If the Patriots win the Super Bowl, which seems is incredibly likely, they will finish the greatest season in NFL history. They are incredible to watch, mainly on offense where they broke just about every record that they keep for offense. The Patriots will have defeated every team on their schedule every possible way. They've had dramatic comebacks, well played games, and some times they demolished their opponents.
I will be let down however. No not because the Steelers didn't win the Super Bowl, although they should win the Super Bowl every year but that is a different conversation. The disappointing thing in the Patriots season to me is their run through the playoffs. If the Patriots win the Super Bowl they will have defeated the #3 and #5 AFC seeds and the #5 NFC seed. Last year the Colts beat the #2, #4, and #6 AFC seeds and #1 NFC seed. The Steelers beat the #1, #2, and #3 AFC seeds and #1 NFC seed. Even in the Patriots previous runs throughout the playoffs they usually had to defeat the top seeded teams. Yes that includes the #1 seeded Steelers twice, bastards.
Anyway I just want the best teams to have beaten the best teams. Now the Patriots did defeat the top teams in the regular season beating 5 playoff teams and the 10-6 Browns. You could even argue that minus the two games against the Patriots the Bills would be a playoff team. The regular season is just different. The Patriots will beat the #5 and #4 AFC teams and #5 NFC teams. That doesn't quite live up to expectations to me, I was hoping for more.
2 comments:
It could be worse, there could be a "bowl" system to determine the national champion.
The other line of thinking is that if Indy really was the #2 team, then they should have beaten the #3 team (or, more appropriately, the #3 team's backups). Same goes for the Giants beating the supposed #4, #2, and #1 teams in their conference.
Or are you going to say the 2005 Steelers weren't one of the top 3 teams in its conference?
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