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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Did you choose those words because of Rexy's fetish or was it just a coincidence?The Jets will have to wait and see. They could be out on their feet next year if they lose in Indy or they could get be a shoe-in for the playoffs with a nice run.
Who would have thought when the Colts left the division the Pats would play them every year still? This has to be the longest streak of playing a non division opponent ever. Or at least since the advent of divisions.
We didn't play them in 2002... >hic<
Actually, in the old NFL, prior to 1960, everybody played everybody due to their being relatively few teams. So you'd have to qualify post-merger or post-AFL-start-up.
Patriots’ Home Schedule: Chiefs, Chargers, Cowboys, Giants, Colts OR Jaguars, Dolphins, Bills, Jets
It's due to the schedule formula, based on the prior season's results.
Look at it this way: next season, within the AFC East, the Jets, Fins & Bills will all play a division champion twice (the Pats). But the Pats will play no division champions (can't play yourself). So the formula makes up for this by having them play the division champs from the other two divisions that they don't play round-robin with.
Ditto for all the other positions. As a result, next season, every team will play four games against 1st place teams, four games against 2nd place teams, four games against 3rd place teams and four games against 4th place teams.
An 18-game schedule would screw this all up.
It probably doesn't beat out the Pats' streak of playing the Broncos seemingly every year up until recently.
OTOH, one of the most disgusting facts I ever saw: back in the three-division era, when the schedule was essentially partly random, the Patriots played the Steelers in Pittsburgh nine times in a row.
Four games (25% of the schedule) against the Browns and Bengals every year usually goes a long ways to making that happen.Watch, the Steelers, even after winning their division will once again somehow end up with the easiest schedule in the NFL, happens every year.
Actually the AFC South has been the best division overall since the NFL went to eight divisions, though they were down this year. On the other hand the NFC West has been the league's worst division for seven straight years now.I'm getting tired of playing Indy every year--it would be nice to see some new blood. The AFC South is such a joke...it's not as bad as the NFC West, but man...the division gets a free pass every year. I wish they would just contract the AFC South and add Indy to the AFC north and contract Cleveland. Then you'd have one heck of a league
There's no way the league will schedule the Jags vs the Pats over the Colts vs Pats. The NFL would lose revenue. Lots of people will tune in to watch Pats vs Colts, whether or not they hate the Pats. In fact the haters will probably tune in just in hopes of seeing the Colts defeat the Pats. In addition Manning + Brady is a marquee superstar QB matchup. Anyways it seems the Pats play the Colts every year now. The rivalry is just too good not to have on the schedule.
New England Patriots
Home: Buffalo, Miami, N.Y. Jets, Kansas City, San Diego, Indianapolis, Dallas, N.Y. Giants
Away: Buffalo, Miami, N.Y. Jets, Denver, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington
Anyone else think that's another pretty tough Schedule?
Not one team looks unbeatable. @ Philly is the toughest game on the schedule. I predict 15-1, lose one of the Pennsylvania games, win the rest.