We already had a good idea what the path to this winter’s NFL playoffs would look like. Now we know the exact twists and turns.
The NFL’s 2023 schedule reveal dropped 272 games of gridiron goodness onto our laps, giving football fans something to talk about in the barren farmland better known as May. While we knew all of the upcoming season’s opponents, we now understand which games come when, who’ll be playing overseas and what this year’s prime-time matchups will be.
Some of these games will matter more in fantasy football standings than the real thing. But others will shape the 14-team bracket that separates this fall’s contenders from the NFL’s also-rans. Let’s dig into the former and perform a too-early biopsy on the showdowns set to define this year’s road to Super Bowl 58.
In the spirit of casting the widest net possible, I’ll limit each team’s appearance on this list to one game each — otherwise we’d get bogged down with Bills and Chiefs and Eagles games. These are the seven matchups that will shed light on how this year’s postseason will unfold.
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