09-12-2015, 04:15 PM
(09-12-2015, 02:53 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: Your point is almost accurate, considering the turnover Oakland has. Given this, New England has made the playoffs 12 years out of the last 14 - so you're saying the past has no inclination for the future (then why follow statistics at all, what happened just a minute ago doesn't matter, you have no way to judge a player or team). Tom Brady is a constant, they will be in the playoffs again.
Continuity of a team matters, or it's just a random statistic. Example, Cleveland hasn't won their first game in over 10 years. They're just a bad team, but if they had continuity, you'd say they don't know how to prepare for the season opener. Example, if Dalton was 0-10 in playoff games, there would be a reason based on continuity, wouldn't there be?
I do agree history means nothing in this case (oakland, meh); though I remember reading something about how Cincy plays bad on the west coast for some reason (time difference, 4:30 games, etc), but if history doesn't matter, then that's an interesting way to watch sports lol.
The Bengals are 2-2 versus the Raiders under Marvin Lewis
2 wins at home...2 losses on the road
The last time the Bengals played in Oakland was 2009...There are only 6 players left from that team...Thanks to an Andre Caldwell fumble on the kickoff return the Raiders won on a FG with 16 seconds left..At worst that game should have gone to OT.
The other loss was Marvin's 1st year...There are no players left from that team....Another last second FG and a loss
BTW...Janikowski made both kicks and is still in Oakland
There is no recent history to show that the Bengals should not win this game..Are they 0-10 in OAK? Yes but what bearing does that have on the current players?
