Steelers have 4th easiest schedule

[jimmy40]

There is a bias in scheduling, it's called making money, that's why the 9-7 Cowboys have 6 prime time games. What other 9-7 or better teams have 6 prime time games??

People have bias' and everyone knows you either hate or love the Cowboys and that includes the schedule makers. Explain how everyone knows we suck in December but yet we get another year of playing teams that all have the potential to make the playoffs whereas we could have played Oak/KC/TB/Seattle, teams that are rebuilding?? I think we can win this years Dec games, but it sure does make for some interesting media talk........about those hated Cowboys.

I agree the players have to step up and the coaches have to push harder, but the media hate does get old and no one on this board that watches ESPN or listens to the radio can honestly say we get more love than we receive hate.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I find that ranking the schedule before the season is a complete crap shoot. One thing about the NFL is you can ONLY guess who will be good and who will suck before the season begins. So many Superbowl teams, don't make the playoffs the next year and teams that were absolute garbage (ie 1-15) enter the playoffs with records like 11-5 the following year. (Think Saints 2005: 3-13 to 2006: 10-6, or Miami 2007: 1-15 to 2008: 11-5) Nobody expected those teams to turn it around. The only thing expected anymore is that at least one of the Superbowl teams won't make the playoffs the following year. That is almost guaranteed these days. (2008: New England, 2007: Bears, 2006: Steelers, 2005: Eagles, etc)

 

[DFWJC]

Like they said on NFL TV, what seems to be hard or easy before the season may not be so at all.

Last year, those who had Miami on their schedule automatically got labled easy b/c they had 15 losses the year before (which will skew any percentage).

 

[InDakWeTrust]

Exactly, look at the Steelers, they had a Browns had a 6 game swing and the Dolphins had a 8 game swing. SOS is a stupid stat, at least come playoffs the SOS will be for the current year and a better judge to who had a easier schedule.