So, is the AFC North actually the worst division in football? Things could get ugly for the Bengals early on in the season. 2019 NFL schedule rankings for AFC South: Colts have it easiest, Texans could be in trouble Winning the AFC South for the second year in a row isn't going to be easy for the Texans June 18, 2019. Pinterest. However, the Bengals game against Seattle is viewed as more difficult in our formula, because they have to go on the road to face a Seahawks team that has never lost a home opener under Pete Carroll (9-0). If you’ve ever seen the Bengals play in primetime, then you know why that’s bad. That doesn’t necessarily mean your favorite team will make it if they start 2-1, it just means they almost certainly won’t make it if they start 1-2 or 0-3. How is America's most storied outdoor gym holding up amid the pandemic?Revisiting Alan J. Pakula's "Klute," "All the President's Men" and "The Parallax View"Sheila Massey’s Hard Hat Cats program aims to put the city’s thousands of stray cats to good useExpect higher whisky prices, more closed restaurants and significant job lossesRivers took $25 million guaranteed to sign with IndianapolisThe 10 best pieces of garb and gear that crossed our desks this weekNinety percent have already left the city in search of new customers in VirginiaPlus, deals today on light therapy alarm clocks, Marshall speakers and moreSign up for InsideHook to get our best content delivered to your inbox every weekday.
Russell Wilson is tackled by Nick Bosa of the 49ers. The Cleveland Browns Hopefully, the Bengals will put more effort into their “roughest stretch” than they did into their schedule release video.Some teams went all out with their schedule reveal — the Pittsburgh Steelers 2019 Printable Schedule- Print here This year, the Cowboys face the NFC West, the AFC North, and the Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings. And awesome.Get InsideHook in your inbox. At 14-2 on the season, the Baltimore Ravens finished atop the AFC North with the best overall record in the NFL and are the top overall seed in the playoffs. The 2019 Baltimore Ravens have as good a chance at grabbing a division title as the other two. Google+. To attain that record, the Ravens knocked off five playoff teams (the Patriots, Texans, Seahawks, 49ers and Bills) and were within a touchdown of defeating a sixth (the Chiefs). But it’s close. And Awesome.
Wait, one more thing, here’s how things are going to work with our schedule rankings: On Tuesdays and Thursdays over the next three weeks, we’ll be going division by division to rank every schedule in the NFL. The 49ers game will be played on a Monday night, which means Cleveland will have to fly home across the country on a short week to host the Seahawks. The reason for that is because out of all the teams in the AFC North, the Browns have the easiest path to a division title, at least according to our According to our formula, not only do the Browns have the easiest schedule in the AFC North this season, but they also have the fourth-easiest schedule in the entire Another part of the formula is the first three games of the season.
Facebook. Over the past four seasons, 15 of the 16 teams that took part in the AFC and NFC title games started the season at 2-1 or better. If the Browns lose both post-Monday games, fans might start to long for the times when their team was never scheduled in primetime. 1.
Given that, it seems reasonable to conclude that Baltimore had one of the toughest schedules in the league, right? Nope. As good as the competition in the AFC North should be, the Ravens still have the upper hand.
Not exactly.As measured by the NFL’s strength of schedule (SOS) metric, Baltimore actually played just the eighth-hardest schedule in the AFC; the Chiefs, Texans, Steelers, Broncos, Browns, Chargers and Bengals were all ahead of them.Probably the biggest reason Baltimore’s SOS mark (.494) is so low is that the Ravens played six divisional games against the Steelers, Browns and Bengals (which subsequently increased those teams’ respective SOS figures) in the AFC North. (Since 2015, the one team that bucked this trend was the 2018 On the other end of the schedule, the reason the final three games of the season aren’t being given more weight is because the final games don’t always mean the same for everybody, especially when a team is resting its starters. The Rams game will also follow a road Monday night game. Baltimore Ravens 2019 Printable Schedule- Print here. If you’re scoring at home, that’s two home openers where the Bengals will be on the visiting end and a primetime road game. WhatsApp. Those individual nuances are factored into the schedule ratings. Three of the division’s four teams are aspiring playoff contenders. View the 2020 NFL team schedules for the AFC and NFC with opponents at FBSchedules.com.