Quote:It's not all of December necessarily, but the league did change things several years ago so there are 2 or more divisional games for each team in the final month of the season.  What I would like to see is even more division games moved toward the end of the year.  It would basically be the equivalent of creating a round robin tournament prior to entering the playoffs.

 

I don't think there is a major advantage to getting a team like the clots, for instance, at home in September versus at home in December.  What matters is if you can you out physical them.  The physical teams are the ones that typically fare better at the end of the year and can typically pound the rock.  That's not to say that don't need to be able to pass the ball because you do, but the teams that do well in the playoffs are usually running the ball well in December and into the playoffs even if they hadn't been earlier in the season.

 

It did not work out for us because we were still trying to figure out who all 22 starters should be, but if it was in Week 5, we would have played better in the first half.

 

Keep in mind late in the season a lot of guys have injuries that did not exist three months earlier. Paul Posluszny, Alan Ball, and Allen Robinson played in Week 3. All three were on IR by the time we went to Indy in Week 12.

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