06-05-2015, 11:00 AM
(06-05-2015, 10:27 AM)Nately120 Wrote: You make some fair points but 2011 had a much easier schedule (it was night and day, really), no Bratkowski, and I'm sure there is some other stuff in there. Palmer and Dalton were both better in 2011-2014 (for the most part) than Palmer in 2010 and there are a lot of reasons for that. My main point simply comes down to the fact that we played teams in 2010 with the following records:
14-2
12-4
2-14
5-11
10-6
13-3
7-9
12-4
10-6
4-12
11-5
11-5
12-4
5-11
9-7
12-4
Now we managed to lose to two clunker teams, so we were outright bad at times but the 2011 team showed the same inability to beat winning teams as the 2010 one did (they both beat a single winning team)...they just ran into a lot less really good teams.
So we played a weaker schedule. We also started a rookie QB and WR. Most people expected us to be one of those "weaker" teams.
