The 2024 Washington Commanders schedule is now official!

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2024 Washington Commanders Schedule

Here’s the Commanders’ 2024 schedule: pic.twitter.com/FUKKeYCmkl

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The wait’s over. The schedule is here

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Whipped up something sweet for schedule release

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Preseason

Week 1 – @ New York Jets Date/Time TBD

Week 2 – @ Miami Dolphins Date/Time TBD

Week 3 – vs New England Patriots (August 25, 8p.m., NBC)

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Regular Season

Week 1 – @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers (September 8, 4:25p.m., FOX)

Week 2 – vs New York Giants (September 15, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 3 – @ Cincinnati Bengals (September 23, MNF, 8:15 p.m., ABC)

Week 4 – @ Arizona Cardinals (September 29, 4:05 p.m., FOX)

Week 5 – vs Cleveland Browns (October 6, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 6 – @ Baltimore Ravens (October 13, 1 p.m., CBS)

Week 7 – vs Carolina Panthers (October 20, 4:05 p.m., CBS)

Week 8 – vs Chicago Bears (October 27, 1 p.m., CBS)

Week 9 – @ New York Giants (November 3, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 10 – vs Pittsburgh Steelers (November 10, 1 p.m., CBS)

Week 11 – @ Philadelphia Eagles (November 14, TNF, 8:15 p.m.)

Week 12 – vs Dallas Cowboys (November 24, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 13 – vs Tennessee Titans (December 1, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 14 – BYE

Week 15 – @ New Orleans Saints (December 15, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 16 – vs Philadelphia Eagles (December 22, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 17 – vs Atlanta Falcons (December 28/29, Time TBD)

Week 18 – @ Dallas Cowboys (Date/Time TBD)

Did someone say some Triple-Header?! Which game are you looking forward to watch?

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Notes on the Washington Commanders schedule

• Third year in a row for a Week 14 bye week
• Only two primetime games(possibility for more later in the season), and both are away
• First road opener since 2019
• Three of first four, and four of the last six games are on the road
• Four of the last six games are at home
• Fans have to wait until Week 8 to get the No. 1(Caleb Williams) and No. 2(Jayden Daniels) picks from this year play each other
• Back-to-back home games three times during the season
• Two away and one preseason game, Dan Quinn wants to try to run joint practices during the preseason

The annual anticlimax

The annual NFL schedule reveal is probably the most anti-climactic event of the year. First of all, fans know 14 of the 17 games that every NFL team will play for years in advance.

• Every NFL team plays 6 games per season against its division rivals (home & away)
• Every team in a division plays every team in another division within its conference on a rotating 3-year schedule.
• Every team in a division plays every team in another division in the opposing conference on a rotating 4-year schedule.

The other 3 games are determined at the end of the previous regular season. A team’s opponents in those three games will have finished in the same divisional ranking (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th place) — a game against an opponent from each of the remaining two in-conference divisions, and one against a non-conference division opponent (the “17th game” added last year), alternating home & away with the AFC home in odd years and the NFC home in even years, on a predetermined schedule of divisional pairings.

Even the home & away matchups are known long before the schedule release. This year, every AFC team plays 8 homes games, while every NFC team plays 9 home games. That’s one factor that could make this year’s schedule for NFC teams slightly easier than last year’s.

In the end, today is really only about dates, times and bye weeks.

When you throw in the leaks that start appearing on Twitter as early as Monday or Tuesday day, there’s not really much mystery left by the time of the official release at 8pm tonight; still, the NFL manages to turn it into a 2-hour TV event.

Video: How is the NFL Schedule Created? | NFL Explained

No fan is ever satisfied with his or her favorite team’s schedule; there’s always something (often many things) to complain about. Some fans wonder why the announcement of the schedule release date is sometimes delayed until the last minute (as it was this year). Putting the schedule together is incredibly complex. If you want to get the flavor of the complexity, watch the embedded video above.

The factors are crazy — stadium availability, holidays, travel distance, international games, television contracts — it’s mind boggling.

TV contracts, in particular, have changed this season, changing the dynamics of the schedule, but there have been other changes as well, such as the “Black Friday” games that will be played on the day after Thanksgiving. Also, teams are allowed to play two Thursday games this year, and not every team is guaranteed a prime-time game.

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