I have always considered this weekend of a National Football League season the best. Eight teams left to vie for four playoff spots in next week’s Championship Games.
Are the eight best teams here?
Did we lose one or two that deserve to be here and aren’t?
No.
As one-time great NFL coach Bill Parcells always contended to the media when they tried to shift actual results to what they thought, either up or down, “You are your record.”
In other words, the eight teams that are playing this weekend are exactly the eight teams that should be here based on all that really matters … actual results. That is not to say the teams here are not necessarily the ones many thought would survive before the games were played.