Chaos

how many playoffs wins does watson have with his garbage and defense?

Only if he gets to bring hopkins tunsil and fuller.

Has to be Allen. It would suck to be a Texans fan.

I was just joking. You seem sensitive. Also I apologize if you were offended.

Everyone knows America's best and brighest are fertilizer guys with an MBA who work an occasional weekend. Thanks for letting us know you are an elite. You will be accorded all the proper respect your position warrants.

The Pats have always had a high scoring offense. Typically put teams in a hole early, which is a huge advantage to the defense. Great teams, great units, great players rise to the occasion. The pats defense failed. That was also a fail.

The bolded part is wrong. Virtually every playoff team has a better running back, a better tight end, and at least one better WR than the names on your list.

I think letting the dolphins score a TD on the final drive allows reasonable observers to grade the defensive effort for the Pats a solid F.

Buddy and Whaley were a pair of rodeo clowns.

What was the Pats best defensive performance against a top offense?

Ultimately I consider both defenses untested. Based on the Bills vs. Eagles and Ravens and Pats vs. Ravens, I don't see either defense really stopping teams like the niners/saints/chiefs/ravens/seahawks. If the Bills throttle the Texans, then I will consider them tested and passing the test, and consequently revise my "untested" opinion.

The Pats and Bills both benefited from playing historically weak schedules. Both teams defense's were good against winning teams. Neither teams defense truly excelled against winning teams.

The point is that people get excited about things that are actually quite pedestrian. They act as though not being one of the worst teams in history is the same thing as "unprecedented success"

Flores may have very high standards. Or the OC may not have been considered by Flores to be responsible for the improvement.

repeat caliber?

What if Shaq reverts to year 1 to 4 form, after the 'prove it' year? That is not uncommon in the NFL.

Baring major injury, it is 100% certain Allen will be extended.

Did this happen when your family inherited an NFL team?

yes, every year 12/32 teams make the playoffs. It really is not an amazing thing.

simpler, and meaningless.

"ever" does not imply correlation. Do this exercise, look at the top 5 passing YARDAGE leaders (by team) for the last five year. Then look at the top five PASSER RATING teams for the last five years. Remove all the teams that are top 5 in both. You will almost certainly see that the list of top five passer rating teams are almost always in the playoffs even if they are not top five yardage teams. You will see that the top five yardage teams without being top five passer rating teams will appear at the random percentage around 12/32 (12 out of 32 teams make the playoffs every year).

It is not an outlier year. There is no meaningful correlation between raw yards and winning, let alone causation.

No person with a high football IQ has considered raw passing yards to be an important statistic in the last 20 years. Raw passing yards has no correlation with winning an losing. A team may have 5000 yards and blow out every team each week as a result. Or a team may be throwing for 150 yards against a soft prevent in a losing effort in the fourth quarter every week. The lack of correlation of raw passing yards to wins is not a new thing. It is actually a well known thing. On the other hand Passer Rating does have a meaningful correlation to wins.

The team that wins the Super Bowl will be the team that is the best team, not the team with some hypothetical "easiest path". Who we play in what order does not matter. The defense will have to get off the field and not let the other team have 10 minute drives to give offense a chance.

I would like to play the team that can't beat the Dolphins at home.