The NFL Thread 2011: New York Giants Win Super Bowl XLVI

[amp316]

RolStoppable said:

amp316 said:

I didn't just look at the record of the Packers.  As you will notice, I picked them to lose and if anything you were the one who overestimated them.  I will say one thing about the record though...  15-1 is not a fluke, regardless of how they managed to do it.  I stand by my statement that ANY 15-1 team losing in the first round of the playoffs is a horrible showing.  Actually, being 15-1 and not making the Super Bowl is really bad.  I still make fun of the Vikings for this.

At least the Packers beat the Broncos this season. Not every team can say that.

Yeah, but that was before Tebow was playing.  Kyle Orton was the starter.  Speaking of which, Kyle Orton played the Packers later in the year and beat them.  Also, the Broncos beat the Bears when Caleb Hanie was playing QB.  Caleb Hanie is one of the worst QBs I've ever seen.  The only time that he's ever even resembled a NFL QB was against the Packers in the NFC Championship last year.  How odd...

The truth is that next year no one will talk badly about the Bears since they were hit hard with injuries, say that the Broncos were a nice story, and say that the Packers blew it.  I'm pretty sure that the Packers will be the answer to the trivia question "Who is the only NFL team to go 15-1 that didn't win a playoff game?" for several years (probably decades).