Being that we lost to Steve Grogan and the Pats at home and they lost 46-10 I don’t think we win that SB honestly but I still might tell my friends that we would have
Citing that logic means the Dolphins shouldn’t have won the 1st matchup. But they did. Decidedly.
CHI couldn’t handle their offense nor Nat Moore in the slot. That wasn’t gonna drastically change had they played again, unless the Bears drastically changed up the defensive tactics that made them so fierce in the 1st place.
Again, I don’t think a lot of fans understand the concept of matchups.
It’s why you often see really good teams sometimes struggle with a bad team while dominating others with better personnel on the whole.
It’s why you often see Team A beat Team B, Team B beat Team C, and Team C beat Team A situations as well.
A non-playoff team with a losing record might give a SB contender trouble because the few strengths they have just happen lineup with the few weaknesses of the superior team.
While that MIA team was 12-4 and in no way a subpar team, their strengths lined up perfectly against the Bears weaknesses.
But against NE, that just wasn’t the case.
$#/t like that happens ALL the time.
That’s why football is often a game of “matchups”.