Rams Opponents Through 2009

Not sure if you all knew this.


Here you go:


Monday, January 17, 2005
The NFL’s new scheduling format includes the following elements:
• There will be an increased common-opponent emphasis with every team in a division playing against 14 common opponents.
• All teams will play each other on a regular basis, home and away, for a more consistent presentation of attractive games, eliminating the many schedule aberrations of the past.
• Teams are guaranteed to play all non-division opponents in their conference at least once every three years, and at home at least once every six years.
• Every AFC team will play every NFC team once every four years, and at home once every eight years.
• A team’s record from the previous year will have less of a bearing on its schedule, with only two (rather than four) opponents being based on the previous year’s standing. Thus, the so-called “easy” fifth-place schedules are eliminated.
• The division in which a team resides will be less of a factor in a team’s won-loss record with 10 of 16 games each year being against non-division teams.

Under the new scheduling formula, every team within a division will play 16 games as follows:
• Home and away against its three division opponents (6 games).
• The four teams from another division within its conference on a rotating three-year cycle (4 games).
• The four teams from a division in the other conference on a rotating four-year cycle (4 games).
• Two intraconference games based on the prior year's standings (2 games). These games will match a first-place team against the first-place teams in the two same-conference divisions the team is not scheduled to play that season. The second-place, third-place, and fourth-place teams in a conference will be matched in the same way each year.


2007
HOME
Arizona
San Francisco
Seattle
Atlanta
Carolina
> Cleveland
Pittsburgh
> NFC North

AWAY
Arizona
San Francisco
Seattle
New Orleans
Tampa Bay
Baltimore
Cincinnati
NFC East

2008
HOME
Arizona
> San Francisco
Seattle
Dallas
New York Giants
Buffalo
Miami
NFC North

AWAY
Arizona
San Francisco
Seattle
Philadelphia
Washington
New England
New York Jets
NFC South

2009
HOME
Arizona
> San Francisco
Seattle
Green Bay
Minnesota
> Houston
Indianapolis
NFC South

AWAY
Arizona
San Francisco
Seattle
Chicago
Detroit
Jacksonville
Tennessee
NFC East

Hmmmm interesting but it takes away from the suspense.

I love the suspense of the schedule normally, but this gives me one less thing to obsess/worry about.

sorry if i have missed something, but arent some opponants based on where we finish the previous year? and if so how are we sure who we are going to play?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by tomahawk247

sorry if i have missed something, but arent some opponants based on where we finish the previous year? and if so how are we sure who we are going to play?

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Because the NFL is like the WWE, its all planned out before they compete! :tongue: