Saints 2024 Schedule

Since the season is officially over.

Many will say we won't get an easier schedule than this year, which is true, but the schedule most likely won't be significantly more difficult.

We substitute the NFC Central for the NFC East next year which I don't think is a big change. Yes the Cowboys and the Eagles are very good teams but the Giants and Redskins (I will never call them Commanders) are terrible organizations.

Since we finished second we'll play the Rams and ironically the Packers next year. Meanwhile the Bucs will play the Lions and the 49ers. I'd much rather play the Rams with an aging Stafford and the Packers with a mediocre Love to get revenge than the Lions and 49ers, two teams built to be very good for awhile. That alone gives us an advantage against the Bucs within the division.

Essentially the NFC schedule will be very similar. You essentially trade out the Lions and Vikings for the Cowboys and Eagles. Lions and Cowboys are essentially equal while the Eagles are significantly better than the Vikings.

The biggest change is we play the AFC West next year compared to the AFC South this year. I mean yes that means the Chiefs but they could be starting to decline. They have no downfield threat outside of Kelce which they will have to address. And there's nothing that crazy scare me about the Raiders, Broncos or Chargers. The 17th game will be against the Browns. The 17th game this year was against the Patriots. While the Browns are much better this year than the Patriots, it's still the Browns so who knows what they'll be next year.

From what I've seen the schedule sets up this way:
Bucs, Falcons and Panthers - Home and Home as Usual

Home Games
Eagles
Redskins
Rams
Raiders
Broncos
Browns

Away Games
Cowboys
Giants
Packers
Chiefs
Chargers

9 Home Games and 8 Away Games. For away games the Falcons, Chargers and Cowboys games are in Domes with no weather concerns and the Bucs game, while outside, will have no weather concerns. Panthers game would have minimal weather concerns. Packers, Giants and Chiefs are the only games with weather concerns depending on the time of year.

So essentially while the schedule is slightly more difficult I wouldn't say it's a difficult schedule and not significantly mores than this year. The NFC part of the schedule is almost the same in terms of difficulty. The AFC portion is the part that's more difficult but again I wouldn't say by a significant amount. We still miss the three toughest divisions in the NFL currently: NFC West, AFC East and AFC North.