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Well, Tampa opens up with two at home, closes out with two at home, goes into their bye with a home date, and comes out of their bye with a home date...really can't ask for much better than that.

(But them uniforms though...woof.)

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St. Louis gets a home Monday Night Football game in October again. Because the NFL is either dense or arrogant as hell. Or probably both.

Nothing like setting up markets to fail.

There's a decent chance the Rams could be 4-0 going into that game, and they'll be facing a division rival and potential Super Bowl contender. No excuses.

I agree with you to a large extent. But this is a baseball town and the Cardinals could be playing an NLCS game. It's just stupid on the NFL's part. There's no reason they had to take the risk.

The fan base is too downtrodden to count on a good start to definitely overcome playoff baseball. It's entirely possible, but they really should have learned from last year and kept the Rams out of October prime time for at least a couple of more years.

Or maybe Kroenke requested it so he'd have more reason to move... :upside:

By the way, I know some of you will suggest it's ME being arrogant and assuming the Cardinals will be deep in the playoffs. But I'm not assuming anything. They've been a playoff team that makes deep runs for most of a decade now, and they are a favorite in the league this year. Nothing is a given, but it's a situation the NFL should have planned for.

I'll take those odds. The cardinals making a deep playoff run are pretty good compared to a rams 12-4 season.
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For all the sucking the Raiders have done, they wind-up with the hardest schedule for 2014, with a .578 opponent winning percentage. They get to play nine of their games against playoff teams from last season, a game against all four teams from both conference title rounds, three games against last year's Super Bowl teams and a game against a 10-win Cardinals team that couldn't get to the postseason because of them being in a powerful NFC West.

Thanks for the schedule, NFL.*

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I think only two games are based on division standings from the previous year. The rest are divisional rotations that everyone knows about well ahead of time.

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OK, so can we all just assume that the Dallas-Washington game in Week 17 will be flexed by NBC for SNF? Because the whole world will be subjected to both another Cowboys choke and Bob Costas getting on his knees to slurp the NFC East again.

As a Cowboys fan, I would want to see that game flexed and hope that either Dallas is eliminated from playoff contention or resting starters after clinching division/playoff berth because 3 years in a row of the same :censored: has to stop.

I'd personally rather see them already eliminated from contention so they don't have to eliminate (and in the process embarrass) themselves like they sure know how to do in December.

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For all the sucking the Raiders have done, they wind-up with the hardest schedule for 2014, with a .578 opponent winning percentage. They get to play nine of their games against playoff teams from last season, a game against all four teams from both conference title rounds, three games against last year's Super Bowl teams and a game against a 10-win Cardinals team that couldn't get to the postseason because of them being in a powerful NFC West.

Thanks for the schedule, NFL.*

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I think only two games are based on division standings from the previous year. The rest are divisional rotations that everyone knows about well ahead of time.

This is true. Four year rotation for the out-of-conference division and three year rotation for the in-conference division. With the exception of the years affected by a 2008 rule change that limited the number of West coast games an East coast team plays (NY Jets played four games out West that year and apparently everyone bitched about it), the home/road venues alternate from what they were four/three years previous to that.

In Oakland's case (and the AFC West case), they played the NFC West in 2010 and the AFC East in 2011. These were scheduled to converge in 2014. The other two opponents are determined based on previous-season finish, which means Oakland plays the other two last-place AFC teams in 2013 (Houston and Cleveland).

This is why the "last place team gets easy schedule" argument is prone to inaccuracies.

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For all the sucking the Raiders have done, they wind-up with the hardest schedule for 2014, with a .578 opponent winning percentage. They get to play nine of their games against playoff teams from last season, a game against all four teams from both conference title rounds, three games against last year's Super Bowl teams and a game against a 10-win Cardinals team that couldn't get to the postseason because of them being in a powerful NFC West.

Thanks for the schedule, NFL.*

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Opponent winning percentage means less than nothing in April. Teams that suck always end up surprising with good records, and teams like the Falcons and Texans flop, balancing it out. I'd like to see last year's "opponent winning percentage" in April and see how it turned out at the end of the season. Also it's skewed when you are in a division with a team that won 13 or more games the previous year. It's really not an important stat.

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For all the sucking the Raiders have done, they wind-up with the hardest schedule for 2014, with a .578 opponent winning percentage. They get to play nine of their games against playoff teams from last season, a game against all four teams from both conference title rounds, three games against last year's Super Bowl teams and a game against a 10-win Cardinals team that couldn't get to the postseason because of them being in a powerful NFC West.

Thanks for the schedule, NFL.*

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Opponent winning percentage means less than nothing in April. Teams that suck always end up surprising with good records, and teams like the Falcons and Texans flop, balancing it out. I'd like to see last year's "opponent winning percentage" in April and see how it turned out at the end of the season. Also it's skewed when you are in a division with a team that won 13 or more games the previous year. It's really not an important stat.

Plus the other 2 teams in the division made the playoffs as well, so that would strengthen the schedule %. Also the NFC West had 3 10+ win teams last year and drawing the AFC East with New England makes the schedule harder as well.

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This shouldn't be surprising since their owner was 95 when he passed away this year, but somehow it still is.

http://deadspin.com/how-to-use-a-tampon-and-other-guidelines-for-bills-che-1567047406?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=thursdayPM

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.)
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This shouldn't be surprising since their owner was 95 when he passed away this year, but somehow it still is.

http://deadspin.com/how-to-use-a-tampon-and-other-guidelines-for-bills-che-1567047406?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=thursdayPM

That's bloody terrible...

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This shouldn't be surprising since their owner was 95 when he passed away this year, but somehow it still is.

http://deadspin.com/how-to-use-a-tampon-and-other-guidelines-for-bills-che-1567047406?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=thursdayPM

So it's safe to assume that the Cowboy cheerleaders aren't subjective to similar rules...

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Random question: With flex scheduling now starting Week 5 plus CBS and Fox's ability to poach one another, does the number of max protected games per network go up to account for these two wrinkles or are they set on 5 per the season?

After reading Gregg Rosenthal of nfl.com, it does not seem like the number of protected games has gone up.

The Sunday night flexing between Week 5 and Week 10 can't be done every week. It can only be done twice in those weeks.

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Random question: With flex scheduling now starting Week 5 plus CBS and Fox's ability to poach one another, does the number of max protected games per network go up to account for these two wrinkles or are they set on 5 per the season?

After reading Gregg Rosenthal of nfl.com, it does not seem like the number of protected games has gone up.

The Sunday night flexing between Week 5 and Week 10 can't be done every week. It can only be done twice in those weeks.

I figured you'd have the answer so thanks!

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Browns sign WR Austin Miles and WR Earl Bennett to compensate for Gordon.

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Browns sign WR Miles Austin and WR Earl Bennett to compensate for Gordon.

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Browns sign WR Miles Austin and WR Earl Bennett to compensate for Gordon.

High quality derpery there on my part.

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Browns sign WR Austin Miles and WR Earl Bennett to compensate for Gordon.

Damn, I was hoping we could re-sign Austin, when healthy that dude is a beast.

Hasn't been good since 2010, his last 1,000 yard receiving season plus he was designated at a post June 1 cut back in March. On Saturday, Garrett said the team was happy with Cole Beasley when they need a slot receiver, so when they run S11, it will be Dez, Beasley, and Terrance Williams.

Signing LaRon Byrd from AZ on May 1, drafting Devin Street and signing undrafted FA L'Damian Washington and Chris Boyd put any chance of Austin resigning to zero.

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