Nobody loves drama like the NFL. That much was apparent with the league's 2024 schedule release Wednesday night. An AFC Championship game rematch to start the season? Sign us up.
Of course, there's always a handful of quirks that come with assembling a 272-game schedule -- the final version spit out by the league's computer models at 4 a.m. Sunday morning -- and assigning them to a growing list of broadcast partners. The New York Jets, for example, have a whopping six prime-time games -- all before their Week 12 bye. That would be considered unprecedented for a squad coming off a 7-10 finish in which it missed the playoffs.