ne wayz looks like n.e is gonna make another role =). if they go 16-0 again man imma be happy. only team in history to go back to back undefeated seasons =).
If they go 16-0 again it wouldn't be considered an undefeated season. They have to go all the way for it to be considered an undefeated season. And yes, they did not have an undefeated season in 2007. No one cares if you won all 16 regular season games. It's the big game that counts, and if you can win 16 games and then lose the big one, you just become a laughingstock.
I'd have to agree with thealmightGOD on this one. Merely going 16-0 during the regular season is not enough in and of itself to be merited an "undefeated season" unless your team is able to sweep the playoffs and win the Super Bowl. If an undefeated
regular season were all that important, why are the Patriots not being revered so much for that accomplishment? Exactly: because they didn't follow through to the end in winning the Super Bowl.
This is what is most remembered and the whole undefeated regular season gets relegated to mere footnote to a failed
overall season. In short, the whole 16-0 undefeated season is overshadowed by that postseason failure.
Be happy about 16-0 if you like, but I'm afraid not a whole lot of people share your sentiment - and I gather that includes other Patriot fans who would rather have seen New England win and get closer to joining the upper echelon of 5 time Super Bowl winners like San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Dallas instead of falling to a record of 3-2 in the big game.
It's also peculiar that you would more value going undefeated in the regular season for a second time in a row rather than winning the Super Bowl. Again, not winning the Super Bowl is like putting an asterisk next to this accomplishment anyway. The Patriots could have two back to back undefeated regular seasons but it would always immediately be followed by "...but they still failed to bring home the Lombardi trophy each time". Imagine a Buffalo fan in the early 90's saying, "Man, if the Bills just make it to the Super Bowl 4 straight times, that would be sweet - no other team has done that". But meanwhile, history shows that Buffalo is a four-time loser in four straight Super Bowl appearances. Which accomplishment is more remembered?
no im not joking have u even seen the pats schedule. there schedule is soo easy once again and the with most of the offense back they can go 16-0 again.
This also makes your revering a potential Patriots' back-to-back undefeated regular season all that more peculiar. If it's an easy schedule, even by your own admission, of what merit would an undefeated record be? Let's be realistic, if the Patriots manage to go undefeated, what's there to be truly proud of if they've gone through the schedule relatively unchallenged? An undefeated season would be a flimsy accomplishment and you know it. It's like playing Madden NFL on the easiest setting and then saying "yeah man, I'm bad-ass".
And don't pull the "but the Patriots can only play the games that they are scheduled to play" card in rebuttal. This is not so much about how New England is going to go undefeated. This is about the ludicrous rhetoric as to how and why you would overvalue going undefeated in the regular over winning the Super Bowl.