How do we know we have an “easy schedule”? Is there really such a thing as an easy schedule in the NFL? How can we judge any 2020 NFL team two months before the draft and a month before FA starts? That’s crazy. Did anyone here think the niners would be a tough opponent in Feb of 2019?
With FA now, yes, you never know from year to year how easy or hard a schedule will be. As teams can do a complete change from year to year.
Unless you play in the AFCE and cheat.
Anyway it gives the pundits and fans something to talk about. Just like every year there will be those, and the same ones year to year talk about a 1st place vs. last place schedule. When it fact it is only 2 games different from each team in their respective divisions.
Like this year we play the Falcons and Vikings and the Eagles play the Packers and Saints. So is it that much easier? No, not really, well except the Falcons, but are they as or will be as bad as they seem, come next season?
To me it makes it harder for a team the way the schedule is laid out. And Dallas always seems to get the worse of it from year to year. Now a few years or so ago it was laid out pretty decent, not great. but better than it was. But then they reverted back to not being so kind. Dallas always get more road games than home games to finish a season for the last 5 or 6 games, so it seems. I would like to see a reversal of that for a few years.