NFL SCREWS UP Schedule, COMPLETELY BOTCHES Week 18 

There needs to be rotation for Divisional Matchups on the final week.

North needs to be removed from this position.

This also happened with the Houston Texans when they faced the Tennessee Titans at home for three straight years in the final week of the season, from 2019-2021.

This Mike North guy needs to be fired because before this year I've never seen so many errors and obvious oversights in the schedule, not just for one team but for many teams. He is incompetent and so are the other people who work on the schedule. With technology being as advanced as ever it should be easier than ever to use algorithms or even AI to make the schedule, but somehow they still messed it up. The fact I even know Mike North's name at all, just from seeing so many people discussing the flaws in the schedule, is concerning.

Broncos played the Seahawks in Wek 1 in 2018, 2022 and now 2024. In Week 2 in 2014 season.

I find it odd that they haven't figured out an exact rotation to do. I'm certain I could build a plug and play schedule.

Steelers having to play 6 AFC North games in the last 8 weeks is criminal and makes no sense. Thanks for calling it out

The small size of the NFL’s divisions explains a lot of the problems created by divisional matchups. If there are only three choices to choose from, it’s going to be problematic…

In 15 years the Steelers have never closed at Cincinnati and the Giants have never ended at Dallas.

At this point, an algorithm might create a better schedule than this Mike North

This is the same guy that scheduled the Ravens into countless, and I mean, COUNTLESS Week 18 games against the Bengals in the 2010s, ESPECIALLY AT CINCINNATI

Giants vs Eagles is always week 18 and it's ridiculous

This abundance of schedule mishaps might actually work in a way. But only one way. You might have some chaotic games and lots of underdog victories cuz nobody has time to prepare.

Food for thought: the schedule of the CFP Semifinals: 2023/4: Rose, Sugar (UCLA*, New Orleans) 2024/5: Orange, Cotton 2025/6: Fiesta, Peach The placement of Sugar and Peach in Years 1 & 3 of the 3-year cycle allows for a swap between the Saints and Falcons in those years. As such, they will meet in Week 18 every 2nd year of the 3-year cycle, when the NFC South faces the NFC East. They will both also have to play on the road in Week 17 of those years, requiring the team not hosting Week 18 to host Week 16. The negative is that this could require their Division Mates, the Buccaneers and Panthers, to have 3-year streaks Home and Away to maintain the cycle. Alternately, the same matchups would happen in Years 3 & 4 and in years 6 & 1 of each 6-year cycle, with the venues alternating; this is the option that I would go with. The Rose Bowl is played in the eponymous stadium, so there's no need to worry about displacing the LA teams, at least for now. The Cowboys, Cardinals, and Dolphins would just have to agree to a home pattern of 2,2,1,1. For Dallas and Miami, it's AAHHAH, for Phoenix, it's HHAAHA. In both cases, the common matchups would be 1/4, 3/5, and 2/6. This would, however, impact the Giants & Jets, as Dallas and Miami would have _the same_ HA schedule, effectively requiring one and only one of those 2 NY teams to take the 3/5 with the other taking the 2/6, as the 2 teams would need to be on _opposite_ HA schedules. (Technically, the Rams & Chargers may be similarly impacted by Phoenix, though only the former play the Cardinals.) And all 3 teams would Play Week 17 on the road in Years 1 & 4 with Phoenix doing so in Years 2 & 5 as well, with the other 2 also needing to do so for Years 3 & 6. Which means that in Year 1 of the 6-year Cycle, the Cowboys & Dolphins would need to play Week 16 at Home, same with the Cardinals in Year 4 of the Cycle. Other Week 16/17 Required Home & Away games would be governed by the CFB Bowl Schedule. In summation: the Divisional patterns for Week 18, with a Prime indicating Home & Away are reversed: AFC South & AFC & NFC North: A,B,C,A',B',C' NFC South: A,B,C,C',B',A' NFC & AFC East & West: A,B,C,A',C',B' By way of example, and since there are only 2 solutions, being to swap the primes with the non-primes, the NFC South Cycle, with next occurrence to be scheduled: A 2029/30: Saints @ Buccaneers, Falcons @ Panthers B 2030/1: Buccaneers @ Panthers, Saints @ Falcons C 2025/6: Falcons @ Buccaneers, Panthers @ Saints C' 2026/7: Buccaneers @ Falcons, Saints @ Panthers B' 2027/8: Panthers @ Buccaneers, Falcons @ Saints A' 2028/9: Buccaneers @ Saints, Panthers @ Falcons For reference, 2024/5 is Saints @ Buccaneers, Panthers @ Falcons. And Buccaneers @ Panthers was 2023/4. As was Falcons @ Saints, but I'm trying to not have 3 consecutive years of Home/Road games for week 18. Besides, Divisional is Home-and-Home anyway. It's not like we're discarding the matchup altogether; just "swapping" it one time to create the canon.

I was initially against all divisional matchups but I've grown to love it. It's like you said it should be on a rotation basis. I know what they've done with the Seahawks before it's a home-and-home. 2017 (away) and 18 (home) were with Arizona, 2019 (home) and 2020 (away) were with San Francisco. So that's a possibility as well

The AFC North looks completely jacked up. Like all four teams play nondivisional games until like week 10. And then 6 of the last 8 weeks are divisional games.

If Lee Hutton Ruined The Afl Mike North Messed Up The Nfl Schedule For Week 18 The Nfl Needs To Get Someone Who Can Make The Nfl Schedule Better Mike North Needs To Be Fired

Are Mike North's parents siblings???

As a Vikings fan the vikes either play the bears or the lions in the last week the last like 8 years

I think the final two weeks should be all divisional games and they should be scheduled based on the standings of the previous season. Here's how I think it should work: Week 17: 1 seed @ 4 seed 3 seed @ 2 seed Week 18: 2 seed @ 1 seed 4 seed @ 3 seed

What you failed to take into account is either fox or cbs depending on what conference you are in is guaranteed to have Atleast 1 of each divsional matchup, so you will never see Eagles/Cowboys week 18 now b/c that usually gets a PT game and then you wouldn’t be able to flex that in week 18…… Same why lions / packers won’t be week 18 either

Should be Green Bay - Detroit in Week 18. Most likely NFC North title matchup. Or if they want it to be an exciting darkhorse thing, then make it Chicago - Detroit. Or Chicago - Green Bay.

@JG9News i’ll be honest I haven’t been much of a fan of some of the schedules for the last couple of years ever since they changed up the rotation for the AFC West and NFC West as in which teams you have to travel to if you are an East coast team. They change this in 2010 because the patriots and Jets had to do four coast to coast trips to play the Seahawks, 49ers, Raiders, and Chargers. Miami and Buffalo would only have to travel to the Rams (when they were in St. Louis) Cardinals, Broncos, and Chiefs. They waited until 2009 to do this because Houston (the newest team at the time) had not played at every NFL stadium yet and in 2009 they had to play at the Rams and Cardinals for the first time. In 2010 they made it to where if a team traveled to the Broncos they would also travel to the Raiders. This also applied for chargers and Chiefs. In the NFC, teams that traveled to 49ers would also travel to Cardinals, whereas teams that travel to Seahawks would also travel Rams. The NFL said the goal was to do this to minimize the number of cross country trips. Today it now kinda sounds dumb due to the fact that the Rams relocated to Los Angeles.

Complain all you want, but in the end we’re still going to watch because it’s football.

They should always play division games on Week 18

To be fair, having SNF games are inconvenient for me.

Also, the colts didn’t get a prime time home game while worse teams like the cardinals do

I remember when teams played outside their conferences in the final week…also they should at least do all intraconference games the final week though

Is there a video specifically about the Week 2 schedule in 2011, with no divisional matchups, presumably to lessen the effect of the lockout?

North needs to be fired he's horrible at his position

Even without a rotation, the Week 18 matchups can still be mixed up. I wouldn't mind the NFL not having all divisional games in the final week of the regular season. More variety in Week 18 would be nice.

Did you go to UF?

I like the rotation idea or maybe a positional round in Games 9 & 17... Game 9: 1@2, 3@4 Game 17: 2@1, 4@3 (Or just Game 17 being one of the above) Those should provide decent enough games at key points in the season. Granted, teams like last year's Houston... the 1-31 Browns, etc... but at least it's a spring off point.

as a vikings fan I absolutely HATE how we always play the packers at the penultimate week of the season, especially since we always lose badly in those games

I don't mind Week 18 being a match-up between a team and its most hated rival, i.e., Bears v. Packers or Malice v. Washington. If that were the scenario every single year, I'd be OK with that. Where I'd have a problem is having that match-up always taking place in the same venue year after year. Last year, Malice at Washington? Go to JerryWorld this year. Last year at Lambeau? Hike it to Soldier Field this year.

I like the schedule and I think the next season will be a really good season, maybe the bests in years. But I also am a bears fan so I am completely biased 😂 and I can’t wait for bears packers week 18😂

This channel sucks. 😕