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Jets & Giants face "Daunting" Schedules in 2025

 Well, the NFL did the New York Jets and Giants no favors when it came to the schedule release on Wednesday. 

My word.

Let's start off with the Giants, who are coming off what many felt was a solid draft season last month, but the schedule Big Blue will see in 2025 is going to be, shall we say, difficult! 

The G-men will face the league's toughest strength of schedule in 2025 at .574. They will play at least 11 games against playoff teams,  two of those games against the defending world champion Philadelphia Eagles, and two more against the NFC Champion runner ups, the Washington Commanders. 

 Obviously those two are in the division. 


Add the Chiefs, Broncos, Packers, Lions, Chargers, Vikings, and the NFC Champs from two seasons ago, the San Francisco 49ers. It's going to be a very difficult schedule. 

In fact, it wouldn't surprise if Big Blue doesn't find a win until Week 5 at New Orleans. 

If Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen need wins this year to keep their jobs, it will be interesting too see how this thing breaks out. Would team improvement over the course of an 18-week schedule be enough? 

As for the Jets, it won't be easy for Aaron Glenn in his first year at the helm, and it won't be much fun either if Aaron Rodgers ends up signing in Pittsburgh. 


 

That's because Week 1 will be the Jets hosting the Steelers at MetLife. It will be the first time ever that these two teams meet to open a season. If it is a Rodgers-Jets reunion, it will be the story that will dominate headlines for weeks. 

The normally tight-lipped Glenn will likely hate every minute of having to answer questions about Rodgers again. 

Oh, and there is the Justin Fields angle as well.  Can Fields resurrect his career in New York?  What about revenge against his old team, the Steelers? It will be a fun week 1, but a challenging one. 

The rest of the schedule does ease up on paper come the second half of the year, particularly in December, but the NFL did the Jets no favors in September and October. 

After the Steelers game the Jets host the Bills, visit Tampa Bay and Cincinnati, before hosting Dallas, and then flying out to London to face the Broncos. The Jets could find themselves in a major hole early.

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