Albert Breer: How Tough Chiefs’ & Jets’ Schedules Could Come Back to Bite NFL | The Rich Eisen Show

The MMQB’s Senior NFL Writer Albert Breer and Rich Eisen discuss how the NFL’s 2024 schedule will impact the quality of play for teams like the Jets and Chiefs who have tough road stretches.
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[@chuckdiesel7620]

The Chiefs have 3 games in 10 days(2 on the road) ending in week 17… so much for the NFL looking out for player safety. Just brutal.

[@EviIM0nk3y]

That what happens when your team brings in the swifty views Got get that money. Cry more for millionaires

[@Joe_I-made-a-BOOM-BOOM_Biden]

😭😭😭

[@marvinshenk]

I love football, but I don't need it taking up 5 days of my week. Sunday is a great day to do nothing but watch football all day, but Monday thru Friday I have a job.

[@rool7956]

3 games in 10 days is dangerous and ridiculous

[@natureredux1957]

There is no way possible to play 3 games in 10 days for the same team that I can think of.

[@PapaDon470]

​@@natureredux1957 the Jets are doing it. Mon Sept..9th @ SF. Sun. the 15th @ Tenn. Then Thurs. Night the 19th at home against N.E.

[@zombiepicnic9683]

@@natureredux1957 It's 11 days Jets play on Monday Sept 9th, Sunday 15th, and Thursday 19th.

[@natureredux1957]

@@zombiepicnic9683 Okay, I see it now. However they are playing the Titans and New England if they lose to the the 49ers, then at least after that it's 10 days off. Plus it's the start of the Regular Season. If this was the ending of the season, it would be far more difficult. The KEY will be beating the 49ers. Then the other 2 teams shouldn't be nearly as hard, in spite of the short rest periods.

[@josephfaison5689]

So is the ravens

[@knytrix]

3 games in 10 days is dangerous and must be stopped.

[@25jessieg]

Not only 3 games in 10 days....3 games in 10 days in DECEMBER. Listen to Travis Kelce talk about how hard it is playing in December. Guys are beat up. Really hope everyone is able to stay healthy.

[@songsayswhat]

I really dislike Christmas games. Let the players spend the Holiday with their families & friends, especially since it falls late season & most players are nursing/playing through minor injuries or trying to recover from worse ones.

[@paullohrentz1170]

As a Chiefs fan, the Ravens & Chiefs have got stuck with Christmas games two years in a row. As a long-time Chiefs fan(Len Dawson era- Super Bowls 1&4) I don’t need a football game to compete with opening gifts with kids & grandkids & Christmas dinner. Please pick different teams to play on Christmas next year.

[@thatstheway2429]

Plus, just let the NBA have it that day. Thanksgiving is for football. Christmas is for basketball. July 4th is for baseball. It was perfect.

[@kcnoise]

The NFL doesn’t care about safety. The players just let it happen.

[@HunnidTrillionMan]

It’s football boy

[@thatstheway2429]

@@HunnidTrillionManso? Yes it’s a dangerous game. That doesn’t mean the league should make it *MORE* dangerous

[@HunnidTrillionMan]

@@thatstheway2429 you want it to be flag football

[@thatstheway2429]

@@HunnidTrillionManlol no I just prefer teams get their regular rest. Nice strawman though. I’m impressed with your ability to over simplify.

[@EmmaChihuahua81]

Injury watch for those 3 weeks will be high

[@vanillatornado8390]

The NFL and its TV/streaming deals certainly don't feel like a bubble that's about to burst in their face

[@codyb.3015]

Yeah, the Jets going and having to play the Titans, Pats, and Broncos is rough, don't know how they'll manage. Jokes aside, I think 3 games in 10 days shouldn't be allowed. Other than that tho, the Chiefs have a pretty easy schedule imo, kind of a benefit to being in a weak division (Not a knock, Brady played his entire career in a weak division)

[@CalobAdamsInfamous913]

This is the most exploited schedule ever. Those teams that play 3 games in 10 days are put into a dangerous situation

[@ckmoore101]

Its funny how smart people in the industry all agree about these schedules being hard, but so many salty fans know better. Lol.

[@Anthony-yu5yz]

The Corporate sharks are salivating over the popularity of the league.

[@tiredperson6574]

I cant wait to compare packages to see who has the real beef.

[@OHANA-Beach-Suites-CDO]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@WHOOP1976]

Be interesting to see if Reid sits his staters once during that hard stretch.

[@mattyb1030]

I would start my backuops just to say FU to goodell for that crazy schedule.

[@allengodfrey2488]

I would imagine that kelce takes 2 or 3 games off this season and them being really cautious and safe bout his health this year

[@Picklemans_cucumber]

I soend 13 dollars and get all the games on the nfl network but some i can watch till they drop the replays 10 min after

[@Joe_I-made-a-BOOM-BOOM_Biden]

Guess the players association should have ironed out a better deal with these types of things in mind.

[@aaronkoch77]

It’s about the money not the players.

[@natureredux1957]

The Chiefs will be fine. The JETS with a very OLD QB, well at least they were smart enough to DRAFT a high potential QB just like the Falcons. How tough is the schedules, well we don't know until games are actually being played.

[@songsayswhat]

hadn't thought of his age. I hope for Jets' sake those are all away games.

[@nicholastrudeau7581]

The Chiefs will be fine because they will load manage and not make big deals out of losing regular season games, like they did last year.

[@playahdub5287]

Kc will not be fine

[@nicholastrudeau7581]

@@playahdub5287 and why do you say that? People have been saying that for 2 years.

[@nicholastrudeau7581]

Everyone directly involved in the scheduling for the upcoming season is responsible for this mess, but I hold the players association the most responsible because they are the ones that are supposed to be looking out for those who they supposedly represent, the players! The Christmas games on Wednesday is one of the greediest moves I have seen a major corporation do in a while! I hope all four teams involved load manage the bleep those games and the ones before them! I also hope, call me crazy, that there is a concerted effort amongst fans to not buy the Christmas Day package and send a message to streaming provider and the NFL.

[@jasonstaroscik1627]

What’s the NFL gonna do to the Chiefs next year if they win it again? I’m imagining no hot water in the showers and a prop plane to all away games.

[@ronbyers9912]

I don't know why anyone complains about the schedule. The NFL isn't like the SEC, Alabama might get three easy games in the beginning of the season but nobody in the NFL is the little sisters of the poor.

[@IncogNegroGaming]

Lol the chiefs don't have a tough schedule. Tf yall talkin about

[@aidanorsino1]

Looks like Jets have 11 or 13 wins

[@MaRkYWaHoO]

Go Chiefs

[@williamd1891]

NFL trying to make NFL unwatchable.

[@RebelSage1]

CHIEFS ARE GONNA 4-PEAT!! NEVER A DOUBT!!

[@Y2K2PointO]

Chiefs schedule is OPPOSITE of tough. All those games are in September which gives Andy time to gameplan ahead

[@FrakintheboX]

Boo hoo. You mean the team that won 2 SBs in a row? Poor babies.

[@Kyle22oifer]

God bless! Jesus Christ is King and saves and is the way! Psalms 62 - "Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken." Jeremiah 29:11 - "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

[@bigperm7712]

I see jets going 9-8....

[@timdyer7696]

It is as expected that as the first two time defending champions in nearly 2 decades the Kansas City Chiefs will be tested in their bid for a threepeat. This year, hopefully with a healthy Rodgers, we will find out if the Jets will live up to the hype. The whole "player safety" complaint about playing 3 games in 10 days is bs; it's called NFL football. Stop bitching and complaining about it.

[@nicholastrudeau7581]

LOL yeah, they will be tested in their ability to player manage the oddest and most unfriendly scheduling for players of any team in NFL history! Having them and the Steelers play an early game on Wednesday is roughly 8 hours less of a break in between games than Thursday night games because of the time the game is played in the day. Typically, it's supposed to be the other teams that will be testing them. And it seems as though you may be a Chiefs hater that would be all up in arms about any questionable call or action by the league to make it seem as though they favored the Chiefs! LOL