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I noticed the 2009 matchups have been assembled by the NFL and published.  They don’t have dates assigned to the games yet but they have determined home and away games for all teams across the NFL. I took a brief look, and I’m pretty sure the NFC North is screwed.

The way I understand it, in a sixteen-game schedule, you’ll have home/away divisional opponents taking up half the games.  Of the remaining eight games, four would go to intraconference play (NFC) and four to extraconference play (AFC).  Given that there are 16 teams in each conference, you would think that the odds that each of the teams in the NFC North would play both representatives in the Superbowl would be remote.

Let’s see.  Odds of the Packers playing the Cardinals in 2009?  12 non-North teams to choose as opponents for four games.  That’s a 33% chance.  Odds that the Vikings and Packers would both have to play the Cards?  That’s just under an 11% chance.

Odds that all four NFC North teams will play against that same Arizona Cardinals?  One percent.

But we’re just getting started.  The Packers also have 4 extraconference games, divided among sixteen possible opponents.  Odds they’d get the Steelers?  25%.  I’ll just do the rest of the math here to save time - odds that every mother-luvin’ NFC North team had to play the Steelers?  Four tenths of a percent.

Odds that every NFC North team would have to play BOTH representatives from the previous year’s Superbowl?   Five thousandths of a percent chance.  Astrocomical, really.

And that also sums up the chances that any NFC North team is going to escape the 2009 season with more than nine wins.  Though the Pack did score games against the twin dormats from America’s armpit.  So, there’s that.

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To see if the Packers can keep the Lions down in their quest for perfection, and the Green Bay Packer Bikini Girls, who should be making their annual appearance at this game.

And that’s about it.

It’s time.

I’m getting updated emails that are using advanced calculus to describe to me the chances the Packers have for making the playoffs this year.

In two consecutive weeks the Packers were in a good position going into a minute and a half left in the game, the opposition with the ball, asses nearly rubbing on their endzone. All the Packers needed to do was hold on one series. Four plays. Instead, both times the opponent was in position to score with plenty of time left, jogging down the field just like their walk-throughs a few hours earlier.

And before that was the New Orleans game. The Packers were able to match the Saints offensive production score for score, and then instead of two stallions racing neck and neck to the finish, the Packers threw a shoe and started putting up field goals to the Saints touchdowns. Then the Saints started scoring points the Packers had no answer for. And then, did you know that Spike TV was airing the second Star Wars trilogy?

Better viewing than the game, anyway.

So now, there’s really only one game that needs to be circled on the calendar.  The season finale, at home, against Detroit.  Detroit will likely enter the game 0-15 and be willing to throw everything at the Packers just to avoid future history from referencing the 2008 Lions every year a team starts the season 0-4.  And the Packers will long have since been eliminated from the playoff picture and be looking forward to tee times at munis in warmer climates.

But if the Packers lose to the 0-15 Lions, things are gonna be ugly around here all winter long.  Questions about Ted Thompson (as if he needs anymore reason to have questions asked about him).  Questions about McCarthy.  About the D coordinator Sanders.  About special teams.  About how we could fall to a team that couldn’t beat anyone else, all season long.  It’ll be nothing less than humiliating.

So Mike?  Forget about the Jags.

Forget about the Bears.

Start prepping now for the Lions.  Now.

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