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Originally Posted by Stop, Chiefs
The Patriots won 35-31 and 28-24 in the playoffs and SB last year.
The last 10 Super Bowls champions were on the winning end of these scores in the playoffs and/or SB:
35-31
28-24
38-35
34-31
48-21
31-25
31-28
35-24
27-23
23-20
38-34
41-27
24-21
If you can't score more than 21 points in the playoffs you are not winning a championship:
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The Seahawks allowed 8 points in the Super Bowl, so you're obviously missing something here. This is extremely disingenuous.
Yes you have to be able to score points... but this theory that offense is all that matters isn't right. When Aaron Rodgers won, he had a top 5 defense. He hasn't since, and how many titles has he won? The Patriots had the 8th ranked defense last year. The Seahawks have had one of the best defenses in modern history the last two years.
And even the teams that won with poor defensive seasons played well in the playoffs. The 2011 Giants were terrible on defense during the year, but allowed 14 ppg in the playoffs. The 2006 Colts were awful on defense, they got eviscerated by Jacksonville at the end of the regular season. In the playoffs they allowed 16 ppg and shut down the Chiefs and Ravens. This idea you can win shootouts every week isn't right. Even the 99 Rams won the NFC title game 11-6. At some point your defense has to step up and carry a game. Anyone who watched about 4 seconds of the Vermeil era should know this.