Pats deserve * for easy schedule???

[onegameatatime]

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Re: Pats deserve * for easy schedule???

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Originally Posted by onegameatatime
If you exclude the losses we have inflicted, we have:

6 games against teams > .500

2 teams at .500

3 teams < .500

You can't go by that. Remember that the schuedle is "balanced", ie 4 games vs 1st place teams (from last year), 4 games vs 2nd place teams, 4 games vs 3rd place teams and 4 games vs last place teams. If you suddenly take away a first place team from consideration, the remaining accumulated win/lost record is against a weaker schedule, which naturally looks better.

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I do not get your point. I was talking about the teams they have played so far this year. For example, Philly and Wash. are 5-6, but without Pats losses, they are 5-5, or .500. Buffalo has a winning record without the 0-2 against the Pats.

The Pats have beat the consensus #2 and #3 teams on the road. You don;t get much better than that.

 

[ALP]

"Then there was Sunday’s contest against the below-.500 Philadelphia Eagles, who were using a backup quarterback. But the key here is that the Eagles are near .500 and compared to most of the teams the Pats have played this season, that is a really tough foe."



u may stop readint, this guy has no idea wut hes talkin about...when we played philly, they were AT .500