by RiverDog » Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:52 am
Week 17 features all divisional games across the league, but the rest of December doesn't look a lot different than any of the other weeks, so they've gone away from the trend of trying to schedule mostly divisional games down the stretch. I'm wondering if that was by design or if it reflects the complexity of coming up with a suitable schedule. There's still a double header on the first Monday night of the season.
Our only early start is the Jags game while the rest of our west coast brethren have multiple east coast early games. Our Thursday night game, a short flight down to Phoenix, is bookended by two home games, and we get a long stretch of 10 games to prepare for the Falcons, arguably the toughest game on our schedule, and we get them at home for the 2nd straight year. Our two potential cold weather games, at Green Bay and at the Giants, fall in September and October. We have a long road trip to New York preceded by our bye week. The early handicap has our schedule rated as one of the weakest in the league.
I don't see a single thing in our schedule that would cause the Seahawk chapter of the Grassy Knoll Association to seek out Deep Throat.
On a personal note, after getting two doctor's opinions, the second of which I got from an experienced surgeon yesterday morning, I've decided to have a full knee replacement before the end of the calendar year. My wife thought it hilarious when I told her that I anxious to see what our Seahawks schedule looked like before scheduling my knee surgery so as not to interfere with attending any games. I fail to see the humor that she saw, rather I feel that I have my priorities in the right place.