Chiefer Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Which is the better conference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game3525 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I think both conferences are fairly even this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broncofan Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 25 minutes ago, game3525 said: I think both conferences are fairly even this year. I'd still say NFC by a clear margin overall at the top end. The top 3 teams in the NFC are just tough to beat IMO overall except vs. each other. KC is the one team that can hang with them with their O, but their D is so very bad (I mean, teams like OAK & ARI can score 21+ pts on them, and before someone points to LAR, they did that with Gurley as a decoy most of the game).... The difference is that the middle-tier, the AFC is catching up, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Ramster Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 26 minutes ago, game3525 said: I think both conferences are fairly even this year. What? NFC is just on a higher tier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cddolphin Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 NFC is better but it's not as extreme as earlier in the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game3525 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Quote I'd still say NFC by a clear margin overall at the top end. The top 3 teams in the NFC are just tough to beat IMO overall except vs. each other. KC is the one team that can hang with them with their O, but their D is so very bad (I mean, teams like OAK & ARI can score 21+ pts on them, and before someone points to LAR, they did that with Gurley as a decoy most of the game).... The difference is that the middle-tier, the AFC is catching up, though. Quote What? NFC is just on a higher tier. The two best teams in the league are in the NFC (granted I don't think there is that big of a gap between LA and NO from KC and NE). But there isn't a big gap between the two conferences due to the gap between the 2nd tier of the AFC from the 2nd tier of the NFC. I think the group of Pitt, LAC, Houston, and Baltimore is a bit stronger then then the group of CHI, Seattle, Dallas, and Minny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET80 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Both conferences have two top tier teams (NO/LAR and KC/NE). NFC gets this one. I think the NFC has a few teams that are right now significantly underachieving (Minn/GB/Philadelphia/Atlanta) and one team that's overachieving based on what we thought going into the season (Chicago). Conversely, the AFC has two underachievers (Pittsburgh/Jacksonville) and three overachievers based on what we thought going into this season (LAC, Houston, Indianapolis). I think it ultimately balances out, but as other people said - 2nd tier of AFC teams is stronger than the 2nd tier of NFC teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destructo Spin Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Would've said NFC by far earlier this year. but the gap has closed to the point I'd say it's very very close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broncofan Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 22 hours ago, game3525 said: The two best teams in the league are in the NFC (granted I don't think there is that big of a gap between LA and NO from KC and NE). But there isn't a big gap between the two conferences due to the gap between the 2nd tier of the AFC from the 2nd tier of the NFC. I think the group of Pitt, LAC, Houston, and Baltimore is a bit stronger then then the group of CHI, Seattle, Dallas, and Minny. I'd point to one major difference between NO/LAR, KC & NE - NO, LAR & KC all have won 3+ road games against good teams. NE has won 1x - and gotten their butts whipped by DET/TEN on the road. You can't point to that for those 3 other teams. It's a nitpick as I agree with the overall premise - the AFC 2nd tier is catching up to the NFC's 2nd tier - but I'd honestly put NE into a 2nd tier, and that NFC top 2 just crushes anyone from the AFC right now. The Pats may or may not get that 2nd seed, and at home, I don't discount them at all. But I don't see them anywhere near as dangerous or elite as the NFC's top 2. And I don't see KC matching those 2 because of their balance issues are less fixable (again, I get the KC argument will be they lost to LAR on road in a tight game, but I'd point out the Talib return and Gurley being a decoy more than balanced that out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stl4life07 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 The NFC is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas5737 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 To be fair, I think most Rams fans on here would take the Rams over an all AFC team so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZenoRazon Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Wonder what the AFC vs NFC win/loss record has been the last five seasons? How about all time? AFC 1335 wins NFC 1235 wins I wonder what an all time NFL team would like, how many AFCers vs NFCers? (in the SB era) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXsteeler Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Best team: KC - AFC Best two teams: NO and LAR - NFC Best four teams: KC, LAC, NE, and HOU - AFC Best six teams: NO, LAR, DAL, CHI, SEA, and MIN - NFC so I think it's pretty clear who is the best conference here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckweath Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 On 07/12/2018 at 9:20 PM, Thomas5737 said: To be fair, I think most Rams fans on here would take the Rams over an all AFC team so... Lol. I swear it just looks like they don't even try to be objective. NFC to answer the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaguarCrazy2832 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 On 12/5/2018 at 1:46 AM, ET80 said: Both conferences have two top tier teams (NO/LAR and KC/NE). NFC gets this one. I think the NFC has a few teams that are right now significantly underachieving (Minn/GB/Philadelphia/Atlanta) and one team that's overachieving based on what we thought going into the season (Chicago). Conversely, the AFC has two underachievers (Pittsburgh/Jacksonville) and three overachievers based on what we thought going into this season (LAC, Houston, Indianapolis). I think it ultimately balances out, but as other people said - 2nd tier of AFC teams is stronger than the 2nd tier of NFC teams. Is Houston overachieving? Didn't everyone assume they had the best chance to unseat the Jaguars in the AFC South? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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