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What is up, everybody? Welcome back to the Pack a Day podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman NFL. Thanks so much for joining me today. It is officially the day after the NFL schedule release. We know exactly who the Packers are playing, which we knew already, but we know when they're playing, what times they're

playing, where they're playing, all of it. We've got all of the details in order, et cetera. As I mentioned

yesterday, not necessarily something that I always look forward to each year, but it is always fun

to see this schedule in its totality. What are the green package, the gold package? How does

the advantages and disadvantages of the schedule work out the gold package? How does the advantages and

disadvantages of the schedule work out for each team? So we'll get through all of that.

In case you've been living under a rock, the exact schedule looks like this. I'm not going to read

the Times and everything like that. But at Minnesota Vikings, Bears at home for the Packers

Home Opener, Week 2, at Buccaneers, Patriots at home,

Giants at home in London, Jets at home, then at commanders, at bills, at Lions.

Then we get two home games with Cowboys at Home, Titans at home, two away games, at Eagles,

at Bears. You finally get that by week, Rams at home, at at home, to away games, at Eagles, at Bears. You finally get that by week,

Rams at home, at Dolphins, ending the season with Vikings at home, and then Lions at home. So

there is your schedule. Now let's break it down. Let's get into all of it. The first thing that

everyone looks to right is like, all right, who are they

playing and are they going to be difficult teams or not? If you want to know the ins and outs of

their strength of schedule and everything like that, well, technically, they have the 11th

easiest strength of schedule that's based on last year's records, right? Which means mostly

nothing. I think we have some idea that the NFC North is probably not going to be

great. I think we also have a pretty good idea that the NFC in general is probably going to be

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