The 2026 NFL schedule is out, and now it is time to pick it apart to find the advantages and disadvantages that the NFL dished out for the 2026 season.
While the Tennessee Titans failed to earn a primetime contest, their balanced schedule may be the envy of many franchises across the league. That is something John Breech of CBS Sports points out in breaking down the good, bad, and ugly parts of the schedule.
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One good thing for the Titans. There is nothing sexy about the Titans’ schedule, but if you asked an NFL coach, most of them would want the exact type of schedule that the Titans got: All of their games are on Sunday, 15 of them start at 1 p.m., and they got a bye in the middle of the season (Week 9). Robert Saleh also got a dream opener with a chance to get revenge on a Jets team that just fired him in 2024.
One bad thing for the Titans. The Titans have lost four straight games to the Jaguars, so it’s not ideal that the NFL decided to have them face Jacksonville twice in a three-week span. Coming out of their Week 9 bye, the Titans will face the Jaguars, the Cowboys, and then the Jaguars again. The Titans went 0-6 in the AFC South last year, and if Robert Saleh wants to turn things around, he can start by beating the Jags.
Tennessee will have a chance to get off to a good start this season with a home opener against the New York Jets in Week 1. And when you couple Robert Saleh’s revenge game against the Jets and offensive coordinator Brian Daboll’s revenge game against the New York Giants (who will be on a short week) in Week 3, Tennessee has a real chance to have a solid start to the season and set the tone in the key rebuilding year.
This article originally appeared on Titans Wire: Tennessee Titans: Good, bad and ugly from 2026 NFL schedule