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NFL, HARDER TO WIN IT ALL OR WIN NOTHING?
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Jparker1984
2008
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CloseSo my friend and I had a huge discussion about the NFL (american style football for those that may not know.) I asked him if he thinks its harder to have a perfect season or a winless season (not including the playoffs.) Personally, I think its harder to have a winless season. There will always be a team that will play bad and that can get you your one and only win. There were so many teams that could have done it, but they decided to rest their starters for the playoffs. What do you all think?
Winning is harder than losing. A perfect season is harder to obtain. (that doesn't mean it is more likely than a winless season - that's a different discussion.)
Jparker1984
2008
I just think its really diffcult to suck bad enough not to be able to muster up atleast one win
Looking at the stats it looks like the perfect season is rarer than the worst possible season. Even moreso if you count the championship games, a few teams made it to the end only to lose. I'd imagine it's easier to win that one game in a season before you lose that valuable contract and end up playing in the CFL at a fraction of the cost. Plus somebody's gotta win the battle of the dunces! 
Jparker1984
2008
I just wanted to clerify, this question dose not include playoffs. Just the regular season.
Jparker1984
2008
take the Colts a few years ago, when Mannning was still with them. They were 13 - 0 then they decided to rest their players for the post season. They were un stopable that year, had they not done that I think they could have easily got those last three regular season wins. The only winless seaons i remember was Tampa Bay in the 70's and Detroit five or so yrs ago.
Here's a wikipedia article on winless seasons. It does include ties as a loss. I looked here for perfect seasons which only has four teams, two of them prior to WW2. Unless I missed something, I skimmed the articles themselves.
Jparker1984
2008
Great info... thus proves it's harder to go winless. Like I already stated, there is the ones that already had a perfect regular season. That's obviously not including the teams that could have done it if not for preping for the playoffs.
Ooo – toughie! I originally was thinking to go along with a perfect season since it’s pretty rare, incredibly hard to pull off with all the injuries and all the other clubs trying to be the one who takes down that shot at perfection, and has only ever been achieved by the Miami Dolphins in ’72 in the NFL’s long running history (although to be fair, not counting the playoffs, the New England Patriots managed to have a perfect season in 2007 before ultimately losing out in the Super Bowl). A winless season? The only one that I can remember was back in 2008 with the Detroit Lions (which, ironically, managing to tank that season managed to give them all those high draft pick players that are currently on the team that have managed to turn them into a decent football team).
A winless season is probably a lot harder to accomplish. Although, IMO, both are fairly difficult to achieve, but to go 0-16 without a regular season win? That’s hard. For starters, players, coaches and personnel are playing for their jobs. The more losses you manage to mount up, the less likely those same players won’t earn a paycheque or be on the starting roster for next season. Also, pride. You really don’t want your name to go along in the history books for being a team that couldn’t win one single lousy game (although, strangely enough, I seem to remember more about the Patriots ultimate collapse in ’07 more so than the Lions horrible season for some odd reason, lol). And third, you’re probably bound to run into a team that gets the short of the stick on calls, plays, or whatever, and that team should be able to squeak out a win due to that. I don’t think I’ve ever played on a sports team in my entire life, high school and beyond, that has gone completely winless.
Both are pretty tough to do, but a winless season is probably the hardest. (But, then again, you could always just, you know, lose on purpose and make it look like an accident, lol.)
A winless season is probably a lot harder to accomplish. Although, IMO, both are fairly difficult to achieve, but to go 0-16 without a regular season win? That’s hard. For starters, players, coaches and personnel are playing for their jobs. The more losses you manage to mount up, the less likely those same players won’t earn a paycheque or be on the starting roster for next season. Also, pride. You really don’t want your name to go along in the history books for being a team that couldn’t win one single lousy game (although, strangely enough, I seem to remember more about the Patriots ultimate collapse in ’07 more so than the Lions horrible season for some odd reason, lol). And third, you’re probably bound to run into a team that gets the short of the stick on calls, plays, or whatever, and that team should be able to squeak out a win due to that. I don’t think I’ve ever played on a sports team in my entire life, high school and beyond, that has gone completely winless.
Both are pretty tough to do, but a winless season is probably the hardest. (But, then again, you could always just, you know, lose on purpose and make it look like an accident, lol.)
A winless season is quite easy if you lose on purpose.
A perfect season is very difficult because you need
to actually play better than the other team.
Thus, logically, not winning at all is easier because
it requires little to no effort.
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