Do you guys notice that chargers are starting to play a lot of teams coming off their bye weeks? Not only do they get 2 weeks to prepare for the chargers, but these aren't easy teams easier. Patriots, Raiders, Philly in a row now ... what else? Can the NFL schedule makers make a harder schedule for this team? If they overcome all this and make it to the playoffs, they better give credit to where its due.
holler03 wrote:Do you guys notice that chargers are starting to play a lot of teams coming off their bye weeks? Not only do they get 2 weeks to prepare for the chargers, but these aren't easy teams easier. Patriots, Raiders, Philly in a row now ... what else? Can the NFL schedule makers make a harder schedule for this team? If they overcome all this and make it to the playoffs, they better give credit to where its due.
The Patriots didnt come off a bye when the Chargers demolished them. If anyone has the toughest schedule, it would be NE. The Superbowl winner (in any year) always has the toughest schedule.
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Not complaining but....it is a much tougher schedule than SD has to deal with....
As previously posted Rockets/holler - the Chargers schedule is tougher than NE schedule, not because of Byes but because of the fact that they are flying halfway (or more) across the country in 6 or 7 of their road games, not a short jaunt down the road like most of New England's road games...
BTW - I think holler intended to say Pittsburgh instead of Patriots... Pitt, Oak and Philly will all be playing SD (consecutively) after a bye week...
lmcjaho wrote:As previously posted Rockets/holler - the Chargers schedule is tougher than NE schedule, not because of Byes but because of the fact that they are flying halfway (or more) across the country in 6 or 7 of their road games, not a short jaunt down the road like most of New England's road games...
BTW - I think holler intended to say Pittsburgh instead of Patriots... Pitt, Oak and Philly will all be playing SD (consecutively) after a bye week...
Its not like baseball....jet lag shouldnt be a factor in the NFL in my opinion (you all wk to fly down there)
I don't think the Super Bowl winner has the toughest schedule every year...I mean, when the 49ers were winning all those championships, they played in a really crappy division...and you play each of those teams twice a year. That would bring your SoS down a long way as it is. A decent team in a much stronger division could easily have a tougher overall schedule.
You might be able to say that they have a tougher "non-divisional" schedule because of the way they match up good teams for Monday night and such, but saying that the SB winner always has the toughest schedule is probably not true.
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Mercer Boy wrote:I don't think the Super Bowl winner has the toughest schedule every year...I mean, when the 49ers were winning all those championships, they played in a really crappy division...and you play each of those teams twice a year. That would bring your SoS down a long way as it is. A decent team in a much stronger division could easily have a tougher overall schedule.
You might be able to say that they have a tougher "non-divisional" schedule because of the way they match up good teams for Monday night and such, but saying that the SB winner always has the toughest schedule is probably not true.
I will agree with u there, but most of the time the Superbowl winner has the toughest non divisional opponents
not that I really care enough to choose a side in this debate.... I did notice that Chargers must travel to NY to play the Jets after their bye a few weeks down the road.
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RocketsDWM wrote:I will agree with u there, but most of the time the Superbowl winner has the toughest non divisional opponents
Winning the Super Bowl has nothing to do with it. The weakest division winner has the toughest schedule in the league, assuming we're judging this on the opponents' previous season records.
As for the Chargers, you have to admit that playing so many teams coming off bye weeks is pretty rough. I don't think it's an NFL conspiracy or anything, just rough. It's a good thing for them, nobody loves to make excuses like Schotteinheimer.
Somebody on ESPN (Trey Wingo, was it?) was drawing attention to how it seems that the NFL schedules some of the league's strongest teams against each other early in the season to bang each other up and artificially create interest by letting teams like Cincy & Wash (not to say that the Skins could beat the Bengals now more than 3 times in 20 meetings) fatten up and jump out to impressive records. 2005 Lions, anyone? It's actually a smart idea by the league. We're seeing it right now with the Pats, Steelers and Chargers all playing each other. (The exception to this hypothesis this year is the Colts, but their schedule is generally pretty easy.)
... in my opinion, of course - but that should always go without saying.
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by holler03 » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:32 pm 
Glad to see that some are beginning to accept reality.[/b]
