The NFL schedule is an unbalanced mess. Unequal amount of home games, Thursday games creating large discrepancies in rest days, London games, not to mention the huge disparities in strength of schedule. Pro athletes are creatures of habit. When you’re playing at different times with different number of rest days almost every week, it’s gotta take a toll. I don’t think it’s coincidence that our injuries have sky-rocketed since we’ve become prime time darlings and majority of our games aren’t on sunday afternoons anymore.