Quote Originally Posted by pbmax View Post
Does the math work with the beginning of the season creating a weird situation where a team will play its first game four days after all the others? And no one will be happy with a team having a bye at the end of the season just before the playoffs get underway.
There's no need to have a bye before week 1 because teams play on Thursday the previous week and mostly don't play their starters.

A bye before the last game is only a little advantage (no team would have a bye on the last week).