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Notes on the 2008 NFL Schedule:
If you look to 2007 NFL team win-losses, the Texans have the 7th hardest 2008 schedule in the league. The start of the season is a brutality with four of the first five against last year's playoff teams, and being one of only two NFL teams with three of four on the road in September. (The Cardinals are the other team with a road September).
The Texans need to learn quickly how to win on the road against good teams given that they won only twice on the road last year, both against teams with losing records.
In an attempt to find a bright side of the schedule, I will direct you to this Pro-Football-Reference blog post from a few years ago that says that though strength of schedule absolutely does matter to teams, estimates of schedule strength based on last year's numbers don't really matter. Some teams that were bad last year will be good and vice versa. You probably knew that already, but it is nice to see actual numbers that say the same thing.
The worst part of the 2008 Texans schedule from the perspective of someone who pays money to go to the games is the imbalanced nature of it.
September/November have few home games, and October/December have a ton. Imbalanced schedules can make it rough on your family life ("what? another home game!!") and makes tailgaters have to pace their alcohol consumption a bit better.
At least the league gave the Texans a MNF game and a few 3:00 pm home starts. Noon starts mean that you have to get used to eating Texas BBQ at 9:00am. Though I suppose breakfast BBQ is better than the alternative: no tailgating and no football in Houston. (The picture above is of some really nice Yellow Lot tailgaters with Amobi Okoye).
Any thoughts on the schedule? The Texans will have to survive the first part of the schedule with some wins, health and confidence intact. Otherwise, it will be the third season in a row of a mostly irrelevant December home schedule.
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