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Welcome back to this emergency episode of the Pack of Day podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman NFL. The schedule is officially out. I'm sure you know the dates, the times, the locations, the teams, everything by now. But I love this stuff because there's a lot that goes into the schedule that sort of goes a little bit under the radar and I'm constantly looking for the mismatches, not on paper, but from a scheduling standpoint,

what Green Bay Nets in rest days, if they have any long trips, do they have to go back and forth

from east coast to west coast, those sort of things.

So I'm going to break all of that down.

I'm going to go pretty quick today and like I said, this is just going to be a quick emergency podcast and just kind of review all of my quick takeaways. So first of all, kudos to match Knightman of the athletic for releasing the schedule very, very early on Thursday morning, which was super helpful to sort of put all of this together ahead of time. But as he put out, the schedule is officially done now and is exactly that he released on

early Thursday morning.

For those who don't know, the preseason starts at Cincinnati.

And then the Patriots and the Seahawks will both come to Lambo for the final two preseason

games.

Green Bay gets two home games in the preseason this year.

And then for the regular

season, they start at Chicago, then at Atlanta, Saints at home, Lions at home on Thursday night

football, at Raiders. Then they have their buy week in week six, so an earlier buy this year,

at Broncos, Vikings at home, Rams at home, at Steelers, Chargers at home, at Lions, chiefs at home, at

Giants, Buccaneers at home, at Panthers, at Vikings, and then the Bears at home. So again,

that's not my main takeaway today. That's not what I'm going to be going over. Like I said,

I'm sure you've seen the schedule and you can literally find it at Packers.com and anywhere else you want to see the schedule. But I want to go into the deep dive, the minutia,

everything that there is to know about the schedule. So first and foremost, there is one extra road game

again this year in the regular season. So Green Bay has yet to benefit from the additional

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