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Originally Posted by wrikerjr
Your looking at 2006 sos not 2007.
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No, I'm looking at the NFL playoff picture that starts this weekend.
6 teams from each conference qualify.
Of the 5 other AFC teams--the Pats beat 3--who just happen to be all 3 of the other divisional winners.
Of the NFC teams, the Pats also beat 3--including the team with the best record in the NFC, on their field, by 3 touchdowns.
Every NFC team on their schedule had at least a .500 record.
They also beat a 10-6 AFC team that didn't make the playoffs.
The NFL schedule requires you to play a home and home series against every other team in your division. It isn't the Pats' fault that the Bills had a mediocre year, and that the Jets and Dolphins were horrendous.
Playing and beating 6 of the other 11 playoff qualifiers--including two 13-3 teams on the road--kind of trumps playing 6 games against your own divisional cupcakes. And lest anyone forget, both of those 13-3 teams were undefeated when the Pats played them.
This isn't college ball where Ohio State can go out and schedule Bowling Green for 4 straight years. You get handed a schedule by the league, and you play it.
In 1972, Miami beat the teams the schedule makers put in front of them. They're knocked for it today, but it was what they had in front of them. They still beat two good teams in the AFC playoffs and the NFC champion in the Super Bowl.