The 2024 NFL schedule release, while exceptionally silly, normally has a coupleof notable minutes that are infact worth writing home about.
You’ve got your must-watch videogames. You’ve got a appearance at how Taylor Swift’s trip schedule lines up with the Kansas City Chiefs’ slate. (Also, is there some sort of Buffalo and Toronto conspiracy here?) You’ve even got the Los Angeles Chargers’ social/internet group up to its typical techniques by trolling everybody else. Because of course you do.
But not everybody came out shining from this schedule expose. Here are the greatest winners and losers of the NFL’s 2024 schedule release.
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After a difficult Monday night opener versus the San Francisco 49ers, the sea parts for Aaron Rodgers in his 2nd go-around with the Jets. Gang Green dealswith simply 2 groups with a winning record from last season from Week 2 to Week 8. The end-season stretch is even softer — consistingof a Week 12 bye for a group that has a lot of secret older veterans — till the Jets are required to reckon with their AFC East satanicforces in the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins over the last 2 weeks.
If the Jets have a significant rebound in them in 2024, this is the kind of schedule that would aid that effort.
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The three-time safeguarding NFC South champs face a high order extending their department title streak.
Not just is Baker Mayfield whisperer Dave Canales now in Charlotte, however Tampa Bay’s first-place schedule provides more obstacles than you’d like for a rather top-heavy team. An early-season roadway date with the juggernaut Detroit Lions? A September ending date with the Philadelphia Eagles at home? At home versus the Baltimore Ravens, on the roadway with the two-time ruling Super Bowl champ Chiefs, and a match with the NFC champ San Francisco 49ers … in less than a month? Oh, goodness.
If the Buccaneers assoonas onceagain win their department, they’ll haveactually done it by treking through mud.
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The Falcons start the year with Mike Tomlin’s continually skilled Pittsburgh Steelers, a Monday night tilt with the Eagles, and a Sunday night battle with the Chiefs in succeeding weeks. After that, the Falcons actually face simply 2 groups with a winning record (in just 3 videogames!) from last year through the end of the 2024 season. Such is life in the generally frustrating NFC South when your greatest competitors is Baker Mayfield’s Buccaneers.
Let’s simply state Kirk Cousins chose a brand-new NFL home extremely well.
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The Browns start the year under the nationwide spotlight with the Dallas Cowboys. Then they’re off on the roadway to play Trevor Lawrence’s Jacksonville Jaguars. Near midseason, Cleveland takes a three-game roadway journey to Las Vegas, then to Washington D.C, then back to Philadelphia in a ruthless West to East back and forth. After that grueling roadway journey is over, the Browns will host the Bengals and Ravens in back-to-back weeks. Cleveland then endsup the year with a fight versus the Chiefs and 2 roadway dates versus Cincinnati and Baltimore.
Unless Deshaun Watson, who assoonas dealtwith more than 20 accusations of sexual misbehavior in what the NFL would lateron identify as “predatory habits,” endsupbeing a star quarterback, it’s tough to see the Browns remaining afloat through this wringer of a schedule.
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If the NFL desired enjoyment to develop around Caleb Williams, the Bears’ early-season stretch might certainly aid on that front. Chicago opens with a possibly horrible Tennessee Titans group at home, a difficult Sunday night roadway date with the Houston Texans, then has a still-green Anthony Richardson in Indy and the Rams as the just real evaluates before a fortuitous Week 7 bye.
If all goes well, the Bears might reasonably begin 4-2 or 5-1, leading the city of Chicago to lose its mind over its novice quarterback.
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The NFC semifinalists are all over the nationwide tv. Detroit has the optimum quantity of night videogames (five) and otherwise has late-afternoon dates with the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers that really well might end up earning No. 1 timeslots. Oh, and they’ll clearly be on Thanksgiving, this time versus a popular competing Bears group with the hyped Caleb Williams.
The Lions have formally (and rightfully) a