We've never had a winning season in franchise history with a losing preseason record

[Sam Mills Fan]

Are preseason results more of a harbinger of things to come than people like to admit? Probably not and this is just a coincidence, but every time in franchise history that we've had a losing record in the preseason we've ended up with a losing record in the regular season.

Fox era

2008: 2-2 preseason, 12-4 regular season

2007: 1-3, 7-9

2006: 4-0, 8-8

2005: 2-2, 11-5

2004: 4-0, 7-9

2003: 4-0, 11-5

2002: 1-3, 7-9

Seifert era

2001: 2-2, 1-15

2000: 0-4, 7-9

1999: 2-2, 8-8

Capers era

1998: 2-2, 4-12

1997: 0-4, 7-9

1996: 2-2, 12-4

1995: 3-2, 7-9

Also, like it was mentioned last week or the week before, every time we've made the playoffs under Fox, we had won the third game of the preseason that year.

[pstall]

Are preseason results more of a harbinger of things to come than people like to admit? Probably not and this is just a coincidence, but every time in franchise history that we've had a losing record in the preseason we've ended up with a losing record in the regular season.

Fox era

2008: 2-2 preseason, 12-4 regular season

2007: 1-3, 7-9

2006: 4-0, 8-8

2005: 2-2, 11-5

2004: 4-0, 7-9

2003: 4-0, 11-5

2002: 1-3, 7-9

Seifert era

2001: 2-2, 1-15

2000: 0-4, 7-9

1999: 2-2, 8-8

Capers era

1998: 2-2, 4-12

1997: 0-4, 7-9

1996: 2-2, 12-4

1995: 3-2, 7-9

I had a hunch that was true.

History is made to be broken.

Prior to 2003 they had NEVER gone to the Super Bowl.

Based on what I'm seeing, they have 9-7 written all over them.

[Jaxel]

Yawn... quit with the stupid history crap... it's a new year, just get ready to enjoy the season instead of caring about meaningless preseason games.

[jasonluckydog]

Stats are for loosers.

[RSXNova]

And the team that finish's last in the NFCS comes in first the next year. O wait...

[Sam Mills Fan]

Just saying. I thought it was interesting.

[N1kkadeemuz]

Are preseason results more of a harbinger of things to come than people like to admit? Probably not and this is just a coincidence, but every time in franchise history that we've had a losing record in the preseason we've ended up with a losing record in the regular season.

Fox era

2008: 2-2 preseason, 12-4 regular season

2007: 1-3, 7-9

2006: 4-0, 8-8

2005: 2-2, 11-5

2004: 4-0, 7-9

2003: 4-0, 11-5

2002: 1-3, 7-9

Seifert era

2001: 2-2, 1-15

2000: 0-4, 7-9

1999: 2-2, 8-8

Capers era

1998: 2-2, 4-12

1997: 0-4, 7-9

1996: 2-2, 12-4

1995: 3-2, 7-9

Also, like it was mentioned last week or the week before, every time we've made the playoffs under Fox, we had won the third game of the preseason that year.

While i'll say that 8-8 isn't really winning or losing, Preseason winning records also seem to not conclusively correlate to the regular season.

That being said we must be screwed either way OH NO!!

[neverlosethefeeling]

This thread is worthless.

[Jangler]

k...

[R0CKnR0LLA]

We've only had 4 losing preseason records (2 under Fox), that's not exactly a large sample pool to make predictions from. 3 of our 4 best years have come after 2-2 preseasons. I don't think there's a huge indication from ONE more preseason loss, which is the difference between going 1-3 or 2-2.

[rko396]

clearly were screwed. we cant possibly erase 15 years of history!!

[Brandon]

We've also never gone to the SB in years where we don't go to the SB. See how that works?

[Delhommey]

Really? fug.

This frees up my Sundays though.

[Jase]

We've also never been to the super bowl without rodney peete and shane burton on our roster.

Crap.