On today with Zo and Beetle @ZoandBertrand from 11-1. Plenty of Sox in first hour. Plenty of Tomato Can talk, too.
— Dan Shaughnessy (@Dan_Shaughnessy) November 14, 2017
One commenter blew that one right out of the water:
Too bad AFC East is tied for 2nd in wins per division and is the only division w/ all teams winning at least 4 games and is playing NFC South who is 1st in wins
— Dudley DooRagz (@DudleyDooRagz) November 14, 2017
I'm willing to bet that if you look here from this point forward, to the end of the regular season, this point will be borne out. Remember that Shank first started using the 'tomato can' insult against the other three teams in the AFC East division (Buffalo, Miami and the New York Jets). He's since expanded it to include all NFL teams not named the New England Patriots. I'm not sure if Shank would continue to use the phrase even if you hit him over the head with these numbers (because he hates numbers), but I wouldn't put it past him.
There's also a commenter here that pointed this out - this fact (AFC East win totals being greater than all others) has held for the past ten years (the end year being 2015 or 2016) even if you adjust for removing the Patriots / other top division winner from this total. Unfortunately I can't find that post right now. To some extent, Shank is oblivious to certain facts, especially the numeric ones.
3 comments:
Of course he is. Shank's point is to delegitimize the Patriots' success because the AFC East doesn't send three teams to the playoffs anymore like happened 1995-96, 1998-99, and 2001. Shank refuses to get that the Patriots play some 2/3rd of their schedule against non-division foes and thus are facing more quality opponents - and beating them.
And the fact dan calls them arrogant but act like he's a fan. He is a fraud
Jason Herra - indeed.
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