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Post by frozendisc on May 31, 2019 20:44:00 GMT -7
Preseason strength of schedule is usually bogus. Teams change the actual strength is determined at the end of the season. So we'll see where this year actually ends up. As much as I hate the Pats and would love to support any cupcake reason they succeed, I can't fully point to those that is why they win. They simply find a way to get it done. Hasn’t turned out to be bogus for the Patsies the past two years because the AFC East has sucked during the season after they had the easiest preseason estimated schedule. I don’t see anything changing in 2019 with two franchises going through a total rebuild after axing their head coaches five months ago. But the division games are only 6 of the 16......you have to win outside the division.
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Post by cthommes on May 31, 2019 22:56:18 GMT -7
Hasn’t turned out to be bogus for the Patsies the past two years because the AFC East has sucked during the season after they had the easiest preseason estimated schedule. I don’t see anything changing in 2019 with two franchises going through a total rebuild after axing their head coaches five months ago. But the division games are only 6 of the 16......you have to win outside the division. You've said yourself that playoffs are made and missed by the slimmest of margins, no? So going 5-1 in a weak division vs 4-2 in a mediocre division could be all the difference, could it not? |
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Post by joemcrugby on May 31, 2019 23:03:57 GMT -7
Hasn’t turned out to be bogus for the Patsies the past two years because the AFC East has sucked during the season after they had the easiest preseason estimated schedule. I don’t see anything changing in 2019 with two franchises going through a total rebuild after axing their head coaches five months ago. But the division games are only 6 of the 16......you have to win outside the division. 6-4 outside the division in the AFC West ain’t gonna be good enough for a bye and home field divisional round game, let alone a divisional championship. Put that one in the bank. |
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Post by frozendisc on Jun 1, 2019 8:39:58 GMT -7
But the division games are only 6 of the 16......you have to win outside the division. You've said yourself that playoffs are made and missed by the slimmest of margins, no? So going 5-1 in a weak division vs 4-2 in a mediocre division could be all the difference, could it not? Absolutely true......but the schedule makers do not have anything to do with how good or bad any one division might be. When building the schedule, do they not have all teams in one division face all teams in another division ? So let's say the schedule makers want to make things harder for the Pats, so they schedule the AFCE to play against the toughest division in the NFL (what ever that division might be). Doesn't that also help the Pats, as the weak AFCE teams should lose those games against the toughest division. I suspect the Patriots seeing an 'easy' schedule has more to do with how bad the other AFCE teams are than anything else. Doesn't matter much, as you still have to play the games, and win them.......and there are no easy games. Back where we started, eh ?
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Post by moekid on Jun 1, 2019 9:19:48 GMT -7
Bottom line: the Patriots were up 35-7 against us at halftime in the divisional round. Beating us every which way. Was that because they play in the afce?
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Post by Chargeroo on Jun 1, 2019 12:10:26 GMT -7
Bottom line: the Patriots were up 35-7 against us at halftime in the divisional round. Beating us every which way. Was that because they play in the afce? Perhaps playing in the AFCE made it a bit better to keep some of their plans for the playoffs out of sight? However, I think they simply spend the regular season honing for the playoffs. They have the best HC and QB in the NFL and they turned it up a notch in the playoffs. They handed our favorite team one of the most demoralizing defeats I can remember. (In fact, I wish I could forget it). I never expected the complete beat down our Bolts got on that day. Sad!
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Post by frozendisc on Jun 1, 2019 19:22:22 GMT -7
Bottom line: the Patriots were up 35-7 against us at halftime in the divisional round. Beating us every which way. Was that because they play in the afce? I would answer an emphatically loud NO........The Bolts lost primarily because of the number of injured players. Bring a completely healthy team to NE, and that game is far different in my view.
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Post by frozendisc on Jun 1, 2019 19:23:46 GMT -7
Bottom line: the Patriots were up 35-7 against us at halftime in the divisional round. Beating us every which way. Was that because they play in the afce? Perhaps playing in the AFCE made it a bit better to keep some of their plans for the playoffs out of sight? However, I think they simply spend the regular season honing for the playoffs. They have the best HC and QB in the NFL and they turned it up a notch in the playoffs. They handed our favorite team one of the most demoralizing defeats I can remember. (In fact, I wish I could forget it). I never expected the complete beat down our Bolts got on that day. Sad! Isn't every team 'honing' their style during the regular season? The key is to be winning while you are honing, eh?
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Post by chargerfreak on Jun 2, 2019 2:37:56 GMT -7
Preseason strength of schedule is usually bogus. Teams change the actual strength is determined at the end of the season. So we'll see where this year actually ends up. As much as I hate the Pats and would love to support any cupcake reason they succeed, I can't fully point to those that is why they win. They simply find a way to get it done. Hasn’t turned out to be bogus for the Patsies the past two years because the AFC East has sucked during the season after they had the easiest preseason estimated schedule. I don’t see anything changing in 2019 with two franchises going through a total rebuild after axing their head coaches five months ago. Strength of Suckage has stayed the same. That's actually a good take. Even while they suck, I get a good laugh from Miami each year. They just give the Pats fits.
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Post by chargerfreak on Jun 2, 2019 2:44:25 GMT -7
Bottom line: the Patriots were up 35-7 against us at halftime in the divisional round. Beating us every which way. Was that because they play in the afce?It could have been because we don't. Home field/ travel devils !!!! But I will concede the big point. We could have played them on Mars, and we would have lost.
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Post by cthommes on Jun 2, 2019 7:51:19 GMT -7
Bottom line: the Patriots were up 35-7 against us at halftime in the divisional round. Beating us every which way. Was that because they play in the afce? Yes. If they had played in the AFCN, the halftime score would have been 31-7. |
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Post by chargerfreak on Jun 3, 2019 3:01:48 GMT -7
Bottom line: the Patriots were up 35-7 against us at halftime in the divisional round. Beating us every which way. Was that because they play in the afce? Yes. If they had played in the AFCN, the halftime score would have been 31-7. Stupid Buffalo let the stupid Pats get stupid 4 extra points on us.
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Post by joemcrugby on Jun 18, 2019 4:20:43 GMT -7
Also from this week’s MMQB column by Albert Breer: • Lost in the Texans/Patriots fight last week was how New England has kept the upper reaches of its scouting department intact the last two years with Houston, and O’Brien, sniffing around. That won’t likely last long. Word in scouting circles is that both VP of player personnel Nick Caserio and director of college scouting Monti Ossenfort are up after the 2020 draft. Those two were requested for interviews as GM candidates by the Texans in January 2018, when Gaine was hired. The Patriots were able to block both because their season was still going on—which is a little crazy when you consider coaches like Josh McDaniels and Matt Patricia, who have a direct impact on the field, were allowed to interview for jobs at the same time. You can imagine why Caserio wouldn’t be pleased, and, even more so, the well-regarded Ossenfort (seen by some as a future GM), who had a chance to climb two rungs on the ladder at once. I can’t think of many, if any, examples of a college director being blocked from interviewing from a GM job. So it wouldn’t be a shocker if both wound up leaving in 2020, which could mirror the exodus on the coaching staff this year. www.si.com/nfl/2019/06/17/josh-mccown-retirement-todd-gurley-knee-michael-smith-saints-patriots-texans |
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Post by totallybolted on Jun 18, 2019 7:11:14 GMT -7
Those two have done a fantastic job.
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Post by frozendisc on Jun 18, 2019 8:23:13 GMT -7
Also from this week’s MMQB column by Albert Breer: • Lost in the Texans/Patriots fight last week was how New England has kept the upper reaches of its scouting department intact the last two years with Houston, and O’Brien, sniffing around. That won’t likely last long. Word in scouting circles is that both VP of player personnel Nick Caserio and director of college scouting Monti Ossenfort are up after the 2020 draft. Those two were requested for interviews as GM candidates by the Texans in January 2018, when Gaine was hired. The Patriots were able to block both because their season was still going on—which is a little crazy when you consider coaches like Josh McDaniels and Matt Patricia, who have a direct impact on the field, were allowed to interview for jobs at the same time. You can imagine why Caserio wouldn’t be pleased, and, even more so, the well-regarded Ossenfort (seen by some as a future GM), who had a chance to climb two rungs on the ladder at once. I can’t think of many, if any, examples of a college director being blocked from interviewing from a GM job. So it wouldn’t be a shocker if both wound up leaving in 2020, which could mirror the exodus on the coaching staff this year. www.si.com/nfl/2019/06/17/josh-mccown-retirement-todd-gurley-knee-michael-smith-saints-patriots-texansI am speculating here, but after giving the two coaches permission to interview, the Patriots decided to not give that same permission to the scouting guys as a means to limit the loss of intellectual talent from their system. Is it fair, absolutely.......
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