SoulfishHawk
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Safe to say the term "football weather" will be used a lot in Nov. and Dec. :lol:
Bring it on
Bring it on
AgentDib":3c5o0dx7 said:I'd rather have games scheduled early when there's no chance that the games will be meaningless.
AgentDib":aoyaag93 said:Home/away splits are very significant in the NFL for all teams. Even if you think the crowd factor in Seattle is completely gone, there's still the travel/time zone angle to consider. I expect an 8 point swing in the spread at the minimum (+4/-4) for Seattle next year and that translates to around 25% in Win Probability. That could easily be a swing of 2 games or so for starting 5 of 7 on the road. The home games on the back end will enable people to keep hope if we do fall behind early but I would personally much rather an even distribution.zchurch74":aoyaag93 said:I'm not sure why everyone s so worried the lack of home games to start. If I remember right we were not very good at home last year anyways. The whole 12th man home field advantage is sort of gone. No one fears playing us at home any longer.
Selfishly, I'd also much rather attend games at C-Link in September over December, and I'd rather have games scheduled early when there's no chance that the games will be meaningless.
Jeremy517":3e7k57hd said:If anyone still thinks this is a rough schedule, keep in mind that we could have lost a home game to London.
Oakland has now lost home games to international cities in four of the last five years. The Rams lose a home game this year and have lost a home game in three straight years.
kidhawk":3g2piu1v said:Jeremy517":3g2piu1v said:If anyone still thinks this is a rough schedule, keep in mind that we could have lost a home game to London.
Oakland has now lost home games to international cities in four of the last five years. The Rams lose a home game this year and have lost a home game in three straight years.
Both of those teams volunteered due to their stadium issues, because they can make substantially more money in London than they can at their home games. Once they are in new stadiums, I doubt you'll see them volunteering for those games much (if at all).
RedAlice":18wvjiw9 said:kidhawk":18wvjiw9 said:Jeremy517":18wvjiw9 said:If anyone still thinks this is a rough schedule, keep in mind that we could have lost a home game to London.
Oakland has now lost home games to international cities in four of the last five years. The Rams lose a home game this year and have lost a home game in three straight years.
Both of those teams volunteered due to their stadium issues, because they can make substantially more money in London than they can at their home games. Once they are in new stadiums, I doubt you'll see them volunteering for those games much (if at all).
Actually, the reason is more complex than that. It's not like they just said, hey! We can make more money in London.
Teams moving cities are required to have an international game each year until they are in their new stadium. Rams have been doing this every year while at the Coliseum, Chargers now have to as well. They moved later than the schedule was made last year. Chargers and Rams will also have one next year. And Raiders until their stadium is built.
Rams play in Mexico City this year instead of London, and political environment allowing, possibly play in China next year.
To add for the Rams, Kroenke made a three year deal to host a home game in London while Rams were in STL. I think he did it both out of spite, and yes - to expand his brand nationally. STL got pissed and forced a cancellation of this. This was at the beginning of the STL-Kroenke hatred.
I've no clue on Mark Davis or Raiders past reasons, but it's probably similar to Kroenke.
AKNFidel":ud791ng6 said:We play both 49ers games in December with only one week in between???
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RedAlice":6mz8330c said:AKNFidel":6mz8330c said:We play both 49ers games in December with only one week in between???
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What's weirder is that Hawks and Rams don't play in December.
How long since that has happened?
You must be kidding? It's hard enough playing in the C-Link but making GB travel out west to play there on a short week is an obvious advantage for the Seahawks... You have a MUCH better advantage playing GB on a short week at home...Gibbo":23660598 said:Oh man that’s tough.
Coming off the Rams then going into the GB game in a short week could be really taxing.
Jerhawk":1tr8ei14 said:If there was the year to eat a tough schedule for this squad, I suppose this is the one