Mr.Blonde
Footballguy
Just spit-balling here, but I wonder if there is a "secret schedule", as Jeff pasted above, and that this schedule has movable weeks in it; weeks where the NFL could just slot out a Week 1 or Week 2 and make either one a "new" Week 16 or 17.
Also, if I was going to scheme things that far, I'd have those movable weeks slotted well for travel considerations i.e not having teams making large transcontinental flights for games, to keep costs/logistics to a minimum.
Also, if I was going to scheme things that far, I'd have those movable weeks slotted well for travel considerations i.e not having teams making large transcontinental flights for games, to keep costs/logistics to a minimum.