Not all NFL schedules are created equal. Yes, every team gets 17 games in 18 weeks, but there are a multitude of factors that go into assessing teams’ prospects for their season slates. There are the easy ones, like using last year’s records to determine strength of schedule, and slightly more difficult ones, like using the projected opponents’ records to tabulate strength of schedule. There are other factors, too — rest advantages and disadvantages, bye week timing, location, weather, etc. And the NFL doesn’t appear to try to even out some of those factors, either.
We could go on and on.
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