Contingency plans to remember
There are quietly a few notable contingency plans seemingly built into the NFL schedule as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.
There are no divisional games scheduled at all for Weeks 3 and 4. Translation — the NFL could easily flip the opening four games to the back end of the schedule. Eliminate bye weeks in the process and the NFL is almost right on track for a normally-scheduled Super Bowl.
That’d be an unfortunate hypothetical for the Bengals. They’d then open the season in Baltimore and some of the easier games on the schedule — against the Chargers and Jaguars, notably — would happen in January.