It is an interesting perspective. I thought pro-football-reference.com would easily have cumulative playoff seeding data but I could only find data grouped per season only. ProFootballHof.com has top seeded team per conference results (
link) from 1975 through 2017, but does not include the seed of teams they beat or lost. Needless to say, I hoped to be lazy and grab comprehensive data to post but did not succeed.
I did google this though (
link):
Situation | Number of Teams | Percentage |
Winning Wild Card Round | 9 of 23 | 39.1% |
Winning Divisional Round | 4 of 23 | 17.4% |
Winning Conference Championship | 2 of 23 | 8.7% |
Winning Super Bowl | 2 of 23 | 8.7% |
If accurate, the data shows the success rate of
number five seeds in the playoffs from 2000 to 2023. The 2007 #5 seeded New York Giants would fall into the 17.4% winning percentage by beating #1 seeded Dallas.
Contrastly, the 2023 Green Bay Packers are the only seventh seed to beat ANY playoff team, regardless of higher seed, out of ten opportunities (thus far). Objectively, I would judge a #5 seed, beating a higher-ranked team in the divisional round at a 17.4% rate, as
less impressive than a #7 seed beating a higher-ranked team in the wildcard round at a 10% rate.
I don't know where the beginning of this part of this conversation that somehow Prescott wanting to win a Super Bowl and his legacy turned into let's focus on playoff losses !!!
are we doing this again ???/ are we blaming Prescott for that Green Bay loss??? I mean it does suck having a home game and being a high seed and getting beat by a 7 seed but given it's only been going on for five years, there's not enough data in my opinion...
One part of debates that I get sick of on the Internet about sports but especially about football, is somehow the head coach and the quarterback are the only ones that have carry the record...
I mean every time you get into a conversation, they say well look at his playoff record well why don't we look at TJ Watts and Parsons and all the other records in the NFL that that apply to all players that were on the field over that discussion.
In that particular game the defense couldn't have played worse, they couldn't have ,I guess they could have gave up a touchdown on every drive until you know Green Bay waved the white flag let them have some garbage time ,but they literally could have scored a touchdown on every drive until the clock went to zero...
I don't care about the couple of interceptions that really weren't his fault but yes he played poorly because once again we had no run game we had no physicality in the trenches and we got our butts beat on defense...
that's a fact , we lost that game and like how does this come up in a conversation about the quarterback every player on that team every player that's been on these teams and every part of the coaching staffs all the way down to the kicking instructor since 2016 should get the label of having a losing playoff record.
That's why I bring up the Pittsburgh Steelers they've lost seven straight playoff games but TJ what been part of the last four dudes got one sack in four games so he has a bad playoff record 0-4!!!! he should be lambasted, and he should not be paid more money, he should be cut off his team ,yup the damn defensive ends not doing his job..hes overrated and overpaid..
sound familiar?
Back to the Green Bay game, most of us who absorb a lot of football we remember that whole playoff grouping and I remember the Lions just absolutely stomping on San Francisco in the first half, literally they couldn't be more of a mirror in the games the offenses were playing horrible for the 49ers they weren't doing much on defense...
I mean the first half was almost a duplicate of what was going on in the cowboy game..
I believe the halftime score at least the differential was almost exactly the same, you know what was different, no it wasn't the quarterback ,it was their defense coming up with a bunch of stops coming out of halftime allowing their team to get back in the game and our defense gave up three straight touchdowns coming out of halftime..
there was never going to be a comeback, the defense was the biggest part of the loss,
so how this keeps ending up on a Prescott thread I guess as usual and I'm not reading because whatever discussing you're having is with somebody I have on ignore,
but I'm sure that's how this got here is Prescott saying he wants to go to the Super Bowl and then blaming him for this playoff massacres they've been part of and really it's been more the defense than anything else it's been more of the trenches and lack of a run game than anything else and yeah he's had some poor games he's kind of hard to play quarterback when your offensive line in your run game isn't there and then you look over and your defense can't make a stop it might put a little pressure on you, yep....