Ravens 2012 Opponents

by Bruce Raffel on Jan 2, 2012 5:00 PM EST

The current NFL season is not even in the books and the NFL has released the official opponents of each NFL tam for the 2012 regular season. The NFL is on a specific schedule of how opponents are determined and while the official schedule of when they will play, the questions of who and where have been answered as of the final standings of the regular season.

The Baltimore Ravens will of course play a hone-and-home series with their AFC North opponents, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns., which will account for six of their 16-game season. For winning the AFC North, they will play the winners of the AFC East and South, hosting the New England Patriots and traveling to the Houston Texans.

They will also be playing the AFC West and NFC East in 2012 From the AFC West, Baltimore will host both the Oakland Raiders and Denver Broncos and travel to the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers. Their NFC East competition will be the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants at home and the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins on the road.

It is obviously premature, but looking at what is a much tougher schedule than their 2011 one, the Ravens could at least go 7-1 at home and 4-4 on the road for a record of at least 11-5 and their NFL-leading fifth straight playoff appearance in a row. Not a bad outlook for the Baltimore Ravens' future.

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Based on the just-released 2012 NFL regular season schedule, how many wins do you see the Baltimore Ravens getting in 2012?

9 or less

33 votes

10

72 votes

11

129 votes

12 or more

183 votes

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Not sure who you’re counting as road losses here? I’m assuming Pitt, Cincy, Eagles, Chargers, and Texans? I’ll give you Chargers and Pitt and MAYBE Cincy. If we see the Eagles anywhere from week 6 on, they’ll have already choked for the season. And I don’t expect the Texans to be even as much of a problem next season as they were this, unless Peyton moves to them. Schaub is good – but not good enough.

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by GrumpyOldBird on Jan 2, 2012 5:46 PM EST reply actions

bq.And I don’t expect the Texans to be even as much of a problem next season as they were this, unless Peyton moves to them. Schaub is good – but not good enough.

After eeking out a win against our third string

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by TexansForever on Jan 25, 2012 5:18 PM EST up reply actions

bah post fail above….stupid laptop.

And I don’t expect the Texans to be even as much of a problem next season as they were this, unless Peyton moves to them. Schaub is good – but not good enough.

After eeking out a win against our third string qb…..at your house…in the playoffs….I have to say you are nuts to think it gets easier when you come to our house and play our starting qb…..

Just seems irrational.

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by TexansForever on Jan 25, 2012 5:20 PM EST up reply actions

Are we sure these are the correct Home/Away matchups. I have it being as this:

“Ravens’ 2012 road games: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City, Denver, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston”

“Ravens’ 2012 home games: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, San Diego, Oakland, Dallas, New York Giants, New England”

Correct me if I’m wrong, this is what I got via RavensInsider through Bleacher Report. I’d be pissed if we had to go out to SD again. It’s time they have to come here. If these games that I posted are right, we won’t be taking too many far road trips next year which will be good.

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by WestminsterRaven on Jan 2, 2012 5:56 PM EST reply actions

You are wrong about SD

We go to SD next season and Denver comes here. This past year was because we both finished 2nd in or divisions in 2010. Last time we played the AFC West as a division, they came here.

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Jan 2, 2012 7:32 PM EST up reply actions

Look at story on BaltimoreRavens.com.

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Jan 2, 2012 7:42 PM EST up reply actions

I’ll take your word for it. I got that off of BL, like I said. So, fuckin a. Hate those SD games.

"Don't throw it, don't throw it, don't throw it. I know y'all going to throw it, they going to throw it anyway. I wouldn't throw it. Don't do it." - Ed Reed

You say tomato, I say tomahto. You say Six, I say Sweep.

by WestminsterRaven on Jan 2, 2012 8:14 PM EST up reply actions

Chargers

I kind of want to play the Chargers again. It will give us a chance to redeem ourselves for that bum loss this season.

by Ultrakinetic Brad on Jan 20, 2012 9:42 AM EST up reply actions

Not True

Last time we played the AFC West as a division, they came here

In 2009 when we played the AFC west, we play @ San Diego. This was the game where Ray stuffed Sproles in the backfield to escape with a W.

I noticed all the predicted schedules have us at SD, but I don’t really get why.

by DT711 on Jan 2, 2012 8:22 PM EST up reply actions

The NFL changed it....

So that in future years, teams will travel to either Kansas City and San Diego OR to Oakland and Denver when playing the entire AFC West, and to San Francisco and Arizona OR to Seattle and St. Louis when playing the entire NFC West.

So what happened before = now irrelevant when those two divisions are involved.

by MP-17 on Jan 5, 2012 3:43 AM EST up reply actions