A Sleeping Giant

[*bengalfan74*]

(12-30-2019, 02:26 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: No. Falcons have been to the SB two times.

The year before the first time they were 7-9.
The year before the second time they were 8-8.



Don't be fooled, you two. You thought you saw the Bengals playing better, but in reality you just saw the Bengals opponents being worse.

In the 1st half, the Bengals played 5 winning teams out of their 8 games.
In the 2nd half, the Bengals played 2 winning teams out of their 8 games.

The Bengals opponents in the 1st half finished with a record of 76-51-1. If you remove the Bengals that record becomes 66-51-1.
The Bengals opponents in the 2nd half finished with a record of 65-63. If you remove the Bengals that record becomes 58-61.

The only two games they played against winning teams in the 2nd half of they year, they lost by 49-13 and 34-13.

Looking better against the Browns, Jets, and Dolphins doesn't make much difference when you still get pasted by good teams.

Bingo !

I've argued this in many threads going back to the mother ship.

Many people get way to geeked up when we beat 4-12 teams. "Oh look the D is improving" even though we just played the 30th ranked offense or whatever.

"See the running game is fixed" But we just played the two worst run D's in the league. "Look at our QB go, he's got it back" again we just played two of the worst D's in the NFL against pass.

But if you go back and look at our record against the upper half of the NFL we're getting our butts handed to us way more often than not.