I love me the Pats.. But there is NO Question the horrifically bad competition we have had for the entire Belichick Brady run, even when we sucked in 2000.
1. NO team other than the Patriots have ever won more than 11 during this stretch in AFCE
2. Another team winning 11 games has ONLY happened like 3 times during that stretch
3. There have been a few 10 game winners, but just a few during that stretch.
4. No team has ever in AFCE during that stretch had that "stand out" aberrant great season, where they rise up and grab 12, 13, or more wins. (That has happened in every other division in the league, where teams like the 12-4 colts are a wild card team, or the 12-4 Ravens, or the 12-4 Chargers.
Teams like the Ravens 13-3 with McNair, 14-2 Chargers, 13-3 Chiefs, 13-3 Cowboys, 15-1 Panthers, 13-3 14-2 Falcons, and on and on... there's more.
Only THREE times did an AFCE team reach 11 wins in the entire Brady Belichick stretch. It is very real and almost statistically bizarre.