Schedule

by jdb on Oct 24, 2007 11:51 AM EDT

To quote one of my favorite SNL skits, "who are the ad wizards that came up with this one?"

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071024/SPORTS03/710240466/1100

The week becomes even more truncated when a Monday night road game is followed by a road game the next Sunday. Over the past decade, the NFL schedule makers have set up that scenario -- away Monday, away Sunday -- 24 times. Draw your own conclusion as to the impact: Road teams are 12-12 in their ensuing Sunday games, and have lost seven of the past 10.
But the odds are further stacked against the Colts. The Panthers were off last weekend. Carolina last played, and won, Oct. 14 at Arizona. Sunday marks only the third time since 1997, and the first since 2004, that a team has played away from home on Monday and again the next Sunday against a team coming out of its bye.

(Emphasis added)

This is a dangerous game, IMO. A very rare away-monday night/away next Sunday vs. team off Bye combined with the potential to look ahead at the Patriots. Really, what the hell were the schedule makers thinking when they drew this up?

Greg Aiello, the NFL's vice president of public relations, said the league is sensitive to every team's scheduling concerns and attempts to minimize what might be considered inequities.
"But sometimes it is unavoidable when you are constructing a 256-game schedule," Aiello wrote in an e-mail. "It's just the way it worked out this year."

So he's saying that this schedule quirk was just plain unavoidable? I'm not saying they did it on purpose, but to have it turn out this way - did they even try to fix it to make it a bit more fair?

Update [2007-10-24 12:2:7 by jdb]: : Ahhh the internet. Found the video of said SNL skit.

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Schedules

One thing I am sick of with the way they laid out the games is how they have so many divisional games for most teams all bunched up at the start and end of the season. I realize why they did this but if you get a dominant team in the division then they basically walk away with it early on.

I also find it funny they scheduled the colts for the away MNF then away Sunday but hey, if they are the best team in the nfl like I think they are then they should be able to handle it.

by Rob L on Oct 24, 2007 1:31 PM EDT reply actions

well

It's pretty obvious those assholes making the schedules are Pats fans. THEY ARE ALL OUT TO GET US! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Go Colts!

by KingRichard on Oct 24, 2007 2:00 PM EDT reply actions

hahaha

heh. too funny. I really hope I didn't come across that way. The point of my post was more "that seems to be a FUCKED up schedule situation that could have been avoided and it's shitty it wasn't"

Charlie Weis Ate My Baby

by jdb on Oct 24, 2007 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions

this better not be a trap game

for the Colts, I picked them in my eliminator pool so they better win.

Plus, that will make the Nov 4 game that much better if both teams are undefeated.

by Terry @ Stampede Blue on Oct 24, 2007 2:17 PM EDT reply actions

Undefeated

Yeah, it would be better if we win this one Sunday, because if we don't then it won't shut up the Pats fans (I'm talking to you Kornheiser) when we beat them 11/4. See, even if we beat them, if we've lost to anybody else, then we are at best "just as good as" the Pats. Grrr. I want everybody to know that we are better than them.

Check it to pancakes! Pancakes!

by Picky on Oct 24, 2007 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions