Exclusive: Inside the NFL schedule war room — ‘making everybody equally disappointed'

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Exclusive: Who — and what — creates the NFL schedule? The process of crafting that close-to-perfect schedule requires co-opting as many as 4,000 computers around the world to work the problem around the clock.

The Chargers’ defensive rebuild continues with the signing of linebacker Kyle Van Noy, a veteran of eight NFL seasons who played in three consecutive Super Bowls.

Dallas played in last season’s kickoff opener at Tampa Bay and was the Rams’ opponent in the first game at SoFi Stadium and the first preseason game back in Los Angeles. The Cowboys have gotten a turn. The Val Pinchbeck Room is small — maybe 10 by 15 feet — on the fifth floor of the league’s Park Avenue headquarters. It’s one of the few offices with frosted glass, and precious few people have a key card to access it. For years, it was permanently stocked with jellybeans and Mountain Dew and smelled of too many people working too hard for too long.

The first of those didn’t arrive until April 17 this year, stomach-churningly late in the game. All this technology allows the Katz crew to be increasingly discerning, a blessing and a curse. The team is composed of Katz, North, senior director of broadcasting Charlotte Carey, director of broadcasting Blake Jones and manager of broadcasting Nick Cooney. Onnie Bose, vice president of broadcast operations, and Hans Schroeder, executive vice president of NFL Media, are also heavily involved.

“As the mother of a 2-year-old, I like to think of it as babysitting,” she said. “Mike takes the night shift, and he watches the computers until 3 or 4 a.m. and doesn’t sleep. I get up around 5 and take it from there. NFL Network’s Kurt Warner, left, and Michael Irvin discuss the release of the NFL 2021-22 schedule in May 2021. The schedule release always has been a big deal to fans seeking to attend games.

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