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A two hour "event" to release the NFL schedule is THE ultimate version of "a meeting that should have been an email".

Can we just have our football at 1PM on Sunday.

Lol the announcements get more and more outlandish too … an announcement for the announcement to the announcement

This.

10am out here. Gotta keep the afternoon nap.

I can be convinced on some 4PM. Make it easier to get ribs ready before the fun.

Well Frank, you will probably get 4-5 games this year.

As has been said, I like a 1PM kick myself. I wake up early. I am ready to fire up the coals at 4AM if that is what is required . Maybe start the shoulder the night before. Ribs don't take that long.

I'm not getting up at 4AM. Ugh.

Spares are a 5ish hour thing with getting the smoker up and stable to final rest before portioning. We like to eat before the game and be cleaned up and put away by kickoff. I target food for noon on a 1PM kickoff.

I understand. I do get up around 3-4 every morning.

I know the 5-6 hours for ribs. So, you have to get things going by 6am or so. Not a big difference.

Done a lot of smoking in my day. You have a general idea, but when people ask "when are we eating", the only real answer is "when it's done".

It's kind of a combination between art and science, and art doesn't have specific boundaries. You just have to let it happen. Every fire, outside air temp, and cut of meat are different, so dinner time is different.

I'll ring the dinner bell when it is done.

If I had my way, we’d have more 4:25 starts than anything. I like watching all of the games at 1 and then being kinda on our own in the evening. Plus, something cool about watching the game in the fall as the day turns to night. Good vibes for me

Im hoping our bye is during the October 8th weekend. Will be in Arizona and getting up at 9:00 to watch a 10:00am kickoff, would really suck, at least for me.

Well it is being shown on "The NFL Network" and I can't think of anything else more important going on in the NFL than the schedule release at this point in time. I guess I would more question there actually being a need for a network created strictly for the NFL than anything else. But if you're going to have one, this is probably the most important thing going on the in the NFL that you could center your coverage around for today.

I think we should get to the point where they release the schedule in sections:

Weeks 1-4, 5-8, etc

I have 20I6 itus....... I:00 pm games???
no, because then, I only feel worse when they lose for more of the hours of the clock on sunday, and don't get new hope until Wednesday anyway. and they almost always lose so, when they play at 8pm, ... at least at seven pm, eight pm, maybe even 8:30, I don't feel bad, not even until eleven, and then it's time to sleep anyway.
I:00 pm games, they are overrated, sometimes.

Ozzy

@OzzyNFL
Hearing Browns on the road week 1.

Agree... I will just check in late Thursday or Friday morning... not watching a release show...

If I go to the game, I like the later start for some of the same reasons. It also allows for a nice pre-game brunch almost anywhere in town. If I am at home, I hate the later start. I have to watch games at a local bar. We have a section for us, but you almost have to go way early to get the seats, then if the other games run long, they won't turn off a game in progress so many times my game doesn't come on at the opening kick. That is a big time jinx IMO.

Agree as well. I am interested in finding out. Once the show starts, you can usually find the entire release online.

I like to plan and plot of my fall weekends. I can't do that until I have the schedule.

Opening Game of the season: Detroit at KC … big time game for Detroit

Christmas Night: Baltimore at SF

SF getting both a Thanksgiving game and a Christmas game is pretty crazy

@NerdingOnNFL
NFL SCHEDULE LEAK

Green Bay Packers Full Schedule

1 - at Bears (4:05)
2 - at Falcons
3 - vs Saints
4 - Lions TNF
5 - at Raiders MNF
6 - BYE
7 - at Broncos (4:25)
8 - vs Vikings
9 - vs Rams
10 - at Steelers
11 - vs Chargers
12 - at Lions (Thanksgiving)
13 - vs Chiefs (SNF)
14 - at Giants (MNF)
15 - vs Buccaneers
16 - at Panthers
17 - at Vikings (SNF)
18 - vs Bears

Packers getting FIVE primetime games AND Thanksgiving without Rodgers is crazy

Vikings at Eagles (Week 2 - TNF)

The Lions, huh?

Sounds like we are opening up on the road

Ozzy

@OzzyNFL
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NFL SCHEDULE NEWS:

Browns Week 1. AFC North game. TBD

Guessing Pittsburgh.

That would make sense

I suppose one has to blame the results of the product they've been seeing since 1999 on something. I guess this is as good as anything.

That does make sense. But then I think one would have to ask, since the QB is the focus of the NFL, does a Watson vs Pickett match up sound that appealing given it could be a Watson vs Burrow or Jackson match up to open the season?

So,

Week 1 - Cincinnati (1:00 CBS)

I’m going to guess that week 2 will be at home as well. Against SF. They like to play weeks 1/2 in the east to avoid the hot weather in their stadium

Last year the 49'ers week 2 game was at home against the Seahawks.

Well yeah, the NFL probably can’t always accommodate that. But I know they typically try to do it that way

Actually I haven't found trying to avoid hot weather games has played any impact in the scheduling. In fact, when it comes to hot weather, San Fransisco is in northern California where the average daytime highs in September are 70 degrees with peak temperatures reaching into the mid 80's. There are much hotter NFL cities than San Fran. Looking at actual hot weather cities it seems it's very common for their home openers to be either the first or second week of the season. Just last season as an example.

The Dolphins first game of 2022 was at home. The Cardinals first game was at home. The Cowboys first game was at home. The Texans first game was at home. The Jaguars second game was at home. And so on it goes. It actually appears as though having multiple away games to start the season is somewhat rare and certainly isn't anything close to something the NFL schedules around being a warm weather team.