The 2020 NFL regular season is out and it starts with Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs facing off with Deshaun Watson in the Thursday night season-opener on Sept. 10th, hopefully.
While everyone had fun tonight making fun of the Los Angeles Rams’ goofy new logo after the schedules came out, if you dig deeper into the schedules you’ll see something weird – the Jets and Dolphins will play each other in back-to-back games in November.
Strange, right?
The Jets will play the Dolphins in Miami in Week 10, then both teams have a bye in Week 11 before playing each other again in Week 12 at MetLife Stadium.
This will be the first time since 1991 that teams have played against each other in back-to-back games.
Quirk in the schedule for #Jets and #Dolphins we haven’t seen since 1991 via @NFLResearch pic.twitter.com/2fIOEXUs5U
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) May 8, 2020
NFL Twitter had reactions:
#Jets have the #Dolphins in back-to-back games?? #nflschedulerelease pic.twitter.com/nBxEFpmFDf
— Damien Woody (@damienwoody) May 7, 2020
The NFL scheduled the Jets to play the Dolphins, bye week and then the Dolphins again lol.
— Allan Bell (@AllanBell247) May 8, 2020
Dolphins. Bye. Dolphins.
That’s different— I Bleed Jets Green (@bleedjetsgreen) May 7, 2020
Imagine how bitter Adam Gase is going to be when the Dolphins beat the Jets, go on vacation for a week and then come back from vacation and beat him again.
— Daniel (@DanielEliesen) May 7, 2020
So Dolphins play Jets back to back between a bye? Wtf
— Frank (@FranksYanks23) May 8, 2020
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