Quote:The above is so simple minded though. 

 

Because it fails to acknowledge that going 1-15 is more beneficial to a team than finishing say 5-11 in a year when a QB like Teddy Bridgewater is sitting at the top of the draft. 

 

Its funny because the same people were pretty much using the same comebacks as the Jags won their way out of the Andrew Luck sweepstakes heading down the stretch of the 2011 season. 

 

It is more beneficial for a team to be 5-11 than for a team to be 1-15, because if a team is 5-11 the record says they are better than a 1-15 team.   5-11 means we are closer to contention than a 1-15 team.  

 

It means something about the players you have on your team.   Apparently, you would prefer to have a 1-15 roster of players and the first pick in the draft, over a 5-11 roster of players and a later pick in the draft.  

 

The record is a measure of what kind of team you have.   That is why wins are not meaningless.   They are a measure of where you stand at that time.  

 

That's what you fail to see.  

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