Satchboogie3

The most impressive thing a team can do is to go undefeated (19-0). The next most impressive thing would be to blowout all the oppenents faced in the playoffs. Hopefully we will accomplish both feats.

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richpats

That's why there are a lot of pansies out there that want NE to drop one to Miami or the Giants so, if a playoff loss were to happen, it wouldn't be as devastating.

MrBigglesWorth

you're right. we'll be in the thick of the playoffs in a few weeks

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Milkman

It would be relevant from a statistical standpoint because it has never been done before. Like Brady and Randy Moss shooting for new TD passing and receiving records or the offense setting a new league scoring record. It isn't as important as the Super Bowl victory, but it ISN'T meaningless either. I suppose it is as meaningless as every other significant football record.

fleabassist1

Oh no not this again ;-)

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PatsSteve1

I agree. A 16-0 season and playoff loss w/o a SB win would be mostly remembered as a failure.

chris_in_sunnyvale

Of COURSE an undefeated regular season will be remembered more than winning the Super Bowl...

...for ALL of the wrong reasons. Fans of other teams will take jabs for years if this team doesn't finish the job with an undefeated postseason as well.

Need to remove the regular season qualifier. The Pats must have a perfect season to be remembered the right way.

Regards,
Chris

Satchboogie3

How could 19-0 get overlooked by 16-0. Forget the regular season. If you win every regular season game, your season ain't over. Winning all 16 regular season games isn't undefeated or perfect, because you still have 3 more. 19-0 should be the ONLY undefeated talk. This 16-0 stuff is irrelevant, its no different than saying 13-0 or 2-0 is undefeated. It all comes down to winning them all. If we win them all, ALL, then that will be impressive. If people talk about a regular season sweep, it would probably mean we lost a playoff game. No one would talk about 16-0 over 19-0 if we win the SB. No one.

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Update: Well that didn't work out as I had planned. Next year baby, next year 19-0 we go. Next year.

JoeSixPat

Looking over all the responses, while I agree that it would be a very bitter pill to swallow if the Pats didn't win a Super Bowl, I wouldn't discount the accomplishment of a perfect regular season.

I thought it was impressive last year that San Diego lost just 2 games by 3 points each - i.e. they were 6 points shy of a perfect season.

I'd have to say its even more impressive than that to win 16 games in a regular season.

If I had to choose between a perfect regular season and another Super Bowl ring, the choice is obvious, but I wouldn't be as quick to throw out a 16-0 regular season as a wasted season even if we didn't win the SB.

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PatsFWB

The comparison is wrong. It is not which is more rare, a perfect regular season vs a Super Bowl. It is a perfect regular season vs four Super Bowls in seven years. I believe in the history of the NFL only San Francisco has bested that feat. That is also rare.