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Someone at the USA Today is on drugs

www.usatoday.com NFL record projections 2023: Which teams will lead the way to Super Bowl 58?

USA TODAY Sports' Nate Davis broke down all 272 regular-season games to determine the win-loss records for each NFL team in 2023.

An abbreviated summary:

Bills 13-4 Jets 12-5 Dolphins 11-6 Lions 11-6 Chiefs 11-6 Ravens 11-6 Steelers 11-6 Cowboys 9-8 Raiders 3-14

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I always have to remember this time of year that nobody knows anything.

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- And just how much can change with unexpected player injuries, players playing above expectations, players playing below expectations. There is never a time where you can accurately guess how a season is gonna go.
  
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  And if they don't try to predict how the season will go, many of these people would have nothing to write about!
  
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RIP Patriots if he's right tho. Three 11+ win teams in your division is rough

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- As a Pats fan, there’s not much to get excited for right now. I’m just hoping we can somehow perform acceptably but I’m not holding my breath.
  
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  Bucs fan with the same feel. If we're able to keep out 5 dubs, I'd be alright with that
  
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Any reason you decided to throw the Raiders in your summary? Just for shade?

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- Not at all. The Raiders may struggle this year, but they are way better than a 3 win team.
  
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  If Jimmy G goes down early in the season, I could see it. Also it's the Raiders, they're almost always worse than the sum of their parts.
  
  -A Raiders Fan
  
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- I assume because three wins is laughable. I don't think the raiders are in great shape by any means, buts it's almost hard to only win 3 games.
  
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  Since '02 we've had two sub-4-win seasons. And eight seasons of 4 or fewer wins, including the year after we went to the Super Bowl.
  
  We've been on the cusp of 3-wins for a third of our seasons over the last 2 decades. Last year we had 6 wins with a playoff team before downgrading.
  
  Maybe 3-wins is a bit of a stretch for expectations. But it would not be at all surprising.
  
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This Bills fan sees no problem at all with this analysis....

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Chiefs back down to normal this year it seems. Where are the Bengals. Guess I’ll have to go read.

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- Where are the Bengals
  
  12-5 and winning the division according to the article. They just didn’t list them in the tldr.
  
  And to me that’s iffy depending on Burrow & his injury and the length of time to recover.
  
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- Every year is the same prediction for the chiefs: "regress to the mean"; if you put any stock in any sports reporter, you're dumber than they are.
  
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  Hard agree. The AFC West is so hard to make look like a race. The only way to try to stir up interest is to talk about the Chiefs losing ground.
  
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  Never do myself :) As a ‘Dotte native have heard it for a almost 5 decades :)
  
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Cardinals at 2-15? That's a W for us, looking forward to 2024 and beyond!

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Jets to the Superbowl?

Noted with thanks.

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