As per usual, once the NFL schedule comes out, which happened last Thursday, fans have gripes.
For instance, the fans of the five NFL teams that got zero national television games – the New York Jets, Tennessee Titans, Las Vegas Raiders, Arizona Cardinals, and Miami Dolphins.
But it’s best not to take any scheduling decision personally because, as NFL VP of Broadcast Planning Mike North, who spearheads the NFL scheduling department, put it, “What do any of us know?
“It never gets easier,” North said on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “I think the challenge, as always, is what do any of us know? I mean, it’s May, and we are talking about putting a game on national television schedule seven months from now – what do any of us know?
So there is a lot of guessing that goes on, so why be offended by schedulers engaging in guesswork, based, in large part, on last year’s results?
And many of these teams that had bad results last year, made coaching changes and turned their rosters over, so they are not really the same team as last year.
Who thought the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots would meet in last season’s Super Bowl?
Because scheduling is not an exact science, that is why the NFL allows schedule flexing to begin in Week 5, giving surprise teams a chance to play their way onto primetime.
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