AI-Calculated 2025 NFL Schedule Difficulty Rankings

Daily Seahawks Podcast: HB Mornings & Real Hawk Talk

Brian Nemhauser

Football, Podcast, Hawkblogger, Hawk Blogger, Nfl, American Football, Sports, Seahawks, Seattle

4.8 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The official NFL schedules are not released until May 14th, but we already know every opponent for every team. I took the most important offensive and defensive metrics, along with the performance of every team in 2024, fed it to AI and had it project the level of difficult for every offense and every defense in 2025. Which offenses will have the toughest sledding? Which defenses? Which team will have enjoy the biggest dip in opponent quality? Which teams will suffer the greatest increase in difficulty? I share all of the findings for every NFL team. Buckle up.

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0:00.0	Good morning, everybody.
0:09.5	Welcome to another episode of HawkBlogger Mornings.
0:11.7	I'm Brian Nemhauser and excited to be with you on this lovely Friday morning in the
0:18.0	Pacific Northwest as we hurdle toward the NFL schedule release.
0:24.6	That will happen next week, middle of the week.
0:27.7	We are already starting to get some leaks about things going on that affect your Seattle Seahawks.
0:33.4	I'll talk about those in just a second.
0:36.2	Before I get there, make sure you give the show a like, click
0:39.3	subscribe, join over at patreon.com slash hawk blogger, get ad free audio of this show whenever you want,
0:46.9	also access to the Discord channel. And really appreciate all the folks that are giving us
0:51.6	five-star reviews over on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify.
0:56.6	You're making a difference. So thank you for taking the time to do it. I really,
0:59.8	really appreciate it. Today's episode is diving into the future. We are going to prognosticate.
1:10.0	We are going to see past where we are, when we are to get a feel for what the Seahawks
1:17.5	schedule will look like relative to the 2024 schedule.
1:22.5	But not just that.
1:23.4	We are going to talk about all 32 teams.
1:25.9	I will share with you a full ranking of projected strength of schedule in a lot of different ways.
1:35.0	I'm going to share with you how difficult the slate of offenses will be that a defense is going to face.
1:47.0	So, for example, if you look at DVOA,
1:51.0	DVOA has a ranking of who faced the toughest schedule of offenses in
2:01.1	2024 and it will tell you that based on
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