Misleading tweet. Chiefs beat San Diego, Pittsburgh, and went toe to toe with the Pats/Rams. That's a legit schedule.
wellllll, we are winning a 8 game win streak, as long as we keep winning it's all gucci. That and BoB open his playbook
SOS measures the strength of the teams the other teams beat, right? So, like, the SD/PIT/NE/LAR schedules were easy, I guess?
I like it. too many people make too much of the 'weak schedule' when those same people were ready to reign in Wentz as the MVP last season or how soon do we forget, "'Jacksonville, now that's how you develop a team!!" That was just this year when they were 3-1. prognosticating schedules is a lost cause. Since we basically play the Patriots every year, only 2 games change in a 'first place' schedule. people can just pretend the Giants are the Rams. Goff couldn't have played a better game than what Eli did to us. Besides, having this terrible offensive line already gets the team battle tested. It's like going up against an great defense every week. & with the front seven we have, it's going to make any elite qb throw a tantrum in the playoffs. "It's not by job to schedule Alabama, Tania!!"
How is it misleading? Arguing about the Texans schedule is like complaining about why its hot in Houston in the summer... there's absolutely nothing they, or anybody else, can do about it. There's been plenty of years where teams had just as easy as schedule and didn't run off 8 game winning streaks. Nobody is trying to say they're better than the Chiefs... but to presume they're way back from the Steelers or Chargers simply based on the schedule is what this stat is refuting. The Chiefs and yes, still the Patriots, are in the upper echelon... everybody else can beat everybody else any given Sunday.
The Chiefs played/beat the Chargers & Steelers in weeks 1 & 2; those would be much tougher match-ups today. Meanwhile, if the season ended today, they've played teams that will pick 1st (SF), 3rd (Ari) and 6th (Jax) in the NFL draft (and still have two games remaining against Oakland, FYI - they'd be picking 2nd. That's five games v the 6 worst teams - by record - in the NFL this year*). The Texans played Jacksonville (6th), of course, as well as the Giants (4th) and Bills (9th) - but also New England** (29th), Dallas (25th), Washington (21st), Indianapolis (18th), Denver (17th). I'm not suggesting the Texans schedule has been *harder* (KC has both LA teams - 32nd and 24th + New England, & Denver twice) - but Houston's schedule has been *harder* then people think. * As a point of comparison, if all holds, the Texans will only play four games v top 6 worst teams - and two of those are v. a team that was 60 minutes away from the Super Bowl about 11 months ago. ** Also, the Texans went toe-to-toe with New England.
Feel like Watt is going to have a monster game. I think he makes it his personal goal to humble cocky QB's.
Cleveland is over rated. Putting up some point against two of the worst defenses in the league the past few weeks doesn't impress me. .
Per Football Outsiders, the Texans' last two defensive opponents rank 18 and 22; Cleveland's 28 and 32.
