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Welcome to the Football Forecastor, home to Jim "Dirtydog"
Campbell, who is considered one of the nations most prolific sports
handicappers, we specialize in NFL and College Football handicapping
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The NFL
schedule maker obviously hates the Buffalo Bills!!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
A check of the upcoming schedule for
this NFL regular season shows that no less than SEVEN 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 WHY 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?
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.
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 FIRST half of the season when they as a team, are
much fresher.
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 6th 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 2nd
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.
So what does the NFL do for the
upcoming season? Why they hand Buffalo the leagues 2nd 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!
Take care and be well my friends
Jim
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