Is it too early to put money on the Patriots to repeat??? Must be nice to play in a division where you are guaranteed 6 wins a year and somehow get an easier than average schedule every year!!!
The five easiest
Patriots (SOS: 22). They get an early bye in Week 4, and they’ll get what seems like a bunch of byes from Week 7 to the end. They play all of four games against 2014 winning teams, all in a row: Bills (Monday night), at Broncos (Sunday night), Eagles, at Texans. Only one of them, the Broncos, made the playoffs. Weeks 7-9 are three straight home games against the Jets, Dolphins (Thursday night) and Redskins. Their toughest stretch is all of two games, after their bye, at Cowboys and at Colts.
If the 4 winning teams that you are matched up against in a given year are the Bills with EJ Manuel??, the Broncos with a shaky Peyton, the Eagles with Sam Bradford? and the Texans with ??, how do you not go 15-1 while resting Brady for the last 6 games of the season????
Maybe the reason Belichik is such a genius is because he got himself fired from the Browns, quit on the Jets after a day (yet managed to stay in such a weak division) and lucked into Bledsoe getting hurt???
The five easiest
Patriots (SOS: 22). They get an early bye in Week 4, and they’ll get what seems like a bunch of byes from Week 7 to the end. They play all of four games against 2014 winning teams, all in a row: Bills (Monday night), at Broncos (Sunday night), Eagles, at Texans. Only one of them, the Broncos, made the playoffs. Weeks 7-9 are three straight home games against the Jets, Dolphins (Thursday night) and Redskins. Their toughest stretch is all of two games, after their bye, at Cowboys and at Colts.
If the 4 winning teams that you are matched up against in a given year are the Bills with EJ Manuel??, the Broncos with a shaky Peyton, the Eagles with Sam Bradford? and the Texans with ??, how do you not go 15-1 while resting Brady for the last 6 games of the season????
Maybe the reason Belichik is such a genius is because he got himself fired from the Browns, quit on the Jets after a day (yet managed to stay in such a weak division) and lucked into Bledsoe getting hurt???
