The hints and tidbits tend to leak out about the NFL schedule as its official release approaches. One NFL insider dropped some knowledge Thursday on what the first quarter of the season will look like.
The opening weeks of the schedule will feature out-of-conference games, John Clayton confirmed to Touchdown Wire’s Doug Farrar this has been a league discussion.
Clayton has heard this from multiple league sources over the last few weeks. The idea is to start with the out-of-conference games so if they need to shave the season off at the start, those games are the least important in a competitive sense.
