That former engineer has no idea what they're talking about. We do a special Sunday transponder map grab every year for Sunday Ticket and know exactly how their channels are distributed, and the NFLST prep channels in the 9700s remain pointed to whatever CINEHD channels they repurpose, so the current map still shows what feeds Sunday Ticket used last season.
The bulk of the game feeds and the Red Zone Channel are on T14 transponders that don't have anything but the CINEHD channels being repurposed, so there are no other channels to throttle.
The one exception is 717, which carries whatever late game Puerto Rico is getting on their local Fox or WSEE's pan-caribbean CBS feed, but that's on a T11 transponder that only has 5 channels, instead of 6 or more like most other transponders have, so it also has more than enough bandwidth, and it's usually the "game of the week" that most of the country is getting locally on Fox or CBS. And I highly doubt they are throttling KCBS, KNBC, MGM+ or FBN (which is FS1's defacto overflow feed whenever an event goes long because FS2 is not in enough homes)
The bulk of the game feeds and the Red Zone Channel are on T14 transponders that don't have anything but the CINEHD channels being repurposed, so there are no other channels to throttle.
The one exception is 717, which carries whatever late game Puerto Rico is getting on their local Fox or WSEE's pan-caribbean CBS feed, but that's on a T11 transponder that only has 5 channels, instead of 6 or more like most other transponders have, so it also has more than enough bandwidth, and it's usually the "game of the week" that most of the country is getting locally on Fox or CBS. And I highly doubt they are throttling KCBS, KNBC, MGM+ or FBN (which is FS1's defacto overflow feed whenever an event goes long because FS2 is not in enough homes)
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