Looking at the rest of the current top teams in the NFL and their records against teams that currently hold a winning record:
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Eagles (9-1) are 4-0
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Ravens (8-3) are 4-2
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Chiefs (7-3) are 3-2
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49ers (7-3) are 3-2
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Jaguars (7-3) are 1-3
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Cowboys (7-3) are 0-2
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Dolphins (7-3) are 0-3
Part of the Lions’s low record against winning teams is due to a weaker NFC North this season (although Vikings currently hold a winning record and Lions have yet to play them). But it still stands that the Lions have had a relatively weaker schedule this year, and have not defeated a team with a current winning record since Week 1.
This stands to change with upcoming games against the Vikings (6-5) and Cowboys (7-3), as well as possibly the Broncos and Saints (5-5) depending on how their records turn out.
Don’t want to be a negative Nancy but I’m pretty sure that the next 4 weeks will flip one of those 2 teams’ record…
Yeah well we will be back to .500 (1-1) against them after the Seahawks lose a couple more games. So joke is on you.
Ok? Meanwhile a bunch of fraud ass teams are up there too.
Don’t really see the point to this statistic tbh. Obvs I’m biased, but you could easily include the end of last season too since it’s basically the same team
Shhhhh
They’re good. I only wonder if Goff is gonna struggle in the playoffs like he did his last year or so with the Rams. Should be a tough out regardless.
If Kelce and Chris Jones played in week one they would be 7-3 and 0-3 with teams over.500…no way they win at Arrowhead.
With the drops Kelce had last night, I no longer accept this kind of thinking.
Now tell me how many games the Eagles won by more than 1 posession
Lions are good. The frauds argument is so overdone. I see it parroted in every single thread with someone thinking they are posting an original comment.
I’m just tired of hearing the word “fraud” brought up in NFL discussions, mostly because there isn’t enough actual talent disparity in the league to call anyone that. Like it makes sense in college football because of recruiting, you can inflate your record by playing teams that have inferior talent across the entire roster; but in the NFL you’re playing teams that have all professional players and at the end of the day, winning is winning.
At this point people just use the word “fraud” to tear down any team with a winning record that they don’t like
The word fraud makes no sense in this league nevause we have seen repeatedly, every year, bad teams can randomly have amazing games and turn things around. It’s called any given Sunday for a reason. These guys can suck for weeks and suddenly put it together just like that. It’s happened before and will always continue to happen. There’s a reason a lot of the top players parrot the “winning in the NFL is fucking hard”. It’s almost like they’re on to something.
Oh no. They suck again
Broncos are 3-2 against teams with a winning record.
But we’re also 2-3 against teams with a losing record
So make of that however you will
Robin Hood franchise
Broncos are 3-2 against teams with a winning record.
You guys are officially contenders, according to the media’s rules
3-1 since the blip
This stat would blow up the head of a robot.
We should have a winning record but that’s life
DEN is just getting warmed up.
If we ever figure out how to beat bad teams yall are fucked
Broncos the type to beat the ravens but lose to giants the following week
Jags are 2-3 (wins over Buffalo and Pitt).
They’re also 3-0 over teams that are .500 (2x colts and Saints), which feels relevant since they’d have a winning record without those losses. Which should also go for the rest of these teams.
Pff losers, they should have a losing record against BAD teams too.
Thats where its at
To be fair they’ve tried that for decades.
they lost to the AFC leader, beat the last Super Bowl champion at home, and nearly won against a good Seahawks team pre-offensive implosion
still a good team at 8-2
We’ve beaten a couple of teams that had winning records at the time of the loss. We can’t help the fact that losing to the Lions breaks the mentally weak.
We’ve also only had 2 division games, one of them being this past weekend, at this point, so the weak NFC north doesn’t really matter in this argument. For whatever reason, the league decided to back load our season with division games
it really does feel like the NFL made the schedule extra weird this year.
for example the broncos divisional games are raiders week 1 & 18, chiefs week 6 & 6, and chargers week 14 & 17. so that’s 2 opponents that we play multiple times in a very short span of time and then the raiders where it’s the longest span of time possible that we could play them in the regular season
We finished the season series against the Commies before even facing the Cowboys or Giants, and we will have played the Cowboys twice before playing the Giants Weeks 16 and 18.