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Chicago, Green Bay, Minnesota, San Francisco, Seattle, Buffalo, Miami, Atlanta

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Chicago, Green Bay, Minnesota, Arizona, St. Louis, New England, N.Y. Jets, Dallas

I like our non divisional schedule. Seattle, and NE are the only playoff teams this year. I guess that happens when you suck all the time.

Yes! Atlanta at home again. Gosh, I love DeAngelo Hall!

It's a cylce of opening day oppoentents, we faced chicago last year @chi town, GB this year here, so next year I bet you any money we start out the season in the Metrodome.

With some big improvements, that's a 10-6 year.

Detroit Lions Schedule



WK DATE OPPONENT TICKETS TV TIME (ET)
0 BYE WEEK
1 Sun, Sep 10 Seattle Tickets 1:00 PM
2 Sun, Sep 17 at Chicago Tickets 1:00 PM
3 Sun, Sep 24 Green Bay Tickets 1:00 PM
4 Sun, Oct 1 at St. Louis Tickets 4:05 PM
5 Sun, Oct 8 at Minnesota Tickets 1:00 PM
6 Sun, Oct 15 Buffalo Tickets 1:00 PM
7 Sun, Oct 22 at NY Jets Tickets 1:00 PM
9 Sun, Nov 5 Atlanta Tickets 1:00 PM
10 Sun, Nov 12 San Francisco Tickets 1:00 PM
11 Sun, Nov 19 at Arizona Tickets 4:05 PM
12 Thu, Nov 23 Miami Tickets 12:30 PM
13 Sun, Dec 3 at New England Tickets 1:00 PM
14 Sun, Dec 10 Minnesota Tickets 1:00 PM
15 Sun, Dec 17 at Green Bay Tickets 1:00 PM
16 Sun, Dec 24 Chicago Tickets 1:00 PM
17 Sun, Dec 31 at Dallas Tickets 1:00 PM

I like that the bye is week 8, that's a good spot for a bye.

Here's my early, meaningless projection:

Seattle- L
@Bears- L
GB- W
@Rams- L
@Vikings- L
Buffalo- W
@Jets- W
Atlanta- W
49ers- W
@Cardinals- L
Miami- W
@NE- L
Minny- W
@GB- W
Bears- L
@Dallas- L

Of course, anybody that tells you that they can predict ANYTHING that involves the Lions (besides losing and poorly running a franchise) is not to be believed.

Looks like I have them at 8-8 at this point.

I agree with you GD, but I will swap the week 2 loss for a W and the week 15 W for a loss.

Two 4 o'clock kickoffs!

I HATE THIS SCHEDULE!

10-6

3-13. Book it.

I'm not getting fooled like last year.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2399476

Not to be nitpicky here, but don't they usually base strength of schedule on the previous year? If you have a good season, you get a tougher schedule next season? If that's the case, how did the Seahawks get the second easiest schedule? And how did the Lions get the toughest schedule in the worthless NFC North?

Marinelli on the schedule:

"What a great way to start the season," Lions coach Rod Marinelli said in a statement. "It certainly won't take us very long to find out how well we stack up against the elite teams in our conference, not when you open the season at home against the NFC champions and then go on the road to play the division champions the following week."
http://www.mlive.com/sportsflash/football/index.ssf?/base/sports-17/1144348786157850.xml&storylist=michigannfl

NFL Network to replay full games in 2006

NFL games will be replayed in a 90-minute format on NFL Network during the upcoming season.

In the past, the league didn't allow full rebroadcasts. But beginning Tuesday, Sept. 12, "NFL Game Re-Airs" will feature four of the best matchups from the previous weekend. Eliminated will be halftime and, according to a league announcement, "other elements not critical to the outcome."

But additional features, such as sideline and on-field sound captured during the game and postgame news conference sound bites will be interspersed within the broadcast. There also will be camera shots and angles from NFL Films that differ from those on the original telecast.

"Fans have been asking us for years about encore presentations of our games," said Charles Coplin, NFL Network's vice president of programming. "For NFL Network, these rights are as significant as securing the new Thursday-Saturday prime-time game package."

Two games will be shown each Tuesday and Wednesday night. Games shot in high definition will re-air in HD. Which games will be re-aired will be announced Mondays.

It will be the first time in league history that games from the NFL regular-season or playoffs will be shown outside their live window. The network expects to show 75 replays altogether.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5535842

0 BYE WEEK
1 Sun, Sep 10 Seattle Tickets -L
2 Sun, Sep 17 at Chicago -L
3 Sun, Sep 24 Green Bay Tickets -W
4 Sun, Oct 1 at St. Louis -L
5 Sun, Oct 8 at Minnesota -L
6 Sun, Oct 15 Buffalo -W
7 Sun, Oct 22 at NY Jets -W
9 Sun, Nov 5 Atlanta -L
10 Sun, Nov 12 San Francisco -W
11 Sun, Nov 19 at Arizona -L
12 Thu, Nov 23 Miami -L
13 Sun, Dec 3 at New England -L
14 Sun, Dec 10 Minnesota -W
15 Sun, Dec 17 at Green Bay -L
16 Sun, Dec 24 Chicago -L
17 Sun, Dec 31 at Dallas -L

Another thrilling 5-11 season. Enjoy ladies and gentlemen.