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According to ESPN. Their scheduled opponents have a combined winning percentage of .387! Wow who thinks we can go 18-1 again?
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That doesn't include the insane amount of travel the team has but, yeah, short of surprise teams (which happens every year), it looks good on paper right now.
Its because we play 1-15 Miami twice a year while other teams that play Miami twice (Buffalo and the Jets) play 16-0 New England twice.
No it's not, our strength of schedule last year was close to .500 despite Miami. We just have a weak schedule this year with our division BUT ALSO the two West divisions.
Honestly, I'm not worried about 19-0 anymore. I'd be happy with homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. The easy schedule certainly improves our chances imo.
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That doesn't include the insane amount of travel the team has but, yeah, short of surprise teams (which happens every year), it looks good on paper right now.
You're right. Factoring in those 3 west coast swings, this schedule doesn't feel too easy to me. As someone who flies every week, I can tell you that it's quite tiring, especially when you cross time zones.
Also, when you like to get hammered on planes like I do, it's even more tiring.
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I would take 8-8 under a backup QB, getting in a 4-way tie for the last wild-card spot, winning out on the 6th tiebreaker, winning on the road in the playoffs and taking the Lombardi in Tampa over our 18-1 last year.
I would take 8-8 under a backup QB, getting in a 4-way tie for the last wild-card spot, winning out on the 6th tiebreaker, winning on the road in the playoffs and taking the Lombardi in Tampa over our 18-1 last year.
Well no *****. But right now all we can look at is the easiest possible path to winning the Super Bowl and that begins with a, hopefully, easy schedule.
You're right. Factoring in those 3 west coast swings, this schedule doesn't feel too easy to me. As someone who flies every week, I can tell you that it's quite tiring, especially when you cross time zones.
Also, when you like to get hammered on planes like I do, it's even more tiring.
They should be OK as long as they don't show any South Park episodes.
Well no *****. But right now all we can look at is the easiest possible path to winning the Super Bowl and that begins with a, hopefully, easy schedule.
I thought about how last year everything was pretty much set up for the Pats to win it all- HFA, getting a banged-up Chargers team (who played admirably anyway) instead of the Colts, getting the Giants (a team we had already faced) in the SB - it was easy and it failed. In the SB-winning seasons, there was some sort of adversity to overcome, be it injuries, road playoff games, offensive machines that "couldn't be stopped", etc. I think those situations are what really forges a championship team nowadays. Just look at the Giants.
The last 3 champs were all written off at some point in the final month of the season. While I think that's hard to do with the Patriots, they will probably have to overcome a large threat in SD or Indy in order to get back to the Super Bowl.
Patriots have easiest schedule...
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