{"id":896577,"date":"2026-05-20T17:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/896577\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:51:22","slug":"2026-nfl-schedule-predicting-every-game-final-record-for-each-nfc-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/896577\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Schedule: Predicting every game, final record for each NFC team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom’s take on the Saints’ season:<\/p>\n

The more I think about the NFC South, the more I think every team is, really, an 8-9 team at heart. How much you expect each squad to stray from that mark in actual wins and losses depends on personal taste. I have a thing for the Panthers, but a two-to-three-win improvement would be completely reasonable for Kellen Moore and Tyler Shough<\/a>. If the Saints were facing a few more non-divisional opponents like the Browns, Raiders and Giants and a few less like the Ravens, Bears and Lions, I might have been able to find my way there. Alas, in this exercise, they end up with a second consecutive 6-11 finish that they probably don’t deserve.<\/p>\n

Toughest game to call: Week 7 vs. Steelers (Paris).<\/p>\n

I have the Steelers finishing with more wins than the Saints due in part to this inaugural Parisian throwdown, but Pittsburgh will be coming off a theoretically more rigorous assignment in Week 6 (at the Bucs) than New Orleans (at the Giants), and I could easily see the result here being flipped.<\/p>\n

Will the Saints make the playoffs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom’s take on the Saints’ season: The more I think about the NFC South, the more I think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[90,390,254,19387,260,391,257,113,7,345,58,259,55,56,6,84,609,109,252,261,250,111],"class_list":["post-896577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-playoffs","tag-analysis","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-bold-predictions","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago-bears","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-no-minute","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-washington-commanders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116608177519084797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}