carolinablue":r8rvrpc9 said:
Polaris":r8rvrpc9 said:
Unfortunately for Seattle, Seattle got the best defenses when they were playing their worst early in the season. However, Minny's defense and of course Arizona's defense (talking about this year only) are nothing to sneeze at. However, if you want to go down that route then look at DVOA (yes I know you Panthers fans hate DVOA but it is what it is). It accounts for all this...and Carolina is hardly bad in DVOA. It's just that DVOA shines a very hard and harsh light what the rest of the NFL strongly suspects: Seattle had bad luck (schedule, fumble and penalty) all year and got stuck with a worse record than their level of play (esp now) would normally indicate, and Carolina blessed with good luck (esp schedule, but also to some degree penalty and fumble) has a record that is far better than their level of play would normally indicate. It was Nate Silver of 538 iirc that blasted Carolina for being the worst (then) 12-0 team in NFL history. There's a reason for this.
So basically Carolina did better than they should have done and Seattle did worse than they should have done (according to this DVOA stat you keep bringing up). If that's what you're telling me than I guess I'm having a hard time in seeing how this reflects poorly on Carolina. It should be a better thing to overachieve than underachieve. Or maybe I'm just missing something.
Did you know that since the NFL went to a 16 game season, there have been 5 other teams that went to 15-1?
Of those only 2 have went to the Super Bowl and won. The other 3 lost in the playoffs. One team was one and done, The Green Bay Packers in 2011, they lost to the Giants, who were 9-7.
Go HAWKS!!!