Welcome to the NFL schedule release, when our excitement for a season which is still months away gets renewed yet again, as it was during the draft and as it will be when Training Camp rolls around.
We now know the exact dates of when each team will be playing, and within those dates I would like to take a bit of a nuanced approach in viewing the schedule.
While it’s true that the Falcons will play 17 games in 18 weeks just like everyone else, not all weeks will be the same when factoring rest and recovery into the equation.