The NFL revealed its 2025 regular-season schedule on Wednesday night via a TV show with the kind of pomp and circumstance usually reserved for something a whole heckuva lot more important in a broader sense.

But, this is, after all, pro football, and it is quite important, and something of which to be valued. So, perhaps it was given the proper treatment after all.

Regardless, you’re up to your knees right now with pieces on schedule analysis and reflections. You don’t need another one right now. We’ll circle back tomorrow and over the next several days after that with things everybody else has missed, as we always do.

In the meantime, here are thoughts on some other things schedule-related:

*There was a piece about how the Browns will be at such a disadvantage in their Oct. 5 game against the Minnesota Vikings in London. It seems the Vikings will already be oversees, playing against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Dublin on Sept. 28. Thus, as the writer alleges, the Vikings will already be well-adjusted to the time change while the Browns will still be getting acclimated. Are you kidding me? This is 2025, not 1960, so air travel is pretty fast, efficient and comfortable. The Browns will be fine, so quit making excuses 4-1/2 months before the game. Geeesssshhh! If you want to talk about a schedule in which the Browns were at a true disadvantage, go back to their perfect season of 1948 when they played three games on opposite coasts against their biggest foes in an eight-day period during Thanksgiving week. All that, and more, will now come to light about those great Browns teams from their All-America Football Conference days now that the NFL has absorbed the AAFC’s records and statistics. So, to the current Browns, just shut up and play.

*Again, with so much focus on the schedule release and the NFL Network program to showcase it, former NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle and former Browns owner Art Modell, the two long-ago visionaries as it relates to the potential of pro football on TV, have to be looking down on all this and smiling, while at the same time shaking their head in wonder and disbelief.

*With the Cavaliers now out of the playoffs, shockingly so, much of the local spotlight that had been focused on them will now be transferred to the Browns. We’ll see how Jimmy Haslam’s club reacts. If the Browns mess up, everyone will see it immediately.

And finally, with Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, by far the best linebacker on a team that is extremely weak at that position group, out for the season with a neck injury and his career in jeopardy, the Browns need to really start procuring talent there. It’s great that they took Carson Schwesinger at the top of the second round in the 2025 NFL Draft, but that — and he — is only a start. A lot more needs to be done.

Steve King



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