The NFL unveiled its 2023 schedule Thursday night. Not with the bang the league may have hoped for on a night filled with playoff hockey and basketball, but certainly more than a whimper.
Giving fans the opportunity to plan out home games and road trips, 272 games, all of which we already knew but most of which we did not know when, officially went live May 11. The schedule reveal is the moment where wild guesses about your team’s record level up to “slightly educated.” With homestands and bye weeks on the docket, it gets a little easier to predict how each team will do.
And for these six teams, that’s a problem. Some teams were hamstrung by the league’s scheduling mechanism and unbalanced divisions. Others were subject to entirely too many Thursday night games (e.g. one or more). A few hit both categories.
These are the six teams whose awful luck shined brightest once the ink dried on their schedules.