NFL Schedule Will Be Released Today

[El Duderino]

In todays pass dominated football, it's nearly got to the point where when assessing your schedule, you look at teams you play and say, do they have a quality QB or not. If not, you should win that game.

[El Duderino]

Well, it is the NFL, you can make those kind of claims about almost every game. It is a "woulda coulda shoulda" league.

To an extent it is but I doubt there is another team in the league you could point to last year and say if they made 2 more plays (stop 3rd & 38 vs Cin,Defend the last play in Pittsburgh) and simply show up vs the worst team in football (Bucs) they woulda went 14-2.

But you are right it's a fine line in the NFL.

Hell look at the Vikings last year,they where 2 plays away from being a 10-6 wild card team.The FG miss vs the Ravens and the lucky Favre throw vs the 49ers.

Hopefully this year that evens out and we get the lucky breaks the Vikes get the unlucky ones.

The Bengals very much deserved to win that game though. They didn't win because they converted some crazy 3rd and 38 play which BTW happened late first half, not in the 4th quarter. They ran the ball down out throats and largely controlled the game, only two big plays by Woodson kept us in it. The final play against the Steelers shouldn't have happened, but then again they did pass for a whopping 500 yards against our defense which struggled badly all year against any team with a quality QB.

[Siefer]

First reaction: The schedule looks tough, but not unmanageable. We face quite a few teams with strong (or projected to be strong) pass rushes which will be problematic if we don't strengthen the O-Line. Given reasonable health, I could see 10-6 or 11-5.