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Raiders were most fortunate/lucky team in 2016
Per ESPN statisticians: http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...-bill-barnwell
2017 impact: The Raiders won 12 games but outscored their opponents by only 31 points, producing a Pythagorean expectation of 8.7 wins. That gap -- 3.3 wins -- is the fourth-largest since 1989. They're likely to decline. -- This makes a whole lot of sense if you watched the games. It seemed pretty suspect they were getting strange calls in their favor, especially in that game played in Mexico. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/11/hous...reaction-score |
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Likely to have a regression to the mean with some of those return yes. Offense will have to be better
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They are well-coached. That makes a difference. But they haven't won anything of consequence, and that's not an accident. They showed you this script for almost an entire decade. If you have a well-coached team with a decently talented roster you're going to have a team that is around 9-7 to 10-6. Get lucky some years and you'll go 12-4 or 13-3. Get unlucky and you may hover around .500. Look at it objectively and stop tying your identity to the success of the team and it's not that hard to see.
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Probably. You could say the same about the Texans, Eagles, even the ****ing Bears, though.
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I'm not sold on Watson. If Mahomes is given 18-24 games to sit, I like his chances. Anything less decreases the possibility. |
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And lost to the Steelers, Colts, and Patriots in the playoffs, beating only the Brian Hoyer-led Houston Texans.
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I'm not projecting any of those guys as HOFers, just making a general point about the importance of the positions. With that said, I agree that Mahomes needs to sit for at least a year, and perhaps more. If he's a car, all he is at this point is an engine and a nice set of tires.
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I don't trust the WR's, I don't trust Ware to stay healthy, I don't trust Houston to be available for the playoffs, I don't trust any TE beyond Kelce.
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