Circle your NFL Schedule

[JT Sneaks]

By the time the NFL season rolls around many things can change for teams like cuts, injuries, etc...However I think it is important for you to look at the schedules ahead of time and see where teams may have letdowns...

the best one is the division sandwich...simply put a team will play another team out of division in between two divisional games...for example look at the AFC East

Buffalo plays at home against Miami, and the Jets before traveling all the way to Oakland to play the Raiders and then after that come back to play the Patriots. This is a tough schedule for anyone, but especially a team with a young offense.

The Patriots have a brutal schedule where they start four out of the six on the road and at the end of the season play at Buffalo and then should look right past a live underdog at home in Tampa Bay before ending the season against the Jets and the Dolphins...

The Jets plat at New England, and then host Oakland before playing games to end the season at Miami, and home against the Pats and Buffalo.

Miami plays Buffalo and then has to travel across country to San Diego to play the chargers before coming back to play the Jets. Then they play the titans before ending the season against the Pats giving them back to back divisional sandwiches.


With a division this tough these teams will circle end of the season games against each other. Looking at the schedule and circling these games will allow you to keep them in mind and research them again when they come up.


JT Sneaks

[bringiton]

anyone have stats on sandwich games??

myself, I don't believe in the sandwich game theory.

In a 16 game season every game is extremely important. So called sandwich games are just as important as any other game.

[JT Sneaks]

Bringiton,

I do not have stats on sandwich games but know from experience they can yield some profit. Although we would like to believe that all NFL teams get up for every game, that is simply harder to do than it seems. If a team plays a division rival for a shot at the title but first has to play a team in the cellar out of conference, the look ahead is there...

JT Sneaks

[One Leg Craig]

The Pats do have a brutal sked this year. Hence they are listed as Over/Under 10.5 Wins at many books coming off a 14 Win Season. If I didn't mind having my money tied up for 4 months, I'd still play the Over on that one. Pats should be good for 11 Wins.