Inigo Montoya Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 http://www.realclearlife.com/sports/super-bowl-champ-patriots-have-nfls-second-easiest-schedule-in-2019/ Thanks to the strength of their 2019 schedule, the road for the Patriots to advance to their third straight Super Bowl is going to be an easy one. Based on strength of schedule rankings for each team, only the Washington Redskins have an easier path in 2019 than the Patriots. The rankings are done by determining the combined winning percentage of a team’s 16 upcoming opponents based on their record from the previous year. Inconceivable!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your Brown Eye Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Helps when you play in the AFC Least were the combined record of the other 3 teams were 17 -31. But hey let's pretend it's it conspiracy. 3 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnCoke11 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Schedules usually easier when you’re better than all the teams on it 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBonhamRocks Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 With all of the moving parts in the NFL today, strength of schedule from the prior season has swiftly declining importance 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace Frog Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) All we have to do is get Edmunds and Hughes to break Brady's spine with a 'sack from the Gods' and all of a sudden, the Paytoilet's schedule becomes the toughest one of 2019. 51 minutes ago, Inigo Montoya said: http://www.realclearlife.com/sports/super-bowl-champ-patriots-have-nfls-second-easiest-schedule-in-2019/ Thanks to the strength of their 2019 schedule, the road for the Patriots to advance to their third straight Super Bowl is going to be an easy one. Based on strength of schedule rankings for each team, only the Washington Redskins have an easier path in 2019 than the Patriots. The rankings are done by determining the combined winning percentage of a team’s 16 upcoming opponents based on their record from the previous year. Inconceivable!!! Edited February 21, 2019 by Peace Frog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 The teams you play are what they are. What is really important is your home vs. away schedule (pats looks a little easier than buffalo's), when your bye falls, where your away games fall, how many short weeks you have, and cross-country travel. The cheatriots usually get babied when it comes to rest and short weeks, and the Bills usually get screwed. We'll see how this year goes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elite Poster Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 The strength of schedule is never the same as how it looks in the off-season. Last year's BRUTAL Bills schedule ended up being not bad at all. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurman#1 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Inigo Montoya said: http://www.realclearlife.com/sports/super-bowl-champ-patriots-have-nfls-second-easiest-schedule-in-2019/ Thanks to the strength of their 2019 schedule, the road for the Patriots to advance to their third straight Super Bowl is going to be an easy one. Based on strength of schedule rankings for each team, only the Washington Redskins have an easier path in 2019 than the Patriots. The rankings are done by determining the combined winning percentage of a team’s 16 upcoming opponents based on their record from the previous year. Inconceivable!!! They have 6 games against the Bills, Fins and Jets. Of course their schedule looks easy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 whats new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffaloboyinATL Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Until we get better, they will always have at least a two game advantage over us from a strength of schedule perspective. Hopefully that starts to change this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) On the Bright Side / Silver lining The Bills Schedule has to be pretty easy too. Take away the obvious Bills Home: Ravens, Bengals, Broncos, Eagles, Redskins Away: Browns, Steelers, Titans, Cowboys, Giants Patriots Home: Browns, Steelers, Chiefs, Cowboys, Giants Away: Ravens, Bengals, Texans, Eagles, Redskins Edited February 21, 2019 by ShadyBillsFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsredneck1 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 well...aren't the schedules fairly similar? ours can't possibly be as bad as last year...( 5 of first 7 on the road against top teams ) and this year we face the afcn and nfce.....with the titans being the oddball game. i fully expect at least 10-6. i think we can finally get off the losing side of balt. and cincy. a lot of these teams all have some sort of transitional issues be it qb / coach / loss of key players etc. ....and for once i'm glad it's not the bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDingus Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) Of course the Patriots have an easy schedule this year...unlike us, they don't have to play the Patriots twice a year ? As others have said, when you play bottom feeding teams 6 times a year, it's a lot easier to make the playoffs. Nothing the schedule can do to change that aspect. It's like a while back looking at the AFC South. The Jags, Texans & Titans were all terrible, so of course the Colts were going to make the playoffs year after year. Only now the AFC East is even worse, and the team at the top is even more dominant. Edited February 21, 2019 by BigDingus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 3 minutes ago, billsredneck1 said: well...aren't the schedules fairly similar? ours can't possibly be as bad as last year...( 5 of first 7 on the road against top teams ) and this year we face the afcn and nfce.....with the titans being the oddball game. i fully expect at least 10-6. i think we can finally get off the losing side of balt. and cincy. a lot of these teams all have some sort of transitional issues be it qb / coach / loss of key players etc. ....and for once i'm glad it's not the bills. late edit. they are see above 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnerBill Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 9 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: On the Bright Side / Silver lining The Bills Schedule has to be pretty easy too. Take away the obvious Bills Home: Ravens, Bengals, Broncos, Eagles, Redskins Away: Browns, Steelers, Titans, Cowboys, Giants Patriots Home: Browns, Steelers, Chiefs, Cowboys, Giants Away: Ravens, Bengals, Texans, Eagles, Redskins I really like our games for 2019. I know a lot can change between now and September but I can see a couple of routes to double digit wins. Will be interested to see how the schedule comes out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turk71 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Bills have 9th easiest based off of last year, but as someone already mentioned things change year to year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Boo Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) I've never understood this "easiest schedule" thing. There's a literal formula for what teams play who from season to season. Edited February 21, 2019 by Chicken Boo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Now Moment Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 The Chicago Bears were 12-4 last season. Did anyone have them at that record before the season started? Who had the Jags going 5-11? The schedule means nothing. Show up to play every week and be the better team. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Never understood the outrage on this stuff. They play a divisional that collectively sucks yearly and rarely fields a 9 or 10 win team. They per schedule rules have to play the other division winners so they do play the top 3 teams in the AFC from the previous year. Otherwise the Pats do not control how the divisions rotate with who they play yearly its pre determined years in advance. Buffalo also has a very weak schedule due to their divisional foes and the fact we play the NFC East who wasn't very good last year and the AFC North who has one team ascending in CLE two middling in PIT/BAL and one cratering in CIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 4 hours ago, Inigo Montoya said: http://www.realclearlife.com/sports/super-bowl-champ-patriots-have-nfls-second-easiest-schedule-in-2019/ Thanks to the strength of their 2019 schedule, the road for the Patriots to advance to their third straight Super Bowl is going to be an easy one. Based on strength of schedule rankings for each team, only the Washington Redskins have an easier path in 2019 than the Patriots. The rankings are done by determining the combined winning percentage of a team’s 16 upcoming opponents based on their record from the previous year. Inconceivable!!! Absolutely meaningless until the season starts and we see who is actualy good and who isn't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerJ Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 No point in complaining. It is a rotation after all. The thing is, it's all based on team strength in 2018. 2019 is a different year. The strength of some teams will carry over from one year to the next, but some teams that were excellent in 2018 will stink in 2019, and a few go the other way too. Lists like this vary by only a few percentage points or less from one team to the next, so the actual schedule may turn out to be a fair amount tougher than last season's results suggest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsredneck1 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 1 hour ago, GunnerBill said: I really like our games for 2019. I know a lot can change between now and September but I can see a couple of routes to double digit wins. Will be interested to see how the schedule comes out. i didn't see which were home and away, but now i like it even better. this could be the year we at least get to the divisional round. every team (except one) is beatable... wash. qb? who knows?...but even if they get a good vet and/or rookie, they need a miracle(s). balt. defend jackson / get turnovers winnable cincy new coach qb competition? loss of key free agents? titans could very well take a step back this year steelers normally count this as a loss but the loss of bell and brown causing chaos... giants...beatable @ cowboys maybe not, but if it's later in the year who knows... and of course we should win out at home ( except one) i'm likin it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 No doubt all the Cowboys fans are saying the same about the Redskins schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafter Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 6 games a year against bottom feeders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgotBILLStopay Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 SOS is based on prior year's win loss ratio and, with time-series parity the norm for non-Patriots NFL, SOS does not mean much at this time. Bills and Jets should be better and Miami worse this coming season. Certainly hope Bills will win at least one vs. Pats this season. This is the key phrase Quote “The one thing about strength of schedule is that there’s no perfect way to measure schedule difficulty before the season,” according to CBS Sports. “Between injuries, free agency and the draft, a lot can chance between now and the start of the season in September. ” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollars 2 donuts Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 5 hours ago, Inigo Montoya said: http://www.realclearlife.com/sports/super-bowl-champ-patriots-have-nfls-second-easiest-schedule-in-2019/ Thanks to the strength of their 2019 schedule, the road for the Patriots to advance to their third straight Super Bowl is going to be an easy one. Based on strength of schedule rankings for each team, only the Washington Redskins have an easier path in 2019 than the Patriots. The rankings are done by determining the combined winning percentage of a team’s 16 upcoming opponents based on their record from the previous year. Inconceivable!!! Sorry, Inigo, and I may be wrong, but wouldn't it be their fourth straight Super Bowl? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franco_92 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, Chicken Boo said: I've never understood this "easiest schedule" thing. There's a literal formula for what teams play who from season to season. Right, only 2 games can possibly vary from being known years in advance, and those aren't "chosen," they're dictated by your standings finish. Which hurts the Pats way more than any other AFCE team. Edited February 21, 2019 by arcane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 4 hours ago, Buffalo30 said: The Chicago Bears were 12-4 last season. Did anyone have them at that record before the season started? Who had the Jags going 5-11? The schedule means nothing. Show up to play every week and be the better team. SOS based on the prior year may not be relevant. However - the schedule still remains the same. While some teams go up, others go down. It has a way of balancing itself out . 2 hours ago, dollars 2 donuts said: Sorry, Inigo, and I may be wrong, but wouldn't it be their fourth straight Super Bowl? read it again. its poor writing by the author (not the OP) the road for the Patriots to advance to their third straight Super Bowl was because of a soft 2018 schedule (because of the 2018) 2019 is going to be an easy one too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 7 hours ago, Inigo Montoya said: http://www.realclearlife.com/sports/super-bowl-champ-patriots-have-nfls-second-easiest-schedule-in-2019/ Thanks to the strength of their 2019 schedule, the road for the Patriots to advance to their third straight Super Bowl is going to be an easy one. Based on strength of schedule rankings for each team, only the Washington Redskins have an easier path in 2019 than the Patriots. The rankings are done by determining the combined winning percentage of a team’s 16 upcoming opponents based on their record from the previous year. Inconceivable!!! Of course- they play in a soft division drew a soft nfc east AND they don’t have to play the Superbowl champs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollars 2 donuts Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 4 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: SOS based on the prior year may not be relevant. However - the schedule still remains the same. While some teams go up, others go down. It has a way of balancing itself out . read it again. its poor writing by the author (not the OP) the road for the Patriots to advance to their third straight Super Bowl was because of a soft 2018 schedule (because of the 2018) 2019 is going to be an easy one too. @Inigo Montoya Shady corrected me, Inigo. My bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heitz Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 7 hours ago, Your Brown Eye said: Helps when you play in the AFC Least were the combined record of the other 3 teams were 17 -31. But hey let's pretend it's it conspiracy. Let's also pretend that the Pats are only beating up on the AFC "Least", not the rest of the league... ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFunPolice Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 If the Bills don't make it to SB 54 KC will finish the job this time. Hopefully the Bills can actually win a game against NE this year. I would take a 3-0 sweep, with the 3rd game Saturday night of wildcard weekend at New Era field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iinii Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 No surprises here. The best teams are going to have easier schedules since they can’t play themselves and they all have fixed opponents that are common to their division and conference. As I have stated before I believe teams should have to play the same schedule. Each AFC team should play all the other AFC teams and likewise in the NFC. This way we get a much clearer picture of who the real players are. Strong teams in weak divisions wouldn’t be able to pad their record as easily, garnering home field advantage and other perks, especially first round byes in the playoffs, which as we saw this last season are extremely beneficial. We will never see this because the league likes to play favorites. The bye generally benefits the Patriots going into and coming out of those intermissions. Thursday night games are generally a farce. Stat aficionados can probably support this argument, but I would posit that the home team has a distinct edge in the mid week games. I am sure someone will point out how wrong I am but other than opening night has NE ever played on the road on a short week? The NFL is a good ole boys club who adhere to the victor goes the spoils mentality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Now Moment Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 6 hours ago, ShadyBillsFan said: SOS based on the prior year may not be relevant. However - the schedule still remains the same. While some teams go up, others go down. It has a way of balancing itself out . That was my point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSaint Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 14 hours ago, Peace Frog said: All we have to do is get Edmunds and Hughes to break Brady's spine with a 'sack from the Gods' and all of a sudden, the Paytoilet's schedule becomes the toughest one of 2019. Paytoilets has to be one of the worst insults around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiotAct Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 14 hours ago, CaptnCoke11 said: Schedules usually easier when you’re better than all the teams on it yep. The corollary is, the Bills’ schedule is always zomg so tough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Red King Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) Ever since the realignment the schedules are fixed. Each division plays an entire AFC division and NFC division. That's eight games. You play six games against divisional rivals. That brings it to fourteen games. A team's remaining two games are against the teams that finished in the same place in the two other divisions in your conference you're not playing. The AFC and NFC divisions you play rotate year to year, and the home team flips. Last season, Buffalo played in Green Bay. Four years prior, we hosted them, four years from now we'll host them again. No conspiracy at all. The entire schedule is dictated by a formula. Edited February 22, 2019 by The Red King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicharito Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Doesn’t matter! 2019 is the passing of the torch season. We will win the division and the pats will make the playoffs but be eliminated early. Mark my words it’s happening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Success Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Both the Bills and Jets will be much better this year. Those 4 games play a big part in this ranking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 15 hours ago, Elite Poster said: The strength of schedule is never the same as how it looks in the off-season. Last year's BRUTAL Bills schedule ended up being not bad at all. I never understood why anyone thought it was brutal to begin with. I was preaching that it was a pretty average or even an easy schedule. 21 minutes ago, Chicharito said: Doesn’t matter! 2019 is the passing of the torch season. We will win the division and the pats will make the playoffs but be eliminated early. Mark my words it’s happening! I'll mark them with a red pen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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