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3rd Year in a row, Patriots end with two home games. (1 Viewer)
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Should make for a happy ending.
Deamon
Footballguy
Ya I don't get where' you're going with this. How is going on the road late in the year better than doing it earlier in the year? This doesn't seem like much of an advantage.
Everyone has the same amount of H/A games. If anything, they're wasting these home games on likely meaningless games at the end of the year vs Buffalo and Miami.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
-OZ-
Footballguy
Anarchy99
Footballguy
The league has a predefined template for the annual schedule. So as soon as the prior season ends, the league knows each team’s opponents and home and away games. No one gets any special treatment and there is no decision making other than which week each game will be scheduled.
NE will have an advantage this season the way things played out as they have only one game outside of the Eastern time zone (at HOU). They hardly have to travel much at all this year. But that makes up for years where they had multiple road games out West.
Flying Elvis
Footballguy
The schedule is irrelevant when you take it one game at a time.
bostonfred
Footballguy
Patriots won the superbowl but don't get the Thursday night opener.
Patriots play the dolphins in Miami in September which is a loss.
Patriots get an NFL100 game - against the giants. Thanks Roger.
Patriots play the chiefs as their week 14 game in a game that has a huge impact on the likely superbowl matchups. The patriots take their longest road trip week 13. They also play 3 of their toughest games in weeks 11 to 13. The chiefs have a week 12 bye and a home game against the raiders in week 13.
And those two home games in late December - don't get me wrong, i love going to a game no matter what, but those are not good for Robert Kraft. Who is going out of their way to buy beer when it's 12 degrees out? Who is buying tickets to a late season game against the Bills?
I'm not saying that they were treated unfairly, but i don't think this is a conspiracy to help the Patriots by any means.
Patriots play the dolphins in Miami in September which is a loss.
Patriots get an NFL100 game - against the giants. Thanks Roger.
Patriots play the chiefs as their week 14 game in a game that has a huge impact on the likely superbowl matchups. The patriots take their longest road trip week 13. They also play 3 of their toughest games in weeks 11 to 13. The chiefs have a week 12 bye and a home game against the raiders in week 13.
And those two home games in late December - don't get me wrong, i love going to a game no matter what, but those are not good for Robert Kraft. Who is going out of their way to buy beer when it's 12 degrees out? Who is buying tickets to a late season game against the Bills?
I'm not saying that they were treated unfairly, but i don't think this is a conspiracy to help the Patriots by any means.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
The Pats record outside of the AFC East is better than their record inside the AFC East during that time frame. I do not like the Pats at all but this is such a tired and false narrative. The Jets, Phins and Bills have all had seasons where they have been good during that time frame and every other division has some perennial bad teams in them.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
On top of that, facing NE twice a year drops each AFC team’s record substantially. I don’t remember the exact numbers, but the other teams’ winning percentage against out of division foes was somewhere in the middle compared to the other 7 divisions out of division records since the league switched to the current scheduling format in 2002. I do remember the AFC South had by far the worst out of division record, which was around a 35% winning percentage.
Stinkin Ref
IBL Representative
pretty much every team is going to be playing 2 division games the last two weeks....at least in the last 3....or so
Deamon
Footballguy
One of them is after their bye week too though so it's a bit of a wash on that one.
But ya, I wouldn't say they have an easy schedule based on their predetermined opponents. Probably harder layout than average. Thread fail.
King of the Jungle
Footballguy
Just stopped in to post this exact same thing. It is incredible how consistently bad the other three teams in their division have been. It is almost as if the NFL has a hand in it....hmm....
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
King of the Jungle
Footballguy
Sorry buddy, didn’t know that was a requirement to post in a forum. Will take note. Like your forum name....Tool said:
Deamon
Footballguy
When someone else already brought this up and it was discussed in detail, it would be nice if you didn't post the exact same thing without adding to it. So yes, I think a quick look over what people have already discussed should be done.
King of the Jungle
Footballguy
For your internet browsing satisfaction I will try to dedicate more time reading all the posts in a topic prior to commenting. If I mess up in the future and miss something....feel free not to comment and just ignore the post or ignore me as a poster altogether (as I think that is an option).
