Winners, losers of the 2019 regular season outing

After scouring tens of thousands of options – distilled by supercomputers from almost endless combinations – the NFL unveiled the highly anticipated program of its 100th season on Wednesday night.

Who has reason to rejoice and who would like the league to give more time to these servers and planners to find an ideal 256-game route? Continue reading …

WINNERS

Tradition: The NFL made the right choice by launching its celebration of a century of football by starring its oldest rivalry, Packers-Bears, for the 199th time of the opening match of the regular season. Leaving Chicago, George's longtime host "Papa Bear" Halas, was also a nice touch. (Now, if only we could still see Soldier Field's iconic columns at the field level …)

Jason Garrett: It's like the Dallas coach, who never drove the Cowboys to the post-season in the following years. But the first three games of the American team (and five of the top six) are opposed to unqualified opponents for the series, which is an excellent opportunity to give a new impetus to Garrett.

Lamar Jackson:The Baltimore second-year quarterback will open a season as a starter for the first time … and face the four worst defenses (Miami, Cleveland, Kansas City, Cincinnati) starting in 2018 in the first six weeks.

Christmas purchase at the beginning of the bills: Buffalo players will not leave New York in September. They will start their match with two games just outside of New York City – fill up for kids now, guys – against the Jets and Giants before hosting the Bengals and Patriots.

The Browns weekend races:Four games in prime time! What will Cleveland players and fans do with all this free time newly granted Sunday afternoon at 1 pm?

Shared projector: It's good to see almost every team (sorry, Bills) have at least one prime date. Even I want to see the dolphins … once.

Mexico: A torn ground at Estadio Azteca forced our southern neighbors to surrender Chiefs-Rams last season, a match that turned out to be one of the most memorable shoot-offs of the regular season. But the NFL will export the Chiefs-Chargers – it also staged a dramatic match at the end of last season – Nov. 18 in a showdown between clubs sharing the AFC's best record (12- 4) in 2018.

L & # 39; s history: To further highlight the centennial season, the league has designated an "NFL100 Weekly Game" throughout the season to provide, according to its press release, "a wink at a vital match, a fierce rivalry that extends over several decades, a match of the original teams and / or a game in which the story was made. "

patriots:It worked pretty well. The champions open with eight consecutive tilts against teams that did not reach the playoffs last season. They will also be able to limit their travel expenses by leaving the Eastern time zone once, a week-long trip to Houston.

losers

Fans of the Patriots: Yeah, it's good to put Pack-Monsters on top of the all-season birthday party for us, but a bit for the New Englanders. The first game of Thursday night, usually reserved for the reigning Super Bowl champions, is a good way for locals to take a break in the weekend before watching how their fantasy teams make their debut in comfort. from the sofa hole).

Patriotes fans … again: Oh yes, the NFL is chasing you with an "NFL100" … at Foxborough … against Eli Manning and the Giants on October 10th.

History lesson: Some rather bizarre choices for NFL100 nominees. Would not it have been better to open the 50th season of "Monday Night Football" with Jets-Browns, the inaugural match of "MNF" in 1970, rather than postponing it to the second week? During Week 3, we will celebrate the Super Bowl VI between Dallas and Miami – easily one of the worst Super Bowls of all time – rather than the Broncos-Packers match 26 years later or the return of the Rams to Cleveland, their country of origin? And the NFL100 tag of week 5 does not go to Packers-Cowboys – remember that ice thing? – instead of affixing on Bills-Titans, even though we are not yet sure that Music City Miracle was legit. I could go on …

saints: They have a Super Bowl caliber schedule without the benefit of having actually played in the Super Bowl … the story of which will be remembered forever. Two home games against playoff teams in Texas in September round out west coast trips to the Rams and Seahawks. (And the controversy of the NFC championship game in the second part of week 2 does not it affect you early?)

Brian Flores: Welcome to the big headphones. The Miami rookie head coach is coming off the Ravens, Patriots, Cowboys and Chargers, all of the 2018 series.

Jimmy Garoppolo: I hope your surgically repaired knee will be 100%, my friend, because the NFL will have you make two long plane trips (Tampa and Cincinnati) to begin your return.

Iggles: Philly is the only team to have played three straight games on the road (weeks 6-8), as part of a sequence that includes a six-week match at Lincoln Financial Field.

Aaron Rodgers and Matt LaFleur: The mental merger between the new Green Bay brains confidence will be immediately put to the test by the defenses of a defender: Chicago, Minnesota, Denver, Philadelphia and Dallas. And do not think Mike McCarthy will not look.

NFL Network: The point of sale belonging to the league receives again the remains of the table, forced to promote some of these appearances mandatory in prime time. Titans-Jags, Texans-Jags and two portions of Bucs-Panthers will all be broadcast exclusively on NFLN. Visit appointments … in the belt of the sun anyway.

The remains of Thanksgiving? Uh, we also had Bears-Lions and Falcons-Saints last year, although the venue for this last game was moved from New Orleans to Atlanta. And Bills-Cowboys for the main course? Really? You could not have put us through a fresh turkey, NFL? Not sure that these Buffalo wings will reach the goal.

Oakland: So, let's recap – a city that is losing its beloved franchise to Las Vegas after the season must also give up its London date, and it turns out to be just a fight with the Bears which will prevent the followers of Black Hole to pay homage to the late friend Khalil Mack, that they have never had a chance to play correctly in 2018. Oh, this match in London also means that the Raiders will play once in Oakland during a 42-day period that includes the whole month of October. And instead of letting the Silver and Black defeat their opponent against one of their longtime foes, the Raiders should bid farewell to the city with clashes against Tennessee and Jacksonville respectively in weeks 14 and 15. C & Is just wrong. We hope that Jon Gruden will lead a surprise charge on a crown of AFC West, which will lead the Raiders to welcome Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in the playoffs.

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