Trying to gauge the difficulty of an NFL schedule will drive you nuts. There is so much change among teams in the NFL from year to year. Take the Packers 2022 schedule for example. Being defending champions of the NFC North, the Pack had to play a first place schedule, which called for games against the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams, the NFC East champion Dallas Cowboys, and Tom Brady and the NFC South champion Tampa Bay Bucs.
Those looked like three very difficult games going in, but as it turned out, all three of those teams under achieved and the Packers went 3-0 against them.