(12-26-2017, 02:02 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Am I the only one who doesn't pay any attention to a new season's schedule in terms of difficulty?  

I mean, every single year there are a half dozen teams that are supposed to be good that end up terrible - and a half dozen teams that are supposed to be terrible that end up competitive or even very good.

Then you've got all those middling teams flip-flopping around on the middling scale. I seriously don't take "schedule strength" into account at all until the new season gets a few games under its belt.

Not really.

I'm sure that last off-season many fans of other teams had their game against the Jaguars penciled in as an "easy win".  Who would have thought that a struggling 3-13 team would come back the very next season as a 10-5 team, especially in the fashion that the Jaguars did?  Who would have thought that Green Bay or Denver would be at the bottom of their respective divisions?

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