Who Wins A Playoff Game First?

[*Nately120*]

(03-08-2018, 09:33 AM)fredtoast Wrote: So your logic is that teams that have been bad are more likely to win playoff games than teams that have been good?

Stop and think about that logic for a moment.  I know some people will go through amazing feats of mental gymnastics to shit on the Bengals, but I think this is a bit over the top.

"Other teams that have been bad have won playoff games, therefore teams that have been bad are more likely to win playoff games than teams that have been good."


Seriously?

No, not seriously.  I pointed out that during our golden era of making the playoffs from 2011-2015 multiple teams who won far fewer games than us during that span have achieved far more in the post-season than we have.  My main point is that I don't see the Browns winning a playoff game before us, but who would you pick to win a playoff game first in these scenarios?

after 2011 - the 9-7 reborn Bengals or the 3-13 Vikings?
after 2012 - the 10-6 Bengals or the 2-14 Chiefs, the 5-11 Cardinals or the 4-12 Eagles?
after 2013 - the 11-5 Bengals or the 2-14 Texans or the 4-12 Falcons?
after 2014 - the 10-5 Bengals or the 2-14 Titans or the 6-10 Falcons?
after 2015 - the 12-4 Shoulda Won the SB Bengals or the 5-11 Jaguars, 3-13 Titans, the 7-9 Eagles, or the 7-9 AGAIN Saints?

After that we stopped being so good in the regular season, but still the Jaguars, Eagles, and Saints had losing seasons before winning a playoff game this year.  Winning a playoff game is a big thing for us, and since we got good again for a while there we managed to watch almost the entire NFL go from below us, to winning a playoff game before us.

I'm not concluding anything, but seeing other teams achieve less and then more than us while they swap out HCs and GMs and we stay the course can't be brushed off, can it?  Maybe the Browns become the 19th franchise out of 31 to go from below us to above us.  Maybe.  That's all I'm saying.