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The 5 picks by brees is the more amazing thing
His QB rating for 2012 went from 98.7 to 92.1 in one game.......3/4 of the way through the season.....
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Playoffs don't count in regular season streaks.
It is still a game played. The poster I was responding to wants to put more conditions on a stat that already has some poor conditions. IMO if you play a game, any game, for that streak to matter you have to throw a td. That's why the 2004 win streak was more impressive to me then the 2007 one.
Jeezuz, could you be any smaller?
Not counting a consecutive [highlight]regular season[/highlight] game streak because someone misses a [highlight]regular season[/highlight] game is different from not counting a [highlight]regular season[/highlight] game streak because of what happens in a playoff game. This is true in all four of the the major American sports.
I understand the way it works it is just IMO a dumb way of doing it, it takes away some of the shine when you have to add so many qualifiers. I do not want to hear about records where QB A has thrown 576 consecutive passes without a pick against teams from the NFC West on days over 75 degrees when they had a star player injured. Now that doesn't mean I won't be happy as hell if Brady breaks Brees's record as I want Brady to have every record possible in the GOAT argument, but it is one of the lesser records to me. Unitas was far more impressive then Brees or Brady to me.
When you count playoff games, you make seasons and careers unbalanced, giving some teams and players more games than others.
Great. Now if Brady throws 0 TDs and we lose this weekend, we'll know where the bad karma came from. This thread is premature.
Games they have earned by being superior. I am ok with adding those numbers because they more accurately reflect the true career.
Do you not grasp how this stuff works in general, or do you just not care about the implications? A season is X number of games long (X is currently 16). If you count playoffs, some teams will play X number of games, and others will play X+ number of games. That would mean that the running backs for the Super Bowl teams would have up to 4 more games to pad their stats. A running back who ran for 1600 yards in 16 games would lose the rushing title to a running back who ran for 1601 yards in 20 games.
As I have said I understand the way it works just fine, I disagree with it. The second running back earned the extra games by being on a better team so yes I would be ok with him earning the rushing title. I can see the counter argument raised in your example I just disagree with it. At the end of the day, by stats alone which can lie, running back two was more valuable.
As I have said I understand the way it works just fine, I disagree with it. The second running back earned the extra games by being on a better team so yes I would be ok with him earning the rushing title. I can see the counter argument raised in your example I just disagree with it. At the end of the day, by stats alone which can lie, running back two was more valuable.
If my memory serves me correctly, Brady's last game came under the most unlikliest circumstances.
2007 vs. NYJ
Brady in the middle of a record setting season for touchdown passes. Pats offense virtually unstoppable. First meeting between Pats and Jets following SPYGATE uncovering.
Many were predicting an absolute destruction, 70 points even. The reality is that Brady didn't even throw a TD in this game.
THerefore, it should never be considered a sure thing.