Well, here it is. All times are Pacific. After a week 14 game at Arizona, the 'Hawks get all of three days to prepare for the 'Niners (but then 10 to prep for the Chargers). Two Monday night games.
You beat me to it Uff...I had the breakdown ready to go. I'll just copy and paste from the saved draft.
The schedule's out! This means that even though the Mariners have started 2-1 on the season, the light for the next Seahawk's season is shining through.
Pre-season aside (because we all know what my feelings are about that...) let's break down the schedule.
(For the whole thing, go to Seahawks.com)
Biggest stretch: Weeks 10 through 15.
In this six game part of the schedule, the Seahawks play four divisional games. I don't care how bad the division is, games against NFC West Opponents are big.
toughest stretch: Weeks 2-4. The what should be an improved Cardinals team, followed by the Giants, then a road trip to Chicago.
Lucky break: Getting the Bears before the weather turns cold. Chicago was nearly unbeatable in cold, nasty conditions last season. (Except for that whole NFC Divisional playoff thing. Oops.)
Unfair! A week 5 bye week? We're the NFC Champions. Give us week 8 or 9 thank you. To go 12 weeks without time to heal isn't good.
Most intriguing NFC game: Got to go with the Bears. Top offense vs top defense. Great match-up.
Most intriguing AFC game: November 6th. Home against Oakland. If you don't hate the Raiders, you aren't a Seahawks fan.
Sweet revenge, sort of: Openeing the season in Detroit. Draw your own conclusions.
Toughest games look to be at KC and at Denver. I remember when the 'Hawks were in the AFC West, and we could pretty much write off games in Arrowhead and Mile High (especially the former). The Bears game, thankfully, happens before Soldier Field ices over. Week 17 at Tampa Bay won't be easy, but the Florida weather will be better in late December than the Week 1 cookout against Jax last year. And don't count out the Giants -- the Manning brothers are tough early in the season when very little is at stake.
I'm also going to go out on a limb and propose that the Cards will be markedly better next year.
Still... it's pretty cool to look at a schedule and say, "Wow, looks like another trip to the playoffs." (That sound you hear is me knocking on wood out of habit.)
Uff - Hope you don't mind. I stole that Schedule graphic from Seahawks.com
Love the fact that we get to exercise the demons of Fraud Field right out of the gates.
If we can take care of business early in the year again, the late games against San Diego and Tampa won't mean anything, unless of course we're going for an undefeated season!
I'm psyched about FOUR national games, but it means that my cost per game for Sunday NFL Ticket just got jacked up like the price for a gallon of gas!
Gotta start making plans to come out for a game (if I can get a ticket!) At first blush, the Giant, Raider and/or Vikings game might be good.
I may have to make a trip to see them again in SF, since the last time I did that, they made it to the SuperBowl!!!
I think I'm going to create a "Prediction Pool" where you predict the Seahawks record and indicate which games they'll win and which (if any) they'll lose.
One who gets the record right wins. If several guess the same record, it will go to number of correctly predicted wins and losses. If still tied, it'll go to overall margin of victory. Something like that.
Yeah, 12-4 or 13-3 sounds about right. It's strange the way one season can change a fan's perspective: I have a hard time imagining the 'Hawks losing a home game.
My predictions: 'Hawks manage one win in this away foursome: Bears, KC, Denver, Bucs (possibly two wins if Week 17 has some meaning). And MAYBE they drop one at home -- say, Giants or Chargers.
Of course, I could see them winning more than this, but not much less. Which, as a Seahawks fan, is just so freakin' strange. If anyone needs me, I'll be praying for the continued health of Matt Hasselbeck, Shaun Alexander, and company.
Alan - In reference to your most intriguing NFC game: What have the Bears done to improve their offense? How can you claim that their "best offense" will be going against our "best defense"? I just don't see that much improvement from them on the offensive side of the ball.
(sarcasm off...just in case)
Actually, disregarding the opponents (since we already knew who they would be), I think this schedule sets up pretty well. The early bye looks like a bad thing at this point, but who knows, they may need it to get healthy. That's a tough one to predict, but I, and probably everyone else, would prefer to have it later. On the bright side, there is only one set of back to back road games, which should be good (there are two actually, but one is sandwiched around the bye week). The Broncos game is really the only one where weather could be reasonably expected to be a factor(aside from home games). Even that game is early enough so that the weather should be fine. Since I think weather would tend to even out a talent difference and because I think the Hawks "out-talent" most teams, I would prefer that all games are played at 60 degrees with no wind or precipitaition and the schedule sets up pretty well in that way.
I can't wait till the season starts. Week one vs: Martz and the refs should be fun, maybe they will let The Bus do the coin toss. We have to sweep the NFC West again those are the most important games. The Giants and Bears game will be exciting and so will facing the AFC West. Hopefully the Cgargers and Bucs games won't matter cause i wnat our boys rested for the playoffs since our BYE week is in week 5. Thats horrible and its pissin me the hell off. Atleast we only get one back to back away games we actually get twon but the BYE is in between one of them.
I was planning on going to the Tampa game, but New Years Eve? That ain't good for me, as I ain't driving back after the game, and can't think of a reason to stay in Tampa, since the TopCats won't be in town...
We need to have a 12 Seahawks Street day and all fly out to Seattle for one of the home games. Think about the great Masthead graphics an event like that could spawn???!!
They said it was the 3rd weakest schedule in the league.
I heard Rams fans complaining that the league was wrong cause they had a harder schedule than us but what they failed to realize is the only reason their schedule is harder is because they have to play a 13 win team twice and we don't. Dumb asses.
I'm goin to Miami. I like this schedule we should get home field advantage again. Still hate the bye week.
(Alright, you asked for it by not posting anything here.)
I've already got home field advantage. But that's only because I'm a farmer. I run 0.00025 billion acres in northeastern Oregon. This year we've installed the new soybean equipment and expect to come out way ahead in only two seasons. McDonalds has promised us $0.45 per bushel we harvest. We'll ship the product to the Columbia, then west to Biggs. From there I believe it'll be trucked north to Cashmere, then possibly over to Cle Elum. From there I lose track, as I'm way the hell down here in northeastern Oregon. How the heck should I know what's going on in the big cities?
So that's me, Don Schaub, 8th-generation farmer. I still live in the home my great-great-great grandpa built during carpentry class at Eastern Oregon Territory University. My wife and kids and all my ancestors were born in this outhouse (the house is too damn small) so I'll never move. Hell, the stains from when my great-great-grandma's water broke are still visible near the second rat hole from the right. It's a family treasure, just like the notches on the windowsill where my great-grandfather used to tabulate his injun decimation.
My wife, Dorothy, is still a spry mare at 59. I'm only 42, but beggars can't be choosers, right? I mean that literally. I begged at the neighbors for a woman, and they said "check the haymow." Well, only thing in the haymow was my cousin, Dorothy, (and a few rats,) but she was fine with it. After all, how many chances does any one person get for a menage a cinque with a strapping young farmer's apprentice, etc.? Well, I sure as heck wasn't going to pass up the chance (and Dorothy's a hell of a farmer, and boy is she strapping!) Nine months later we've got Cedric, then a month after that, Squeeky, Whiskers, Taily, Pellets, Wiggle-nose, Cheesy, and Trappy.
I think I've told you enough about myself. How 'bout you? Meezy, how much MJ you grow today? Alba, how're the outhouses up north? Cit.K., read any good almanacs lately? Bluefoot, need a new 40 gallon hat? Uff, that's the noise my cow Shauna made while giving birth to conjoined twins. ADP, those are my mom's initials, too (Another Damn Pu**y, so named by my longsuffering dad, father of 16 girls.) Josch, is that a Kraut name? Monkey, well done, naming yourself after my male member takes balls, boy! Vinny, WTF? Check--I'd rather pay cash. Bokonon--I had to attend after I became addicted to Boks following my son Taily's tragic suicide by feline. Dave Crockett, woo-ha-ha, you're dead, Alamo stud!
That's all for me. Check you later, squares! Keep on eatin' McDonalds chicken, and you'll be eating my beans.
For you geeks out there I have created a Seahawks public calendar that can be loaded into calendar programs that support iCAL and XML importing. What's on the calendar so far...2006 schedule, draft days, Seagal tryout schedule. I'll add more dates as I hear them.
Its almost unafair to come off a SuperBowl appearance with the Third easiest schedule(Chicago, Green Bay), but it should set up nicely for us to come out on top in Miami. I only hope we can play an old AFC West rival. I'd love to stick it to any of them.
You beat me to it Uff...I had the breakdown ready to go. I'll just copy and paste from the saved draft.
ReplyDeleteThe schedule's out! This means that even though the Mariners have started 2-1 on the season, the light for the next Seahawk's season is shining through.
Pre-season aside (because we all know what my feelings are about that...) let's break down the schedule.
(For the whole thing, go to Seahawks.com)
Biggest stretch:
Weeks 10 through 15.
In this six game part of the schedule, the Seahawks play four divisional games. I don't care how bad the division is, games against NFC West Opponents are big.
toughest stretch:
Weeks 2-4.
The what should be an improved Cardinals team, followed by the Giants, then a road trip to Chicago.
Lucky break:
Getting the Bears before the weather turns cold. Chicago was nearly unbeatable in cold, nasty conditions last season. (Except for that whole NFC Divisional playoff thing. Oops.)
Unfair!
A week 5 bye week? We're the NFC Champions. Give us week 8 or 9 thank you. To go 12 weeks without time to heal isn't good.
Most intriguing NFC game:
Got to go with the Bears. Top offense vs top defense. Great match-up.
Most intriguing AFC game:
November 6th. Home against Oakland. If you don't hate the Raiders, you aren't a Seahawks fan.
Sweet revenge, sort of:
Openeing the season in Detroit. Draw your own conclusions.
1. The week 5 bye sucks. Like two seasons ago, bad timing. This needs to be outlawed by the league.
ReplyDelete2. Opening in Detroit? Fine, if the refs do their job right this time.
3. The Monday night in Oakland will be a treat... Now if we could ony get the FO to let us wear retro uniforms for that game...
4. Monday night against Green Bay? Why is the national media so stuck on this Holmgren-Green Bay storyline?
5. We should have the NFC West wrapped up by week 10 or 11.
6. I only see 3 or 4 actual run defenses on the schedule. Shuan should have another career year, Hutch be damned!
7. This seems like a softer schedule than last year. Anyone have any numbers?
Toughest games look to be at KC and at Denver. I remember when the 'Hawks were in the AFC West, and we could pretty much write off games in Arrowhead and Mile High (especially the former). The Bears game, thankfully, happens before Soldier Field ices over. Week 17 at Tampa Bay won't be easy, but the Florida weather will be better in late December than the Week 1 cookout against Jax last year. And don't count out the Giants -- the Manning brothers are tough early in the season when very little is at stake.
ReplyDeleteI'm also going to go out on a limb and propose that the Cards will be markedly better next year.
Still... it's pretty cool to look at a schedule and say, "Wow, looks like another trip to the playoffs." (That sound you hear is me knocking on wood out of habit.)
Uff - Hope you don't mind. I stole that Schedule graphic from Seahawks.com
ReplyDeleteLove the fact that we get to exercise the demons of Fraud Field right out of the gates.
If we can take care of business early in the year again, the late games against San Diego and Tampa won't mean anything, unless of course we're going for an undefeated season!
I'm psyched about FOUR national games, but it means that my cost per game for Sunday NFL Ticket just got jacked up like the price for a gallon of gas!
Gotta start making plans to come out for a game (if I can get a ticket!) At first blush, the Giant, Raider and/or Vikings game might be good.
I may have to make a trip to see them again in SF, since the last time I did that, they made it to the SuperBowl!!!
I'm psyched for the season ALREADY!!
Anyone else see worse than 12-4?
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to create a "Prediction Pool" where you predict the Seahawks record and indicate which games they'll win and which (if any) they'll lose.
ReplyDeleteOne who gets the record right wins. If several guess the same record, it will go to number of correctly predicted wins and losses. If still tied, it'll go to overall margin of victory. Something like that.
What do you think?
I see 'em at 13-3 or maybe 12-4. Certainly no worse.
ReplyDeleteWoohoo! Coming to Denver, I will actually get to see that game in person.
Yeah, 12-4 or 13-3 sounds about right. It's strange the way one season can change a fan's perspective: I have a hard time imagining the 'Hawks losing a home game.
ReplyDeleteMy predictions: 'Hawks manage one win in this away foursome: Bears, KC, Denver, Bucs (possibly two wins if Week 17 has some meaning). And MAYBE they drop one at home -- say, Giants or Chargers.
Of course, I could see them winning more than this, but not much less. Which, as a Seahawks fan, is just so freakin' strange. If anyone needs me, I'll be praying for the continued health of Matt Hasselbeck, Shaun Alexander, and company.
Alan - In reference to your most intriguing NFC game: What have the Bears done to improve their offense? How can you claim that their "best offense" will be going against our "best defense"? I just don't see that much improvement from them on the offensive side of the ball.
ReplyDelete(sarcasm off...just in case)
Actually, disregarding the opponents (since we already knew who they would be), I think this schedule sets up pretty well. The early bye looks like a bad thing at this point, but who knows, they may need it to get healthy. That's a tough one to predict, but I, and probably everyone else, would prefer to have it later. On the bright side, there is only one set of back to back road games, which should be good (there are two actually, but one is sandwiched around the bye week). The Broncos game is really the only one where weather could be reasonably expected to be a factor(aside from home games). Even that game is early enough so that the weather should be fine. Since I think weather would tend to even out a talent difference and because I think the Hawks "out-talent" most teams, I would prefer that all games are played at 60 degrees with no wind or precipitaition and the schedule sets up pretty well in that way.
I can't wait till the season starts. Week one vs: Martz and the refs should be fun, maybe they will let The Bus do the coin toss. We have to sweep the NFC West again those are the most important games. The Giants and Bears game will be exciting and so will facing the AFC West. Hopefully the Cgargers and Bucs games won't matter cause i wnat our boys rested for the playoffs since our BYE week is in week 5. Thats horrible and its pissin me the hell off. Atleast we only get one back to back away games we actually get twon but the BYE is in between one of them.
ReplyDeleteLets get these boys on the field and ready to go.
"Lets get these boys on the field and ready to go."
ReplyDeleteI like the sound of that!
"the Manning brothers are tough early in the season when very little is at stake."
And that!
"3. The Monday night in Oakland will be a treat..."
Isn't that game in Seattle?
"3. The Monday night in Oakland will be a treat..."
ReplyDeleteIsn't that game in Seattle?
Isn't Oakland a suburb of Seattle?
Blue, I'm not sure, I don't know canadian geography that well.
ReplyDeleteJust to put things in perspective about the bye: right now Stealers fans are complaining about their Week 4 bye. As Nelson Munce would say: HA HA!
ReplyDeleteI was planning on going to the Tampa game, but New Years Eve? That ain't good for me, as I ain't driving back after the game, and can't think of a reason to stay in Tampa, since the TopCats won't be in town...
ReplyDeleteWe need to have a 12 Seahawks Street day and all fly out to Seattle for one of the home games. Think about the great Masthead graphics an event like that could spawn???!!
ReplyDeleteThat is a fantastic idea. Would be nice to see the Seahawks with Seahawks fans.
ReplyDeleteDamn my lack of funding!
This schedule is pathetically weak! There is no WAY we lose more than four games, no way!
ReplyDeleteThis is a first place schedule?!? Bwahahahahhaahahaaha!
SuperBowl 41, here we come!!!
They said it was the 3rd weakest schedule in the league.
ReplyDeleteI heard Rams fans complaining that the league was wrong cause they had a harder schedule than us but what they failed to realize is the only reason their schedule is harder is because they have to play a 13 win team twice and we don't. Dumb asses.
I'm goin to Miami. I like this schedule we should get home field advantage again. Still hate the bye week.
(Alright, you asked for it by not posting anything here.)
ReplyDeleteI've already got home field advantage. But that's only because I'm a farmer. I run 0.00025 billion acres in northeastern Oregon. This year we've installed the new soybean equipment and expect to come out way ahead in only two seasons. McDonalds has promised us $0.45 per bushel we harvest. We'll ship the product to the Columbia, then west to Biggs. From there I believe it'll be trucked north to Cashmere, then possibly over to Cle Elum. From there I lose track, as I'm way the hell down here in northeastern Oregon. How the heck should I know what's going on in the big cities?
So that's me, Don Schaub, 8th-generation farmer. I still live in the home my great-great-great grandpa built during carpentry class at Eastern Oregon Territory University. My wife and kids and all my ancestors were born in this outhouse (the house is too damn small) so I'll never move. Hell, the stains from when my great-great-grandma's water broke are still visible near the second rat hole from the right. It's a family treasure, just like the notches on the windowsill where my great-grandfather used to tabulate his injun decimation.
My wife, Dorothy, is still a spry mare at 59. I'm only 42, but beggars can't be choosers, right? I mean that literally. I begged at the neighbors for a woman, and they said "check the haymow." Well, only thing in the haymow was my cousin, Dorothy, (and a few rats,) but she was fine with it. After all, how many chances does any one person get for a menage a cinque with a strapping young farmer's apprentice, etc.? Well, I sure as heck wasn't going to pass up the chance (and Dorothy's a hell of a farmer, and boy is she strapping!) Nine months later we've got Cedric, then a month after that, Squeeky, Whiskers, Taily, Pellets, Wiggle-nose, Cheesy, and Trappy.
I think I've told you enough about myself. How 'bout you? Meezy, how much MJ you grow today? Alba, how're the outhouses up north? Cit.K., read any good almanacs lately? Bluefoot, need a new 40 gallon hat? Uff, that's the noise my cow Shauna made while giving birth to conjoined twins. ADP, those are my mom's initials, too (Another Damn Pu**y, so named by my longsuffering dad, father of 16 girls.) Josch, is that a Kraut name? Monkey, well done, naming yourself after my male member takes balls, boy! Vinny, WTF? Check--I'd rather pay cash. Bokonon--I had to attend after I became addicted to Boks following my son Taily's tragic suicide by feline. Dave Crockett, woo-ha-ha, you're dead, Alamo stud!
That's all for me. Check you later, squares! Keep on eatin' McDonalds chicken, and you'll be eating my beans.
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ReplyDeleteThat is possibly the most entertaining comment I have ever seen.
I begged at the neighbors for a woman, and they said "check the haymow."
ROFLWTRDMF - That's going in the quote bucket. Not to mention that this will probably be referenced for a long time, i.e.:
HOLMGREN: How are we going to shore up our secondary? We still haven't found anyone to replace Dyson.
RUSKELL: Check the haymow.
BTW: I KNEW IT!!! NO WAY THAT IS CHICKEN!!!
I think I just pulled something. This post is hilarious.
For you geeks out there I have created a Seahawks public calendar that can be loaded into calendar programs that support iCAL and XML importing. What's on the calendar so far...2006 schedule, draft days, Seagal tryout schedule. I'll add more dates as I hear them.
ReplyDeleteThe iCAL url is:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/1s7r4i17hk7jfsrmeg5q3boubo@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
The XML url is:
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/1s7r4i17hk7jfsrmeg5q3boubo@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
Its almost unafair to come off a SuperBowl appearance with the Third easiest schedule(Chicago, Green Bay), but it should set up nicely for us to come out on top in Miami. I only hope we can play an old AFC West rival. I'd love to stick it to any of them.
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