2008 NFL Schedule released today @ 2pm

[Jay]

NFL will release 2008 schedule Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. ET

When the NFL unveils all 32 team-by-team schedules on Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. ET, watch all the expert analysis and discussion in a two-hour SportsCenter Special on ESPN.

The planned announcement, confirmed by the league in a news release Monday, will reveal dates, times and television schedules. Teams have known their opponents for months, thanks to the NFL's scheduling formula.

Any games you're looking forward to?

Wished your team got more primetime games?

[jBuds]

I don't like it. My Bills have an easy SOS, but never have two weeks of home games in Buffalo. The only back to back weeks that they play at home are when the 2nd game is in TOR.

Also, only ONE December game outdoors in Buffalo? That's beat.

[Jay]

Yays
- First ever MNF game (@ home too)
- 3 afternoon games which means we may get a primetime game out of it

Nays
- 7th toughest SOS going off of 2007 winning %
- First 5 games (4 against playoff teams with 3 on the road)
- All non-division games against winning teams on the road ... WTF?????

As of right now it looks like murdere's row for the Texans and we could easily lose more games than last year, yet still be a better team in the process. We'll have to see how it plays out.

[Irish]

Cincy got a brutal schedual really. Our defence is horrible, and we get the defending champ Giants, Dallas, Jax, the Colts, and of course our divisionals.....Gonna be a long year.

[scarletbolt21]

What im looking forward is to week three Cowboys vs Packers they are still divisionals and I want to see Aaron Rodgers against an good defense like theirs .

[LooseChange25]

The Vikings schedule is alright. They get to play the Pack on opening weekend in the prime-time spot. At least we wont have to go to Green Bay when its -10 out.

I wish the Vikings had a Monday Night game at home. They only have 1 prime time game at home, which is a Sunday Night against the Bears.

[JCD]

Originally Posted by LooseChange25

The Vikings schedule is alright. They get to play the Pack on opening weekend in the prime-time spot. At least we wont have to go to Green Bay when its -10 out.

I wish the Vikings had a Monday Night game at home. They only have 1 prime time game at home, which is a Sunday Night against the Bears.

I think it is rather tough myself. We technically have the toughest schedule in the NFC.

The only "easy" non-divisional game is home against the Texans. We are a run-first team that will need to win with defense... and don't have a single outdoor cold-weather game all season, so no help from mother nature either.

With us basically set at QB, and seemingly done wooing noteworthy Free Agents, I don't see us improving much. I could easily see us fall back 2-3 games even.

We are entering the draft with a HUGE hole at Defensive End. We need to hope and pray one a good one is available for our pick, or I suspect we will be reaching for one.

It would have been nice to enter the draft with the ability to pick BPA. Even if we had positions that could use improvement, right now we are all but locked into drafting a DE early. That, or go with 2 of Edwards, Robinson and the constantly injured James as our potential starters.

[Jay]

Originally Posted by JCD

I think it is rather tough myself. We technically have the toughest schedule in the NFC.

The only "easy" non-divisional game is home against the Texans. We are a run-first team that will need to win with defense... and don't have a single outdoor cold-weather game all season, so no help from mother nature either.

With us basically set at QB, and seemingly done wooing noteworthy Free Agents, I don't see us improving much. I could easily see us fall back 2-3 games even.

We are entering the draft with a HUGE hole at Defensive End. We need to hope and pray one a good one is available for our pick, or I suspect we will be reaching for one.

It would have been nice to enter the draft with the ability to pick BPA. Even if we had positions that could use improvement, right now we are all but locked into drafting a DE early. That, or go with 2 of Edwards, Robinson and the constantly injured James as our potential starters.

Even that game is not a lock ...

[JCD]

Originally Posted by Jay

Even that game is not a lock ...

Precisely my point.

The other "weak" opponent we have is the Lions. But they were handcuffed by Martz and not as bad as some might think. Should they land a RB in the draft (which seems like a very likely scenario), and make good on their run-first mentality, they could be a decent (7-8 wins) team.

Colts, Jags, Texans, Titans, Saints, Panthers, Bucs, Falcons, Cards and Giants makes for a tough line-up.

EDIT: I forgot about the Falcons, they are our Easiest game by far.