The NFL has dominated the content of anything and this week is always an annual reminder of that.
On Wednesday, the NFL will officially announce the 2025 calendar for the 32 of its teams. To be clear, the opponents that each team will play well known and understood, but the sequence of which everything happens is not.
Historically, there have been leaks on the calendar that arises as the process takes place, so much that the League has begun to filter things in an official sense through its transmission partners. Again … they can create content from anything.
Here in the Post Skinny, Michael Peterson and RJ Ochoa, we naturally have some ideas about everything and the latest events in the League in general.
Let’s start.
Does the launch of the schedule care?
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RJ:
Beyond what we do here in SB Nation … I love the launch of the NFL schedule.
To be clear, I do not necessarily need the one -hour programs that break it down, but definitely because to look at the path that my team is going to take. When games occur in relation to cold weather and advantages or disadvantages. All that means something.
What is more is that, unlike any other sport … football controls our lives. It is good to finally plan the parts of the life of autumn and winter, with being able to adjust around this or that.
Give me the schedule now.
Miguel:
Absolutely does. The launch of the schedule, the literal version of the information, not the hours of redundant analysis that occupies the whole week, is an incredible fun and something that I look forward to every year. As the Chargers boy here, it is our “Super Bowl” (it is very sad to say it). The chargers have crushed him as a Chronicle-online franchise that remains plugged into pop culture.
The videos inspired by the anime and the Sims they made in 2022 and 2023 were elite. It is still the best I’ve seen. If the Chargers broke a third video launch video adjacent to anime, it would still be on the moon. That will never age for me.
As a football fan, would you prefer that your favorite team plays your toughest opponents before or later in the season?
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Miguel:
A kind of running in the NFL schedule launching line, I ask Myelf or not, I would like to see my favorite team fight through a hard opening glove to start the season before spending a little through a walk or yes, Eagwalk or Yeah Eagwalk a Latterlalk or Yeah Eagwalk to Lalk Lalk with the Softers contenders later.
I can see both sides. It is not very fun to start their 0-1 season and it is worse to see them fight a 1-3 or 2-4 record during that first month or so. But being able to look below and see a lot of potentials 3-10 or 4-9 teams last those last weeks, now that would do wonders for the psyche.
On the other side, sitting 5-1 would feel great, but I am sure that we have all seen again and again how the equipment that starts to heat can end up touching the bag in the section. Do you remember when the entire NFC North was 4-2 or better until week 6 of last year? Well, the bears ended up losing a lot during the last two months before winning another Draft Top 10 team.
I think if I had to choose one or the other, I go with the hard early stretch. Mentally, I would maintain the hope that they could end up winning at least or those games in which they have not been favored from the beginning and then I have to wait for it to remain competitive and do not play Dond Nodue and Decm.
RJ:
Personally speaking, I would see myself rather the easiest games at the front of the schedule. If I am obtaining super specific thought, it is not just what is easy and what is difficult.
One of my biggest complaints is when divisional games are at the forefront of the schedule. The teams change both in the course of a season … those division games are so valuable and shocking. I want them to happen when the teams have become who they really are.
In that sense, honestly, I don’t care too much about easy or difficult, but the value as noted. Put the most important games in the end so that we can see everything in the line with the playoffs just around the corner.
What is the best day for your team to play a game?
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RJ:
Bright was announced early Monday morning that Dallas Cowboys, also known as my team, will visit the Philadelphia Eagles in the launch game of the League on Thursday, September 4. Out of how annoying the Eagles fans will be above all … I love this.
Why do I love this? Regardless of what happens in the first game of the year, the cowboys are winning by the way, and my first Sunday is now open and Aviax will spend the time with Scott Hanson all day on the red zone channel.
The best absolute day of the week for your team to play is any day other than Sunday so you can enjoy all the action without having to concentrate. No one can convince me or any other potential truth.
Miguel:
Oh, 1,000 percent. When you work in the soccer media space, on Sundays they are always a long, long day. When your team plays on Thursday or Monday, that free Sunday you feel like the best day of the year. When you work in football, you have no times to really feel like a fan that can relax, break a cold drink and enjoy football without having to do some level of mental analysis while observing.
The NFL season is long and can be longer if the NFLPA ever accepts a regular season of 18 games. Outside when your team plays on a day that is not Sunday, a legitimate farewell week is the best option. Seeing your coworkers in the trenches on a NFL Sunday knowing that you can relax during a whole weekend?
Invaluable.
Should we put weight in the Reflexes of the rookie MiniCAMPS?
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Miguel:
The rookie minicamms are the first taste that fans get from the newest players of their team who perform in the football field. These little sessions began to roll last week and, as we do every year, we received a lot of media content from all teams, including those with some of the most polarizing rookies in the league (*coughs such as cough*Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel*).
From the Browns, we obtained videos from Sanders and Gabriel throwing “ten cent coins” consecutive to their broad. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to give their two young passersby a part of the offensive honor of the NFL year of the year!
Of course I am very joke, but it is exciting to see these two successful university quarters who do it without a subway, the RGIII and Kirk Cousins in Washington. However, however great it is to see a lot of new faces in new places in the world of football, the MiniCAMPS are simply what they are: a brief practice session to acclimatize rookies to the way in which NFL likes to do things. You create it or not, the best rookies are also expected to be plays at the time they arrive at the field of practice. So, for me, all these are not citizens. The bar is set in “Make Plays”. If they seemed somewhat “good”, then perhaps we have some weight in the observations of the thesis, but in terms of positive aspects, that is only for the course at this time of the low season.
RJ:
My point of view about this is that I am well some wag to get excited, but I will certainly not do it my thing.
I think this should be true so that all practice levels are clear. We can discern legitimate things of things like the training camp obviously, but the practice is still, ultimately, the practice.
That said … go for it. Grow excessively. Find if you want. I love all sports and I am enjoying everything that happens in the no football season, but we are hungry for football. If you want to scare yourself due to a “outstanding” mini -family practice, then my guest.
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