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The NFL's 2026 schedule is out for all to see 272 games spread out over 18 weeks, four continents and every day of the week from Wednesday to Monday. It's a careful and complicated calculation of home and away that will eventually yield one Super Bowl champion. Here are my takeaways on the 2026 NFL schedule. It's easy to pick on the Miami Dolphins. The Los Angeles Chargers, perhaps the best of all NFL teams at creating viral schedule-release videos that sneak in subtle and not-so-subtle jabs at the teams they'll be facing, got in an easy shot this year. The Dolphins were shown as an actual tank, trudging along toward a white flag, noting the wave of departures from their roster in the past year. Miami's schedule is even meaner. The Dolphins have a new coach, new general manager, new quarterback and a depleted roster that is projected to win 4.5 games, as low as any team in the league. Before you accuse the Dolphins of tanking losing on purpose to secure a high draft pick in 2027 take a close look at the final six weeks of their 2026 schedule. Their final six opponents are the Denver Broncos, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Chargers, Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots. All six teams made the playoffs last year, four of them won playoff games and New England made it to the Super Bowl. Five of those six won at least 11 games in 2025, including the Broncos and Patriots each going 14-3. It's just a cruel turn by the NFL's scheduling rotation: Each AFC East team faces the entire NFC North and AFC West, two of the best divisions in the league, and Miami's third-place schedule did the Dolphins no favors, lining them up against the San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals and Indianapolis Colts. We knew the opponents would be tough for the Dolphins, but to see the concentration of tough teams down the stretch, it will make a long season that much tougher for them to find a single win in the final six weeks of the season. That might help Miami land the No. 1 overall pick and a potential franchise quarterback, but it won't be fun for the team or its fans getting there. [2026 NFL Win-Loss Predictions, Analysis For Every Team] All 32 teams have a bye week. So ideally, each team would have one game where it has that extra week to prepare for an opponent, and one week when an opponent is coming off a bye for the same advantage. But that's not the case at all. The Philadelphia Eagles and the Chargers each play four games against teams coming off their bye week. The Eagles have that three times in four weeks between Weeks 6 and 9, and the Chargers have it three times in five weeks between Weeks 9 and 13. The Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Rams each have three games against opponents coming off their bye week, while there are 14 NFL teams that never have to face an opponent coming off a bye week. We can't expect a total balance in terms of uneven prep time before games inevitably, one team played on a Thursday the week before, another might be coming off a Monday night on the road. But if you're using fairness as one of the main criteria in putting together a 272-game schedule, you shouldn't tolerate some teams having four games where the opponent has an extra week of rest and preparations, and other teams (44% of the league) never have to deal with that once. The first game of the 2026 season Wednesday, Sept. 9 features a Super Bowl rematch, as the Seattle Seahawks host the Patriots. There are five NFL teams unfortunate enough to play both Super Bowl teams this season. The entire AFC West plays both teams, and the Bears not only play both but in consecutive weeks, hosting the Patriots on a Thursday night in Week 7, then going to Seattle 11 days later for a Monday night game in Week 8. Which NFL teams have the most games against 2025 playoff teams this season? That would be the Seahawks and Broncos, with 10 each, followed closely by the Kansas City Chiefs, Raiders, Rams, Arizona Cardinals, Patriots and Dolphins with six playoff teams each. At the other extreme, the New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals each only have to play five games against 2025 playoff teams. It's especially cruel for the Raiders and Cardinals, who finished last in their divisions last year with two of the worst records in the NFL, but still have more than half their 2026 schedule against teams that made the playoffs in 2025. Meanwhile, the Carolina Panthers and Pittsburgh Steelers won their divisions and yet have only six games each against playoff opponents. The league tries to avoid too many long runs of home or away games, but three in a row is almost unavoidable. Three teams have road games in three consecutive weeks the Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars and Chiefs and another 10 teams have three consecutive home games, including the Browns. The NFL has nine international games scheduled this season, and it used to be the norm for teams to offset the long travel back and forth by scheduling their bye week immediately after the international game. That's hardly the case at all in 2026. Of 18 opportunities, only three times are teams taking bye weeks directly after their global travel: The Jaguars have their bye weeks after back-to-back games in London, the Patriots have theirs after their game in Munich, and the Saints have theirs after their game in Paris. Another quirk is when division opponents face each other twice in close proximity, but there isn't much of that in 2026. The Jaguars and Tennessee Titans play in Weeks 10 and 12, and the Rams and Seahawks (perhaps one of the best rivalries in the league) play in Weeks 16 and 18, putting potentially a division title if not home-field advantage in the NFC playoffs on the line in the final three weeks of the season. Those are the only two twice-in-three-weeks instances, and there are two twice-in-four-weeks quirks, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Saints playing in Weeks 15 and 18, and the same for the Ravens and Steelers.

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The first TNF game of the 2026 season also happens to be the most compelling

In the clearest expression of disapproval that the NFL annually sends to rebuilding franchises, five teams are not scheduled to see a single minute of prime-time football this season.This seasons list includes the New York Jets, Las Vegas Raiders, Miami Dolphins, Tennessee Titans and Arizona Cardinals. This is the second straight season the Titans havent had a single game slated for prime time, as they were shut out in 2025 along with the Cleveland Browns and New Orleans Saints.Interestingly, it sets up a scenario where the past two No. 1 picks in the NFL Draft the Titans Cam Ward and Raiders Fernando Mendoza will have gone through their rookie season without playing in prime time. It also would mean that Ward would have been iced out of prime time for the first two years of his career.Find NFL tickets on Gametime | More NFL team schedulesWhile the league never overtly admits it, the prime-time freeze out is often absorbed as a message to team ownership about getting organizations into a competitive plateau from one season to the next. The Jets, Raiders, Titans and Cardinals all went 3-14 last season while settling into last place in their respective divisions. The outlier is the Dolphins, who went 7-10 but then followed that mediocre performance up by effectively gutting most of the team this offseason.Interestingly but perhaps not coincidentally those teams have comprised five of the six longest betting odds to win the Super Bowl for much of this offseason, with the Browns often mixed into the bottom six. Id never suggest the NFL considers sports wagering interest when it comes to how the prime-time schedule is stacked up, but it certainly doesnt help that ancillary pipeline of revenue when youre showcasing what oddsmakers believe are the worst franchises.Heres a quick snapshot of how the teams ended up getting shut out:New York JetsYoull never convince me this isnt a continued echo of the NFLs dissatisfaction over scheduling the Jets for 11 total prime-time/flex/international games in 2024 and 2025 only to watch the franchise sink to an 8-26 record over that two-year span. Frankly, it takes a lot for the league to ice a team in its No. 1 media market, but there doesnt appear to be a lot of faith in the Aaron Glenn and Geno Smith-led franchise this season. Maybe that changes in 2027 if the Jets meet low expectations and end up with Arch Manning on the roster in 2027. Las Vegas RaidersThe Raiders got three prime-time games last season with head coach Pete Carroll, offensive coordinator Chip Kelly and newly acquired quarterback Geno Smith suggesting there would be some juice to squeeze during the season, particularly with one of college footballs most exciting running backs Ashton Jeanty stepping into the backfield. What unfolded was a mess of infighting on the coaching staff and an offense that was atrocious in a massively disappointing campaign. And it looked worse late in the season when the Raiders appeared to have shut down star edge rusher Maxx Crosby late in the season as they were in contention for the first pick in the draft. Even with Fernando Mendoza now in the fold and a revamped coaching staff, I doubt the league was in a hurry to reward the Raiders after last seasons flop.Play 2026 Soccer Pick 'Em with FOX One and make your picks for the world's biggest soccer tournamentMiami DolphinsThe Dolphins got six prime-time/international games last year but managed to muster only a 7-10 season that showcased a roster and quarterback situation in a massive state of decline. The following reboot with a sweeping out of general manager Chris Grier, head coach Mike McDaniel and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (among many others) decimated any inspiration to feature the Dolphins this season. A rebuild that looks like its essentially going to the studs and taking almost all of the star power with it doesnt inspire much confidence of a surprise season. Theres a price to starting over in a fashion that suggests it will be years before another competitive team materializes. And this zero burger in prime time is part of it.The Rams got the most primetime games (7) while five teams got none this season pic.twitter.com/bVfOlglLdW Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) May 15, 2026Tennessee TitansThe Titans are in the midst of a nuclear winter when it comes to the NFL schedule-makers, with only one one! prime-time game going all the way back to the 2024 season. The last time Tennessee saw prime time: Week 4 of that season against the Dolphins. The Titans actually won that game 31-12, but they finished 3-14 overall, translating into zero prime-time games in 2025. And when they again went 3-14 in 2025 well, thats the snowball effect of a terrible NFL product that leads the league to completely shut you out again in 2026. Even the 2025 No. 1 overall pick, Cam Ward, didnt generate enough confidence last season to throw the Titans a bone with their completely revamped coaching staff. As Ward famously said last season of Tennessees on-field performance at one point last season, We ass. And ass is not the kind of football the NFL likes to put in front of a standalone national audience. Let alone hang on the outlets that pay through the nose to put out prime-time packages.Arizona CardinalsAfter crawling out of the basement from a 4-13 record in 2023 to a more competitive 8-9 in 2024, the NFL awarded the Cardinals with two prime-time games in 2025 only to see the entire franchise regress horribly back to a 3-14 mark. That debacle included benching quarterback Kyler Murray for most of the season in favor of an extremely unsexy Jacoby Brissett, who went 1-11 in his 12 starts. Well, even with wholesale coaching staff changes, the quickest way to get any shot at prime-time games yanked is to commit to the previous seasons 1-11 journeyman starter who appears to be a placeholder until the Cardinals can reboot with a new young quarterback. Even in the best of times, the Cardinals are a tough sell to a national audience, much like the Titans. Reverting back to being a messy reboot at head coach and (eventually) quarterback is easy math for the NFL. And it subtracts any motivation to put the operation into prime time.

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