An NFL Super-Rarity: #1 Conference Seed Dropping Final 2 Games

[groundgame]

Two (2) games to go, and you are the Automatic #2 Seed in your Conference, with no other teams clinching Home Field Advantage with 2 to go. It must be an NFL first to not be the #1Seed, at the regular season end, after your position with two games to go.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Other NFL rarities:

-Kicking off in overtime with a Hall of Fame QB who just drove down the field for a game tying TD.

-Handing the ball off on 17 of first 20 plays against lifeless a 5-10 team with a terrible pass defense, bringing them back from the dead with momentum and confidence, and then showing zero effort despite risking key players to injury.

Looks like there's a pattern here.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Other NFL rarities:

-Kicking off in overtime with a Hall of Fame QB who just drove down the field for a game tying TD.

-Handing the ball off on 17 of first 20 plays against lifeless a 5-10 team with a terrible pass defense, bringing them back from the dead with momentum and confidence, and then showing zero effort despite risking key players to injury.

Looks like there's a pattern here.

did you even bother to watch the offensive line play the past few weeks? the defense is better than the offense right now.

 

[New England Pride]

Other NFL rarities:

-Kicking off in overtime with a Hall of Fame QB who just drove down the field for a game tying TD.

-Handing the ball off on 17 of first 20 plays against lifeless a 5-10 team with a terrible pass defense, bringing them back from the dead with momentum and confidence, and then showing zero effort despite risking key players to injury.

Looks like there's a pattern here.

You can question the way Bill has handled this, but you know its not what your gonna get in January. To be honest, we don't know what we will get in January but I can imagine they won't be running it 21/25 times in a half.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Two (2) games to go, and you are the Automatic #2 Seed in your Conference, with no other teams clinching Home Field Advantage with 2 to go. It must be an NFL first to not be the #1Seed, at the regular season end, after your position with two games to go.

You've got a short memory then. Off the top of my head, I can think of the 2012 Houston Texans, who started 11-1, then lost 3 of 4 (including final 2) to drop from the 1 seed to the 3 seed.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Thank god back to back SB wins is less of a rarity...

 

[jah]

did you even bother to watch the offensive line play the past few weeks? the defense is better than the offense right now.

The defense was better than nobody today

 

[VectorPrime]

The defense was better than nobody today

Exactly. Which tells you just how bad the offense was.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

How about the Colts, instead of trying to go for 16-0?

And maybe, just friggin' maybe, if the Pats had had better injury luck, they would have done better than 2-4 down the stretch.

 

[BradyFTW!]

It's happened multiple times just in the past few years. If anything, we should be worried that it usually doesn't bode well for the team in question.

 

[TheGreatestEVER]

Didn't the 2009 Saints drop their last three after starting 13-0?

 

[LightSkinSmurf]

How about the Colts, instead of trying to go for 16-0?

And maybe, just friggin' maybe, if the Pats had had better injury luck, they would have done better than 2-4 down the stretch.

Even with the injuries we should have done better than 2-4. Just having a 500 record would have gotten it done. Couldn't even muster that.

 

[LightSkinSmurf]

Didn't the 2009 Saints drop their last three after starting 13-0?

I believe so.

 

[Gronkowski123]

Other NFL rarities:

-Kicking off in overtime with a Hall of Fame QB who just drove down the field for a game tying TD.

-Handing the ball off on 17 of first 20 plays against lifeless a 5-10 team with a terrible pass defense, bringing them back from the dead with momentum and confidence, and then showing zero effort despite risking key players to injury.

Looks like there's a pattern here.

belichick got too cute and it might cost us a shot at the SB
thanks bill happy new year

 

[Danger Zone]

You know what's also super rare?

6 Super Bowl appearances in 15 years.

4 Super Bowl wins in 15 years.

13 AFC East Division Championships in 15 years.