NFL offseason thread: FOOTBALL STARTS SUNDAY

[Xajii]

Ravens play Steelers twice in three weeks, with an away at San Diego for the fourth (?) time in a row in between. That'll be a fun couple of weeks...

Also, we play two night games within 4 days of each other (Sunday night vs. Patriots week 3, Thurs. night vs. Browns the following). Weird.

I'm digging the Steelers - Broncos rematch for opening Sunday night. I want to see Manning fuck them UP.

[Tweek]

not fair to call it a rematch imo, PIT will never be able to make up for that particular loss

[Demosthenes11]

for the record, this strength of schedule shit is bullshit lol. the difference between the bills schedule and the patriots schedule: pats play @ balt, vs DEN. bills play @cleveland, vs KC.

their schedule is only "harder" because they play the patriots. Point: patriots are so good they are throwing off everything. A division winner will always have "easier" schedules because they don't play themselves, and thus have one less playoff team to play. It's a retarded metric.

Everyone plays at least 4 playoff teams from the year before. Nobody plays more than 8 depending on where the wildcards land, and that includes playing your own division winner twice.

tl;dr quit bitching that you have to watch the patriots curbstomp everyone en route to the superbowl

edit: thinking about it, I guess you can play 9 games against playoff teams. 4 in own division if both wildcards are there (hi2u afc north), 3 in conference, 2 out of conference. Steelers have to play 8 this year

[Rhinox]

only one here crying is you.

[noblemountain]

Some of the mocks have us getting Hightower...I would love that. I will be cheering for Trent wherever he lands, so I hope it isn't the Browns...but either way, he's my boy and I'll always root him on.

[Demosthenes11]

only one here crying is you.

crying all the way to the 6th superbowl in 12 years

[Cail]

panthers @ eagles, monday night, week 12. its go time pasta+skirks! we also get a thurs game against the giants, otherwise almost all 1pm games again

ooo nice, GB@NYG on a sunday night. gonan try to get tix for that, my dad's a GB fan, would be a lotta fun

[Rhinox]

crying all the way to the 6th superbowl in 12 years

well pace yourself. You got the 3 straight superbowl loss incoming with your QB Tom Kelly

[Demosthenes11]

well pace yourself. You got the 3 straight superbowl loss incoming with your QB Tom Kelly

trying so very hard. at least compare tom to another qb that has played in 6 superbowls. oh wait

[Mertron]

damn it, the eagles on a thursday again

damn it, against the bengals

also i have perused the schedule and played the "ok they'll win that one, ok they'll lose that one" game, and have come up at an answer of 16-0

[Mertron]

i am going to be optimistic this year

[Mertron]

until they draft a fat person in the first round

[Moss]

until they draft a fat person in the first round

will he be at least 27 years old?

[Tajin]

trying so very hard. at least compare tom to another qb that has played in 6 superbowls. oh wait

Nigga you compared TB to MJ

[Demosthenes11]

Nigga you compared TB to MJ

don't hate on brady jordan

[Cleverness]

I still think losing to both NY teams in 2 years in the postseason is a little embarrassing. I mean it's Mark Sanchez.

[archibaldcrane]

edit: thinking about it, I guess you can play 9 games against playoff teams. 4 in own division if both wildcards are there (hi2u afc north), 3 in conference, 2 out of conference. Steelers have to play 8 this year

You can play 10 games vs. playoff teams if your out of conference opponent had both wildcards.

However, playing 4 playoff teams the previous year (like the Patriots do) vs. playing 7 (like the Packers do) is a pretty big difference.

Point is, not only do the Pats have the easiest opponent schedule by W/L, they also don't play hard teams. They are lucky the rest of the AFC East is shit, that they don't play a wild card in-conference or OOC.

[archibaldcrane]

Sure is a lot of talk about Eli's personal bitch in here.

[Cleverness]

Also I am not happy with that Giants schedule

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0417...ched12_576.jpg

Least the Giants tend to always have a strong start, and majority of our division games are in the first half. So after getting swept by the Redskins again can hopefully be in a good position for the playoffs

[Conrad]

optimistic

lol