schedule coming…update! schedule is here

So the Rams are gonna start the season.

Which team will the NFL select to be their opponent to start the year?

My guess is that it will be the Cowboys.

The Bills would make a lot of sense, too. Possible Super Bowl preview kind of thing.

Russell Wilson seeing Aaron Donald on his schedule againpic.twitter.com/FfKDW3WZRD

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Well…’on paper,’ at this point, that is the toughest run of opponents

i can ‘ever’ remember.   Ever.

We must, once again, pray for crippling injuries.

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You know there ‘is’ something to be said for being ‘battle tested.’

I do believe that.   Dallas and Green Bay have cake schedules/divisions

(it looks like).   That may not serve them well come playoff time.

A cake schedule gets you ‘into’ the playoffs and gets you a good ranking, maybe even a bye — but there’s a down side.    Looked to me like the Packers were not ready for the physicality of the 49ers last year.  The Rams were.

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That is a really, really tough schedule. It’s also too bad that Game Two isn’t against one of their toughest opponents, instead of the rebuilding Falcons. Starting the year with that Thursday game is potentially beneficial with the longer week for the next one, obviously. It would have been a great time for an away game against Green Bay, with the twofer of much better weather that time of year. If not Green Bay, I’d take @KC, or @Tampa, or @SF.

Btw, any of youze guys doing Directv for all the games? What are your alternatives if you’re not going that route?

Looks like I’ll just rely on regular TV venues. May try for a strategically placed “free week” of NFL Gamepass, or very late price reductions when they happen. But my days with Directv are long gone now. Used to get the Sunday Ticket “free,” after annoying negotiations, but then AT&T bought it out, and that became tougher and tougher to swing until I finally just gave up and went with another TV provider. If memory serves, this is Directv’s last year with the Sunday Ticket. I hope the NFL wises up and offers several choices/tiers, with several media outlets, and includes the option to just get all the games from our team of choice.

Oh, well . . .

Zooey wrote:

Nine games at home, 8 away. One of the “away” games is the Chargers. So 10 of their games are in SoFi, and only 7 are truly road games. Only one of those away games is in the Eastern time zone.

Do you generally get the Rams on TV when it’s “regional” action? This year, us “nomads” should have a nice selection of national games. But those of us on the East Coast tend not to get the regional stuff very often.

As for the home and away. I still can’t get with the 17 games. Seems positively sacrilegious to me. But I thought that when they moved to 16 games too. I’d be happier with it back at 14. But odd numbers? Makes no sense in the home/away calculations, obviously.

Billy_T wrote:

Do you generally get the Rams on TV when it’s “regional” action? This year, us “nomads” should have a nice selection of national games. But those of us on the East Coast tend not to get the regional stuff very often.

We get a few games here. I am in 49er territory, so they take precedence. I get the Rams when they kickoff in a time slot that is not in conflict with the 49ers and/or Raiders depending on which network has the game. If the Rams play at a time/network not in conflict with either of those teams, I get them most of the time.

Otherwise, I watch online.