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Using an entire sample size is not cherry picking, but using a couple of games, like you are doing, in fact is.People that cherry pick stats to backup their argument while ignoring what the product on the field looks like aren't worth arguing with. I don't care what rank the offense finished with. Watching them play against good teams or try to score points when they needed to showed me all I needed to see. The Jets games and the Jags game are going to skew the final standings as well. Congrats. We can score a bunch of points on the two worst teams in the league. That doesn't really make me feel better. The offense was average to below average at times and I am not sounding the alarms with a rookie QB and all the new faces in the mix. If the offense still looks like this by the end of the next it will be a problem.
Every team does better against bad teams than good.
If you want to “back up an argument” then you need to account for your assumptions.
Such as: that team is only good because it played bad teams.
That is clearly an opinion and without substantiating means nothing.
The patriots were the 6th highest scoring teams. If your argument is they are an anomaly that scored more points against bad teams and the offenses that were lower than 6th dominated good teams then you would need to test that assumption.
You will find it doesn’t stand up to the test.
Look the Patriots didn’t have the best offense in the NFL and didn’t win the SB. So whatever they are wasn’t good enough, at the least bad means worse than half and it’s just not a reasonable argument to say that, and then stomp your feet and say you don’t care about facts you just know it.