With KC joining the 15-win club, I figured I'd go back and see the playoff results of other teams to win 15 games in a regular season, at least in the 16-game era (in the 1920s, teams could schedule different amounts of games).
1984: San Francisco 49ers (15-1) - Super Bowl XIX champions
1985: Chicago Bears (15-1) - Super Bowl XX champions
1998: Minnesota Vikings (15-1) - lost NFC Championship Game
2004: Pittsburgh Steelers (15-1) - lost AFC Championship Game
2007: New England Patriots (16-0) - lost Super Bowl XLII
2011: Green Bay Packers (15-1) - lost in NFC Divisional Playoff
Any teams that I'm forgetting?
15-win teams
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Re: 15-win teams
2015 Panthers ... lost in the SB to Denver
Chiefs will probably have 16 wins in a 17 game season, unless the Chargers upset them. Will many starters, sit?
Chiefs will probably have 16 wins in a 17 game season, unless the Chargers upset them. Will many starters, sit?
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Re: 15-win teams
Here’s a previous thread…
https://www.profootballresearchers.org/ ... php?t=4518
I may have been too hard on my ’04 Steelers placing them beneath the ’11 Pack the QB gap, Aaron/rookie Big Ben, notwithstanding. Barely, with a capital B, beating Herm’s Jets at home notwithstanding as well.
Quite a collection of 15-1 teams to look over, compare to each other, but the first chronological two, the only two here to win-it-all, are the clear top-2!
https://www.profootballresearchers.org/ ... php?t=4518
I may have been too hard on my ’04 Steelers placing them beneath the ’11 Pack the QB gap, Aaron/rookie Big Ben, notwithstanding. Barely, with a capital B, beating Herm’s Jets at home notwithstanding as well.
Quite a collection of 15-1 teams to look over, compare to each other, but the first chronological two, the only two here to win-it-all, are the clear top-2!
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Re: 15-win teams
I knew I was forgetting one! Thank you!
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Re: 15-win teams
If the Chiefs three-peat in February, then you put them in 4th beneath da Bears, Forty Niners, and Patriots. If they go out in their first game, then place they and the Packers together.
Washington's last World Championship in '91 should be honorably invited in this given they were 14-1 going into a meaningless finale. Same can be said for the '09 Colts. I guess I would place Caldwell's bunch above Minny if only because they at least made it to the SB; but they likely were better anyway. Now Washington? I'll put them in 3rd above the Pats! I think that covers all teams that were 14-1 going into a meaningless finale. Fill me in if I'm wrong.
Washington's last World Championship in '91 should be honorably invited in this given they were 14-1 going into a meaningless finale. Same can be said for the '09 Colts. I guess I would place Caldwell's bunch above Minny if only because they at least made it to the SB; but they likely were better anyway. Now Washington? I'll put them in 3rd above the Pats! I think that covers all teams that were 14-1 going into a meaningless finale. Fill me in if I'm wrong.