"People talk about our hard schedule, but it doesn't matter," said receiver Wayne Chrebet, who caught two touchdown passes yesterday.
Regarding the Southwest incident, James E. Hall, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that the airline had "a good safety program," but that the company worked its airplanes hard, scheduling flights with very quick turnarounds.
You know, for me, even though presidents have a very hard schedule, you know, and we keep very long hours, you have some more flexibility with your time because we live above the store, so to speak.
Good teams get harder schedules.
"We've got one of the hardest schedules.
The Steelers have the hardest schedule in 2015, with their opponents having a combined winning percentage of.578 in 2014.
But improvements may not translate into victories given the harder schedule, shortened off-season (which hurt young players most) and higher expectations.
Buffalo had the hardest schedule in the A.F.C. last season, while the Chiefs had the conference's most forgiving slate of opponents.
Three years ago, the Patriots were denied a chance to defend their Super Bowl title despite finishing in a three-way tie for first place in their division and having a harder schedule than either of the other 9-7 thems, the Jets and the Dolphins.
These ideas are tested on an NP-hard scheduling problem known as the response time variability problem (RTVP).
