The hand-wringing about the Green Bay Packers’ 2022 schedule, particularly around the team’s negative rest differential and travel concerns, might be a bit overblown. That’s the takeaway from a breakdown of every NFL team’s 2022 slate, as published by NFL data scientist Tom Bliss.
Bliss posted the rest differential breakdown on the evening of the schedule release last week, but today he has a more in-depth analysis of the overall difficulty level of each NFL team’s schedule, one that finds the Packers’ overall challenges to be less significant than first thought.
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