NFC North 2013 opponents

NFC NORTH
1. Green Bay Packers


Home: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers
Away: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals


2. Minnesota Vikings


Home: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers
Away: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Seattle Seahawks, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals


3. Chicago Bears


Home: Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals
Away: Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, St. Louis Rams, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers


4. Detroit Lions


Home: Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals
Away: Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers

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Originally Posted by The Benjamin

3. Chicago Bears


Home: Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals
Away: Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, St. Louis Rams, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers

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first look.... Kinda scary outlook for 2013

Only 7 games against 2012 playoff teams doesn't sound too scary.

But it does when you consider the non-playoff teams were in the hunt (Cowboys and Giants) or coming off off-years (Saints, Steelers). Now you're at 11 games against solid opponents. And three more against talented underachieving teams (Eagles and Lions X 2).

But hey, we get to play the Browns.

Home:

Detroit Lions,
Green Bay Packers,
Minnesota Vikings,
Dallas Cowboys,
New York Giants,
New Orleans Saints,
Baltimore Ravens,
Cincinnati Bengals

Away:

Detroit Lions,
Green Bay Packers,
Minnesota Vikings,
Philadelphia Eagles,
Washington Redskins,
St. Louis Rams,
Cleveland Browns,
Pittsburgh Steelers

That's a tough schedule, especially considering the NFC-N is a tough division now. We barely beat Detroit last Sunday. The Vikings and GB are both better teams than us now. Then you throw in the rest of our 2013 schedule and you realize we're going to have to get a LOT better to be competitive. Emery and the new coaches will have their work cut out for them.

I'm calling 8-8 at worst and think we will end with 10-6 again. Will have a better team overall but it takes little time to get used to the new Coach

Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. Going to be a tough schedule. We really need a coach that can leverage what we have and get off to a fast start. Otherwise, we build for the year after. I'd prefer the first route, but as long as I see them building the team and a competitive team out there, I'd be ok with the second option. I just want a team to be improving and playing with talent and fire. As long as we have that and Emery keeps getting more talent, I'd be ok with it. We'll get there one way or another. I'm convinced we are doing the right things.

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Originally Posted by The Benjamin

first look.... Kinda scary outlook for 2013

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Hard to say how the schedule will look until we have some idea of what the teams will look like after FA and the draft.

but at first glance, ya it's tough...lets see what happens in OTA's and who the coaches are and the new player additions are.

Most folks only care about wins and losses, and that's probably the right way to look at it. I'm different though. I look at HOW we performed in those wins and losses. We were a 10 win team this year, but looked like a 4 win team. We only scored 7 points against one team, only 6 in another game, and we had a number of other games where we just looked butt ugly.

My point is, that I'd be fine if we had an 8 to 10 win season again, in the FIRST year of a new coaching staff - if - we looked like a team getting its act together. Losses I can deal with. But not the butt ugly stuff we saw this past year. If the play calling looks sharp, the players are executing well, the oline is decent, receivers are running decent routes and have fewer drops - and we still lose, then I can deal with that.

I can't deal with 5 turnstiles on the oline & having to make blockers out of our skill players, and WR's who can't run routes or catch a football, and TE's who have hands of stone, plays not getting to the QB on time and we have to continually burn timeouts, etc etc etc.

It's more than W's and L's to me.

Have to disagree, I really feel after hearing Emery speech that he is looking for an HC that can work with some of the coaches we now have. My thinking is that Emery wants to keep Marinelli and Toubs if they will stay and start making changes to the Defense as we bring in new players to replace some of what we already have. If Toubs does stay I think he will have a hard road as ST will fall in importance. The new HC will be way too busy rebuilding and improve the Offense and make it something the Bears have never had a top 10 Offense, to make big changes from the start as far as Defense and ST go, would take away from rebuilding the Offense. The biggest change under the new HC it will be Offense first then Defense with ST falling to last, where under Lovie it was Defense, ST and then far back in last place was the Offense.

What I see over the next few years is the Bears Offense putting up big numbers, while the Defense and ST jobs will be to keep the other teams in check and not out there to win the games and hope the Offense can help. Will we still have a top Defense yes as long as we don't try to make big changes overnight, will we ever hear the words "Defense First" come out of Halas Hall ever again, I hope to hell not.

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Originally Posted by GermansbombedPH

I'm calling 8-8 at worst and think we will end with 10-6 again. Will have a better team overall but it takes little time to get used to the new Coach

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So, basically, we play:

Our division, as usual.
NFC East
AFC North
New Orleans (the respective team to the Bears in the NFC South)
St Louis (the respective team to the Bears in the NFC West)



The news here is only that N.O. & St. Louis are the respective teams from the other divisions. Next year w/ play NFC South & AFC East + our respective NFC teams from the West & East.