Dominant team or surprise team?

[jlid]

I like the idea of a dominant team, and even the idea of a mini-dynasty, but teams like that don't exist anymore. Even if the Packers had capped off their 15-1 regular season with a Super Bowl win last year, I'd think of them as a team who had one of the hottest stretches of QB play ever that overcame a swiss cheese defense more than I'd think of them as dominant. Of course with parity reigning so supreme, you could make a similar argument that there's really no such thing as a surprise team anymore either

[CrazyCoughlin]

I like the idea of a dominant team, and even the idea of a mini-dynasty, but teams like that don't exist anymore. Even if the Packers had capped off their 15-1 regular season with a Super Bowl win last year, I'd think of them as a team who had one of the hottest stretches of QB play ever that overcame a swiss cheese defense more than I'd think of them as dominant. Of course with parity reigning so supreme, you could make a similar argument that there's really no such thing as a surprise team anymore either

This may actually be true. I'm also not sure that the Giants last year were a surprise team. They had a Super Bowl win just a few years before and a lot of people were saying that they can be a dangerous team to face. I think the 07 Giants were a surprise since they haven't had no recent winning experience. I do remember someone posting here how he wonders what the Giants would look like that year with good QB play. Well we got it and won the Super Bowl.

[femurov]

Umm, tyke, the 93 Cowboys started 0-2 after Emmitt's holdout. The 2000 Ravens lost 3 games in a row midseason and only scored 15 points in them. Weird choices.

I was thinking the same thing. Why not one of those 49er teams? Or more recently, the Pats.