With this greatest team talk... Let's seperate "greatest" and "best."
Great does not just mean "very good," it means "very accomplished" or "very important."
What's the most important accomplishment? Winning the Championship. If you didn't win the Championship, you're out of the conversation for "greatest ever." Period.
After that, final record can be considered, followed by both subjective and statistical measures of skill and consistency.
Those measures of skill and consistency are what makes a team "good." By those measures, The Patriots may have had the best offense ever, and some would say the best team ever.
But they can't take solace in their skills. They can't take solace in the fact that they dropped 40 and 50 points on teams with some regularity. They can't take solace in all the touchdown and scoring records they set. Being the best ever doesn't count for jack. Talent means nothing without accomplishment.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
