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2011 Patriots Schedule Released
By: Ian Logue

The Patriots officially released the 2011 NFL Schedule Tuesday night, and here's a look at how this year - provided it starts on time - will play out....

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RhodyPatriot

I like it. Seems to be a well paced schedule. On the road against the Steelers after the bye week. Wrap up the season with 2 home games. Much more managable than last season's. Now if they can just settle things and play.......

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Banjo

NBC got the good ones. I was hoping the Monday night games would be Eagles or Giants. Especially Giants. Would this be the first Pats/Giants regular season game since the Super Bowl?

PatriotsInGA

Yes, but the first MNF is usually a divisional game. Rarely is it a intra-conference rivalry game. Never an inter-conference game.

kmac14

The first six homes games are 4:15 or later......WTF!!!! Even more maddening 12 of the 16 games to be played are 4:15 or later..seriously again ....WTF!

Urgent

Seriously?
THREE Sunday 1pm games? THREE?
Really? And one is on New Year's Day. Two of them are in the flex period.
It is possible the Patriots play one Sunday 1pm game.

So much for a Sunday afternoon schedule.
That's ridiculous.

Starting on Monday night just delays the season as long as possible, if, in fact, they play on opening weekend.

I love starting at Miami at night, and having Miami in NE on Christmas eve. That sets up a potentially hot weather game in Miami, although the evening dulls the sun impact, and a cold weather game in NE.

Two home games to finish the season is nice. Home advantage if they need it to close out the AFC. Closing out Redskins, Broncos, Dolphins, Bills is nice if they need a four-game run.

I just wish they had a few normally scheduled games.

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Bill B.

Only four 1:00 games. And from Nov 13 to Dec 4 there are 3 night games in 4 weeks. The first part of the season looks pretty good, but there will be 6 tough games in a row after the BYE week. It is what it is.

TheRealMcCagh

i gotta say i like the later games, with the time zone i usually cant watch the 1 pm games. I do like this schedule, i just wish we played the Jets at home second instead of first

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jmt57

A few years ago the NFL and the networks came to a strategic decision that Sunday night had become a better/more popular time than Monday night for football/# of viewers and ratings. That's why there's been a shift from better games on MNF, to better matchups on SNF.

There's a more natural flow for football viewers from the 1:00 game to the 4:15 game to the Sunday night game. Sunday night gets higher ratings and NBC pays more for SNF than abc/espn does for MNF, so it makes sense that SNF is going to better matchups than MNF does.

As to your other question: yes, this will be the first time the Pats play the Giants since the Super Bowl. With the rotating schedule it will be the first time the Pats play all four NFC East teams since the '07 season.

Remember the beating the Pats gave the Redskins that year? I'm sure Washington fans haven't forgotten, and if they have the media will surely be right there to remind them that week. Game against the Eagles the media will play up the '04 Super Bowl rematch angle; will former Senator Comcast have something to say?