lol, the Colts are hardly "trash". However, I'll give you that the Patriots are easily the best team in the league. I personally believe that they will go undefeated and win the super bowl, it's possible some team will beat them along the way. Also, to answer:
There are thirty-two teams in the NFL. Each team plays sixteen games, eight home and eight away. Each team also has a "bye week", or rest week. This means that there are seventeen total weeks of play in the NFL regular season. The thirty-two teams are split into two "conferences", the NFC and the AFC. The conferences are named after the two separate leagues that merged in 1970, the NFL (National Football League) and the AFL (American Football League). These two conferences are divided further into four "divisions" each: North, South, West, and East. This means that there are four teams per division, and sixteen per conference. Generally, the placement of teams into these divisions is geographically correct, but there are several exceptions, such as the Dallas Cowboys. One can see that the city of Dallas is located in the southern US, but they play in the East conference.
Nevertheless, I digress. Each team in each division plays the others in that division twice, once at home and once away. This equals six out of the total sixteen games. Each team in a division also plays one game against every team in two other divisions. These other divisions are randomly selected and may be inside the conference or outside (to the best of my knowledge). The final two games remaining are played against teams not from the original teams division or the other two divisions that said team would be playing against. All of these out-of-division games are randomly determined to be home or away, although a team will always end up with an even amount of home and away games. In addition, when a team plays a certain team on their schedule is randomly determined. What I mean by this is that a team does not play all of its in-division games first, or all of it’s out-of-division games first, etc.
For example, let us look at the schedule of my hometown team, the Minnesota Vikings. They must play the teams from the NFC East division and the AFC West division, as well as their own NFC North division. The two random teams they play against are the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers. As such, their schedule looks like this: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/min/schedule;_ylt=AgWCIZAuPTQ3nwZYWhbrunqM2bYF
Well, I hope that answered all of your questions.
That was probably the longest post I've ever made xD
There are thirty-two teams in the NFL. Each team plays sixteen games, eight home and eight away. Each team also has a "bye week", or rest week. This means that there are seventeen total weeks of play in the NFL regular season. The thirty-two teams are split into two "conferences", the NFC and the AFC. The conferences are named after the two separate leagues that merged in 1970, the NFL (National Football League) and the AFL (American Football League). These two conferences are divided further into four "divisions" each: North, South, West, and East. This means that there are four teams per division, and sixteen per conference. Generally, the placement of teams into these divisions is geographically correct, but there are several exceptions, such as the Dallas Cowboys. One can see that the city of Dallas is located in the southern US, but they play in the East conference.
Nevertheless, I digress. Each team in each division plays the others in that division twice, once at home and once away. This equals six out of the total sixteen games. Each team in a division also plays one game against every team in two other divisions. These other divisions are randomly selected and may be inside the conference or outside (to the best of my knowledge). The final two games remaining are played against teams not from the original teams division or the other two divisions that said team would be playing against. All of these out-of-division games are randomly determined to be home or away, although a team will always end up with an even amount of home and away games. In addition, when a team plays a certain team on their schedule is randomly determined. What I mean by this is that a team does not play all of its in-division games first, or all of it’s out-of-division games first, etc.
For example, let us look at the schedule of my hometown team, the Minnesota Vikings. They must play the teams from the NFC East division and the AFC West division, as well as their own NFC North division. The two random teams they play against are the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers. As such, their schedule looks like this: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/min/schedule;_ylt=AgWCIZAuPTQ3nwZYWhbrunqM2bYF
Well, I hope that answered all of your questions.
That was probably the longest post I've ever made xD
