The NFL offseason on no account truly sleeps, and Thursday night will perform one in every of many league’s annual traditions: the discharge of the regular-season schedule.
Some video video games is likely to be revealed sooner than then, however. Forward of the disclosing of the whole slate of video video games at 8 p.m., the NFL will announce its 5 worldwide video video games and new Black Friday tilt on Wednesday and what it calls “choose” explicit particular person video video games on Wednesday and Thursday morning.
ESPN could also have a two-hour current highlighting the “Monday Evening Soccer” schedule, with ESPN+ airing a separate schedule launch explicit on the similar time. “NFL Dwell” could even reveal a Monday night recreation at 4 p.m. on ESPN.
As for the Ravens, after eight video video games at M&T Financial institution Stadium closing season, they’ll get 9 dwelling video video games and eight away video video games in 2023. Other than the identical previous divisional matchups, they’ll play video video games in direction of teams from the AFC South, East and West and NFC West and North.
With the Ravens’ schedule set to be launched, listed beneath are 5 points to know:
Who’re the Ravens having fun with at dwelling?
Along with the identical previous AFC North division video video games in direction of the Cincinnati Bengals, Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, Baltimore could even host the Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Rams and Detroit Lions.
Three of those teams — the Bengals, Dolphins and Seahawks — made the playoffs closing season. For Miami, it moreover marks the second of what’s going to be three straight journeys to Appeal Metropolis with the Dolphins moreover scheduled to play the Ravens in Baltimore in 2024.
Who’re the Ravens having fun with on the freeway?
Along with the annual journeys to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, the Ravens could have freeway video video games in direction of the Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Los Angeles Chargers, San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals.
4 of those teams — the Bengals, 49ers, Jaguars and Chargers — made the playoffs closing season. After no west-coast journeys in 2022, the Ravens could have three this season.
What number of prime-time video video games will the Ravens have?
Final season, the Ravens had three prime-time video video games (Week 5 vs. Cincinnati; Week 8 on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Week 9 on the New Orleans Saints), their fewest since 2019.
It could possibly be a shock if the Ravens didn’t have as a minimum that many this season.
Groups are allowed to play a most of six prime-time video video games, and with the Ravens having re-signed star quarterback Lamar Jackson and added two-time All-Professional broad receiver Odell Beckham Jr., it’s seemingly they’ll get three, if no extra, night video video games.
The Bengals, whom the Ravens virtually upset inside the AFC wild-card spherical of the playoffs closing season, appear like a no brainer, with the 49ers, Chargers, Dolphins, Seahawks and Jaguars intriguing prospects as successfully.
Will the Ravens play a worldwide recreation?
The ultimate — and solely — time the Ravens carried out a worldwide recreation was in 2017 in direction of the Jaguars in London. After getting drubbed 44-7, coach John Harbaugh didn’t preserve once more his feelings in regards to the experience, saying, “To be trustworthy with you — and perhaps I’ll get into bother for saying this — don’t plan on going over there any time quickly to play once more. So, anyone else can have that job.”
It’s a quote that will completely be launched up if the Ravens enterprise overseas this 12 months, one factor that could possibly be a threat with the Titans and Jaguars being two of the three teams (along with the Buffalo Payments) scheduled to host opponents in London this season. The NFL would completely have an curiosity in displaying off a most likely very explosive offense to a worldwide viewers, with Jackson having been seven months away from being drafted by the Ravens the ultimate time they carried out in London.
Who has the toughest/finest schedule inside the AFC and NFC?
Primarily based on opponents’ blended profitable share in 2022, solely six teams inside the AFC — the Jaguars, Steelers, Browns, Titans, Colts and Texans — have a neater schedule than the Ravens this season. Amongst all 32 NFL teams, the Ravens could have the Twelfth-easiest schedule, with their opponents having acquired 48.4% of video video games closing season.
As for the league’s hardest schedule, that belongs to the reigning NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles, whose opponents acquired 56.6% of their video video games closing season, with 10 reaching the playoffs. Proper behind them are the Dolphins, who, after going 9-8 closing season and dropping to the Payments inside the wild-card spherical, get a brutal slate of freeway video video games in direction of the Tremendous Bowl champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, Eagles, Payments, Chargers, Ravens and Aaron Rodgers-led New York Jets.
The league’s finest schedule, within the meantime, belongs to the Atlanta Falcons, who went 7-10 closing season and whose opponents this 12 months acquired merely 41.7% % of their video video games a season prior to now. There are moreover merely 4 playoff teams amongst that group, the fewest allowed beneath the NFL’s scheduling pointers. The next finest schedule, within the meantime, is that of the New Orleans Saints, whose opponents acquired 42.7% of their video video games closing season. In each of the earlier seven years, as a minimum one in every of many two teams with the very best schedules inside the league has made the playoffs.
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