NFL

I’ve always thought there should be dedicated “Division” weeks in the NFL. Maybe the 2nd and last weeks of the season. Also think there should be an AFC vs NFC Week as well. There’s 18 weeks in the season. Make them special.

For a controversial opinion, I think there should be a mid-season bye week for the entire league or have the entire AFC off week 8 and the NFC week 9. With only 8 games those 2 weeks literally every single one could be nationally televised. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (Europe), Sunday (early), Sunday (late), Sunday (prime time), Monday Night. I know the Friday and Saturday aren’t the norm but for those two weeks and that’s it.

They’ve been doing that to us with the chiefs over the last couple seasons

They changed this because of teams resting starters in the final weeks. It's a lot more likely you start everyone if it's a divisional game you can't afford to drop.

Blame AWS

Just don't lose key players, it's that easy. Duh. /s

Chiefs literally played 3 division games back to back this season. who cares

But AWS went through a trillion different schedule combinations so the one we ended up with is the best!!!

The NFL did a schedule retooling in either 2009 or 2010 to make sure The teams played division opponents in like the last three of five weeks.

Absolutely massive benefit, and the primary driver was to prevent teams from winning the division in like week 14 and then sitting your starters for the next two or three games.

Certainly seeing an uptick of situations where teams might play each other twice in a month, but as long as divisional games end up being in the final portion of a team's schedule then I think the system is still working appropriately.

Probably more dramatic for tight races. Lions / Vikings are going to be nail biters

Weeks 1-3 should all be division games

and Weeks 16-18 should all be division games.

Why so many exclamation points?

jags and colts were done playing each other on oct 15

I just want one game in warmer weather- A cold Eagles fan in NY

Luckily our matchups have been nicely spaced out.

And 3 times in a month if the giants were worth a damn

didn’t you see that the schedule was optimized by AWS? reduces injuries and all other sorts of bullshit

Rams Niners played week 2 and play again week 18

This has been happening for years. I know it was happening in the early 2010's so I'm going to assume it's happened like that pretty often throughout history.