Resiliency has been a watchword for this team, absolutely. We're also letting the opponent draw first blood a lot and then whipping back into form, which is a little concerning. I'm guessing the majority of 12-3 teams haven't trailed in 10 of those games.
The Broncos, Raiders and Colts all get F- grades for the season. Everyone thought the AFC would be incredibly tough but it's really just the 3 or 4 teams at the top.
They'll never admit this out loud but Hackett was an important part of their plan to court Rodgers and then they got stuck with both him and a way worse QB.
When someone does enough posts fluffing up an AFC rival around here there should be a rule that they have to come do an analysis of their failed predictions or get perma-banned.
It would be very surprising to me if the SB wasn't some permutation of Bills, Chiefs, Bengals, Eagles and 49ers. Don't believe in the Vikings or Cowboys.
Then again, who had Rams over Bengals last year?
They should turn the corner but they won't. The sheer arrogance of heading into a season with no leadership on offensive coaching would get all other 31 HCs fired.
But with a fistful of SB rings? Belichick will walk away when he wants to.
So we're now 4 games ahead over the course of 15 games and the Fins have a negative point differential for the season. Is the division still a toss up for years to come?
The track record of RBs who touch the ball as many times as he has this season is really bad. He will very likely get injured next season. There's earnestly nothing wrong with our current RB room. The offense just flows through our all world QB.
This throws it into sharp relief just how hard it is to win the big one. Let's assume the following win probabilities...
Bengals: 60%
Patriots: 85%
Divisional round opponent: 75%
Championship round opponent: 60%
SB opponent: 50%
Winning all five = 11.4%
Of course there's also the path where we lose one of the regular season games and have to win 4 straight playoff games, probably only one at home, yielding roughly the same chances. So you add those together to get about a 20% chance.
And I'm really not pessimistic about this! A bunch of the other playoff teams have like a 3-5% chance. It's just hard.
I don’t know man. They went to the SB last year and are on a 7 game win streak right now . Trying to rank the Bills, Bengals and Chiefs is really hard.