(09-02-2019, 07:44 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(09-02-2019, 06:26 PM)D6 Wrote: Regardless what happens in Week # 1 with the Jaguars and Lions, I strongly believe the 0-4 pre-season records will have nothing to do with the outcome of the respective games.

In 2008,  the Lions went 4-0 in the pre-season.  In game # 1 at Atlanta, then rookie QB Matt Ryan and UFA RB Michael Turner led the way in the Falcons building a 21-0 first quarter lead. What happened in those 15 minutes of game action became the indicator of what was ahead for the Lions in the overall regular season.  The pre-season was a distant memory in less than 45 minutes in real time.

I know I said I wouldn't bother, but D6 is among my favorite posters (FWIW).

Marv Levy coached the Buffalo Bills for twelve (12) seasons.  He finished his coaching career in Buffalo with a 112-70 regular season record and four straight Super Bowls between the 1990-1993 seasons.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/c...evyMa0.htm

However, the Bills won exactly FOUR (4) preseason games in that four year stretch.

Quote:Remember how bad Marv Levy’s Bills were during the preseason? From 1990-1993, the Bills only won four preseason games and were notorious for hating the exhibition season. You know why the Bills hated the preseason? No, it wasn’t because they wanted to conserve their energy for the keger parties on the Fredonia campus. It’s because they didn’t need to take the preseason seriously. You really think Jim Kelly needed to work on his timing routes with Andre Reed? Hell, no. The duo could have ran a 30-yard fly pattern in pitch darkness. When you have that much talent, you don’t really need that much practice. We are talking about practice here, Practice!! (Iverson voice)

https://thesportsdaily.com/2010/08/09/sh...preseason/

So which was more indicative of the team's ability, the 1 win per preseason they averaged during those four years, or the four straight Super Bowls?

Thanks, Bullseye! 

You are certainly one of my Favorite Posters!  

The Bills of the Marv Levy-Jim Kelly-Thurman Thomas era are probably the best illustration of why pre-season W-L records the vast majority of tbe time have very little significance as a predictor of the regular season.

One of the few exceptions was the final game of 1999 pre-season between the then St.Louis Rams and the Lions. The pre-season week, Rams QB Trent Green suffered a season ending knee injury. Kurt Warner started the final pre-season game.  He lit up the Lions Defense. The Rams looked like the greatest show on turf that evening and it carried over to an eventuall Super Bowl win that season for St. Louis.

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