{"id":13393,"date":"2022-05-13T04:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/five-takeaways-from-the-nfls-schedule-release\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T04:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:37:04","slug":"five-takeaways-from-the-nfls-schedule-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/five-takeaways-from-the-nfls-schedule-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Takeaways From the NFL’s Schedule Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hats off to the NFL. It sure does know how to sell its product. Not only has the league turned the combine and draft into massive spectacles, it’s also managed to make its full schedule release into a major event, too.<\/p>\n
Opponents and locations have been known for months. Leaks confirming dates trickled in throughout the morning. Yet the NFL was still able to turn its prime-time schedule release into a buzzy, anticipated event. The whole production has been a big win for content (like this very blog post you’re reading), the NFL, team social media managers taking their most ambitious<\/a> (and impressive) swings, and the networks who will air games:<\/p>\n Everybody wins \u2014 except the sports fan whose appetite isn’t fulfilled by basketball, hockey, soccer, or baseball. Those starved aficionados will have to wait until September 8, when the defending champ Rams host the betting favorite Bills to open the new season in a potential Super Bowl preview. In the meantime, here are five takeaways from the 2022 schedule release:<\/p>\n One of quintessential pieces of NFL offseason content is Danny Heifetz’s QB Commitment Index. This year, Heifetz described the pairing of the Broncos and Russell Wilson as “Hot and Heavy.” For the opening Monday Night Football<\/em> game of the season, Wilson and the Broncos will debut their partnership in front of the jilted lover, the Seattle Seahawks\u2026 in Seattle! As Steven Ruiz recently detailed, the Seahawks are entering a post-Wilson rebound phase with Drew Lock and Geno Smith set to battle for the starting gig. It will be strange seeing Wilson on the opposite sideline from Seattle. In prime time, we’ll learn whether Wilson or the Seahawks hold any hard feelings.<\/p>\n This is forecasting a bit, but the Browns will travel to face the Panthers in Week 1. Cleveland still rosters Baker Mayfield, whom Carolina reportedly<\/a> hasn’t \u201c100 [percent] shut \u201dthe door on trading for. There’s still a chance that Mayfield is granted a trade prior to the season and he ends up with Carolina, which would make for another revenge game right out of the gate. <\/p>\n There are also a couple of other smaller grudge matches to open the season. The Rams will host Von Miller, who signed with Buffalo after winning a Super Bowl with LA last season. Commanders QB Carson Wentz also faces the Jaguars, who knocked Wentz and the Colts out of playoff contention last season.<\/p>\n The NFL is once again crashing your Christmas traditions with a triple-header of warm-climate matchups: The Bucs will visit the Cardinals; the Packers will visit the Dolphins; and the Broncos will visit the Rams in a game that will be aired on Nickelodeon.<\/p>\n The NFL is effectively doing its best to overtake or join the yearly rotations of NBA and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>. Last year, the Shield comfortably dominated its sports contemporaries; Browns-Packers (28.59 million viewers) and Colts-Cardinals (12.62 million) were head-and-shoulders ahead of the NBA’s quadruple set of matchups. <\/p>\n Based on projected win totals, the Chiefs and Rams have the hardest 2022 schedules:<\/p>\n updated strength of schedule <\/p>\n as the betting market changes, so does SOS<\/p>\n this is updated as of today<\/p>\n teams with the easiest shift from 2021 \u27a1\ufe0f 2022?<\/p>\n Giants teams with the hardest shift from 2021 \u27a1\ufe0f 2022?<\/p>\n Bengals more: https:\/\/t.co\/vsnYUpH4tr pic.twitter.com\/nGyufbfPr3<\/a><\/p>\nPrepare for awkward encounters in Week 1.<\/h4>\n
Christmas football? Christmas football!<\/h4>\n
The Chiefs and Rams face steep climbs back to the Super Bowl.<\/h4>\n
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