A 57-day players' strike reduced the 1982 season to a 9 game schedule. For the post-season, division standings were ignored and eight teams from each conference were seeded based on their regular season records.
1982 Regular Season Results | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Opponent | Result | Score | OT | Record | ||||||||||||||
| 9/12 | at New Orleans | W | 21-7 | 1-0 | |||||||||||||||
| 9/19 | vs Dallas | L | 7-24 | 1-1 | |||||||||||||||
| 11/21 | vs San Francisco | L | 20-31 | 1-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 11/28 | at Atlanta | W | 23-20 | 2-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 12/5 | at Philadelphia | W | 23-20 | 3-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 12/12 | vs Washington | L | 7-12 | 3-3 | |||||||||||||||
| 12/19 | at Chicago | W | 10-7 | 4-3 | |||||||||||||||
| 12/26 | vs NY Giants | W | 24-21 | 5-3 | |||||||||||||||
| 1/2 | at Washington | L | 0-28 | 5-4 | |||||||||||||||