wow, what an idiot.
For those who do not know: Every single opponent and the location of every single game is set by a well-known formula based upon regular rotations between opposing divisions and your standing within your own division the previous year.
Every year people suggest the NFL gives teams a break or punishes a team. It's pure rubbish. The day after this season ends you will know, by the formula, every single opponent and where the game will be played, home vs. away. The NFL and the networks only control the dates the games are played. They also look to move a game a year to London. That's it.
People who think that the NFL has arranged for the Pats and Colts to play every year: the truth is that for something like 11 years in a row they have finished in the same rank-order slot in their division (usually 1st, but both were 2nd in 2008) all but twice. The two times were in 2002 and then last year. But every third year the whole AFC East plays the whole AFC South anyway (2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015...)
Next year there will be no Colts-Pats game unless they finish in the same rank-order slot in their division. Then the idiots will say that the NFL dropped the games since its no longer a Brady-Manning matchup. The tinfoil wearers always have something to grab ahold of.
And there will be a Denver-NE game next year only if they finish in the same rank-order slot in their division, since next year is our turn to play all of the AFC North.
