RoughingthePasser
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I am doubting that "one Patriot" was making all of those statements.
This is a Yahoo sports article. That means it has nothing to do with anyone in anyway connected with the NFL raising a question, and is solely the opinion of a guy who happens to own a keyboard.
One of the reasons the eastern division of the AFC looks relatively stronger is that the teams got to feast against the NFC west. I'm ok with the division format.
What I don't love is the tie breakers. Head to head is fair, but after that, there's such a wide variety in scheduling the two non-common games that it ends up being mildly unfair. If Miami had played the Steelers and the Colts and we had played the Ravens and the Texans, I think we would have had a much better chance of being plus one on those non-common opponents, yet there is no way for division tie breakers to take that into account.
That's ok, I guess. I suppose some day we'll be the beneficiary of a relatively weaker schedule and it all balances out over time.
One of the reasons the eastern division of the AFC looks relatively stronger is that the teams got to feast against the NFC west.
Huh?
1st tie breaker head to head
2nd div record (which is a subset of common)
3rd tiebreaker is common games (which gets rid of Steelers/Colts)
4rd tiebreaker is conf record (the first time the non common games come into play)
And the fact miami lost both of their two non-common games.
If we beat the Bills and don't win the division it will be because Mia beat chargers and we didn't.
I call B.S. on this writer. The three quotes don't sound like the type of things Pats players say, given how the organization schools the players on what to say or not say to the press. It doesn't matter whether or not it is true, Pats players simply don't say things like "Arizona didn't even show up" to a reporter. All of the comments were off the record, anonymous quotes? When was the last time a Pats playerdid that? Sorry, I don't buy it; this story is a complete work of fiction based on imaginary quotes.
I agre with the last sentence. Under current tie breaker rules, yes, that is why they will make the playoffs and we won't. My point was that if we had played their schedule and they had played ours, there are reasons to believe we would be 11-4 right now and they would be 10-5. That was my point -- I think if you swapped Steelers/Colts for Ravens/Texans, the Patriot would have gone at least 1-1 and the Fins would likely have gone 0-2.
Chris Landry was "highly respected" until a few weeks ago also. On a local level, there was a time when Ron Borges was too.So basically you're saying you find it more likely that a life-long sports reporter with 15 years at major newspapers and a member of the Pro Football Writers Association would totally fabricate quotes and put his entire career at risk, all for a "scoop" so innocuous that it probably won't be discussed outside this board?
THAT is more likely than some 21-year-old kid (one of the many, many rookies we have getting serious PT these days), frustrated at the prospect of missing out on his first NFL playoffs, saying a little more to a reporter than maybe he intended to?
I think you're maybe a little too defensive of our guys.