Judging five overreactions to the NFL schedule: Do...
Key takeaways
- A time of hope, excitement, social media fun and, yes, overreactions.
- Each year around this time, the league releases its full schedule for the upcoming season, so teams and their fans begin to examine it game-by-game.
- Let's judge five possible overreactions to the 2026 schedule.
Why this matters: a sports story that could shift standings, legacies, or fan conversations.
A time of hope, excitement, social media fun and, yes, overreactions.
Each year around this time, the league releases its full schedule for the upcoming season, so teams and their fans begin to examine it game-by-game. They look at where they got bad breaks and where they got advantages. Why does my favorite team have a bye week so early? What's with these back-to-back-to-back road games? Looking at that first-half schedule, what's stopping us from starting 9-0?
It's one of the easiest times of the offseason to trot out an overreactions column, as the football-loving world tries to predict games four, five, six and seven months away without knowing who's going to be good, who's going to get hurt or, in some cases, who's going to be on all of these teams.