Welcome back to the sixth annual … well hang on a second, what are we calling these? For the last five years I have offered my backward NFL season preview, power ranking which Week 17 games were most likely to be flexed into prime time as the 256th and final game of the regular season.
And then the NFL went and changed all the numbers on me, adding an 18th week and a 272nd game.
This time last year I wrote about how there was never a more precarious time to predict how the season would end and speculated that we didn’t even know if the NFL would play all 256 games.