Quote:You don't understand the argument that record is not the ultimate indicator of how good a team is and whether they're trending up or down. You don't understand that teams can (and do) overperform and underperform. You don't understand that a team that lucks its way to 7 wins can be worse than a team that was unlucky to win 5 and would be the better team to back the following year - and that therefore setting hard win targets is a ridiculously simplistic approach, and that this is why our team's owner is unwilling to do that.


And you think I'm the one lacking in cognitive ability?


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This is what I understand... A great football coach (Bill Parcell)... one with far more knowledge of the game than you or I, said this; "you are what your record says you are". The record is the one and only verifiable indicator of whether a team is trending up or down! Anything else is just a rationalization. As far as luck goes, something I've noticed about it is that 'luck tends to favor the prepared', that's not just true in sports but in life in general.

 

Finally... unless you are Shad Khan's personal 'confidant' then you don't actually know if Khan has set a hard bottom line for the season. All any of us know is that he hasn't done so publicly; so your 'argument' is based entirely on presumption.

 

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