2026 NFL schedule | AFC record predictions | NFC record predictions | Conor Orr’s best games | The Rams and the league’s ‘creative Super Bowl’   Putting the NFL schedule together has always been a months-long slog for the people assigned the task at the league office—a group long led by legendary broadcasting executive Howard Katz. There are powerful networks now investing billions into televising America’s most popular game—and new big-money streamers emerging as partners—to serve, with a finite number of games and teams to offer up to them. So when the group, now led by the league’s EVP of media distribution Hans Schroeder, walked down the hall to hand Roger Goodell the final product Tuesday afternoon, it was equal parts exhilarating and nerve-racking. It’s not that Goodell wouldn’t sign off. It’s more the amount of work that goes into it every year.…