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Scout's Eye with Matt Williamson: A little worse than we thought

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Even more schedule analysis ... and it isn't pretty.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. I am Matt Williamson at Williamson NFL. How's it going? Going great here.

0:12.4

Kind of the downtime. I just found out we will be broadcasting from OTAs and mini camps. I'll be down to facility here in the coming weeks.

0:21.9

That's end of, it's into June, end of May, into June.

0:27.5

But more schedule stuff that I found really interesting.

0:32.8

So Warren Sharp put out just a handful of, he's a schedule madman, but he put out just a couple

0:39.1

small snippets about individual teams. And the title of this one is how the 2025 NFL schedule

0:47.8

hurts the Pittsburgh Steelers. So we did know that the Steelers had a difficult schedule of opponents.

0:55.4

I mean, it's the ninth toughest just based on who they play, not when and all that stuff, too.

1:01.8

But as we kind of touched on, schedule makers really didn't help the Steelers at all as of when they play those teams.

1:08.8

So after a week six home game against the Browns off a post-Ireland, after by post-Ireland,

1:21.0

they from week seven on have the number one most difficult schedule based on opponents.

1:32.1

Again, you get those six weeks and then seven until finish, most difficult.

1:38.6

And it's the third most difficult when you consider based on rest.

1:45.2

We've talked about that a lot yesterday.

1:47.2

So that starts the short road game on Thursday in Cinty.

1:52.3

Short week road games are brutal, obviously.

1:55.3

And that is the first of two for the Steelers out on the stretch.

1:58.6

They're one of the only team.

1:59.7

That's two is the most of any team in the league.

2:02.0

They're not alone, but short week road games are terrible.

2:08.1

They also top week 10 across the country in L.A. on Sunday night football, which means a bad

2:15.2

body clock game for the East Coast Steelers, obviously.

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