Skins beat last 3 superbowl champs

[pjfootballer]

I think those that are saying things like "what do we get for that" and "so what" are missing the point....it's not we deserve some kind of credit for beating those teams, quite the contrary. We don't deserve any credit for it, because what it tells me is if we are talented enough to beat a team that eventually wins the Super Bowl, pretty regularly at that...we are talented enough to have had more winning seasons than we have had.

Beating the eventual SB champion would be fine if they were the #1 or #2 seed, but the facts of who we beat that eventually became champs:

2007 Giants- #6 seed and had a 10-6 record and had to sneak into the playoffs
2008 Cardinals- #4 seed (lowest of the division winners), 9-7 in the weak NFC West. (and they were the SB losers)
2009 Saints- #1 seed and eventual SB champions. (We had the game in hand so I'll give us this one, but the fact is, we LOST)
2010 Packers- #6 seed and had a 10-6 record (see 2007 Giants) and had to beat the Bears who had already sewed up the #2 seed and had zero to play for.
2011 Giants- #4 seed (lowest of the division winners) had a 9-7 record and had a do or die game just to get in.
2012 Ravens- #4 seed, 12-4 record and we had to pull out an OT win. So this one I'll give you also.

What I'm trying to say is most of the SB winners that we have beat haven't exactly been the cream of the crop and most of them got in on the skin of their teeth and were middle to low seeds. Beat more #1 and #2 seeds and I'll lend more credence to this.

[Painkiller]

What I'm trying to say is most of the SB winners that we have beat haven't exactly been the cream of the crop and most of them got in on the skin of their teeth and were middle to low seeds. Beat more #1 and #2 seeds and I'll lend more credence to this.

Valid point. I guess for me at the end of the day these were still teams that were good enough to get to the big dance...however they got there....and we were good enough to beat them. They don't say "any given sunday" for no reason, but to me this has happened too many times to just be a crazy coincidence.

[pjfootballer]

Valid point. I guess for me at the end of the day these were still teams that were good enough to get to the big dance...however they got there....and we were good enough to beat them. They don't say "any given sunday" for no reason, but to me this has happened too many times to just be a crazy coincidence.

And for the record, I'm not trying to diminish the accomplishment, because it really does say something. It says that (like you said) on any given Sunday, we can hang with the big boys when we put our minds to it. I think if we stop losing to teams we're supposed to beat, then 12-4 or better is not out of the question with the type of talent Shanahan is building on this team.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

FWIW the last 3 or 4 super bowl champs have been the Eagles home Opener, lets hope we get that game and keep the streak alive.

[DButz65]

As Doc Walker said on the radio (and I agree with him) "so what, just means you won at the wrong time"

[mojo]

Snyder should have a banner installed at Fed Ex to celebrate this accomplishment.

[Botched]

Some people enjoy finding patterns and oddities in statistics. I don't think anyone has seriously claimed that we've been a Super Bowl caliber team due to this.

Yeah, I just think it's cool.

Getting beaten by the Redskins seems to increase a team's chance of making it to their conference championship game, if not Super Bowl. Although with as many times as we've beaten ourselves, if there were any real connection we would have about 16 Lombardis by now.

[HeluCopter29]

Transitive property champs 3 years running!

Legggggggggooooooooooooooo

[martin49]

yeap. I think a lot of us Skins fans were thinking this during the superbowl. But we are almost there guys, IMO we were a healthy RGIII away from probably playing in this one. Even with Mara's BS (it wouldn't be a thread if someone didn't mention this SOB) we still won the division and this team came together like it did back in 2005 and 2007. This time around however we have a QB that could potentially change the game as it is played. We are way younger and about to get even better than that 7-0 run. Not to mention we are getting this way when our division rivals seem to have lost a step of two.

Good point.

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Some people enjoy finding patterns and oddities in statistics. I don't think anyone has seriously claimed that we've been a Super Bowl caliber team due to this.

No, but shows the potential has always been there

[Rocky52Mc]

edit: n/m... man, you guys are quick

They're quick because they did their homework and there's a complete thread on this subject in its entirety lol