I'm watching ESPN's First Take with Skip Bayless and the moron keeps belting out incorrect stats.
First he gets it wrong about the history of beating an NFL team 3 times in the same season. He said the record is 1-3 the last 4 times it happened, plain wrong. More like 5-2 in the last 7 times and 8-3 in the last 11 times it happened. The 2-0 team dominates the 0-2 team when they meet for the third time, especially in recent history.
The next one he says you can't beat the same team three times in the NFL playoffs, consecutively. Well, he's right about how Indy went 0-2 against the Pats but won the third game. But he's wrong, going further back when Jim Kelly's Bills beat Dan Marino's Dolphins in '90, '92 & '95 as well as John Elway's Broncos beating Bernie Kosar's Browns in '86, '87 & '89. I'm not sure how closely the years must be running, but the 49ers beat the Bears in '84, '88 & '94 consecutively, similarly the Vikings lost to the Redskins in '82, '87 & '92 consecutively as well as the 49ers in '88, '89 & '97 consecutively. One interesting one is where the 49ers dropped 3 straight to the Packers in '95, '96 & '97 but won in '98 before losing back to them again in '01. I can keep digging around to study this trend, but I think this trend clearly points in the opposite direction, if anything.
First he gets it wrong about the history of beating an NFL team 3 times in the same season. He said the record is 1-3 the last 4 times it happened, plain wrong. More like 5-2 in the last 7 times and 8-3 in the last 11 times it happened. The 2-0 team dominates the 0-2 team when they meet for the third time, especially in recent history.
The next one he says you can't beat the same team three times in the NFL playoffs, consecutively. Well, he's right about how Indy went 0-2 against the Pats but won the third game. But he's wrong, going further back when Jim Kelly's Bills beat Dan Marino's Dolphins in '90, '92 & '95 as well as John Elway's Broncos beating Bernie Kosar's Browns in '86, '87 & '89. I'm not sure how closely the years must be running, but the 49ers beat the Bears in '84, '88 & '94 consecutively, similarly the Vikings lost to the Redskins in '82, '87 & '92 consecutively as well as the 49ers in '88, '89 & '97 consecutively. One interesting one is where the 49ers dropped 3 straight to the Packers in '95, '96 & '97 but won in '98 before losing back to them again in '01. I can keep digging around to study this trend, but I think this trend clearly points in the opposite direction, if anything.
when I see him.