‘“They have to be,” North said. “You look at the Tampa Bay home schedule, and there’s some excellent games. You can take, frankly, any of the division games. Carolina and Atlanta are interesting, but maybe not at that upper echelon quite yet. You have New Orleans, obviously a different story without Drew Brees under center, but never more interesting than they are in Week 1. Buffalo-Tampa is gonna be a big game, but what this really comes down to is deploying each asset and generating maximum value.”’