What we learned from NFL schedule release

What we learned from NFL schedule release

What we learned from NFL schedule release

What we abstruse from the 2016 schedules:

 -- Let’s alpha at the top. Some humans complained Carolina at Denver (Super Bowl 50.1) wasn’t a acceptable way to alpha season. We disagree. We like it.

-- Added nice touches in the agenda we liked:

-- Pete Carroll, who spent nine division at USC, will be the opposing drillmaster if the Los Angeles Rams play their aboriginal home bold at The Coliseum.

-- Green Bay will be the adversary if Minnesota plays its aboriginal bold in the new stadium. Acceptable choice.

-- Making abiding one of the New York teams is home on Sunday, Sept. 11. It will be the Jets.

-- And afresh there is the arbitrary agenda accustomed to Green Bay:

-- The Packers accept a amplitude area they don't leave Lambeau Field for 5 beeline weeks starting Anniversary 3. (home game, bye, afresh three beeline home games) and end the year with three NFC North games.

-- This comes afterwards the Packers accessible with two amateur on the alley for the aboriginal time aback 1924. We’re just guessing, but we bet the bolt aphorism fabricated faculty aback then.

-- And, finally, the Packers are the alone aggregation handed the alarming three-game alley cruise – at Tennessee, at Washington and at Philadelphia – in Weeks 10-12.

-- So, yeah, the Packers get a four-game home-stand and a three-game alley trip. Ewww. (Coaches like neither of those).

-- The Amtrak alley trip: Baltimore plays back-to-back amateur at Metlife Amphitheater in East Rutherford, N.J. – the Giants in Anniversary 6, the Jets in Anniversary 7. It will be John Harbaugh’s own little digital camp.

-- Arguably the toughest two-week biking amplitude on this year's schedule? The Rams — now based in L.A., biking to Detroit to face the Lions on Oct. 16, and afresh arch over to London for their bold adjoin Giants just seven canicule later. Makes the a lot of faculty for the Rams to accumulate branch east afterwards their bold adjoin Detroit.

-- Already again, Rex Ryan may accept the adventitious to accumulate his above aggregation out of the playoffs. For the additional division in a row, the Bills face the Jets in Anniversary 17. Last year, the Jets controlled their own destiny, but a black accident in Buffalo in the final bold of the year kept them out of the postseason.

-- But the Jets have to survive a betraying aperture six weeks to even anticipate about playoff contention. Four of the aboriginal six on the alley and the two home amateur are adjoin 2015 playoff teams (Cincinnati at Seattle).

-- Of all the new arch coaches, Ben McAdoo of the Giants has the easiest backbone of agenda (.461). And already again, New York opens the division on the road, adjoin the Cowboys.

-- It's traveling to be awe-inspiring Dec. 18, if we see a Tom Brady-led Patriots aggregation biking to Denver to face the Broncos and ... Peyton Manning won’t be on the added sideline.

-- 5 NFL teams get no Sunday night or Monday games: Miami, Jacksonville, Tennessee, San Diego and Cleveland.

-- Buffalo plays on Monday night, but not Sunday. It has been nine seasons aback the Bills appeared on a Sunday night game.

-- It’s an absorbing alpha to October for Washington if they host RG3 and Cleveland on Oct. 2 and afresh their “neighbor” Baltimore the afterward week.

-- There will be no abatement into the division for Miami and new arch drillmaster Adam Gase: at Seattle, followed by a cruise to play New England in Foxborough. Not alone are those two continued trips, but adjoin two 2015 playoff teams.

-- Speaking of New England. They play in Cleveland on Anniversary 5. We agenda that just in case it is the aboriginal time we see Tom Brady. (No, the abettor didn’t accomplish us put that in).

-- The Pittsburgh Steelers drew an absorbing anniversary double, with amateur on both Thanksgiving (at Indianapolis) and Christmas (home adjoin Baltimore). The Steelers are a abundant civic television draw, and both amateur should be compelling, but that one ability not go over able-bodied with players’ families.

-- And Arizona is on the alley both Dec. 24 and Jan. 1. Bruce Arians apparently said alone the moms will accuse about that.

-- Typically, teams that biking for a bold in London are adored with a bye anniversary the afterward week. Not so this year for Indianapolis, which will host Chicago on Oct. 9 a anniversary afterwards arena the Jacksonville in London. The Jags will be off on Oct. 9.

-- Another new arch drillmaster with a boxy alpha to the division is Hue Jackson, whose Cleveland Browns will play 5 alley amateur in the aboriginal seven weeks.

-- Nobody, coaches or players, absolutely like Thursday night games. But the Eagles and Giants bent a breach with endemic landing on Dec. 22. They got Christmas weekend off.

-- The Rams play alone two amateur at the Coliseum afore Nov. 6.

-- We’re aghast one of the Steelers-Bengals amateur was appointed during Vontaze Burfict’s suspension. And we apperceive that affect is not aggregate in Pittsburgh.

-- San Diego’s aboriginal home bold is Anniversary 2, aforementioned for Oakland. You know, the two teams who did not wish to play in San Diego and Oakland anymore.

-- Here’s a tip: At this point, anguish about how your aggregation will do in the aboriginal 3-4 weeks, not the final 3-4 weeks. Acceptable starts are basic and who knows what the bearings will be with your team, or the opponent, backward in the season. It’s not who you play, it’s if you play them.

-- And with that said, we advised every team’s agenda and assured all 32 are traveling 16-0. Acceptable to end on a blessed note.

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