The NFL released its schedule today. Instead of doing what every site does, focusing on what could be good games, I’m going to focus on some of the peculiarities this year, mainly dealing with prime-time games. (Note: Prime-time games for this column means games not played at 1 or 4 EST on Sunday. So Thanksgiving counts.)

For starters, three teams play all their games at the aforementioned 1 or 4 Sunday slot. It doesn’t take a genius to figure those three teams out or why they are their - Miami (one win last year), St. Louis (equally as horrible) and Atlanta (who let the dogs out?).

Hope you like Pittsburgh early in the year. They are the first NFL team to play five prime-time games this year, but despite that early love, they play just five PT games all year.

And despite not playing a PT game until Week 6 (thank God) the Patriots play the most prime time games, six. The teams at five - Pittsburgh, Dallas, Philly, Indy and Chicago. All make sense, right? Well, there’s one more I left out. Cleveland. Yes, the Browns will play five times in PT, including THREE Monday night games. And this is from a team that didn’t make the playoffs last year.

And boy could those three games be stinkers. They face Philly, which is an average team at best, they face Buffalo - yes Bills-Browns is a Monday night game on Nov. 17. Mark your calenders now. And they face the Giants - and we all know how well the NFC Super Bowl representative has fared in the following season.

The Cardinals have two of these prime timers, while the Chargers have four - the same number as the Super Bowl Champion.

There ya go.

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