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The 2025-2026 NFL calendar has been published and it is a thing of beauty. As the expression says, there is no shortage of NFL and this year’s calendar is no different (unless you are in Los Angeles).
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While dust sets in and the social media teams are fighting for those who did the best, who won the calendar release in May? And who has work to do this season? The biggest NFL winners from the calendar exit
Here is how we got to this point. The 2025-2026 calendar was published and we have entered each game in our system and we calculated certain things.
One of the things we examined was to travel kilometers, of course, for the 32 teams. We have also examined the branding moments, pivotal games and rivalry games in favorable places. Then we watched the holidays and when the division matches were reserved.
From there, we examined the first favorable stretches, the difficult end of the season windows, and where the week of leave of each team landed.
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All this to say, believe me, it is well thought out in terms of who won the release of the NFL calendar for the 2025-26 season. Let’s go to the list.Buffalo Bills
Bills have travel miles this season, on the road, on the road for only 10,546 miles this year. According to their little trip, according to several measures, the strength of the Bills calendar is also the easiest.
They no doubt open their most difficult match of the season with a home match against the Baltimore Ravens. They then go to the jets before a three -game house. Buffalo plays four of his first five at home and play only two outside games during the first seven weeks.
They also eliminate half of their division matches in the first five weeks and do not play jets again before the regular season final and the last match at the Highmark stadium against their hated rivals. It is completely normal for their week to match the week 18, against what will probably be a New York team outdated in early January.
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Getting it better for Bills is the fact that their three most difficult opponents – Baltimore, Kansas City and Philadelphia – are all at home and are all spaced at least seven weeks.
It is a favorable match that should put the bills looking at the cannon of a potential record of 14-3 or 15-2 if all goes as planned.
Commanders have a unique schedule. They open with three games outside during their first five weeks and five games from their home in the first eight games. However, they are reimbursed with the fact that the only time they leave the DMV zone all November is a trip to Spain to play the Dolphins.
If they can escape a difficult opening section, their autonomous competitions will put them in the foreground of the eyes of each fan of the NFL. Washington Plays: Thursday evening Week 2 (@ Green Bay) Monday Night Week 6 (against Chicago) Monday evening week 8 (@ kansas city) Sunday evening week 9 (against Seattle) Game International Week 11 (against Miami) Sunday evening 13 (against Denver) Trio week 16 (against Philadelphia)
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The Jayden Daniels effect is real and this team has obtained a favorable list of renowned matches in favorable sites. Of course, they go to Minnesota, New York and Philadelphia in the section, but the chances are that the most significant game of December will be their home match against the eagles of week 16.
It will be a question of crossing their slate at the start of the season while the middle to finish its season starts well for many eyes to look at a lot of washington.
Yes, packers are playing a difficult schedule this year. But that does not mean that it cannot be favorable for them. With the opponents they have to face, it could have been much worse in Green Bay this season.
To start, packers only travel 12,929 miles, ranking as the seventh highest. This also helps that, with the exception of their divisional road games which are inevitable, their trips on the road are against teams that should not be too many problems for them. Travels at the start of the season in Cleveland, Dallas and Arizona could produce a 3-0 file.
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In addition, an opening homes for the season against two of their toughest opponents made an essential television and what should be highly tampered matches in Green Bay against Detroit and Washington to start the year. However, packers do not play a home game for a month after their confrontation on September 11 with the commanders.
Week 8 will also mark what should probably be a home game in Pittsburgh if the Steelers sign Aaron Rodgers. Just under 700 miles from there, you would better believe that the signing of Rodgers with the Steelers would lead Packer Nation, literally to the city of Steel.
With Philadelphia and Baltimore on home visit, in November and December, respectively, and in spotlights in prime time (probably), all eyes will be on Green Bay more than a handful of games this year. And fans of the packers, isn’t that how you wanted it? Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals of Cincinnati have the least trips, and as saying the saying, it is not even close. Bengals travel at only 8,753 miles over the year and open with three games on the road during the first four weeks and four in the first six weeks.
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Crossing the road will be difficult – but with trips to Cleveland, Minnesota, Denver and Green Bay early, the season decreases in difficulty in the section.
At the great dismay of the fans, however, all the eyes will be on the Bengals of the week 13 when they clashed against the Ravens on the Thanksgiving night cap before playing the same Ravens team 17 days later in the week 15. A highway game in Prime Time against Baltimore is not entirely in the favorable section, but the good takes it on the bad Cincinnati calendar.
Apart from that, there are several stretches winning for Joe Burrow and Co. with a week of leave before their trip to Pittsburgh and at home games against the New York Jets and the New England Patriots, certainly favored, Bengals could be back in the Ravens for the North.bigg loss of the AFC North.
It is a difficult schedule for the Lions of Detroit, there is no tip around this. The Lions open with a road trip to Green Bay and follow this with their first home game against Chicago. However, the road is ridiculously stacked after that.
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The Lions go to Baltimore on Monday evening in week 3, go home for a match against the Browns before a consecutive road against the Bengals of Cincinnati and the chiefs of the city of Kansas before obtaining the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay on Monday evening at home.
After a week off, the Lions play the Vikings and then have another ridiculously difficult section of two games against Washington Commanders and the Eagles of Philadelphia. But it doesn’t stop there.
In December, the Lions went to Los Angeles, Minnesota and Chicago in three of their last four weekends. And sandwich between this section? A potential match against a team from Pittsburgh Steelers led by Aaron Rodgers.
If history is an indicator, this does not represent much success for the lions. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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Yes, Baker Mayfield has weapons and the defense has been renovated. But with a new offensive coordinator, you would have liked to relieve yourself a little better in the 2025 season than the BUCs this year.
With consecutive road matches to start the season, the BUCs welcome the New York Jets and the Super Bowl title Eagles to close September. They then travel across the country in Seattle before returning home and hosting the 49ers.
They are then on the road to Detroit and New Orleans before a week of leave, well necessary in week 9. But it is not easier after that.
Tampa went to Buffalo and Los Angeles in consecutive weeks in November before an easier section to finish the year with four division games in their last five weeks.
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The start of the season seems difficult for BUCs, but if they can withdraw from Mayfield’s magic once again, half of the season could be more fruitful than their first eight weeks of action.
Falcons have a hard one. First of all, they eliminate their week off in week 5 after home games against BUCs and commanders and travel on the road to Minnesota and Caroline.
But once October strikes, there is no look back. Atlanta must welcome invoices, go to San Francisco, accommodate the Dolphins, go to New England, then go to Berlin before returning home to play Carolina, all without a week of leave or rest.
Then, they have consecutive road expanses against New Orleans and New York before Seattle came to town, then back on the road with trips to Tampa on a short week, then in Arizona before consecutive games at home to close it.
Overall, these are trips to the consecutive roads of two games without break, an international game without rest for rest and two trips from one ocean to another without the luxury of a week of leave to rest or even short weeks to provide a little suspended from Falcons in 2025-26.
