The NFL has released its 2024 regular season schedule. Here is the Denver Broncos full schedule for 2024.
The NFL has announced its 2024 regular season schedule. And despite the Denver Broncos full regular season schedule being leaked way early, we do have to make it officially official. We can now begin analyzing this schedule… on paper at least.
Compared to last year, Denver is facing a gauntlet of tough stretches here. While its all projecting here in May and we should note that the “easy” parts of their schedule last season they lost and the “brutal” part of their schedule they won five of six, its still good to at least talk about it and make some way-too-early predictions.
Here is a breakdown of the Broncos schedule for 2024:
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Okay, so let’s start out with the first brutal stretch of games. Denver opens the season on the road in three of their first four games, with their only home game being a revenge-type game for Russell Wilson and his new team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The road opponents of the Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and New York Jets could all be fairly good teams this season. I feel like Denver could be lucky to escape that stretch at .500.
After that, they have some winnable home games against AFC West rivals in the Las Vegas Raiders and the Los Angeles Chargers. A tough road game on Thursday Night Football against the New Orleans Saints and then a winnable home game against the Carolina Panthers. Hopefully Denver can take three of those games, but they could easily go .500 here too.
Then maybe the most brutal stretch of games with another three out of four road games against the Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs and Raiders on the road with a home game against an unknown quantity that will be the 2024 Atlanta Falcons sandwiched in between. Maybe if the Raiders are terrible, they can go .500 on that stretch too. They will wrap up on Monday Night Football at home against the Cleveland Browns before their Bye week.
So you are kind of getting the idea here, there are not many gimmies on this schedule and .500 is likely a very generous hopeful prediction with these. That brings us to their final four games of the season and all looking like really difficult games if Denver is not a very good football team this year. At home against the Indianapolis Colts, then on the road against the Chargers and Cincinnati Bengals, before finishing at home against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Woof.
If I had to give my record prediction for this schedule given what we know about the Broncos roster and keeping realistic expectations on this rebuild, this looks like a 6-7 win season at best. If they can start winning home games and turn a couple of those tough road games, then there could be a path to 10 wins. It’s definitely going to be a difficult path in 2024, though.
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