Are you ready for football? The season may loom far, far away yet all the same, but with the NFL schedule release on Thursday, we can further dream about football and we know the order of the games and how they will be played. The Detroit Lions snagged three Thursday games—one to open the season against the Kansas City Chiefs no less—and a couple more primetime games to boot, with a bye week in the middle of it all.
Where does that leave the outlook for the team, and what to make of backloaded Vikings games, or two Thursday Packers matches?