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Giants have the toughest schedule and the Patriots have the easiest schedule (according to 2011 win/loss records).

Different ends of the spectrum for the SB teams.

i see 5-3/6-2[?] by the bye,......i hate to circle a (W) before season starts.

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Originally posted 01:45 PM ET  04.18 by {+}MOTHER-MARGE{+}

i see 5-3/6-2[?] by the bye,......i hate to circle a (W) before season starts.

7-1

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Originally posted 01:52 PM ET  04.18 by TxHeat

7-1

@tenn [week-1/always tuff for pats], @buff, @ balt.,....road-games will be ''tight'',....that's why i favor 5-3/minimum......{+}.

It does not matter how difficult your schedule is, if your defense can not stop anybody...The playoffs is about defensive stops, when you have to have it.

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Originally posted 02:10 PM ET  04.18 by BGDUECE

It does not matter how difficult your schedule is, if your defense can not stop anybody...The playoffs is about defensive stops, when you have to have it.

Right! But I don't think the defense will be as crappy as last year and they still went 13-3.

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Originally posted 02:28 PM ET  04.18 by TxHeat

Right! But I don't think the defense will be as crappy as last year and they still went 13-3.

13-3 means nothing in the playoffs...in the playoffs you are not playing the Dolphins, you are playing the best of the best...and if you can not get stops when you need them...you get the same results the Packers & Patriots had last year with porous defenses.

Yup..damn 4 point difference in the Super Bowl!

People tend to forget that although the Pats were 31st in yards allowed they were in the middle of the pack in points allowed. That said, I look for an improved defense this year.

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Originally posted 02:28 PM ET  04.18 by TxHeat

Right! But I don't think the defense will be as crappy as last year and they still went 13-3.

It's not going to be easy to replace 20 sacks between 2 players that are no longer with the team.

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Originally posted 02:37 PM ET  04.18 by TxHeat

Yup..damn 4 point difference in the Super Bowl!

They also play in a porous division, and got lucky to even be in the Super Bowl, that you lost by four points...They had one playoff game in the AFC playoffs against an NFL QB...Do not get me wrong. the Patriots had and have a good team...it just is not on the defensive side of the ball.

Green Bay went 15-1, with a porous defense...they finished dead last out of 32 teams...Besides having Aaron Rodgers, if there defense was not #1 in turnovers, they would have had a totally different record...IMO

NFC West is definitely the weakest division in the NFC and probably the weakest division in the league.

AFC South is arguably the weakest division in the AFC now that Peyton Manning jumped from Indianapolis to Denver.

So yeah, definitely an easy schedule by NFL standards.

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Originally posted 07:13 PM ET  04.18 by EazyDozit

BGD,I admire yer level headed patience,on this upcoming season,cuz,I ain't crowing about Cincy, before even the preseason starts, I've been dissapointed enough too know, Ya can't,see the whole outcome of the season in the 1st 4 preseason games.

Why did you all sign Terrence Newman?

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Originally posted 11:40 PM ET  04.18 by EazyDozit

TH,I guess for depth and certain circumstances,[Giants?]

certain circumstances = the need for a human hurdle?