An abbreviated summary:

Bills 13-4 Jets 12-5 Dolphins 11-6 Lions 11-6 Chiefs 11-6 Ravens 11-6 Steelers 11-6 Cowboys 9-8 Raiders 3-14

    • ToastyWaffle@lemmygrad.ml
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      And just how much can change with unexpected player injuries, players playing above expectations, players playing below expectations. There is never a time where you can accurately guess how a season is gonna go.

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        And if they don’t try to predict how the season will go, many of these people would have nothing to write about!

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      As a Pats fan, there’s not much to get excited for right now. I’m just hoping we can somehow perform acceptably but I’m not holding my breath.

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    Any reason you decided to throw the Raiders in your summary? Just for shade?

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      Not at all. The Raiders may struggle this year, but they are way better than a 3 win team.

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        If Jimmy G goes down early in the season, I could see it. Also it’s the Raiders, they’re almost always worse than the sum of their parts.

        -A Raiders Fan

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      I assume because three wins is laughable. I don’t think the raiders are in great shape by any means, buts it’s almost hard to only win 3 games.

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        Since '02 we’ve had two sub-4-win seasons. And eight seasons of 4 or fewer wins, including the year after we went to the Super Bowl.

        We’ve been on the cusp of 3-wins for a third of our seasons over the last 2 decades. Last year we had 6 wins with a playoff team before downgrading.

        Maybe 3-wins is a bit of a stretch for expectations. But it would not be at all surprising.

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    Chiefs back down to normal this year it seems. Where are the Bengals. Guess I’ll have to go read.

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      Where are the Bengals

      12-5 and winning the division according to the article. They just didn’t list them in the tldr.

      And to me that’s iffy depending on Burrow & his injury and the length of time to recover.

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      Every year is the same prediction for the chiefs: “regress to the mean”; if you put any stock in any sports reporter, you’re dumber than they are.

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        Hard agree. The AFC West is so hard to make look like a race. The only way to try to stir up interest is to talk about the Chiefs losing ground.

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          Which works out great for the Chiefs and their fans, as we get another year of “they doubted us” bulletin material.

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        Never do myself :) As a ‘Dotte native have heard it for a almost 5 decades :)

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    I’m pretty sure 3 teams with the same record in 1 division is possible but it SOUNDS impossible.