Oct 23rd 2008 5:58AM by Sportz Assassin (author feed)
Filed under: 49ers, AZ Cardinals, Broncos, Chargers, Raiders, Seahawks, AFC West, NFC WestTuesday on ESPN’s , Eric Kuselias brought up the point that west coast teams play poorly when they travel east. He argued that west teams are forced to play the early game when are the visitors in east coast cities and they are struggling to adapt.

Let’s look at that. The Oakland Raiders and Arizona Cardinals might be interested since the visit Baltimore and Carolina, respectively.

Western teams are a combined 0-9 when they play in the Eastern Time Zone. Of those nine games, eight were played at 1:00 p.m. ET. The Raiders-Ravens and Cardinals-Panthers games on Sunday will both be at 1:00 p.m. ET.

Seattle has lost at Buffalo, NY Giants and Tampa Bay. San Diego lost at Buffalo and Miami. Arizona lost at Washington and NY Jets. San Francisco lost at the Giants. Oakland lost at Buffalo. If you want to add Denver as a western team, they lost in their one trip east (in New England on Monday night).

So is it the travel or the time of the game?

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