As we look out on the NFL season that is laid out before us, we should take a moment to appreciate what this first NFL Sunday means. Every fan has spent the past four months poring over the schedule, determining how many wins and losses to expect from their team.
Some fans go through the schedule week by week, assigning wins and losses as a pass/fail grade based on years of experience watching their team and the considerably smaller number of times they’ve watched their opponents. Others will break up the season into four game quarters thinking “as long as we can go 2-2 in this stretch we’ll be fine”, or “if we can go 3-1 here and there, we’re bound for the playoffs”.