Analyst Warren Sharp on the unprecedented unfairness in the NFL schedule

The reasons this is happening at an unprecedented level now are three fold: an extra regular season week, but still only one bye, a full slate of Thursday games with Amazon demanding better games, and a bigger international game schedule. The NFL could use an algorithm to minimize this disparity. The first step would be to prioritize evening out the number of teams that get the detriment of playing a team off a bye which would appear to be the greatest contributor to this disparity.