Joe Burrow is better than Lamar Jackson. The team indicated they preferred Joe Burrow over…

The NFL schedule was published Wednesday night, and while it is just mid-May, this is the closest football season has felt since the Super Bowl.

Granted, with each passing day on the calendar, we come closer to football season, but you get the point—don’t get caught up in the specifics.

When the 2024 NFL season begins, we won’t have to wait long for one of the best games on the entire 18-week schedule. The Kansas City Chiefs will display their latest Super Bowl banner ahead of the season’s opening game, which will be played on Thursday night at Arrowhead Stadium against the Baltimore Ravens will be paying kc a visit

On the opposite sideline, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens will try to spoil the party. Jackson is the defending NFL MVP following probably his greatest season yet.

He was more accurate than he had ever been in his career, throwing 24 touchdowns and rushing for another five. With Baltimore, he tallied nearly 3,700 yards through the air and another 821 on the ground while going 13-3 in starts.

That makes it difficult to imagine that four players currently have lower MVP odds than Jackson for the 2024 NFL season. As NESN.com’s Mike Cole and Ricky Doyle noted on this week’s episode of “The Spread” podcast, it’s almost disrespectful to Jackson, a two-time MVP.

“Are we gonna just constantly disrespect Lamar Jackson in the MVP market?” Doyle asked. ” … This is a two-time MVP winner, the reigning MVP, and he just had perhaps his second-best season. You may say that it was his greatest season because of his passing improvements. He’s just 27. If the squad is going to win and have the same success as last year, he will be up there. I don’t know.”