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2003 / 2015

Mr. Scot

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Honestly Scot, I like what you're trying to do here, but I don't think this is a very good thread. Just because there are some similarities (we could probably find the same number of similarities between this year and 2010 as this year and 2003....) doesn't mean anything. That team and this team are entirely different, in every single aspect, and the competition is different as well. 

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Honestly Scot, I like what you're trying to do here, but I don't think this is a very good thread. Just because there are some similarities (we could probably find the same number of similarities between this year and 2010 as this year and 2003....) doesn't mean anything. That team and this team are entirely different, in every single aspect, and the competition is different as well. 

Not actually "trying to do" anything. though I get why people would think so.  I just happened to notice there are a lot of similarities between the two seasons / offseasons.

Does it mean we're going to the Super Bowl this year?  That'd be a huge stretch.

It could, however, be argued that it shows preseason adversity doesn't automatically equal doomed season.

I'd like to believe people could figure that out anyway, but recent events discourage that thought.

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I  had this  conversation  last  night  with my  family. As you  said , not meaning  we are going to  have  a  Super  Bowl  team as that team, but not all  is lost. Just as that  team pulled, together  this  one  will  need  to  do  the  same.

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