I've said from day one that the plan was for the Giants to win six games this season in order to clinch the NFC East. Everyone said that would be a joke. But, ask yourself, is it really a joke for the coaching staff to concentrate more on the pre and post game meals than the game plan? You can't survive without eating or drinking. Is it really a joke to let the other teams in your division lose games so you don't have to win them yourself week to week? Who also famously rests on each seventh day? BTW, when we beat the Cowboys next week with a last second field goal, I predict Graham Gano will edge out that QB guy from GB to be the MVP.
Trivia: The worst teams to ever make the playoffs: sbnation.com
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2010 Seattle Seahawks, 7-9
Seattle made the postseason with a 7-9 (!) record during the regular season, finishing first in a down NFC West. Aside from the 1982 season that was shortened due to the players’ strike, this was the first time a team with a losing record made the playoffs. Five Thirty Eight was bold enough to call the 2010 Seahawks the worst playoff team ever:
The Seahawks are not any garden-variety 7-9 team: they are an incredibly bad 7-9 team.
First, consider the Seahawks’ point differential. They allowed 407 points during the regular season while scoring just 310, meaning that they were outscored by roughly a touchdown per game on average. Although it is quite common for NFL teams to reach the playoffs with a negative point differential, none has had one as poor as the Seahawks’ minus-97.
What they did in the playoffs: It was head coach Pete Carroll’s first season in Seattle, and even with the low expectations, he led his team to a 41-36 win over the Saints in the Wild Card Round. Seattle lost 35-24 to the Bears in the next round, but kudos to this bad Seahawks team for at least nabbing one postseason win.
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- Jeff |
