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[WhoDeyHomer]

On an off note I was curious about something. On Espn they have an article about the Colts and how they can't beat New England. They talk about how they always mess up and make stupid mistake, how they would need 6 yards and get 5, stuff like that. Obviously that comes from not playing any real competition to get warmed up for a real game, their schedule last year was a joke (Colts were 2-3 vs a team with a D ranked in only the top HALF, bengals 2-3 vs D's in the TOP 5, which speaks our earlier sucky team thread). This year, according to the article the Colts have the SECOND WEAKEST schedule in the AFC (does the NFC even count for something besides W's?). I was hoping someone could tell me how this came about, how do they advance in they playoffs and have such a weak schedule? Isn't the parity scheduling supposed to take care of that?

[AMC]

On an off note I was curious about something. On Espn they have an article about the Colts and how they can't beat New England. They talk about how they always mess up and make stupid mistake, how they would need 6 yards and get 5, stuff like that. Obviously that comes from not playing any real competition to get warmed up for a real game, their schedule last year was a joke (Colts were 2-3 vs a team with a D ranked in only the top HALF, bengals 2-3 vs D's in the TOP 5, which speaks our earlier sucky team thread). This year, according to the article the Colts have the SECOND WEAKEST schedule in the AFC (does the NFC even count for something besides W's?). I was hoping someone could tell me how this came about, how do they advance in they playoffs and have such a weak schedule? Isn't the parity scheduling supposed to take care of that?

Looks like they hit the new "schedule rotation" just right this year...i.e. playing a weak division....

[AMC]

I just looked over the schedule and that cannot be the second weakest....that looks pretty challenging...but they do play the NFC West, that doesn't help....

[jjakq27]

Fourteen of the sixteen are suppossed to be against the same teams. In other words the AFC South plays each other for 6 games, the AFC North for 4 games, the NFC West for 4 games. These are the same for all four teams.

The difference is that each team will play one game against the equal place team from 2004 in the AFC West and AFC East. In Indy's case it is San Diego and New England. It looks like a pretty stout schedule to me.

http://www.colts.com/sub.cfm?page=schedule