10-06-2016, 10:20 PM
(10-04-2016, 11:40 PM)fredtoast Wrote: You can't say prime time losses are bigger but prime time wins are not.
Rfaulk beat me to it, but yeah you definitely can with a team that has the expectations that this one does. We SHOULD win prime time and playoff games, based on how well the team has fared in regular season 1 pm games.
That's why prime time and playoff losses are so troubling (especially considering the record) and prime time and playoff wins should be expected. I doubt New England fans throw any extra significance one way or another on whether or not a game was played in prime time.
This is because they expect to win. Now if they lost or continually began to lose those types of games, I imagine they'd suddenly care that it was a prime time game.
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