Hey WCG I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about some of our injuries.  I know we are on a bye week, but I have not heard anything about the progress of Hunter Hillenmeyer, Pisa Tinoisamoa and Devin Aromashodu?  Are we getting them back for Atlanta?  I know our back ups have been satisfactory, but when we play Atlanta I would love to have Hunter and Pisa back.  I don't trust our back ups against a real NFL team like the Falcons

ESPN's Kevin Seifert posted an interesting article today on our strength of schedule for next season (NFC North plays the AFC North this season).  (Here is the list of home and away opponents for next season)  This season's strength of schedule was .531 (136-120).  This next season we have a .414 (105-149-2).  While this number is skewed because we have the priveladge of playing the Lions twice.  However, between the Packers, Vikings and Lions, we play the most play-off teams (7).  Last year the Patriots had the easiest schedule in the league (.387) and they went 11-5.  There are definate advantages to playing easier teams but this guarentee's us nothing because so much can change during the season.  The Steelers had the hardest schedule (.598) at the beginning of the season.  This dropped to .525 by the end of the season (Arizona had .465 at the beginning of the season.