They've looked pretty pedestrian all season, at least on offense. I guess Tom Brady's tummy is still fucked up from the strawberry he accidentally ate. Still, gonna need a good week of practice from our offense and special teams to fix what went wrong today. Discus [Reply]
Originally Posted by St. Patty's Fire:
@Browns @49ers and the Saints games arent gimmes. i think they go 10-6 or 11-5 and lose either in the wild card or divisional round
The 49ers are better than the Rams and probably better than the Ravens and Bengals as well. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Red Dawg:
Bucs have 3 games left against teams they may lose to. Rams, Bengals and Ravens and that's it and of course they are all home games to make life easy for Brady. I hope they lose two and then maybe the Eagles get the 1 seed. Only hope of not having another Brady SB but the NFL probably want one so he can walk off the champ. NFC is just that pathetic that this old geezer goes again.
So, you still have no idea how the NFL schedule works... [Reply]
Originally Posted by Direckshun:
First off, the Bucs are going to do what every Tom Brady team does, and that's triple team Chris Jones. Can the Chiefs germinate a rush anywhere else? He's as close to unblitzable as it gets.
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Chris Godwin is going to demand bracket coverage, I think. He's the one I think can break this game open for the Bucs if he gets loose.
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I imagine the Chiefs will not be very successful running the ball.
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can our tackles hold up against the speed of Shaquille Barrett? Everybody else can make plays and stunt our offense, but Barrett's the one who can break the game open. He's a bad matchup for our tackles.
Originally Posted by TEX:
Only opponents are determined based on records and divisions rotate. However, where and when you play a team is left up to the schedule makers. Plenty of room for manipulation. Often times is not who you play, but where and when. Look at KC / Denver this year - you think that's an accident?
Location is determined by the rotations, too... the confusion comes in because there are multiple rotations, so people get bent out of shape when they find out the Chiefs have played whichever team on the road multiple times in a row, yet don't understand one of those times was because they're playing every team in that division and another time is because they were both first place teams the previous year.... or one year was the NFCS division and the following was the 17th game, which can be on different location rotations.
It's not the simplest thing to figure out by simply looking at the schedule, but it is planned and not knowing the plan doesn't mean everything is rigged and manipulated.
That only leaves when you play teams, and your example of the Broncos is a bad one because the league has made it abundantly clear that December is heavy on divisional games. People might cry that Brady doesn't play in Green Bay in December.... well, no shit, he's playing a bunch of NFCS teams in December just like the Chiefs play a bunch of AFCW games.
And sure, besides that, there's a chance the NFL could manipulate the schedule to help certain teams or whatever... or maybe some people will always find something to bitch about, because the NFL always seems to be so against whichever team they root for. :-) [Reply]
