Barring injuries & drastic changes in level of play, we'd likely be favored in at least 7 or 8 of the 10 remaining games. So if we win 5/7 that we're favored in, and 1 of 3 that we're underdogs in, that puts us at 10-6. It's a shame we couldn't play Dallas much sooner.
OK, so it's OCTOBER, they're 4-2, have played 1 good team (and lost) and talk about playoffs even going 12-4 has started........ Good grief Charlie Brown At least it's good to see SundayJack was released from prison
I think the playoff talk stems from the fact that the 1 good team they've played is really the only one they face all year.
Was having similar thoughts on the Dallas game. When Jets/Cowboys rolls around Dez & Romo are going to be back and the 'Boys will be fighting hard to maintain playoff hopes. One week before NE game, makes it a a really tough 2-game stretch for the Jets.
Pats will lose 3 games top. I can see them winning out as well. We need to lock up the 5th seed. Huge difference this year between the 5th and 6th seed. As the 5th will most likely get to play the colts instead of Denver/Bengals
Every game in the NFL is tough. No win is guaranteed. Each game presents a different challenge. Raiders- traveling to the west coast is always difficult. This is a totally different raiders team then the NFL has got used to seeing. They have started to build their team the right way through the draft. Pass rusher-Mack, qb- Carr and gave him an elite reciever-Cooper. Through in a good runningback and the raiders are an up and coming team to look out for. Jaguars- yes we should win this game but they aren't a terrible team. They just took down the Bills and have some offensive firepower. Bills- this will be an emotional game for Rex and he's going to have his team pumped up. Yes again we are the better team but they have a lot of talent and Thursday night games are tough. But I always take the home team on Thursday night so I'm glad we aren't playing in Buffalo. Texans- again we should definetly win this one. Dolphins- Diviosion game, always tough. They look like they are playing the way a lot of people expected since philbin got fired. This will be a close game and Miami has beat us at home the past couple years I believe. Giants- NY vs. NY not a gimmie game either. Titans- Should win this one Cowboys- they should have Dez and Romo back. Great game here on Sat. Night Pats- We need to win this game going into the playoffs. Confidence and momentum booster
I have to say - now that Al Davis is worm food I'm having a hard time hating the Raiders like I should and always have. It's such a confusing time for me. I feel like Caitlyn Jenner in the mens underthings department of Nordstrom. I remember with strange fondness all the things that used to cinch up my balls up ride up into my ass.
And after that stretch I done, my own brother picks me up from the joint in a cop car! I friggin' cop car!
They have been the literal joke of the NFL for the last 13 years, so it's hard to dislike a team that's having marginal success after such long futility, even if it is the Raiders. It's harder to hate them with Al Davis gone. It's like the Lions and the Browns; if you hate them, you're kind of heartless. They are an exciting young team with Carr and Cooper, who looks like he could be the best receiver in the league in a year or two. Also, I'm only 21 and the Raiders were never really relevant in my lifetime aside from early childhood, so I have no reason to care about them.
Sad that a 7-9, division winning, team not only makes the playoffs; but gets to host the first (wildcard) playoff game too. The league should nix divisions and just have the two conferences. Maybe, we would finally get to host a playoff game again.
The Raider hate may be gone for me, but it still perplexes me how we continue to play them almost every year as if they were a division rival. If no one does it first, I'll look up our matchups for the past 20 years and post them here tomorrow... the frequency defies imagination for anyone that buys the idea that NFL schedules are purely formulaic.
Because you probably have better things to do, and I don't, I looked into this. Going back to 1995 (21 seasons) the Jets have played the Raiders on 16 occasions. This includes a stretch of five straight seasons (1999-2003) when we played at Oakland. For comparison purposes, I looked at games against Denver as well. Over the same period we have played the Broncos nine times, never more than two seasons in a row (against the Raiders we've had runs of three, five and three consecutive seasons). We are currently in a three-season stretch that may well be extended next year. It does seem out of whack. Since the divisions were altered and the AFC East went from five to four teams, there are obviously two more non-divisional games to find, but it still looks like the Oakland-Jets game is being pushed (for historical reasons?). I would compare these figures with other AFC teams, but I do have better things to do than that, so somebody else will need to step in there... The full details: 2015 - @ Oakland 2014 – Oakland, Denver 2013 - Oakland 2012 2011 - @ Oakland, @ Denver 2010 @ Denver 2009 - @ Oakland 2008 - @ Oakland, Denver 2007 2006 - Oakland 2005 - Oakland, @ Denver 2004 2003 - @ Oakland 2002 - @ Oakland, Denver 2001 - @ Oakland 2000 - @ Oakland, Denver 1999 - @ Oakland, @ Denver 1998 1997 - Oakland 1996 - Oakland, @ Denver 1995 - Oakland
Thanks. So last 20 years, we played these guys every year except 1998, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2012. This is crazy really.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't we play the same ranked team from the AFC South? Which has been the Titans the last few years and also why the Pats always play Indy, is the the same setup for the AFC West? Which if so, dosnt look good when you play the Raiders that much...
Yes you are correct. You play the two teams in your conference where you line up in division. so this year would be the raiders and Browns since we play the AFC south.
prior to set scheduling there may have been some push towards Raiders - Jets from the schedule makers but once they set the template for future schedules from now until eternity (not sure what year they did that- early 2000s) its just been a case of chance. In the years we aren't scheduled to play them anyway (the AFC East vs. West) we are ending up in the same spot in the standings. pure chance. It seems as though that is happening a lot with Tennessee too. We've been playing them a whole hell of a lot the last decade. edit- tennessee is just as bad 2015 - Ten 2014- @ Ten 2013 - @ Ten 2012 - @ Ten 2009- Ten 2008 - @ Ten 2007- @ Ten 2006 -@ Ten 2003 - Ten Since 2000- 15 seasons and we've played them 9 times, 6 on the road. 4 seasons in a row
So we know that its chance that we have been playing the raiders so often, but why such a drastic difference between home games and road games?
