The NFL released the 2023 schedule on Thursday, breaking down the 18-week, 17-game season for all 32 teams. The Miami Dolphins hold the second toughest schedule in the league, using last year’s season-ending records, trailing just the Philadelphia Eagles. Miami’s schedule is made up of teams that finished a combined 158-127-2 last year, giving them a .554 winning percentage.
Now that the order of Miami’s schedule is known, we can take a little closer look at how that winning percentage is spread over the course of the 18 weeks of the season. Of course, with the 17-game schedule, there is no easy way to break down the quarters for the year, so we will make the second quarter of the season a five-game span, leading into the Dolphins’ bye week in Week 10.