re: Saints 2024 Schedule

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That schedule is brutal. At least it means 2024 should be Allen’s last season in New Orleans.

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I'd love to know what you're smoking.

We miss the following teams in 2024:

Ravens
Bills
Dolphins
Lions
49ers
Seahawks
Bengals (strength depending on what happens with Burrow)
Jets (strength depending on what happens with Rodgers)

We miss the three best divisions currently in the NFL in the NFC West, AFC East and AFC Central.

Out of the 7 teams in the AFC playoffs this year we miss 5 next year: Ravens, Bills, Dolphins, Steelers and Texans. Included in that we miss 3 out of the 4 AFC division winners.

Out of the 7 teams in the NFC playoffs this year we miss 2 next year: 49ers and Lions. So we miss 2 of the 4 NFC division winners and the top seed in the 49ers. The Bucs we are guaranteed to play regardless. Everyone in the division will play the Cowboys and the Eagles. Yes we play the Rams and Packers that are in the playoff as wild card teams but we played both of those teams this year. And it's a lot better than playing the 49ers and Lions like the Bucs will be playing.

Plus 2024 is a year we get 9 home games (unless one of the home games becomes an International Game).

So please tell how this schedule is so hard. It isn't. It's more difficult than this year but not by a lot and it's definitely not brutal unless NFL scheduling screws us over (either in terms of when we play certain teams and the position of our bye week) which obviously isn't out of the realm of possibility. But based on the teams it's not a brutal schedule.