Playoffs

[*bengalfan74*]

(12-30-2021, 02:52 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: This is a misrepresentation of that thought process.  Regular season wins 100% matter.  To everyone.  The argument that's been made (because I've made it as well) is that regular season wins ALONE don't mean anything.  You can go 16-0 during the regular season and lose in the first playoff game every year, thereby making those amazing records largely meaningless when you're looking at a team's/coach's success.  The regular is the (important) road to the playoffs and Super Bowl.  But ending it with the regular season, as exciting as the season might have been, is not reaching the pinnacle. 

For a team like the Bengals, the big question now is whether they can take regular season success and translate it to playoff wins.  Not just can they have a competitive game this Sunday, but have they made it?  Have they turned the corner?  Can they manage a stretch of games where every one of them is a must-win to keep advancing?  Tempered optimism and wanting to see the team actually prove after a 30-year famine they can feast on the playoffs is a totally fair measuring stick of the success of a team. 

He's been arguing this this early Marvin days on the mother ship. I'm beginning to believe he really believes it.