01-08-2021, 12:43 AM
(01-07-2021, 10:44 PM)wildcatnku24 Wrote: Thanks for responding with the two games we got wrecked on and ignoring the others. No matter, I'll make a believer outta ya right now!
If you look at the first ten weeks for our schedule where we had Burrow, we won 2, tied 1 and lost 6 HOWEVER, only 3 were double digit losses, with one of them being 11 points and the other 2 way outta hand. The other 4 were within 5 (3,3,4,5 points respectively). SO! we very easily could've been 6-2-1 during that stretch.
We also know that the second half of the schedule was EASIER, and so we likely would've beaten the Giants and the Cowboys as well. That would've put our win total to TEN games this year, for a 10-5-1 record.
10-5-1 would've been quite nice! And the good news is it's RIGHT THERE! We were very close!!! We fix the OL and give Burrow time, keep him clean, and then also get him a new toy (Chase, Davonte, Pitts, something) and look out!
Pointing to 1 score losses isn't a valid indication that they're close.
Last year, if you take every single 1 score loss and turn them into wins for every single team, then there would be only 2 in all of the NFL with losing records and those teams would be 7-9.
Close scores at the end are the norm in the NFL. It's why getting blown out is embarrassing.
The 2019 Lions were 3-12-1. If you turned all their 1 score non-wins into wins, then they would have been 12-4..... and yet the 2020 Lions were 5-11, despite being "competitive" and "very close" the previous year according to your method.
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