Every year, the NFL world is quick to judge the difficulty of a given team’s upcoming schedule based on the records of that team’s opponents in the previous season. That’s not how the league works, though. In a sport where seasons are a tiny 16-game sample, there is so much fluctuation from year-to-year. We have no idea how good any team is going to be.
From 2018 to 2019, the average team saw a change in its win total of 2.4. That total is equal to a win percentage of .150 – larger than the difference between New England’s No.