A Look at Belichick's Patriots vs the NFL

[josh24]

Saw this on Reddit, and thought it was pertinent.




GOAT coach. Period.

 

[NormZauchin]

Sort of ironic that the only team BB has a losing record against is the team for which he was the defensive coordinator and with whom he won two Super Bowls.

 

[SVN]

And we play the Giants next year.

 

[ALP]

so no losing records after next year...good

maybe we get to also make GB a winning one during SB

 

[Fixit]

Eh, that's only because the AFC East is so weak!

 

[doesntmatter1]

The Jets and Dolphins have a better win percentage than most teams. As far as I am concerned, if we could magically shake up divisions we would still dominate.

 

[pheenix11]

Eh, that's only because the AFC East is so weak!

The AFC East is so "weak" because we are constantly kicking their ass.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Eh, that's only because the AFC East is so weak!

Record vs AFC East 68-24 .739 winning percentage
Record vs rest of NFL 132-48 .733 winning percentage
nearly identical....

 

[Uncle Rico]

And we play the Giants next year.

Hopefully just once (after pre-season)

 

[Gwedd]

If you were to go back and look at each division, and only the teams in it, you'd see that every one of them is a tough place to play. The AFCE is always a dogfight, regardless of each team's won/loss record because the teams are so familiar with each other. They play each other twice a year, so there is very little in the way of surprises that show up come game day.

Sure, coaches can come and go (and they do) as well as players, but each team still develops tendencies over time that are slower to change due to player/coach transitions. It's an institutional memory like "The Patriot Way" or "The Jets Way" etc. You will get aberrations, for sure, and some slight changes here and there, but overall, it's fairly constant within each division.

 

[sb1]

BUF 26-4 And that's counting one "loss" *cough* at the end of this season.

I probably wouldn't like BB either if I was a Bills fan.