Following recent experiments, a lone scientist has confirmed an anomalous event. The 2026 NFL Schedule by Week that was recently shrunk (see Honey, I Shrunk the Schedule) was discovered to be quantumly entangled with the 2026 NFL Schedule by Team. As a result, both schedules have now been dramatically reduced in size from the voluminous, multipage versions issued by the NFL.

This is great news for NFL fans! Now, not only is there one tiny, neat, single-page schedule containing all 272 regular-season games, there are two — one listing games by week and the other by team.
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I wasn’t actually trying to shrink the NFL schedule. The whole thing started when I decided the print on my grocery list had become too small to read. This was partly due to advancing age and partly due to my habit of writing grocery lists with a dull, well-worn crayon. Faced with the choice of admitting age might be catching up with me or locating the ballpoint pen that was probably lying in plain sight, I did what any responsible scientist would do: I built a machine to enlarge the print.

The machine itself was a masterpiece of modern engineering, assuming your definition of “modern engineering” includes a toaster oven thermostat, part of a lawn sprinkler, and a broken VCR tape deck I’d been saving since the Reagan administration. After three weeks of construction and only two small electrical fires, the Enlarging Ray was ready for testing.
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Ever notice how the Super Bowl feels huge and unforgettable while you’re watching it… but a few months later you find yourself thinking:

“Wait… who won the Super Bowl last year again?”

It happens to everybody. The game feels historic in the moment, but once the offseason rolls along, the details start slipping.

Here’s a simple trick that fixes that problem for good.
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Alright guys, pruning season is past, and it’s time to see what the 2026 NFL coaching tree looks like. Like every year, wilted branches get trimmed and burned in the brush pile, while new growth is carefully grafted in, hoping these fresh coaching branches will flourish and blossom.
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I stumbled across a pretty cool website the other day: WhatIfSports.com. It’s fun to mess around with and built entirely around settling the debates sports fans love, including teams from different eras, legends who never crossed paths, and dream matchups that could only happen in a simulator. Best of all, it’s completely free to use, so you can run simulations, test hypothetical matchups, and settle sports debates without spending a dime. If this sounds like a cool site to you, I recommend checking it out.
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The tournament finale did not disappoint. In a clash that had everyone on the edge of their seats, the Bills’ mascot narrowly edged out the bear in a tense, hard-fought battle. Every moment was contested, every move countered, until the final decisive pin left the bear defeated and the bison standing victorious.
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The NFL Mascot Death Match Tournament is down to its final two. After two very different semifinal battles, the Bills and Bears have earned their places in the championship round.
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The NFL Mascot Death Match Tournament is officially down to the quarterfinals, and only eight mascots remain standing.
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The NFL has announced the official Week 18 schedule, setting the dates and matchups for the final weekend of the regular season.

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Latest Update 1/10/2026: The Tournament is complete! We have a Champion!

Tournament Bookmarks

Click a bookmark link below to skip straight to a specific round.


Click a blue button below to be shown the tournament brackets.

AFC Mascot Death Match Bracket
NFC Mascot Death Match Bracket


Tournament Introduction

As we all know, artificial intelligence will destroy humanity in the not-too-distant future. But before the machines turn us into pink mist, there is still time for one last noble pursuit: pointless, absurd entertainment.

That brings us to the NFL Mascot Death Match Tournament.

In this tournament, I asked AI to decide the winners of hypothetical, no-holds-barred death matches between NFL mascots. This is not about men in foam suits high-fiving children on the sidelines. For the purposes of this tournament, each mascot is treated as the actual creature or character it represents, dropped into a fight that reflects what would realistically happen if these beings were forced to settle things the old-fashioned way.
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The NFL has locked in its Week 17 slate. This year’s Saturday, December 27 lineup features a two-game showcase, starting with the Houston Texans traveling to face the Los Angeles Chargers at 4:30 p.m. ET. Later that evening, the Baltimore Ravens head to Green Bay for an 8 p.m. ET kickoff.
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The NFL has announced a pair of schedule adjustments for Week 16. The New England Patriots at Baltimore Ravens matchup has been moved into the Sunday Night Football slot. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Bengals will now face the Miami Dolphins on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.

I’ve updated all One Page Schedules here on Football Weblog to include these changes. You can view the updated versions by using the NFL Schedules button below or by selecting them from the site menu.


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The NFL has officially locked in the kickoff times for its Week 16 Saturday games on December 20th. Two matchups that had been sitting in the “TBD waiting room” now have firm start times.

The Eagles at Commanders will kick off at 5:00 PM ET, followed by the Packers at Bears at 8:20 PM ET — the NFL’s version of dinner and dessert.

Football Weblog has updated its One Page Schedules to reflect these latest changes. You can view the revised NFL schedules by clicking the NFL Schedules button below or by finding them in the menu.


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The NFL has shuffled the Week 14 schedule – because that’s what they do.

The Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers matchup has been bumped to 4:25 PM ET on Sunday, December 7. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Bengals vs. Buffalo Bills game slides into the 1:00 PM ET slot.

Football Weblog has updated its One Page Schedules to reflect these latest changes. Check out the revised NFL schedules by clicking the NFL Schedules button below or finding them in the menu.


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You are currently reading Part 3 of 3 of How to Stream a Fantasy Football Kicker. Reading the first two parts of this article goes a long way in explaining that you don’t want to just write off the kicker position in fantasy football. As you probably know, adding just a point or two to each of your fantasy football games will likely reward you with an extra win or two during your season, so it’s important. The first two parts also cover the basics you’ll need to make sense of this final installment in the series.

As already mentioned in the first two parts, How to Stream a Fantasy Football Kicker finds its basis in our original 2013 post, “Using the Science of Statistics to Select a Fantasy Kicker.” Click the blue buttons below to be conveniently taken to those previous posts:

Using Statistics to Select a Fantasy Kicker
How to Stream a Fantasy Kicker (Part 1 of 3)
How to Stream a Fantasy Kicker (Part 2 of 3)

The crux of these posts revolves around the creation of an Excel spreadsheet that uses Vegas odds to project team scoring, making selecting a kicker data-driven for fantasy football success. This latest and last post on the topic will explain how to use AI to speed up the process of making this spreadsheet and populating it with data.

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