Jcaminite said:
I’m going to throw this out here since this post is about teams being healthy/unhealthy this time of year. Look at the super bowl champion the last half decade or so. The bye week has been somewhere in November and more towards the end of November. Interesting to look at this because this is why injuries start to pile up on the teams who haven’t had a break. Take a look at Titans and Packers. This is the healthiest they have ever been this season. Both week 13 byes. Well into December. So they got a break played a few more weeks and got another rest. I think we should see a real advantage this week out of the number one seeds.
now I’m not saying this truly means anything in a handicap but it’s something to think about
niners bye week was middle of October. That’s a long time to play especially when you been playing for your playoff life for over a month now at intensity just to make the playoffs
This is a really good point and I can speak more for the titans than the Packers but the titans were on absolute fumes by the time their bye week came. They were a dead man walking when the pats crushed them the week before their bye