PFF: NFL win predictions for all 32 teams over the rest of the season

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NFL win predictions for all 32 teams over the rest of the season
BY SAM MONSON

With the midpoint of the season approaching, it’s time to run the PFF analytics on what the rest of the season will look like. Using our PFF data we are going to project wins for every NFL team with input from the grading as well as strength of schedule going forward.

These wins are rooted heavily in our data that produces the PFFELO rankings each week, and has proven to have a very strong indicator to win probability. So here is where we have every team projected by the end of the season.

NFC WEST

(5-2) SEATTLE SEAHAWKS: 10.0 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 29th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 29th
Seattle’s strength of schedule isn’t going to change down the stretch, but the strength of their offensive line should with a massive potential upgrade coming at left tackle in the shape of former-Texan Duane Brown. Over the past two seasons the Seahawks have had the league’s worst left tackle, so if Brown is even average he should make life much easier for QB Russell Wilson.

(5-2) LOS ANGELES RAMS: 9.6 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 32nd
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 20th
No team has had an easier schedule through the first half of the season than the Rams, who have taken advantage of that to rack up five wins and are separated from the Seahawks at the top of the division only by tie breakers. Over the second half of the season that schedule does get tougher, but is still among the easier in the league, so getting to double-digit wins and playing January football is a very realistic target for this team.

(3-4) ARIZONA CARDINALS: 7.1 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 28th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 24th
Arizona’s season realistically went in the tank the second RB David Johnsonwent down, but they have still flirted with .500 over the first half of the season. Their schedule has been among the easiest in the league so far, and while it does get marginally harder over the second half of the season, it is still a very winnable group of games.

(0-8) SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS: 2.7 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 27th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 15th
The other winless team in the NFL so far, the good news for 49ers fans is that the analytics suggests that sooner or later they are going to get some return out of these close finishes they keep being a part of. Trading for Jimmy Garoppolo has the potential to really impact the bottom line, as he looks a significant upgrade over rookie C.J. Beathard.

NFC NORTH

(6-2) MINNESOTA VIKINGS: 9.9 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 4th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 11th
The Vikings have been able to get to 6-2, leading the NFC North, despite missing their starting quarterback Sam Bradford for most of the season and losing their star rookie Dalvin Cook to a knee injury earlier in the season too. They have also had the league’s fourth-toughest strength of schedule so far, and that eases off a little down the stretch. With one of the best defenses in football led by the league’s highest graded safety in Harrison Smith, this is a contending team, but quarterback is a huge question mark.

(4-3) GREEN BAY PACKERS: 8.8 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 2nd
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 8th
The Green Bay Packers have to contend without their star quarterback Aaron Rodgers, but their schedule does at least get marginally easier over the second half of the season. They have had some impressive individual performances, but there is no replacing Rodgers for what impact he can have on games.

(3-5) CHICAGO BEARS: 7.0 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 1st
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 17th
The Bears could be one of the surprise teams over the second half of the season. They have made a switch at quarterback going to rookie Mitchell Trubisky, and they have one of the league’s toughest defenses. What may really help though is that to date they have had the league’s toughest schedule, but that becomes significantly easier from this point onwards.

(3-4) DETROIT LIONS: 6.2 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 5th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 7th
It seems to be a trend that the analytics just do not like the Detroit Lions at the moment. When they win, they eek it out and don’t do it convincingly enough to get much credit, but when the wheels fall off it looks ugly. They are a three-win team right now, and with one of the league’s tougher schedules again, it doesn’t look likely to improve dramatically over the second half.

NFC SOUTH

(5-3) CAROLINA PANTHERS: 10.7 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 8th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 1st
No team is staring into a tougher strength of schedule than the Carolina Panthers over the second half of the year. They have been up and down, largely with the performance of Cam Newton at quarterback, and they have the toughest run in of any team in the league, but the analytics is backing them to come through it and take the division.

(4-3) ATLANTA FALCONS: 9.6 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 7th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 6th
The Falcons have struggled so far this season, at least in the context of being a Super Bowl team a season ago, and one play away from being league champions. They still have a winning record, and they have done so with one of the league’s tougher schedules, which doesn’t get any easier down the stretch.

(5-2) NEW ORLEANS SAINTS: 8.7 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 3rd
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 12th
The NFC South is a close and hard-fought division, with the top three teams all in contention to take it by the end of the year. The Saints currently lead the division with a 5-2 record, and their schedule does get easier down the stretch, but the analytics doesn’t quite buy into their current performances, and has them as a weaker team than both the PAnthers and Falcons with the division still to settle things amongst themselves. The Saints could drop a lot of games quickly if they prove to be weaker than those division rivals.

(2-5) TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS: 5.6 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 11th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 2nd
The Bucs have been one of the league’s most disappointing teams so far given what was expected from them, and their schedule is slated to become the second-toughest in the NFL down the stretch. The Bucs only have two wins so far, and it’s going to get tougher to find them over the second half of the year.

NFC EAST

(7-1) PHILADELPHIA EAGLES: 11.9 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 31st
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 21st
The Eagles have been arguably the league’s best team over the first half of the season, and the analytics projects them to be right there at the end of the year too. The big question mark is that they have had one of the easiest schedules in the league to date, and that is going to get marginally harder over the second half of the season, but they have bolstered their weaponry with the addition of former Dolphins RB Jay Ajayi.

(4-3) DALLAS COWBOYS: 9.1 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 30th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 13th
The Cowboys have had some impressive play, but they have just managed to stay above .500 thanks to their last week’s win over Washington. With a schedule that’s going to get tougher down the stretch, things are going to be harder over the final half of the season, and Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension is the great unknown in this projection.

(3-4) WASHINGTON REDSKINS: 7.2 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 23rd
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 18th
Washington has been struggling through the season and has a losing record thanks to dropping a game against the Cowboys this past week. They have had a relatively easy schedule, which gets marginally tougher down the stretch, but is still among the easier half of the league’s, so this is a team that needs to pull out some wins.

(1-6) NEW YORK GIANTS: 6.0 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 16th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 31st
The Giants have just one win through the first seven games of the season, but the analytics actually likes a lot of their play, from their powerful secondary to the improved play of QB Eli Manning. With one of the easiest schedules in the league over the final eight games, the projection is for the Giants to go on something of a run of wins.

AFC WEST

(6-2) KANSAS CITY CHIEFS: 11.1 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 14th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 26th
The Chiefs were the NFL’s last undefeated team, but have wobbled since that point, with back-to-back defeats before righting the ship with a win this past week. They still look like one of the better teams in the league, and their strength of schedule gets significantly more beneficial to them over the remainder of the season. They’ll hope to get more performance out of TE Travis Kelce like they got on Monday night, as he is now the league’s highest graded tight end.

(3-4) DENVER BRONCOS: 7.1 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 22nd
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 27th
Denver’s defense has been as good as ever this season, and actually been dramatically better than it looked on paper heading into the season. Their quarterback situation though has fallen apart, with Trevor Siemian regressing badly from an already ugly start. Their schedule at least remains relatively easy for the remainder of the season.

(3-5) LOS ANGELES CHARGERS: 6.8 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 19th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 23rd
As always seems to be the case, the Chargers have been hammered by injuries this season which has put them behind the chains this season, and though their schedule has been manageable and is only getting better down the stretch, there are still too many flaws in this roster for them to be contending long-term.

(3-5) OAKLAND RAIDERS: 6.3 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 21st
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 19th
There may not be a more disappointing team in the league than the Oakland Raiders through the first half of the season. One of the preseason favorites currently sit at 3-5, and the projections don’t see them improving this much down the stretch. Khalil Mack continues to dominate, but there isn’t enough help around him.

AFC NORTH

(6-2) PITTSBURGH STEELERS: 11.3 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 6th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 25th
The Steelers haven’t been the unstoppable force on offense it looked like they would be before the season, but they are still 6-2, and were the first team to stop the Kansas City Chiefs. Pittsburgh’s schedule is slated to get a lot easier down the stretch so we may see them look a lot closer to that potential than they have so far, especially with the continued strong play of WR Antonio Brown.

(4-4) BALTIMORE RAVENS: 8.1 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 9th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 22nd
The Ravens, like the Steelers, are slated to see their schedule get a lot easier down the stretch, and they may need that to content for a wild card spot as the season wears on. QB Joe Flacco is currently the 29th-ranked QB in overall PFF grade with a mark of 69.5.

(3-4) CINCINNATI BENGALS: 7.5 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 20th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 4th
The Bengals are going to have to contend with one of the league’s toughest strengths of schedule going into the back end of the season, and they haven’t been able to top .500 with a far easier slate of games thus far. Cincinnati’s offense has been much improved after changes to the scheme earlier in the season, and they will need it to be in the second half of the year.

(0-8) CLEVELAND BROWNS: 2.4 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 17th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 3rd
The Browns are currently 1-of-2 winless teams, and they’ve achieved that despite a schedule that has been middle of the pack in terms of difficulty. In the second half of the season that schedule is looking significantly tougher, and is going to make it hard to find wins. Rookie QB DeShone Kizer is the lowest-graded QB at PFF, and has been a major problem for the offense.

AFC SOUTH

(4-3) JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS: 9.2 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 25th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 32nd
The Jaguars have a winning record so far, and the projection is for that to continue, with a punishing ground game and a defense that is only getting tougher with the addition of Marcel Dareus. The Jaguars defense has combined for 144 total pressures over the first half of the season, and the secondary boasts the league’s best cornerback tandem.

(4-3) TENNESSEE TITANS: 8.6 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 24th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 28th
The Titans are also benefitting from one of the league’s easier strength of schedules, and like Jacksonville, it only gets easier from this point on. Tennessee currently owns the tiebreaker with the Jaguars atop the AFC South, and the analytics projects the two to be very close at the top of the division by the end of the season.

(3-4) HOUSTON TEXANS: 7.6 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 15th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 30th
Houston could be a team to really surprise over the second half of the season, especially if rookie QB Deshaun Watson continues to excel. They have had the 15th-toughest strength of schedule so far, but that becomes 30th over the remainder of the season.

(2-6) INDIANAPOLIS COLTS: 2.7 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 26th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 5th
While the rest of the AFC South benefits largely from their schedule getting easier down the stretch, the Colts see theirs get much tougher, and they only have two wins to date with one of the league’s easiest schedules. It may become a pretty tough back end of the season for Colts fans who may want to start checking out draft prospects.

AFC EAST

(6-2) NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: 11.9 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 10th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 14th
In a shock to nobody, the PFF analytics still project the Patriots to comfortably claim the division and end the season right around their Belichick-Brady era baseline of 12 wins. The Patriots have begun to get a handle on some of their busted plays that cost them early this season and have been quietly racking up the wins even as they haven’t been convincing.

(5-2) BUFFALO BILLS: 9.9 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 18th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 16th
The Bills are 5-2 right now and 4-1 over their past five games, and while getting to 10 wins would be doubling their win total, it would see them lose twice the number of games down the stretch as they have lost to date. This is still a team in flux, as their multiple moves around the trade deadline shows.

(4-3) MIAMI DOLPHINS: 7.3 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 13th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 10th
The Dolphins season is an unusual one, as they just shipped out Jay Ajayi – by far their best offensive weapon – having already lost Jay Cutler to injury. The defense has been quietly effective, if flawed, and it will need to carry the team down the stretch as their strength of schedule only gets tougher.

(3-5) NEW YORK JETS: 5.9 WINS
Strength of Schedule to date: 12th
Remaining Strength of Schedule: 9th
Despite being the surprise of the season, the analytics projects the Jets to only match what they have done so far this season down the stretch and end the season 6-10, which might not do the season they have had justice if they continue to play unexpectedly well in the second half of the season and yet continue to lose close games.

 

[BonifayRam]

That projection would put the Rams in a position of a wild card position in contention with the Falcons, Packers & Cowboys. Both the Packers & Cowboys will be without the teams biggest starts for most of the rest of the season.

I find the Carolina projection to be the most off the mark IMO. The Rams they gets this hand out rating due to the heavy lifting action of the NFL 2017 schedule. That schedule just happens to play one of the best NFL teams twice, the division leading Eagles & Vikings plus the Saints?:shocking:

 

[ScotsRam]

It would be interesting to see how accurate last years predictions were!

 

[DaveFan'51]

I find these Ratings to be ....

And that's putting it as nicely as possible!!

 

[Snaz]

Really we're going to win 9.6 Games and Seattle 10 , so rounding that's 10 each so comes down to a Tiebreaker.
Fagles lead the NFC, probably right.

 

[Ram65]

Strength of schedule is always changing after games. Injuries have a big effect. Rodgers and now D Watson alter things. Good that the Rams started with easier teams to help build confidence. Its fun to look at.

 

[CanadaRam]

Wow.

This metric just showed me how useless PFF is, and I actually thought that it was one of the better statistical methods out there.

How can they be predicting the 5-2 Hawks (facing the 29th most difficult schedule) to win 10.0 games, while the 5-3 Panthers (facing the most difficult schedule) are projected to win 10.7.

They must not be watching the games. It means Hawks go 5-4 against an easy schedule while the Panthers are 6-2 against the hardest schedule.
I sometimes feel that the people putting this together never watch a football game.

 

[bwdenverram]

The POINT something wins are funny. you either have 9 or 10, not 9.6...lol
That said, seems pretty fair really. 2nd half schedule is harder for sure.

 

[-X-]

getting to double-digit wins and playing January football is a very realistic target for this team.

Your mouth - God's ear.

 

[Jacobarch]

He's obviously a fan.

 

[Florida_Ram]

 

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https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2017/11/3/16600748/completely-accurate-predictions-nfl-second-half

Our Completely Accurate Predictions for the Second Half of the NFL Season
The Eagles will be good, the Browns will be bad, and Case Keenum will win a playoff game
BY THE RINGER STAFF

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Eight weeks of professional football are in the books. Now it’s November, which means the playoff hunt is in full gear. Who will sneak in? Who will fail spectacularly? Our staff has some predictions.

The Eagles Will Make It to the Super Bowl and Convince Everyone They Can Win (They Can’t)

John Gonzalez: The Eagles are 7-1. That’s the best record in the NFL. Carson Wentz has thrown for more yards than anyone in the league not named Tom Brady or Alex Smith. Zach Ertz has finally become the Zach Ertz that was promised when he came out of Stanford. The Philadelphia defense is allowing fewer than 20 points per game, which makes them a top-10 unit on that front. Overall, they lead the league with a plus-76 point differential. The Eagles are really good.

The Eagles will win the NFC East. The Eagles will win the NFC. The Eagles will play in the Super Bowl in that weird glass case that Minnesota calls a stadium these days. But that’s not the wild prediction part. This is: Along the way, the Eagles will convince a lot of people—the media, the fans, other teams, themselves—that they will not only play in the Super Bowl but win the Super Bowl.

If you have watched them only this year, you might believe they can win it all. But if you have watched them for longer than this season—if, perhaps, you have watched them for decades, as I have, or if you are familiar with their long history of tantalizing promise but ultimate defeat—then you surely understand that they will not win it all this year. In fact, the last time they won it all was back in 1960, which predates the Super Bowl.

The last and only time I thought they could win the Super Bowl was when they fell to the New England Patriots more than a decade ago. Around the same time, I stopped believing in things as a general rule. The two events were not unrelated. But other people will forget the lessons of the past and believe in them this year. Eventually, the Eagles will remind them why that was a bad idea.

The Browns Will Lose All of Their Remaining Games

Shaker Samman: I’m going to be frank: I like when bad teams do poorly. I like watching overmatched offensive lines let terrifying defensive ends through for direct hits at frazzled quarterbacks. I like dumb fumbles and ill-advised arm-punt interceptions. And I love when winless teams keep losing.

Some of this is a result of some sort of Stockholm Syndrome–esque relationship I have with the Detroit Lions (the 2008 iteration was the worst team in the history of the sport). The rest? Well, that’s just a love of schadenfreude.

The Cleveland Browns are one of two winless teams left in the NFL this season. They’ve thrown six more interceptions than any other team, scored the fewest points of any squad that’s played eight games, and are fourth worst in yards per play. Their stadium is nicknamed “The Factory of Sadness.”

They almost gave up second- and third-round picks for career benchwarmer A.J. McCarron, and would have if not for logistical ineptitude. They’re the closest thing we have to genuine football malpractice, and they won’t win another game for the rest of the year. Book it.

The Two Quarterbacks From the Worst Offense in Football Last Season Will Both Win Playoff Games

Robert Mays: The 2016 Rams’ offense was about as bad as it gets. Jeff Fisher’s team managed just 14 points per game, the worst mark in the league by 2.5 points. They averaged 22.36 yards per drive, dead last in the NFL. And maybe most impressive, the Rams managed to go three-and-out on 26.8 percent of their drives. Almost one in every three possessions ended without a first down.

That miserable season is a big reason why the NFC playoff picture this year feels so bizarre. The two quarterbacks of that awful Rams offense from last season—Jared Goff and Case Keenum—are both piloting two-loss teams that seem destined for the playoffs, and ya know what, none of it feels like a fluke.

Goff hasn’t put together the lights-out campaign that his 2016 draft-mate Carson Wentz has in Philadelphia, but the glimpses of great play from the Rams’ 23-year-old quarterback couldn’t be further removed from the player we saw a year ago. This offense has been downright thrilling at times, which is still a weird sentence to type even halfway through the season.

The Rams appear to be for real, in large part because of head coach Sean McVay’s work in turning this offense into a functional unit, and made truly dangerous by a Wade Phillips-led defense that’s emerged as one of the best in the league. At this point, there’s no reason to think the Rams won’t get the top wild-card spot in the NFC if the Seahawks pull away down the stretch, and even with the Saints playing well, this team could absolutely go into New Orleans and come away with a win.

In Keenum’s case, his redemption was less publicized but no less surprising, and it’s been buoyed by a stellar supporting cast that’s lifted both him and the entire Vikings’ offense. Adam Thielen, Stefon Diggs, and Jerick McKinnon—performing in the absence of the injured Dalvin Cook—have strung together plays every week to turn Minnesota into a frightening team no matter who’s under center.

That group, combined with a defense that’s still as deep and talented as any in the league, should—and probably would—be a significant favorite against whoever snags the second wild card in the NFC.

Sacksonville Will Rule the NFL

Danny Heifetz: After years of toiling in darkness, the Jaguars now bask in the north Floridian sunlight, and the shadows you see are merely your eyes adjusting to the new world order. The Jaguars are a good football team, and better yet, well-designed for January.

I know what you’re thinking: Blake Bortles. But as the saying goes, “If you can’t beat the other team’s quarterback, beat him up.” Jacksonville, the no. 1 defense by DVOA, leads the league in sacks. Their defensive line trio of Calais Campbell, Yannick Ngakoue, and Dante Fowler Jr. has more combined sacks (22) than 22 teams.

Their secondary has subsequently thrived, as rising star Jalen Ramsey and free-agent addition A.J. Bouye are no. 3- and no. 8-graded cornerbacks respectively by Pro Football Focus. Jacksonville has only allowed four passing touchdowns through eight weeks—something no team has done since the 2011 Jets, who were coming off two consecutive AFC championship appearances with Mark Sanchez.

The Broncos won the Super Bowl just two years ago with Peyton Manning’s noodle arm. Hell, the Texans should have knocked the Patriots out of the playoffs last season with Brock Osweiler. The NFL playoffs are a crapshoot, and having the best defense can create chaos amongst the establishment. 2018 will be more absurd than 2017, and it will start with Jacksonville winning the Super Bowl.

Not Only Will the Buffalo Bills Make the Playoffs for the First Time in the 21st Century, They’ll Defeat the Patriots Once They’re There

Katie Baker: Along with the usual late summer rites like back-to-school sales and the Sabres breaking in a new coach, there’s that forbidden, unspoken feeling of irrational hope among Buffalo Bills fans. Every dog has its day, after all; maybe this is the year. There was the overtime win in Chicago to kick off the 2014 season; there was the swaggering promise of Rex Ryan in 2015 and that season’s dear sweet attempt, in Week 2 against the New England Patriots, to set a new Guinness record for crowd noise. Like the Bills’ ongoing quest to make the playoffs in the 21st century, it was not a success.

It’s hard to know which Big Bad the Bills have more trouble vanquishing: the Patriots, or themselves. But I choose to believe that this year, they could finally conquer both. The Patriots seem more human than usual; Tom Brady’s expected heir has been banished to distant shores. The Bills are second in the league in interceptions, and also second in the league in Trade Day intrigue.

(Congratulations, Browns fans: At long last, you’re no. 1!) Their acquisition of Kelvin Benjamin from the Panthers demonstrates an encouraging vibe of “all in,” and gives the Bills the kind of jump-ball ability that can help win wacky playoff games. Perhaps one of those games will be against the Patriots, against all odds. I can feel it. This is Buffalo’s year.

The First-Place Titans Will Miss the Playoffs

Danny Kelly: At this time last year my bold prediction was that the Titans (then 4-4) would sneak into the playoffs, and that came close to happening—up until Tennessee lost Marcus Mariota and their control over a postseason spot in the team’s Week 16 loss to the Jaguars. This year, I’m going the other way with it: Despite Tennessee’s 4-3 start and their position at the top of the AFC South, I think we could see this team fade down the stretch.

The Titans’ once-dominant offensive line hasn’t been as good as it was last year, the passing game under Mariota (which finished ninth in Football Outsiders DVOA) hasn’t been as efficient (it’s currently 20th), and perhaps most importantly, the offense has faltered badly in the red zone. Tennessee was the league’s best red zone team last year, finishing first in touchdowns and points per red zone trip; this year, they rank 31st and 23rd in those metrics, respectively.

With the way that the Jaguars are playing on defense, it’s going to be tough for Tennessee to hold on to the top spot—or maybe even the second-place spot—in the division, and they’re going to be on the outside looking in by the time the postseason rolls around.

 

[BeefJurky]

I find it hard to believe a 7 game schedule including Seattle, Dallas, Washington and Jacksonville was the easiest so far in the entire league.

For example, the first team I googled was the Colts:
Rams, Cardinals, Browns, 49ers, Titans, Jacksonville, Cincinatti... yea, easiest schedule my ass.

 

[nighttrain]

thanks for sharing PT
train

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

I find it hard to believe a 7 game schedule including Seattle, Dallas, Washington and Jacksonville was the easiest so far in the entire league.

For example, the first team I googled was the Colts:
Rams, Cardinals, Browns, 49ers, Titans, Jacksonville, Cincinatti... yea, easiest schedule my ass.

The 'experts' have to explain away the Rams success somehow.

Berman started and dominated the media Ram bashing, years ago. It's amazing the lasting affect it has had.

The Jags are suddenly very good with a bad QB, but nobody is explaining away their success.

If the Browns eventually turn it around the media will be celebrating the improvements.

But the Rams. Thanks to the Niners, Ken Norton Jr, and Berman and his sidekick it became fashionable to laugh in the face of the Rams, as if it isn't possible that they could ever compete. And everyone just accepted it and piled on.

Even during the GSOT days they laughed at how much they passed and dubbed Martz as foolish or mad. Berman had way too much influence back then.

Only a long long successful run of winning or a turn over on the remaining 'We love to bash the Rams' media members will change the image.

 

[Ramzheart]

I find it hard to believe a 7 game schedule including Seattle, Dallas, Washington and Jacksonville was the easiest so far in the entire league.

For example, the first team I googled was the Colts:
Rams, Cardinals, Browns, 49ers, Titans, Jacksonville, Cincinatti... yea, easiest schedule my ass.

I agree, do they not take in account the amount of traveling a team does? That stint to Jacksonville and London was no easy feat!

 

[Ram65]

I find it hard to believe a 7 game schedule including Seattle 5-2, Dallas 4-3, Washington 3-4 and Jacksonville 4-3 Colts 0-8 Cardinals 3-4 Whiners 0-8 was the easiest so far in the entire league.

For example, the first team I googled was the Colts:
Rams, 5-2 Cardinals 3-4, Browns 0-8, 49ers 0-8, Titans 3-4, Jacksonville 4-3, Cincinatti 3-4... yea, easiest schedule my ass.

Check my math and numbers.

Rams 19-34 .588
Colts 18-33 .546

Almost the same.

I agree, do they not take in account the amount of traveling a team does? That stint to Jacksonville and London was no easy feat!

Looks like the Rams played it smart by staying in Jax. Seems like that cut their travel miles by a good 6000 so maybe they aren't #1 in travel miles. Travel and timing are factors. The Rams get to play the Texans without Watson but, have to play New Orleans after they figured out how to win. Rams get the injury riddled Giants this week. The Rams will log the most miles of any team. As I stated above it good the Rams played the easier part of the schedule early. New Coach, new system, lots of new players and a young QB got a chance to come together against easier opponents.

http://nfltraderumors.co/total-travel-miles-32-nfl-teams-season/
Rank Team Miles
1. Rams 32,600
2. Raiders 30,899
3. Cardinals 30,035
4. Dolphins 27,520
5. Chargers 26,134
6. Jaguars 24,522
7. Seahawks 24,121
8. 49ers 24,092
9. Giants 21,883
10. Saints 20,968
11. Redskins 20,762
12. Eagles 20,227
13. Broncos 18,842
14. Texans 18,546
15. Cowboys 18,084
16. Ravens 18,055
17. Patriots 17,830
18. Jets 16,483
19. Browns 16,386
20. Chiefs 14,671
21. Buccaneers 13,683
22. Bills 13,272
23. Titans 13,048
24. Falcons 11,687
25. Colts 11,236
26. Vikings 10,460
27. Panthers 9,808
28. Bears 8,318
29. Lions 8,218
30. Packers 8,074
31. Bengals 7,662
32. Steelers 6,694

 

[BeefJurky]

Check my math and numbers.

Colts 0-8, Cards 3-4, 49ers 0-8

Rams 19-34 .588
Colts 18-33 .546

Almost the same.

Colts aren't 0-8?