Week 1 - at Tennessee
Week 2 - vs. Arizona
Week 3 - at Baltimore
Week 4 - at Buffalo
Week 5 - vs. Denver
Week 6 - at Seattle
Week 7 - vs. New York Jets
Week 8 - at St. Louis (in London)
Week 9 - Bye
Week 10 - vs. Buffalo
Week 11 - vs. Indianapolis
Week 12 - at New York Jets
Week 13 - at Miami
Week 14 - vs. Houston
Week 15 - vs. San Francisco
Week 16 - at Jacksonville
Week 17 - vs. Miami
This is a pretty great schedule for the 2012 Patriots. Maybe it’s not as good as last year’s "didn’t win a single game against a team over .500 until the AFC Championship Game" but it’s awesome nonetheless. This looks like a 13-3 season and another #1 seed in the AFC.
We play the entire AFC South (no world beaters) and the NFC West (who could make things interesting). It’s easy to sit here and say "Yes, the Pats are a better team than SF/SEA/ARI/STL" but the truth is you never know how inter-divisional games will turn out because of how rarely the teams play each other. I wouldn’t be shocked if one of those teams surprised the Pats and stole a win.
The rest of the schedule includes our familiar AFC East foes (twice), the Ravens and the Broncos. As long as everyone stays healthy – not a small feat in the NFL – the Pats should roll through the 2012 regular season. It’s crazy getting this far ahead of ourselves in mid-April but I haven’t had any football since the Super Bowl. At least the draft is next week.
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