NFL schedules are usually not much more than a nice bit of info to organize our lives as football fans. We want to know how the seasons will look so we can plan out that four or so months. This year’s schedule was a whole lot more. The usual ‘hey, look at that’ was more like ‘Holy shit, shield your eyes!’.
I’m not talking about the strength of schedule either. That’s not news. We’ve known that since the final game of the 2018 season was played. On paper the Raiders have the NFL’s toughest schedule. It is what it is.