Football is inevitably a game of “What if...” as just a single play could change the outcome of games one way or the other. Just look at the New England Patriots’s last championship run to cap the 2018 season. Had Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Dee Ford not lined up offsides two weeks earlier in the AFC Championship negating an interception, the Patriots may not have been able to make the trip to Atlanta.
Such thought experiments are mostly pushed by those on the losing side, and far more often than not the last 20 years this was not the Patriots.