Looking at the rest of the current top teams in the NFL and their records against teams that currently hold a winning record:
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Eagles (9-1) are 4-0
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Ravens (8-3) are 4-2
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Chiefs (7-3) are 3-2
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49ers (7-3) are 3-2
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Jaguars (7-3) are 1-3
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Cowboys (7-3) are 0-2
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Dolphins (7-3) are 0-3
Part of the Lions’s low record against winning teams is due to a weaker NFC North this season (although Vikings currently hold a winning record and Lions have yet to play them). But it still stands that the Lions have had a relatively weaker schedule this year, and have not defeated a team with a current winning record since Week 1.
This stands to change with upcoming games against the Vikings (6-5) and Cowboys (7-3), as well as possibly the Broncos and Saints (5-5) depending on how their records turn out.
I think the Lions are definitely a legitimately good team, however I think they are going to struggle to make a deep run in the playoffs.
The playoffs are just a different game entirely and they have no experience in those type of games yet.
Cowboys-Dolphins on Christmas eve is going to be a tie, isn’t it?
Also, it looks like we are going to have a bird-bowl this year.
I really want cat bowl for… reasons
3 games vs winning teams a crazy large sample size here. Next
One loss was in OT where they didn’t touch the ball.
Probably would be 2-1 if Campbell didn’t strangely become conservative to end regulation.
I agree with a bears fan……
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I mean, we’re a coin flip or better reffing away from 2-1. All I’m really seeing is that our schedule has been easy, which no Lions fan would disagree with. We can talk again after our matchup with the Vikings and Cowboys. For now there’s not enough information to make a judgement call.
Now tell me how many games the Eagles won by more than 1 posession
Toney also gifted them that win lol
OK and?
We’ve beaten a couple of teams that had winning records at the time of the loss. We can’t help the fact that losing to the Lions breaks the mentally weak.
We’ve also only had 2 division games, one of them being this past weekend, at this point, so the weak NFC north doesn’t really matter in this argument. For whatever reason, the league decided to back load our season with division games
it really does feel like the NFL made the schedule extra weird this year.
for example the broncos divisional games are raiders week 1 & 18, chiefs week 6 & 6, and chargers week 14 & 17. so that’s 2 opponents that we play multiple times in a very short span of time and then the raiders where it’s the longest span of time possible that we could play them in the regular season
We finished the season series against the Commies before even facing the Cowboys or Giants, and we will have played the Cowboys twice before playing the Giants Weeks 16 and 18.
they lost to the AFC leader, beat the last Super Bowl champion at home, and nearly won against a good Seahawks team pre-offensive implosion
still a good team at 8-2
Don’t want to be a negative Nancy but I’m pretty sure that the next 4 weeks will flip one of those 2 teams’ record…
I feel attacked
Atleast you win against bad teams
After 10 games they’ve only played 3 with winning records? That’s pretty crazy.
Vikings fans haven’t gotten over losing to the Giants in the playoffs, I see
These are always dumb. Team plays who is on the schedule.
Playoffs are the real test anyways. Where everyone starts 0-0.
Op tossing out the big ZZZzzz…
God I’m so sick of this line
And one of the main issues I have with this is that the Bills were just 5-5 the Chargers were just 4-4 the Broncos are currently 5-5. And we literally lost to the two best teams, the Eagles and KC in Europe. Like it’s cherry picked stats most of the time and most teams would have a losing record against winning teams
Sounds like a long way to say “Dolphins can’t win against good teams”
As far as I’m concerned, you don’t really know who the teams with winning records are until the season is over.
I mean we lost away to the Bills (when they were healthy and good) and away to the Eagles and Chiefs. Apart from the Bills we played well in the other two games. But as usual there’s no nuanced take when talking about this stat and the Phins.