Originally Posted by
TopekaRoy
See? Again with irrelevant history. Those are all different teams with different coaches and have nothing to do with tonight's game. If I flipped a coin 9 times and it came up heads on 7 of those flips, would you say, "oh, it doesn't look good for tails?" No, the chances of tails coming up would still be one in two regardless of what happened in the past. People are confusing "trends" with "cause and effect." Generally speaking trends like these go against the odds rather than along with the odds.
The 2006 Bills finished 7-9 (3-5 on the road), 2003 Lions; 5-11 (0-8 OTR), 1997 Jets; 9-7 (4-4 OTR), 1996 Ravens; 4-12 (0-8 OTR). That's a combined road record of 12-25 for those teams that lost in your chart. They weren't just losing to their coaches' former teams. They were losing to lots of teams because they weren't very good. We don't know if this Chiefs team is any good or not, yet, because they have only played two games so far. But what other teams did with other coaches has nothing to do with tonight's game. All that matters is how good the Chiefs and the Eagles are.