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The Ravens are garbage, the Seahawks have lost the core of their defense and still almost crawled back into the game. The Chargers game was lost so many times for the Jags before LA gave the game back to the Jags again and again that I am not even sure I would count that one as a positive.
The only statement win was against the Steelers on an evening where they made Ben melt down.
And again my point is not that they are bad or average on defense. They are good - no question. But I dont really see anything special from them except their ability to come up with turnovers. Certainly not such an amazing defense as their DVOA would make you believe. The same is true for the Ravens imho
Eh, you can nitpick your way through any team's schedule like that. Given the same number of caveats, I can make almost any team look like they haven't won a meaningful game this year.
I can even do it for the Pats: "they caught the Saints and Falcons in the middle of cold streaks where their offenses weren't performing, they got to beat up on an AFC West division that's going to be won by a 10-6 team because nobody in it's very good, they got to beat up on AFCE also-rans and even then they managed to lose to a crappy Cutler-led Dolphins team. The only really good team they beat was the Steelers, and even that comes with an asterisk because they lost Antonio Brown in the second quarter and the refs took a touchdown off the board at the end of the game."
*I don't actually believe this is accurate, just pointing out that you can do it with just about anyone. The Jaguars played a pretty decent schedule and are 10-5. They beat most of the bad teams they played and went .500 against the solid teams they played, and in the NFL that makes you a division winner and a contender. They're about as good as a Blake Bortles-quarterbacked team can reasonably hope to be, to the point that I wouldn't be surprised to see them in the divisional round or the conference championship because they're clearly one of the top four teams in the AFC.