Quote:How is it lazy thinking? The past is the best and only true measurement to judge a team... We know the Pats are gonna be good because they have been good for years or the past per say... So that same notion can be used to judge bad teams.. Its not lazy thinking but logical..

Things change in the NFL every year. If your prediction is based solely on the past, it's not a prediction. You'll never predict the teams that go from fourth to first in their divisions. You'll never predict the rises and falls that are inevitable.

Sure, you can judge a team on its results. But we're not talking about that here - we're talking about predictions. (And in this case, predictions that were never actually made...) And if you're saying you can't predict a team to improve because they were bad last year, then you're saying you suck at predicting.

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