[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Luck4Reich

Not true at all ...... there have been quite a few teams that lucked into making the playoffs only to be easy meat for their opponent . Not a tough team if you are getting shut out in the playoffs.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndica...-time.amp.html

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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5 out of those 10 teams won their first playoff game. 2 other teams (the 1989 Oilers and the 2013 Packers) lost games that went right down to the wire.

I agree with the author of that article that almost all of those teams were undeserving playoff teams with no shot of advancing to the Super Bowl, but they all were not necessarily easy outs in the playoffs ...... only 3 of them were beaten soundly in their first playoff game.

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Originally Posted by Luck4Reich

The point I was making was against his EVERY team is TOUGH once you make the playoffs. Just not always the case. I've watched a lot of playoffs since the 80s and there have been A LOT of playoff teams that got smashed in the first wild card game.

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You may be correct about every team not being a tough out, but the citation that you used was not a good one to make your point. More than half of the teams in that article either won their first playoff game, or lost a nail-biter that went right down to the wire.

The Colts losing to the Jets by a score of 41-0 was a good example that you alluded to, as are the Colts' victories over the Broncos in 2003 (41-10) and 2004 (49-24.)

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