Strength of Schedule

[djnemo65]

I knew our schedule seemed hard and Seattle's was definately easy, but I didn't know how disparate they actually are. On Cold Pizza this morning they pointed out that Washington had the second toughest schedule in the league whereas Seattle's was ranked 32nd. Plus, we had the hardest schedule of all teams still in the playoffs.

I know you play who's on the schedule and all that, but we have to feel good knowing that we are by far the more battle tested team.

[heybigstar]

Very good point you have there.....

[Skins fan 44]

We could never get that easy of a schedule especally playing in the east. If we could look out undefeated season. Thats how the colts won so much also. What was there strength?

[Sammy Baugh Fan]

I've been screaming this fact at Nah sayers around me.

Them and the Bears had the easy teams to play. That's ended.

Hail Skins

[RFKRat]

Originally Posted by Sammy Baugh Fan

I've been screaming this fact at Nah sayers around me.

Them and the Bears had the easy teams to play. That's ended.

Hail Skins

The Bears at least beat Tampa on the road and manhandled the Panthers....Seattle hasn't done anything of note...they've played like 10 teams with 10 or more losses.

[Sociofan]

Here is the strength of schedule as reported on NFL.com:



http://www.nfl.com/standings/conference

What is also interesting is the Strength of Victory. Washington is tied with San Diego for "most convincing wins" this season. It's not just "who" you played, but who you beat. Alas, Seattle is again....LAST.

[hooskins]

Finally a sports show that points out the fact that our schedule was much harder than Seattle's, for the last 4 days ESPN has conviently ignored that. By the way, I almost feel bad for Marty and the Chargers, they played some tough teams, and almost won alot of their games.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

The Seahawks may be overrated, but they are still a very dangerous team. Alexander is a dangerous back who plays with power, vision, deceptive speed, and agility. Hasselbeck does a good job of spreading the ball around, making smart and accurate throws, and getting wins. Their defense has improved by leaps and bounds. In sum, let's not underestimate them simply because the media is overestimating their capabilities.

[mattdouthat]

Here are the records of the opponents of teams left in NFC playoffs

Seahawks 110-146 opponents had 36 more losses than wins
Bears 117-139 opponents had 22 more losses than wins
Panthers 115-141 opponents had 26 more losses than wins
Redskins 138-118 opponents had 20 more Wins than losses

[70Chip]

Random thoughts on NFL scheduling

An NFL schedule is comprised as follows:

Division Games: 6
Games against another division in the same conference: 4
Games against teams from the other two divisions in same conference that finished in the same position within that division as your team: 2
Games against a division from the other conference: 4

Next year we get:

NFC South, AFC South, Minnesota and St Louis? (2nd place in NFC North/West)

Its basically tough to catch an easy schedule unless you play in a weak division because it is unlikely that both the inter and intra conference division games will be against weak divisions. For example, this year we drew the NFC West (EASY) and the AFC West (HARD). Next year we play AFC South (AVERAGE) and the NFC South (AVERAGE). We were also unlucky this year in that although we were last in our divisionin 2004 (tiebreakers), our two random games (Tampa, Chicago) which should have been easy, wound up being against division champs. The whole conference was basically inverted.

[SUNRA]

[QUOTE=Ramseyfan]The Seahawks may be overrated, but they are still a very dangerous team. Alexander is a dangerous back who plays with power, vision, deceptive speed, and agility. Hasselbeck does a good job of spreading the ball around, making smart and accurate throws, and getting wins. Their defense has improved by leaps and bounds. In sum, let's not underestimate them simply because the media is overestimating their capabilities.[/QUOTE

Questionidn't we defeat Seattle the last four times we met? Wasn't Hasselbeck and Springs the stars of the team when we beat them? Of course they were, which is why the pressure is on them to beat us. Quite frankly, Mike Holmgren can not out coach Joe Gibbs and Greg Williams. Just too much experience. We win this one decisively by at least 10 points. Check out the scores when we played teams the second time this year. No game under 7 points.

[gortiz]

[QUOTE=SUNRA]

Originally Posted by Ramseyfan

The Seahawks may be overrated, but they are still a very dangerous team. Alexander is a dangerous back who plays with power, vision, deceptive speed, and agility. Hasselbeck does a good job of spreading the ball around, making smart and accurate throws, and getting wins. Their defense has improved by leaps and bounds. In sum, let's not underestimate them simply because the media is overestimating their capabilities.[/QUOTE

Questionidn't we defeat Seattle the last four times we met? Wasn't Hasselbeck and Springs the stars of the team when we beat them? Of course they were, which is why the pressure is on them to beat us. Quite frankly, Mike Holmgren can not out coach Joe Gibbs and Greg Williams. Just too much experience. We win this one decisively by at least 10 points. Check out the scores when we played teams the second time this year. No game under 7 points.

I wonder how much springs knows about the offense and defense that seattle has and currenlty runs? People made a big deal about Peirce and the Giants, I wonder if are getting an advantage out of that ...

[hurrykaine]

[QUOTE=gortiz]

Originally Posted by SUNRA

I wonder how much springs knows about the offense and defense that seattle has and currenlty runs? People made a big deal about Peirce and the Giants, I wonder if are getting an advantage out of that ...

Good point. Springs was able to snuff out a couple of offensive plays right away during our last game with the seahawks and he foiled them. He knows their personnel and their tendencies well since the roster has changed very little from the time he was there. I'm sure Springs has been giving the coaches and players valuable nuggets.

[Sammy Baugh Fan]

[QUOTE=hurrykaine]

Originally Posted by gortiz

I'm sure Springs has been giving the coaches and players valuable nuggets.

heh heh
Springs has a GROIN injury.
He already GAVE valuble nuggets!


hahaha

[scowan]

Originally Posted by Ramseyfan

The Seahawks may be overrated, but they are still a very dangerous team. Alexander is a dangerous back who plays with power, vision, deceptive speed, and agility. Hasselbeck does a good job of spreading the ball around, making smart and accurate throws, and getting wins. Their defense has improved by leaps and bounds. In sum, let's not underestimate them simply because the media is overestimating their capabilities.

Ramseyfan, Sundra has quoted you already, and I will too, because you make some good points about the Seahawks, but I like other people have mentioned in this thread wonder how the stats would be different if the roles were reversed. Let's say the Skins would have played the Seahawks schedule this year and vice versa. Everyone would probably be talking about Portis having 20+ TDs and 1800+ yards. I think the Seahawks have played smart football this year, but I am not convinced they are the dominant team that everyone in the media makes them out to be. If the Skins can match the intensity of the Seahawks early and Bunell gets off to a better start, this game may turn out to be a surprise to alot of people . I think the Skins are doing everything right in terms of preperation this week to have a good game. They have practiced in the rain and are going out early to get adjusted to the time change. I am very optimistic about their chances.