CollegeKingRex
CTG Regular
Did this last year, and it was pretty helpful to me on more than one occasion. Hope y'all got something out of it as well.
As always, feel free to input anything you see. I was bored for much of the last 10-12 days so I spent about 45 mins to an hour on each division to knock this out a full month earlier than last year (please don't ask why I was bored. Yes I was working, no I'm not betting and no I do not want to talk about it).
NFC East
Dallas - The Cowboys play four of their six division games in the first half, including in each of the first two weeks. The Seahawks are sammiched in at home around at Giants/Philly after the bye. Letdown almost for sure coming in the two weeks after Philly, with two games in Florida (at Tampa, at Miami) before the Thanksgiving home game vs. Carolina. Dallas plays all eight road games east of town, with trips to the Saints and Packers being the only two games NOT in the Eastern time zone. As it stands, Dallas still is scheduled to play a whopping six games at 4:25/4:30 and at least four games at 8:30 (the Philly game at home can be flexed out, but the others are set).
Philly - The Eagles travel only 6,818 miles, least by anyone in the league. The trip to Dallas in fact, is the only one out of the Eastern time zone all year. They don't play back-to-back division games until the last two weeks of the season; even then, they have a scheduling edge. The Washington game is on a Saturday night and is the third straight home game in a row so they'll get an extra day to prep for the Giants. They open with three of four on the road but Chip Kelly has little if anything to complain about with this slate.
Giants - The Gmen play four of their first seven in the division; they have a NFCE game at the Skins after the bye and host Philly in the season finale. Unlike in many previous seasons, the Gmen must make hay early in 2015. The trickiest part of the slate starts with a MNF game at Philly on Oct. 19; it's the first of 3-of-4 on the road, with New England coming to town on Nov. 15 in their last game before the bye.
Washington - The Skins get the same favorable slate Philly does in terms of travel; they play at the Bears and Dallas only outside of EST zone. They travel the second-fewest miles of anyone. The league deemed them the most fit to get the schedule the Gmen usually get in the division this year; they'll play four of six against NFC East foes to end the season so they'll certainly control their own fate if they are .500 or better through 10 games. They also play three of four on the road to end the season, including at Philly/at Dallas.
NFC West
Seattle - The Seahawks play the first two on the road, three of four away from town before their Nov. 8 bye and two division games out of the bye and two more to end the season. They do host three in a row coming out of the bye (two in the division) and go five weeks between road trips until Dec. 6.
Arizona - Someone in the league office clearly doesn't want Arizona to be repeating their playoff trip. They have a stretch of six road games out of eight spanning Oct. 11-Dec. 6. The back end of that trip has them playing all three division foes on the road from Nov. 15-Dec. 6. Five of Arizona's eight road games are tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m. Eastern. In theory, they can also be flexed out of the 4:05 start on Oct. 11 against Detroit to an early game. The Cards get three of four at home to open and close the season; if they can survive through the Dec. 6 part of the schedule, they get Minnesota at home on a Thursday night (Dec. 10). All of the Thursday Night home teams should have a big edge, but this season there are actually games outside of the division so Arizona should have a big edge there if they're somewhat healthy.
St. Louis - The Rams play three straight home games late in the season before going to Seattle and San Fran to close the season. The Tampa Bay home game is another Thursday game where a NFC West team hosts an out-of-division foe, which should help (Dec. 17). It's their only scheduled prime time game, as well.
San Fran - The 49ers will largely have their fate decided in a five-game span from Oct. 22-Nov. 29 where they play four division games. Five of their eight road games are slated for 1 p.m. Eastern, so naturally that means they'll be doing some travelling. At 27,998 miles, they will travel four times farther than the Eagles do in 2015-16, and also top mileage in the league.
NFC North
Green Bay - Mike McCarthy won't be sending anyone at the league office flowers, either. The Pack would be well advised to make hay before their bye to wrap up October. They only play one game on the road before Nov. 1 after the season opener at Chicago. That Sunday night (tentatively, flex scheduled) game at Denver makes the first of six out of nine on the road before the Vikes visit Lambeau in the season finale. The Packers also play four division games in a row starting Nov. 15 (though two of them will be on back-to-back Thursdays so things should lighten a bit after Dec. 3). If you have a fantasy sweat, the two late trips sammiched around Christmas to Oakland and Arizona shouldn't hurt you weather-wise. Showing how popular the Packers are, they're slated for five night games and five 4:05/4:25 games despite being an "eastern" team.
Detroit - The Leos play three of their first four on the road but the trip to Seattle on Oct. 5 is the only Lion road game until a Nov. 15 trip to Green Bay that comes right after the bye. Unbelieveably enough, Detroit has three more home games in a row after that. The Lions play just two true road games from Sept. 21-Dec. 12. Detroit gets KC in an early London game that's a KC home game, helping out. Four of five are at home immediately before that Nov. 1 trip. Three of the last four are on the road but the division games are spaced out with only Oct. 18/25 home games against Chicago and Minny being back-to-back all season. The trip to San Diego for the season opener is the only late afternoon start all season. Not much for the brass to bitch about here.
Minnesota - The Vikes only play back-to-back road games once, with division trips to Detroit and Chicago coming Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. That comes in a stretch where they play just one home game from after week 3 until the Nov. 8 game against the Rams in week 9. They do travel to Arizona in a real bad spot on Thursday night in a non-division game, which is a huge disadvantage on paper. On the plus side, that's the only road trip after week 12 until the season finale at Green Bay.
Chicago - The Bears get three of four at home to open, though four of five are on the road after that (with the bye sammiched in after two roadies, things are eased a bit). They play the Thanksgiving night game at Green Bay, but outside of a trip to Seattle in September and a Monday night trip to Diego, all of their games are slated for 1 pm EST starts.
NFC South
Carolina - The Panthers have Philly, Indy and GB coming in back-to-back after a trip to Seattle following their bye. The competition level is ratcheted up there with them backing into the division. Then the schedule gets tough on its own; three games in 12 days in three cities follow the three-game homestand. The Thanksgiving game at Dallas is a terrible spot (Thursday day game on a short week at non-division foe), and it is the last game before the Panthers play four of their last five games in the division (the first two are Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, so they go more than two months without a divison game). No one except for Atlanta (see below paragraph), Oakland and San Diego play four of their last five games in the division. Clearly, they'll need to go into those games healthy and within an game or two (again?) of first by the time their game Dec. 6 kicks off at the Superdome.
Atlanta - The new Atlanta coaches won't be sending a thank-you card to the league office, either. The Falcons don't play a division game until Week 6; no one else waits that long. While that might be a positive, the Falcons play just four home games before Nov. 22 and then after two in a row, the league sends them out for three road games in a row, right in the midst of four division games out of five to end the season. The Falcons play the first MNF game of the year, the Oct. 15 division lidlifter at New Orleans on a Thursday and a trip to Frisco on Nov. 8. Every other game is slated to start at 1 p.m. EST.
New Orleans - After the season opener at Arizona, the Saints aren't slated to play any other games at 4:05. They've got two night games and everything else tentatively set for 1 Eastern. After week 1, the trip to Houston on Nov. 29 is the farthest west they go as well. Three of the last five games are in the division, so provided they've won six games or more by early December, they'll have it all to play for.
Tampa Bay - The Bucs play at Houston in Week 3, and will never go west of there all season. The division games are staggered with the exception of back-to-back home games Dec 6 and 13 against Atlanta and New Orleans. The trip to St. Louis on Dec. 17 is in a tough spot, with it being a Thursday non-division roadie. The Bucs also play back-to-back roadies three times, but the schedule is a far cry from 2014's fiasco.
Will be back to post the AFC shit in the next day or two in this thread; already did the notes but haven't gotten time to type any of it up on here yet.
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As always, feel free to input anything you see. I was bored for much of the last 10-12 days so I spent about 45 mins to an hour on each division to knock this out a full month earlier than last year (please don't ask why I was bored. Yes I was working, no I'm not betting and no I do not want to talk about it).
NFC East
Dallas - The Cowboys play four of their six division games in the first half, including in each of the first two weeks. The Seahawks are sammiched in at home around at Giants/Philly after the bye. Letdown almost for sure coming in the two weeks after Philly, with two games in Florida (at Tampa, at Miami) before the Thanksgiving home game vs. Carolina. Dallas plays all eight road games east of town, with trips to the Saints and Packers being the only two games NOT in the Eastern time zone. As it stands, Dallas still is scheduled to play a whopping six games at 4:25/4:30 and at least four games at 8:30 (the Philly game at home can be flexed out, but the others are set).
Philly - The Eagles travel only 6,818 miles, least by anyone in the league. The trip to Dallas in fact, is the only one out of the Eastern time zone all year. They don't play back-to-back division games until the last two weeks of the season; even then, they have a scheduling edge. The Washington game is on a Saturday night and is the third straight home game in a row so they'll get an extra day to prep for the Giants. They open with three of four on the road but Chip Kelly has little if anything to complain about with this slate.
Giants - The Gmen play four of their first seven in the division; they have a NFCE game at the Skins after the bye and host Philly in the season finale. Unlike in many previous seasons, the Gmen must make hay early in 2015. The trickiest part of the slate starts with a MNF game at Philly on Oct. 19; it's the first of 3-of-4 on the road, with New England coming to town on Nov. 15 in their last game before the bye.
Washington - The Skins get the same favorable slate Philly does in terms of travel; they play at the Bears and Dallas only outside of EST zone. They travel the second-fewest miles of anyone. The league deemed them the most fit to get the schedule the Gmen usually get in the division this year; they'll play four of six against NFC East foes to end the season so they'll certainly control their own fate if they are .500 or better through 10 games. They also play three of four on the road to end the season, including at Philly/at Dallas.
NFC West
Seattle - The Seahawks play the first two on the road, three of four away from town before their Nov. 8 bye and two division games out of the bye and two more to end the season. They do host three in a row coming out of the bye (two in the division) and go five weeks between road trips until Dec. 6.
Arizona - Someone in the league office clearly doesn't want Arizona to be repeating their playoff trip. They have a stretch of six road games out of eight spanning Oct. 11-Dec. 6. The back end of that trip has them playing all three division foes on the road from Nov. 15-Dec. 6. Five of Arizona's eight road games are tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m. Eastern. In theory, they can also be flexed out of the 4:05 start on Oct. 11 against Detroit to an early game. The Cards get three of four at home to open and close the season; if they can survive through the Dec. 6 part of the schedule, they get Minnesota at home on a Thursday night (Dec. 10). All of the Thursday Night home teams should have a big edge, but this season there are actually games outside of the division so Arizona should have a big edge there if they're somewhat healthy.
St. Louis - The Rams play three straight home games late in the season before going to Seattle and San Fran to close the season. The Tampa Bay home game is another Thursday game where a NFC West team hosts an out-of-division foe, which should help (Dec. 17). It's their only scheduled prime time game, as well.
San Fran - The 49ers will largely have their fate decided in a five-game span from Oct. 22-Nov. 29 where they play four division games. Five of their eight road games are slated for 1 p.m. Eastern, so naturally that means they'll be doing some travelling. At 27,998 miles, they will travel four times farther than the Eagles do in 2015-16, and also top mileage in the league.
NFC North
Green Bay - Mike McCarthy won't be sending anyone at the league office flowers, either. The Pack would be well advised to make hay before their bye to wrap up October. They only play one game on the road before Nov. 1 after the season opener at Chicago. That Sunday night (tentatively, flex scheduled) game at Denver makes the first of six out of nine on the road before the Vikes visit Lambeau in the season finale. The Packers also play four division games in a row starting Nov. 15 (though two of them will be on back-to-back Thursdays so things should lighten a bit after Dec. 3). If you have a fantasy sweat, the two late trips sammiched around Christmas to Oakland and Arizona shouldn't hurt you weather-wise. Showing how popular the Packers are, they're slated for five night games and five 4:05/4:25 games despite being an "eastern" team.
Detroit - The Leos play three of their first four on the road but the trip to Seattle on Oct. 5 is the only Lion road game until a Nov. 15 trip to Green Bay that comes right after the bye. Unbelieveably enough, Detroit has three more home games in a row after that. The Lions play just two true road games from Sept. 21-Dec. 12. Detroit gets KC in an early London game that's a KC home game, helping out. Four of five are at home immediately before that Nov. 1 trip. Three of the last four are on the road but the division games are spaced out with only Oct. 18/25 home games against Chicago and Minny being back-to-back all season. The trip to San Diego for the season opener is the only late afternoon start all season. Not much for the brass to bitch about here.
Minnesota - The Vikes only play back-to-back road games once, with division trips to Detroit and Chicago coming Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. That comes in a stretch where they play just one home game from after week 3 until the Nov. 8 game against the Rams in week 9. They do travel to Arizona in a real bad spot on Thursday night in a non-division game, which is a huge disadvantage on paper. On the plus side, that's the only road trip after week 12 until the season finale at Green Bay.
Chicago - The Bears get three of four at home to open, though four of five are on the road after that (with the bye sammiched in after two roadies, things are eased a bit). They play the Thanksgiving night game at Green Bay, but outside of a trip to Seattle in September and a Monday night trip to Diego, all of their games are slated for 1 pm EST starts.
NFC South
Carolina - The Panthers have Philly, Indy and GB coming in back-to-back after a trip to Seattle following their bye. The competition level is ratcheted up there with them backing into the division. Then the schedule gets tough on its own; three games in 12 days in three cities follow the three-game homestand. The Thanksgiving game at Dallas is a terrible spot (Thursday day game on a short week at non-division foe), and it is the last game before the Panthers play four of their last five games in the division (the first two are Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, so they go more than two months without a divison game). No one except for Atlanta (see below paragraph), Oakland and San Diego play four of their last five games in the division. Clearly, they'll need to go into those games healthy and within an game or two (again?) of first by the time their game Dec. 6 kicks off at the Superdome.
Atlanta - The new Atlanta coaches won't be sending a thank-you card to the league office, either. The Falcons don't play a division game until Week 6; no one else waits that long. While that might be a positive, the Falcons play just four home games before Nov. 22 and then after two in a row, the league sends them out for three road games in a row, right in the midst of four division games out of five to end the season. The Falcons play the first MNF game of the year, the Oct. 15 division lidlifter at New Orleans on a Thursday and a trip to Frisco on Nov. 8. Every other game is slated to start at 1 p.m. EST.
New Orleans - After the season opener at Arizona, the Saints aren't slated to play any other games at 4:05. They've got two night games and everything else tentatively set for 1 Eastern. After week 1, the trip to Houston on Nov. 29 is the farthest west they go as well. Three of the last five games are in the division, so provided they've won six games or more by early December, they'll have it all to play for.
Tampa Bay - The Bucs play at Houston in Week 3, and will never go west of there all season. The division games are staggered with the exception of back-to-back home games Dec 6 and 13 against Atlanta and New Orleans. The trip to St. Louis on Dec. 17 is in a tough spot, with it being a Thursday non-division roadie. The Bucs also play back-to-back roadies three times, but the schedule is a far cry from 2014's fiasco.
Will be back to post the AFC shit in the next day or two in this thread; already did the notes but haven't gotten time to type any of it up on here yet.
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