NFL schedule released

If Murphy gets his way, it'll be the either the first home game or the Bears game, if Thompson and McCarthy were to get their way (they won't), I'd guess they'd pick the Vikings, just to make it more awkward for Favre and rub some salt into the wound.

       
       
nice

All 3 of those Tgiving games, look tasty.  Might be the first time in along time, that the games are better than the turkey and mashed potatoes, and that doesn't happen often.  

0-16?

Well F- it. Two of my group are already dropping out because of the lack of a guaranteed noon start. Might have to skip this year. 

I was thinking the same thing.  I don't think it matters for most teams (TB, ATL, CAR, BUF, NYJ, ARI, STL, JAX, BAL, CIN, CLE, IND, TEN, etc.) , but the high profile teams/stadiums (GB, DAL, NEP, NO, PHI, PIT, CHI), where fans are nationwide and want to come in for one game, it really is difficult to plan around.  

Believe it or not, I know how to operate that item she's holding.

The Thursday night game blows for those of us with Gold tickets that have to travel. 2 Days of Vacation and no hotel rooms. The hotels are all in full gouge mode with the NFL announcing the release of the schedule. Rooms are listed at $359 and up a night. Will have to drive up to Door County after the game and stay with Family.

Man, I miss desperate housewives.

Full NFL Schedule

 

Can't figure out why they'd have eleven 1pm games and only two 4PM games the first week. 

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Believe it or not, I know how to operate that item she's holding.

Alternatively, you could use a Toblerone bar. 

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Can't figure out why they'd have eleven 1pm games and only two 4PM games the first week.

I believe CBS still has the US Open tennis for one more year, with the women's final being at 4:30 PM Sunday, which is why CBS doesn't have any late games in Week 1.

I just set my TIVO for some Justine.

Hateful.  May someone threaten to shove a ****ing ball down your ****ing throat for that. 

Pretty generous schedule, imho.  Sure, the opener will be tough, but we need tough games to get tougher ourselves.  Plus, it would be great to start by getting revenge for the Fail Mary fiasco.

 

I'm glad the bye is later, but it always seems to be on my birthday weekend, which does not make Wulffy a happy old curmudgeon.  Selfish?   Yes, I am.  Get used to it.  I also thought ending last year with all those division games made for great drama, and I was thinking they would do it again.  Guess not.

 

12 win season!   I'm calling it right now!

Don't like a road game after a Monday Nighter but being it is Buffalo I guess it can't get much better than that.

 

Also a bye and a home game after Sunday night games are pretty good. And a home game for the 2nd Thursday game is pretty sweet too.  Nice little mini bye after week 5.

don't forget the side dish of duck and those tasty buttered peas....mmmm....the farts are even better later in the day!

 

Packers with the 13th hardest schedule in the NFL.

 

Wow someone hates the Raiders...

 

How does your team compare? Here is a full breakdown of the 2014 strength of schedules:

Rank	Team	2014 Opponent winning percentage
1	Oakland Raiders	0.578
2	Denver Broncos	0.570
3	St. Louis Rams	0.564
4	San Diego Chargers	0.563
4	San Francisco 49ers	0.563
6	Seattle Seahawks	0.561
7	Kansas City Chiefs	0.559
8	Arizona Cardinals	0.547
9	New York Jets	0.520
10	New England Patriots	0.516
11	Atlanta Falcons	0.512
12	Miami Dolphins	0.508
13	Green Bay Packers	0.504
14	Buffalo Bills	0.500
15	Chicago Bears	0.496
16	Detroit Lions	0.492
17	Washington Redskins	0.490
18	Dallas Cowboys	0.488
19	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	0.484
20	Philadelphia Eagles	0.479
21	Minnesota Vikings	0.477
22	Carolina Panthers	0.473
23	Cincinnati Bengals	0.469
23	New Orleans Saints	0.469
23	Pittsburgh Steelers	0.469
26	Cleveland Browns	0.465
26	New York Giants	0.465
28	Baltimore Ravens	0.461
29	Jacksonville Jaguars	0.453
30	Houston Texans	0.441
31	Tennessee Titans	0.438
32	Indianapolis Colts	0.430

Early Spreads:

 

Packers:  12-1 odds Super Bowl

 

Packers +5  vs. Seahags in Week 1

 

I like it!

 

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Wow someone hates the Raiders...

The Raiders play the rest of the AFC West (three playoff teams) and I believe the NFC West.  You'll note that all eight teams with the "most difficult" schedules based on last year's records are from those two divisions.

I have never seen this before.  They also did it in 1993?  I thought it was a network contract thing where the network covering the AFC would get the Lions game every other year and the Cowboys every other year.

 

That is really odd it is all NFC.

I like at Seattle on Thursday for the first game.  I figure teams are not yet in synch that early and with the Hawks being so physical, nice to have some time off after.  And of course, a team isn't hurt by Thursday night for the first week.

 

I am not big on back to back road games followed by a Thursday night game, but at least the road games are not real far away and that Thursday nighter is against a crappy opponent.

CBS covered the NFC in 1993 before they lost it to FOX (CBS was the network that originally had the NFL, NBC had the AFL and later the AFC).

PFT reports that Packers face 2 teams coming off "bye" weeks.  9ers and Hags face none. 

It's over.

How did the Packers get picked to open the season against the Seahawks?

Peter King tells the story:

The league obviously thought a Denver-Seattle opener was risky—based on the outcome of the Super Bowl. Those are my words, not theirs. “We thought there were three likely possibilities for the opener: San Francisco, Denver and Green Bay,” Katz said. “I guess we could’ve played Dallas, but we really liked Dallas for the FOX doubleheader for Week 1. Dallas also had Texas Rangers conflicts the first month of the season. Putting them on the road in Week 1 might have doomed them for four or five road games in the first few weeks. I thought we had a better place to use the San Francisco-Seattle game, because it has become such an incredibly great rivalry game. It seemed to us that saving that game for later in the season on NBC was probably a smarter move. Green Bay felt right.” The move also left Peyton Manning to kick off the Sunday night season with the Broncos. Against Andrew Luck and his old friends, the Colts.

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/04/24/...f-2014-nfl-schedule/

I went ahead out of curiosity and compared the SOS for 2013 between the projections based on 2012 records, and the final SOS calculation based on how the season played out pulled from ESPN's Playoff Standings. Things change in the NFL in one season.

 

2013 rank based on 2012	Team	2013 SOS based on 2012	2013 SOS actual	2013 rank actual
1	Panthers	0.543	0.494	17
2	Saints	0.539	0.516	9
3	Rams	0.539	0.551	4
4	Lions	0.539	0.457	29
5	Ravens	0.535	0.484	21
6	Packers	0.533	0.453	30
7	Cardinals	0.52	0.531	5
8	49ers	0.52	0.494	18
9	Dolphins	0.52	0.523	6
10	Seahawks	0.516	0.49	19
11	Vikings	0.516	0.512	12
12	Jaguars	0.508	0.504	13
13	Bengals	0.508	0.48	24
14	Patriots	0.508	0.473	25
15	Falcons	0.504	0.553	3
16	Bears	0.502	0.465	28
17	Buccaneers	0.5	0.574	1
18	Redskins	0.498	0.516	10
19	Eagles	0.496	0.453	31
20	Jets	0.496	0.488	20
21	Steelers	0.492	0.469	26
22	Browns	0.492	0.516	11
23	Titans	0.488	0.504	14
24	Giants	0.48	0.52	7
25	Cowboys	0.475	0.484	22
26	Chiefs	0.473	0.445	32
27	Bills	0.473	0.52	8
28	Texans	0.472	0.559	2
29	Raiders	0.469	0.504	15
30	Colts	0.461	0.484	23
31	Chargers	0.457	0.496	16
32	Broncos	0.43	0.469	27

It's remarkable that the NFL (apparently) has fostered this new  'cooperation' between the networks. I'm guessing there was some bitching from the networks being stuck with the dog games, and I'm sure there are some financial incentives involved, but it should work well for all involved.

Maybe....just maybe.....this will work best for us fans.

They wanted the Pack to open the season because that was the best chance for America to see the healthy version. 

It has everything to do with ratings. It has nothing to do with "Green Bay felt right".

 

Seattle / Denver was never in the running. The NY Giants or Cowboys had a better shot at opening vs. Seattle than Denver did.

 

It was always between SF & Green Bay.

 

Putting SF & Seattle on Thanksgiving evening works very well. That makes the opener obvious.

 

Fail Mary II.

 

Bet the Packers heavy....you'll laugh all the way to the bank

Getting 5.5 is easy money. 

Yeah, but the vikings can't help that......or the bears...

One of the NFL schedule personnel was on Chris Russo's show yesterday and was talking about how networks are apprehensive about being given Seattle home games in the primetime slots. The reason being Seattle was putting the wood to teams at home last year and the networks are concerned about having to carry a blowout.

 

Two thoughts, GB isn't getting blown out. Really good shot at winning that game in fact. And second, When the f**k did Seattle become a mythical NFL superpower to the point people are talking about them with reverence and fear??? They lost to Arizona at home in week 16 last year. They needed OT to beat Tampa after trailing 21-0 at home.

 

 

Last years home games vs playoff teams

 

49ers3 Seahawks29

Saints7 Seahawks34

In other words, if it's a big game they can rely on the crowd for the win, but if they have to win a game on their own, it's hit or miss?

Well, that is one big damn impressive body of work for the networks to get their panties in a knot that the 2014 Seattle Seahawks may very well be a budding force of nature.

 

I'm a little surprised a guy from the NFL said it. I do think the NFL will go to great lengths to avoid blowouts at all cost for the primetime slots. If the NFL is putting teams like Seattle in 4 primetime games this year because they want to capitalize on ad money and ratings, I get it. If they put Seattle on the road for 3 of them because they've somehow convinced themselves a game in Seattle will result in a blowout then that's a whole other bag of issues and questions about potentially screwing teams over self induced phobias.

 

Spoke with my buddy in Vegas. They're not taking any bets on week 1 until after the draft.

 

Damnit. I was trying to get in at +5.5. After the draft it'll probably drop to +2.5.

 

I know this much, the Packers aren't getting blown out however, they might blowout the Seahawks

I can see that. Missing 8 weeks made that chip a bit bigger.

Hey CalBuc. Great news. Tampa sold out a regular season game 6 months early!

 

Plenty of seats available for the other 7 homers though. You're welcome. 

Holy crap! I know we always travel well down there...but Daaaammmnnn!!!

 

That game will be the division clincher for the Packers to once again take the NFC North throne!