I see so much about metrics, and underlying data and terms like fools gold and underdog.. But you know what?
1. Fuck all that
2. Its impossible to luck yourself in to 54 (hopefully 55) wins.
If the team had gotten fat and happy beating up on the bottom of the league and failed whenever the opponent was quality, I'd have some concerns.
The Team went 22-16 -1 vs. teams in the playoffs today. 14-8-1 vs the East (Florida 1-2 and surprisingly Washington 2-2 are the only teams we didn't win the season series) and 8-8 vs. the West (split with everyone except Col - 2-0, and Vegas 0-2).
Every team has warts- a couple favored teams will get bounced in round 1- it always happens.
Let's fucking go