Only team with a winning record…

[strato]

23 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

The only point totals that matter are the ones at the end of a game. 

In 2003, we started off hot but got manhandled in game five by the Titans. People said that 'exposed us', but it just turned out to be a bump in the road. Individual games can be different than the overall narrative. 

Of course, to be clear, my view of this season's overall narrative doesn't have us in the playoffs or ending as an upper echelon team.

Steps in the right direction perhaps, but we're still not that good... 

I remember in a Super Bowl season for them, New England took an opening week ass whipping from the Bills. You see this type of stuff quite often early in the season. 
An eventual playoff team losing to a bottom dweller that comes out strong, isn’t that rare. 

[L-TownCat]

10 hours ago, Diehardpanth02 said:

My questions are why do we think that is? 

When we win it’s usually close.

When we lose… it’s not close at all.

[kungfoodude]

4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

That's the part that matters. 

You have spent a chunk of this thread arguing the opposite. I am perplexed by your tactics.

[Mr. Scot]

5 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

You have spent a chunk of this thread arguing the opposite. I am perplexed by your tactics.

Not at all.

I said the only thing that matters about how many points scored is who has more at the end of the game. If you're losing games, you're scoring less points.

The only time point differential matters is in some playoff scenarios. 

[SOJA]

after the last few seasons I don't really care. Being a competitive team on most weeks is good enough for me for now 

[mav1234]

43 minutes ago, SOJA said:

after the last few seasons I don't really care. Being a competitive team on most weeks is good enough for me for now 

It feels like it's been 5+ years since we have had meaningful games in November...

[kungfoodude]

5 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Not at all.

I said the only thing that matters about how many points scored is who has more at the end of the game. If you're losing games, you're scoring less points.

The only time point differential matters is in some playoff scenarios. 

I mean you literally are attempting to justify our -60 differential as unimportant in your first post in this thread.

Well, having a negative point differential(to the tune of -3.8/ppg) through 11 games is a very strong indicator of being a bad team. If anything, we have largely been overachieving stastically. 

The on field results also bear that out. So if we end up, and I think this is likely, as a 7-8 win team, with an even more substantially negative point differential at the end of this season how would this statistic not matter?

Point differential is the most basic statistic in existence that one can look at to largely guage the results. You do need to score more than your opponent to win.

[jasonluckydog]

Not many of us had this team winning 6 games this season. Im still in on going to the SB. We will probably play the Jaguars. We win it all. 

[kungfoodude]

56 minutes ago, jasonluckydog said:

Not many of us had this team winning 6 games this season. Im still in on going to the SB. We will probably play the Jaguars. We win it all. 

Eh, I was very consistent on my 4-7 wins prediction. Looks like the upper end of that is possible and maybe even beating those expectations. 

It's been better than I anticipated in a lot of ways this season.