Earlier in the season their record was not misleading because we were dominating other teams. Now we have regressed and are really playing like a mediocre NFL team. So right now it's misleading, but half-way through the season it wasn't.
The Patriots barely beat the Jaguars last week, and lost to Arizona, they lost to Baltimore too, also they sucked against the 49ers, until SF got lazy, but when SF played the best football again, they won, also they almost lost to buffalo in the 2nd game, barely won against Jets (1st game). last season, we saved the worst for last (Panthers, Colts) and we still were 2 or 3 plays away from the Championship game.
They were exactly where they should have been. I feel they could have beaten any team but the Patriots... Tom Brady turns nobodies into all pros. Ask Peyton Manning about losing in the playoffs before finally getting his ring. I'm NOT saying that changes don't need to be made, but I still think we have a fantastic team that could have hung with anybody but New England on the road. Think Denver over Seattle in 1994. We would have needed the Ravens to beat the patriots, then us over the Ravens.
If they could have beaten anybody, then they would have beaten Minnesota at home or Indy on the road and not had to play NE.
Notice I said "could" not "would." They still have to play the games after all. I think talent wise we match up well against everyone else... but Tom Brady is probably the best QB of all time against the blitz, and our defense lives (and dies) by the blitz. The Jets beat New England two years ago because they DIDN'T blitz. They dropped back 7-8 in coverage constantly, they didn't care if Brady had 10 seconds, he wasn't going to pick them apart. We even did this successfully on two of the third down stops I believe, we should have done it more.
If you are talking about the Broncos record, yes it was misleading. I dont think the Texans record is misleading, we lost against the best team in the AFC, so I agree that we were #2 or #3 seed. We should be above Denver, thats for sure.
