Division Rival Schedules

[madinsomniac]

Bengals first:
Their Schedule starts and end with the Brownies. In fact, their schedule starts with two divisional games…
- @cleveland
-and home vs the Ravens.
Everyone should be rooting for two losses for the Bungals in that scenario, for several reasons tge top two being
1. It would allow our week 2 match vs the Browns to potentially be for the early season division lead
2. The bengals then have a 3 game stretch that should be the easiest for them, and you don’t want them pulling away from everyone early…
- they play the Rams at home, who are expected to be horrible…
-the Titans away, who aren’t expected to be good at all,
-and then the cards, who may not win a game this season
After that tge schedule gets rough…
-They have Seattle at home before tge bye
-Then travel to SF after the bye
-Then play the Bills in Cincinnati
That is a 3 game stretch they could easily go 1-2 in…

-Next they host Houston, which ought to be a gimme win

afterwards it really gets harder down the stretch

-They play a short week Thursday night game in Baltimore
-Then face us in Cinci
-Then travel to Jacksonville
Again very possible for them to go 1-2 in these games
Then they play what likely is the last cupcake on their schedule, the Colts at home
Then the Vikings at home… which they could win or lose … these Vikings are always an enigma …

But their last 3 games are away vs the Steelers, Away vs KC, and home vs the Browns

There is a lot of room for this team to really tumble if they get off to a rotten start again ….

 

[madinsomniac]

Ravens next.
The Ravens open against the pathetic Houston texans
Then travel to Cinci
Then host the Colts… this gives them the easiest opening three games in the division

They then face the Browns away, then the Steelers on the road.. meaning by week 5 they will have played all the division road games giving them a huge advantage down the stretch if they win them

After that they play a game in London vs the Titans… which is going to disrupt their season

Then they host a good detroit team before traveling to Arizona for a gimme win.
Next is a three game homestand facing
Seattle, Cleveland, and the Bengals
Then a west coast trip to play the Chargers before the bye.
They come back to play the rams at home for their last easy game

Then close the season with
-A trip to Jacksonville
- a west coast trip to The 49rs
-a home game vs miami
And close with a home game vs the Steelers

 

[madinsomniac]

Finally Cleveland
The Browns open with the Bengals at home, before facing the Steelers in a dreaded Monday night game in Pittsburgh..
They then have a three game homestand around their week 5 bye, facing Tennessee, Baltimore, then finally SF the week after the bye..
Then they travel to Seattle
They return to a pretty easy home game vs the Cards
Then its two division games , away vs the Ravens and the Steelers in Cleveland

After that they have two big road trips, one to Colorado and tge next to LA to face the Rams. In a vacuum each of these should be easy wins, but west coast and altitude games can cause funky results

After that they face Jacksonville at home
Then they face a total wildcard Chicago team that underperformed last year but who knows this year…
They close the season with what likely will be an easy road trip to Houston then a quick Thursday night game against tge Jets at home, before ending with a road game in Cincinnati

 

[BLITZ]

I like our chances

 

[madinsomniac]

I’m saying that Cleveland has the easiest schedule both in opposing teams and structure. They do have a very sucky bye week, but even their Thursday night game is vs at home vs an opponent that really should not matter much in tiebreakers if it isn’t head to head. And it gives them extra prep time for tgeir game in Cinci which is one of their hardest games

The Steelers have the second easiest schedule, but the structure is abysmal… two Thursday night games, the bye week early in week 6 and after a divisional home game… the following opponent is a bad team and a west coast trip to boot, negating tge planning advantages

You can argue neither team following the Thursday night games are huge gameplan advantages either.. Green bay might be in a full rebuild and the Colts are not expected to be good at all…
Also I hate playing the Raiders in Vegas on a Sunday night… but all in all it’s manageable…

The Ravens schedule might be about the same as the Steelers depending how good you think the Dolphins and Lions really are going to be…
They have the best bye week in the division but that London Trip can monkey-wrench everything
Add that they are doing tge west coast trips this year and their travel is preposterous.. not counting the London trip or any divisional games, they travel over 9900 miles for the other road games.. the London trip adds over 3600 miles to that and means tge team will be swapping from eastern time zone to pacific-3 hours and to the London+5… they are going to be a mess

The Bengal are going to have to really earn that third division title… honestly if they dont start 4-1, I’m not sure they even get close to it…
Everyone will be gunning for them… and there are some places in that schedule that could implode a team