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[FONT=arial, sans-serif]The NFL schedule maker obviously hates the Buffalo Bills!![/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Love it or hate it, the NFL salary cap turned out to be a pretty darn good idea as it created parity amongst the league by preventing teams with more monetary resources from bigger markets and/or owners with bigger purses from literally buying Championships. Meaning that in the NFL its quite common to see a small market team make it to the playoffs and possibly win it all as Green Bay did last season.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]The salary cap, along with the way the college draft system is set up, with regard to having the bad teams that finished with bad records, choosing college players ahead of teams that finished with better records, as a means of bettering themselves quickly, is what allows us, as fans, to dream of watching our favorite team rise up to play on the big stage in the final game of the season....ahhhhhh parity at its finest.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]To defeat the current NFL system and/or way of doing things, which allows and fosters parity, a team needs to have a darn good coaching staff in place along with a good front office that knows what they are doing come draft day. Virtually any Joe Blow off the street is smart enough to pick up a copy of Mel Kipers college scouting draft report and have the intelligence to read it and figure out who the top college players are coming out, but it takes a keen mind and a nose for talent to have success in plucking talent in the later rounds.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]What keeps teams like the Patriots, Colts, Giants, Steelers, and Ravens to name a few, seemingly on top year after year is the way they go about their business with regard to who they keep, who they trade, who they cut, and who they draft, needless to say these are decisions made by their front offices along with their coaching staffs. Fans of teams with great front offices tend to get spoiled as they expect to make the playoffs year in and year out, but what about the fans of lowly teams that have suffered long and hard?
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]If the NFL truly wants to promote parity by having a salary cap and also allowing the teams that finish with the worst records to draft first in the next years draft as a means of building up their roster, why then do they literally screw some of these same lowly teams that are trying to rebuild with the playing schedule that is put out?
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]A check of the upcoming schedule for this NFL regular season shows that no less than [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]SEVEN[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] teams will be forced to play three straight road games, those seven teams are Arizona, Buffalo, Carolina, Cleveland, Indianapolis, New Orleans, and the Jets. If the NFL is all about parity and creating an even playing field, then [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]WHY[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] do we have four teams from last season (Arizona, Buffalo, Carolina, and Cleveland) that had a combined win/loss record of 16-48 playing three straight road games?[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]To make matters worse, all four lovable losers from last year that are being forced to play three straight road games this season, are doing so during the second half of the season when their attention span may wander should they be muddled in a losing campaign as their energy level will be on a down-tick.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]Meanwhile, the three remaining teams slated to play three straight this season (Indianapolis, New Orleans, and the Jets) all had winning records last season and combined to post a mark of 32-16 during the regular season, yet all three of these winning teams will get to play their three game road trips during the [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]FIRST[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] half of the season when they as a team, are much fresher.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]Either the NFL or the NFLs scheduler maker, or both, must have a vendetta against the poor Buffalo Bills. A check backwards in time reveals that in 2009 Buffalo was doled out the leagues 6[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]th[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] toughest schedule that was comprised of teams that had posted a combined win percentage of .570 the previous season, against this slate of opponents the Bills managed to post a record of 6-10. Last season the Bills faced what turned out to be the 2[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]nd[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] toughest schedule in the NFL as their opponents had a final win/loss percentage of .561, once again the Bills had a losing record in posting a mark of 4-12.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]So what does the NFL do for the upcoming season? Why they hand Buffalo the leagues 2[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]nd[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] overall toughest schedule that is comprised of opponents that combined for a .535 win rate last season, but wait that wasn't enough! Nooooooo, the NFL schedule maker had to make sure he put a couple extra nails in the coffin by also having the Bills play three straight road games during the second half of the upcoming season...what did the Bills do to deserve this kind of treatment? Things that make you go hmmmmmmm![/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Take care and be well my friends[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Jim
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[FONT=arial, sans-serif]The NFL schedule maker obviously hates the Buffalo Bills!![/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Love it or hate it, the NFL salary cap turned out to be a pretty darn good idea as it created parity amongst the league by preventing teams with more monetary resources from bigger markets and/or owners with bigger purses from literally buying Championships. Meaning that in the NFL its quite common to see a small market team make it to the playoffs and possibly win it all as Green Bay did last season.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]The salary cap, along with the way the college draft system is set up, with regard to having the bad teams that finished with bad records, choosing college players ahead of teams that finished with better records, as a means of bettering themselves quickly, is what allows us, as fans, to dream of watching our favorite team rise up to play on the big stage in the final game of the season....ahhhhhh parity at its finest.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]To defeat the current NFL system and/or way of doing things, which allows and fosters parity, a team needs to have a darn good coaching staff in place along with a good front office that knows what they are doing come draft day. Virtually any Joe Blow off the street is smart enough to pick up a copy of Mel Kipers college scouting draft report and have the intelligence to read it and figure out who the top college players are coming out, but it takes a keen mind and a nose for talent to have success in plucking talent in the later rounds.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]What keeps teams like the Patriots, Colts, Giants, Steelers, and Ravens to name a few, seemingly on top year after year is the way they go about their business with regard to who they keep, who they trade, who they cut, and who they draft, needless to say these are decisions made by their front offices along with their coaching staffs. Fans of teams with great front offices tend to get spoiled as they expect to make the playoffs year in and year out, but what about the fans of lowly teams that have suffered long and hard?
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]If the NFL truly wants to promote parity by having a salary cap and also allowing the teams that finish with the worst records to draft first in the next years draft as a means of building up their roster, why then do they literally screw some of these same lowly teams that are trying to rebuild with the playing schedule that is put out?
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]A check of the upcoming schedule for this NFL regular season shows that no less than [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]SEVEN[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] teams will be forced to play three straight road games, those seven teams are Arizona, Buffalo, Carolina, Cleveland, Indianapolis, New Orleans, and the Jets. If the NFL is all about parity and creating an even playing field, then [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]WHY[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] do we have four teams from last season (Arizona, Buffalo, Carolina, and Cleveland) that had a combined win/loss record of 16-48 playing three straight road games?[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]To make matters worse, all four lovable losers from last year that are being forced to play three straight road games this season, are doing so during the second half of the season when their attention span may wander should they be muddled in a losing campaign as their energy level will be on a down-tick.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]Meanwhile, the three remaining teams slated to play three straight this season (Indianapolis, New Orleans, and the Jets) all had winning records last season and combined to post a mark of 32-16 during the regular season, yet all three of these winning teams will get to play their three game road trips during the [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]FIRST[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] half of the season when they as a team, are much fresher.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]Either the NFL or the NFLs scheduler maker, or both, must have a vendetta against the poor Buffalo Bills. A check backwards in time reveals that in 2009 Buffalo was doled out the leagues 6[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]th[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] toughest schedule that was comprised of teams that had posted a combined win percentage of .570 the previous season, against this slate of opponents the Bills managed to post a record of 6-10. Last season the Bills faced what turned out to be the 2[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]nd[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] toughest schedule in the NFL as their opponents had a final win/loss percentage of .561, once again the Bills had a losing record in posting a mark of 4-12.
[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]So what does the NFL do for the upcoming season? Why they hand Buffalo the leagues 2[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]nd[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif] overall toughest schedule that is comprised of opponents that combined for a .535 win rate last season, but wait that wasn't enough! Nooooooo, the NFL schedule maker had to make sure he put a couple extra nails in the coffin by also having the Bills play three straight road games during the second half of the upcoming season...what did the Bills do to deserve this kind of treatment? Things that make you go hmmmmmmm![/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Take care and be well my friends[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Jim
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