No offense, friend, but this is the epitome of copium mixed with revisionist history.
Might we have fared better not resting starters? Possibly.
Might we have lost a key player to injury, perhaps even Manning? Possibly.
Did that week of not playing ACTUALLY make us worse? Impossible to know, but there’s no statistical basis to claim that resting starters leads to lower success.
No offense, friend, but this is the epitome of copium mixed with revisionist history.
Might we have fared better not resting starters? Possibly.
Might we have lost a key player to injury, perhaps even Manning? Possibly.
Did that week of not playing ACTUALLY make us worse? Impossible to know, but there’s no statistical basis to claim that resting starters leads to lower success.
We lost. It happens.