Do You Personally Take NFL Records Seriously That's Broken In This 17 Game Schedule?

[IIVI]

One’s not really better than the other.

Sure the other record took fewer games, but they didn’t have to play against the 5 of the top-ranked defenses this season. Some twice.

Dude would’ve shattered that record if they had a fluff schedule. Gotta give the rookie credit.

 

[mozichrome]

sure. dont really care when record is broken
Puka has been huge for the rams

 

[Professor K.]

One’s not really better than the other.

Sure the other record took fewer games, but they didn’t have to play against the 5 of the top-ranked defenses this season. Some twice.

Dude would’ve shattered that record if they had a fluff schedule. Gotta give the rookie credit.

If they had a fluff schedule, they would've been winning more games by more points, and therefore probably passing a lot less

Moral is there are too many variables to nitpick why or how someone breaks records, just appreciate witnessing greatness

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

If you ask me OJ still holds the single season rushing record but that's not the case

If Puka beats it in 17 games then it's his record

 

[Piff Perkins]

I mean can't you say that about each era where the season got expanded? They played less than 16 prior to the 1978 season.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Fans need to remember history. There are a lot of records today due to the NFL moving from 14 to 16 games. Now is no different.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Dude was probably playing aganist highschool teams in 1960. Pua's is more impressive imo

 

[concise]

College football's record books are all messed up from all the changes over the years, everybody still knows who the GOATs are as opposed to those who have a record and are just answers to some trivia questions.

 

[JasoRockStar]

Dude was probably playing aganist highschool teams in 1960. Pua's is more impressive imo

That's what gets me. If you can "place an asterisk" next to any of these modern day record-holders for taking more games to break them, then you can place the same asterisk on the previous record holders for setting them while playing against inferior competition.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Seems like some wide receivers could’ve benefited by playing with Matt Stafford. I barely know this dude and he’s about to break this old ass record lol. He ain’t doing that on any other team

 

[Trav]

Always gotta change/evolve with the times....That's what the history books, documentaries and all of that is for. No one is gonna completely forget the yesteryear. But it's these new mfs time now.

 

[Black Hans]

Yes.

 

[rbksNgirbauds]

Before the whole "asterisk" thing implied cheating/being illegitimate it was literally used for contexts like this tho

Anybody else here and have a sports almanac back in the day? You look at a records table, its full of asterisks for context about things like season length, leagues merging and expending etc

For example, the bubble chip from a couple years ago would have qualified. Yet posters get in their feelings when you call it that.

As for the thread, yes, every record broken because of the extra game should have an asterisk . As in on the literal wk17. This Puka situation is the perfect example

But then, how long do we go on adding asterisks if say this becomes the schedule for say, the next 20 years with the 17 games?

Either way, none of it in my mind is to discredit, and I think thats where the contention comes from. But you have to qualify these things to not run the risk of recency biases

 

[klientel]

Dont matter what you nikkas feel

After this weekend the record is his

 

[klientel]

Dude was probably playing aganist highschool teams in 1960. Pua's is more impressive imo

Right watch a clip of this dude and it literally looks like my high school games. Muthafukkas moving in slow motion

I’m surprised nobody broke it earlier than this