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At the halfway point of the season, which team is better than their record and which team is worse than their record? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by justainsel@alien.top to c/nfl@nfl.community

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Yeah, we know Bill Parcells said "You are what your record says you are."

But which to teams do you feel are not what their record says they are?

Better than record: Cardinals only because Kyler Murray is back

Worse than record: Steelers whose luck will run out any week now. Right guys? Any week now.

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[–] Most-Willingness8516@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As of right now, this Steelers team is eerily similar to that team that started 11-0 a few years ago. Record looks way better than they are and everyone knows that it'll come to an end eventually.

[–] TheLightningPanda@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

We are so ridiculously, incredibly different.

The 11-0 Steelers team was never going to last for 2 reasons: Our playbook aged poorly and our personnel aged poorly. Very one dimensional, short passing offense done but some old heads. People figured us out, and we also just aged throughout the season.

This year, despite being outgained, we’re like +10 in turnovers with Kenny being the only quarterback with 4 or fewer turnovers. We’re not lights out in the slightest, we are not a premier team. We’re very conservative, run decently, and kill the turnover battle.

[–] Eventually_Deleted@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

This couldn’t be more categorically wrong.

The 11-0 team scored 24 or more points in 10 of the first 11 games. Matt Canada has done that 11 times in 56 games as OC.

The one consistency since 2014 is Mike Tomlin (and Chris Boswell shortly after). HOF coaching and a clutch kicker are why this team is always “worse than their record”. Like at some point you’d think people would stop saying, “The Steelers are so much worse than their record” when they have to do it every season for almost a decade.