the early game instead.

THURSDAY:

==5:15 p.m., NFL Network: Denver at Cleveland (with Bob Papa and Cris Collinsworth)

SUNDAY:

==10 a.m., Channel 2: Tennessee at Chicago (with Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf) as opposed to Buffalo-New England, Baltimore-Houston and Jacksonville-Detroit.

==10 a.m., Channel 11: Green Bay at Minnesota (with Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Pam Oliver), as opposed to New Orleans-Atlanta, St. Louis-N.Y. Jets and Seattle-Miami.

==1 p.m., Channel 2: Kansas City at San Diego (with Gus Johnson and Steve Tasker), instead of Indianapolis-Pittsburgh (with No. 1 team Jim Nantz and Phil Simms). Fox has Carolina-Oakland also in this window and thankfully declined.

== 5:15 p.m., Channel 4: N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia (with Al Michaels, John Madden and Andrea Kremer).

MONDAY:

==5:30 p.m., ESPN: San Francisco at Arizona (without Cosell, Meredith and Gifford; with Kornheiser, Tirico and that Jaws dude.)

Bye week: Dallas, Tampa Bay, Washington and Cincinnati.

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Monday, the NFL announced that the Week 11 schedule was set -- NBC wasn't changing its Dallas-Washington matchup. The only time change is Tennessee at Jacksonville game on Sunday, November 16 moves from 10 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. (or 4:15 p.m. local time) on CBS.

The NFL has a flex schedule in Weeks 11-17 to give NBC the best possible game of its choice on Sunday night. The other networks (CBS and Fox) can also change a morning time to a later-afternoon kickoff. The decisions have to be made 12 days prior to that weekend, except for Week 17, when it's six days notice.