Posted: 03:59 PM ET April 16, 2012
By Will Brinson | Senior NFL BloggerThe NFL schedule announcement is scheduled ... for announcement: the league announced on Monday that it would release the full 2012 NFL regular season schedule on Tuesday on NFL Network beginning at 7 p.m. ET.
We already know that the first game of the 2012 NFL season will come on a Wednesday: the Super Bowl champion Giants square off against their hated rival Dallas Cowboys on NBC during the 2012 NFL Kickoff.
The game was moved from the "traditional" Thursday slot to Wednesday because of Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention.
And, of course, we already know the opponents for 2012. What we don't know is when and how these teams will play.
Peter King of Sports Illustrated predicted (reported?) on Monday morning that one of the first weekend's prime-time games would feature Peyton Manning in his Broncos uniform, and we won't disagree with that notion.
Every game Manning gets will be highly scrutinized, as will all the Jets games, as a result of their trade for Tim Tebow. In fact, we'll go ahead and make a bold, baseless prediction: the NFL rolls with a double-header Monday Night Football game again in 2012, with the first game featuring the Jets and the second one featuring the Broncos. Drama!
Additionally, it'll be fascinating to see how the league handles the Saints situation. Interim coach Joe Vitt is suspended for the first six regular-season games of the season, meaning he'll lose seven weeks of action if the Saints bye comes during that time.
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