At this Point, does the Regular Season even matter?

[JWsleep]

I don't think it's nearly as bad as B-ball. Look, a team can get hot. That's what happened with the gints here, no doubt. But Indy went pretty much wire-to-wire last season, and I don't think any team that really deserved to be in the playoffs didn't make it. It does show that D is a big deal in the post-season--the Giant D was amazing. Also, a lot of the "underachieving" 10-6 of the gints was over Eli and the offense. The D was good throughout.

I do think parity means that things are more wide-opened than before, but not that the regular season doesn't matter--heck, it matters more: on any given Sunday, yatta, yatta. Plus, the relatively short season in the NFL (game-wise) makes it exciting every week. Finally, the gints game in week three against us was a big deal, and we were all pretty upset about it at the time, I recall. Seemed relevant then, and it still seems relevant now. So I'm not worried about irrelevance, not in a 16 game season.