<font color=goldenrod>lol 4 of the first 6 Giants games are night games. Bollocks. oh well at least they'll be over and done with early.

Plus they play the Dolphins on MNF in the second half and Eagles/Giants week 17 is always a flex possibility depending on how the playoff picture looks then.</font>

Instanalysis

Sep. 13 at Denver Broncos 4:05 L
Sep. 20 at Oakland Raiders 4:05p W
Sep. 27 Cincinnati Bengals 1:00p W
Oct. 1 at Pittsburgh Steelers (Thu) W
Oct. 11 Cleveland Browns 1:00p W
Oct. 18 at San Francisco 49ers 4:25p W
Oct. 26 at Arizona Cardinals (Mon) W
Nov. 1 San Diego Chargers 1:00p L
Nov. 8 BYE
Nov. 15 Jacksonville Jaguars 1:00p W
Nov. 22 St. Louis Rams 1:00p W
Nov. 30 at Cleveland Browns (Mon) W
Dec. 6 at Miami Dolphins 1:00p W
Dec. 13 Seattle Seahawks 8:30p L
Dec. 20 Kansas City Chiefs 1:00p W
Dec. 27 Pittsburgh Steelers 8:30p W
Jan. 3 at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00p L

12-4

5 prime time games is pretty crazy though, although not as crazy as 4 west coast games plus 5 of first 7 on the road

23-0, DROFORD

Losing to the Chargers at home but beating the Steelers in Pittsburgh? Interesting.

As bad as Droford with his Ravens locks last year, any prediction less than 23-0 makes me think they won't be making the playoffs.

Carson city council approves the construction of a $1.7 billion NFL stadium for... whoever is about to become the "LA" somethings.

really hope Tebow is on the roster still for the Thanksgiving game so I can see him in person

What the heck were they thinking putting 3 crap games on in a row for MNF? Sure everyone wants to see the Eagles but to go against the mighty Falcons? Ew. That game will prove nothing. At least put them against a .500 team.

Yeah. 9ers vs Vikings? Seems like a fairly lackluster game for MNF.

Winnable game though.

Week 6, Driford. We are betting.

If the Ravens can get through the tough road stretch to start, the back end with all the home games looks promising. I could even see them beating the Seahawks since it's a prime time game at home.

Plus the Steelers play 4 of their last 6 on the road including @ Seattle and the two home games are Denver and Indianapolis.

Cincinnati has a favorable schedule but they get the same 4 west coast game treatment. They also have to play Houston from the AFC South where the Ravens play the Jaguars. I also should have factored the Bengals playing in Denver week 16 on MNF before the week 17 game, that might work against them.

<font color=goldenrod>Feel like making predictions any earlier than after the 3rd week of preseason games has been played is a bit silly. Rosters are going to change a ton between the draft, undrafted rookie signings, and the inevitable training camp/preseason injuries.</font>

Any predictions Droford makes are a bit silly. Last year killed any credibility he has/had when he would pick really idiotic wins.

Falcons could be a suprise team this year. NFC South can't be as bad as it was last year. Ryan has weapons just needs an O line and the D to step up.

Last year's prediction

I like how I was wrong about the Panthers and Saints games which were actually 2 of their best performsnces. I was also wrong about the Texans game which was probably their 2nd worst loss behind the drubbing they took in Pittsburgh (which was made up for in the playoffs)

They went 10-6 but they disn't split with the Bengals for 11 like I thought they would, and I totally blame that on the bullshit offensive PI call in the week 1 game at home. And technically with the 1 playoff win they did win 11 games.

So I like to think I was about as close as anyone in predicting their season. I did predict it in July, so I will probably go back an adjust if anything happens in the draft but for now this is how I see it:

Jaguars, Browns (x2), Raiders, 49ers, Rams, Cardinals =7 wins they should be able to dominate the NFC West like they did the south last year with exception of Seattle.

Toss ups: Miami, Kansas City and San Diego my prediction had them winning vs KC and Miami and losing to SD, but I think they'll go 2-1 in these 3 one way or another

Outside of the Division games vs Pittsburgh and Cincinnati they only have two really tough games vs Denver an Seattle. The Denver game is especially tough since Kubiak is there. I'd like to think they could beat Seattle at home in prime time. A split of these 6 games somehow would get them to 12 wins.

I'm not as pessimistic about the wins this year, I think they could go 11-5 or even 10-6 and still win the division.

Wasn't it like halfway through the season you predicted the Ravens would be 12-4 or some insane crap?

Droford did pretty well in his Shoe In/Lock of the week if I remember. He didn't do well predicting Ravens wins/losses.

The Ravens will not defeat the 49ers.

y'all love to hammer droford because lololhomer drostat* etc...but the guy isn't laughably bad or anything...I bet he picks above 50% but below 52.8% ATS. That's good I guess. Better than what most of yall would pick

Greg Hardy suspended for first 10 games for conduct detrimental to the league.

Real smart signing, Jerry.

Weeks 13-16 either the Steelers, Ravens, or both are playing the NBC night game on Sunday. Unless it gets flexed out somehow.

Broncos schedule ain't that bad for this season. Harder teams we get to play at home, yet we to play the Patriots yet again as a strength of schedule game. NFL just won't let the Manning/Brady rivalry go.

<font color=goldenrod>Seattle also gets 2 straight SNF games at home. Just really weird scheduling.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Thinking about it, the schedule makers almost surely make the NBC games the first thing they "book". The season opening game is a standalone game but it's obviously defending SB champion vs. the most marquee same-conference team on their schedule.

In general the Cowboys, Eagles, Giants, Packers, Seahawks, Niners, Pats, Colts, Steelers, Ravens, and Broncos are pretty much guaranteed to be on SNF twice each at absolute minimum. So after you get the guaranteed ones we see every year out of the way (Steelers/Ravens, Giants/Cowboys, Cowboys/Eagles, etc.) you're just left cherry picking games that feature the other teams, matching them up against teams that should be decent, etc.

Obv it makes sense that NBC would want "over" teams. On the downside though the MNF schedule has been fucking terrible ever since NBC got dibs on games.</font>

Ravens have won the last 3 regular season games vs SF (03,07,11) plus the Super Bowl.

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<font color=goldenrod>Hilarious conspiracy e-mail Eagles lineman Evan Mathis received regarding the Tim Tebow signing.</font>

Cracked up at the Lord's QB

Let's not forget other Dro-picks as the season went on last year. There were at least 7 or 8 that I quoted at some point that were incredibly "sure". I'm pretty sure he gave a LED PIPE LOCK on every game Baltimore lost. Including guaranteeing that they'd beat Cincy at home. Then they lost to them at home. Without AJ Green. Lols followed.

Maybe it's selective memory but I remember Droford going on like a 7 week run with his lock of the week, so idk that's pretty good to me

No one is arguing (I don't believe) that Droford picks the correct team to win/lose with the spread UNLESS he is talking about the Ravens. When he talks Raven football everything that even makes remote sense goes out the window.

But you are correct RDD, Droford seems to be REALLY good when it comes his bets.

That's why I try to avoid betting on Lions games at all costs

It's a lose-lose scenario... even if I think they are going to lose/not cover, I'd feel like a shithead to gamble against them. If I win, I'm triumphing over my team's defeat. If I lose, well I just lost money. Best to just avoid the situation altogether

<font color=goldenrod>Tom Brady's blowing off the White House visit to attend a family BBQ. Wonder if it was his call or Gisele's.</font>

Yeah. I don't know how well he does picking the games. I just remember how incredibly cocky he got repeatedly last year when it came to calling certain Ravens and Steelers games only for him to be wrong and leave himself open for ridicule.

I understand that. All of San Francisco understands that.

The 9ers are fairly tired of get thrashed by Baltimore. I think we take this one at home.

Not certain. But like I said, I'll take that bet if youre game.

Oh yeah. Droford likes to use stuff that happened 12 years ago and during preseason games as reasons teams will win games, too. Also silly.

Drew Brees has never beaten the Ravens, the only team in the NFL he hasn't beaten I think.

The Ravens have never lost to the Cowboys.

Those are my favorite two at the moment.

See

Oh and Joe Flacco has the same number of SB rings (1) ad Peyton Manning and 1 fewer win (10-5 vs 11-13)

I can't wait for the draft. It's going to be so exciting.