Division Standings since Realignment

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  1. The Bears have been almost as bad as the Lions this century. Lions have 16 bottom half finishes and the Bears have 15. Kinda surprising tbh

  2. Leaving the Browns as the only team without a division win in this time.

  3. According to the pattern, Raiders are due to win a couple division titles in the AFC West.

  4. Since Mahomes started bending the AFC West over, we’ve been the second most successful team in the division! Let’s go!

  5. Tampa bay being the team with the most superbowls in the south is hilarious. 

  6. Always love the parity of the NFCE winners, wonder if this will be the year the streak of non-consecutive winners ends.

  7. Looks like a bunch of teams have finished last only once, but only the Steelers have not been last in their division since realignment. Pretty impressive, but not particularly surprising.

  8. We did it, we broke the no-consecutive-division-winners spell!

    ….can we go back please

  9. In 22 years, the Bucs have been last in the division 10 times, just shy of 50% of the time. 8/10 years at one point. I do not miss the 2010s.

  10. It’s nuts that the Packers had their QB situation set for all that time, 12 division wins, and only had 1 super bowl appearance

  11. Wow, as bad as it was to suffer through the Mornhinweg/Millen/Mariucci/Marinelli Lions (and then again with Patricia), that stretch of 13 fourth-place finishes in 15 years for the Browns…damn, guys. Damn.

  12. NFC North and AFC South haven’t made a Super Bowl since Obama’s first term

  13. Half the time the Niners win the division they go to the Super Bowl. But have lost every single time they’ve gone.

    Generational fumblers

  14. The Seahawks have won the division 9x since 02?

    Honestly surprised they accumulated that many…it doesn’t feel like any team has dominated the division that much in my life (26)….everyone has had great spells…even the Cards 

  15. The Detroit Lions have won the NFCN more recently than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Embarrassing.

  16. Chargers are the only AFCW team to not **lose** a SuperBowl in that time. That’s what Rivers and Herbert give you!

  17. I have no idea what to make of the McCarthy Cowboys. These are easily the best teams of my lifetime, the 1st time since the 90s they’ve made the playoffs 3 years in a row, and their 36 regular season wins since 2021 is second only to the Chiefs, by 1. And yet it hards not to feel like a massive disappointment. 

  18. The AFC south not having a Super Bowl appearance since 2009 is wild

  19. 15/22 superbowl appearances by AFC East and West combined. North and South were really slacking.

  20. The browns and the patriots respectively owning the top and bottom lines.

  21. Look at the glorious, stupid fucking dartboard that is our division.

    We may all mostly be consistently ass. But the division race is usually interesting anyway.

  22. Interesting pattern I found: No Wildcard team has made it to the SB and lost — Wildcard teams are 4-0.

    2005 – PIT

    2007 – NYG

    2010 – GB

    2020 – TB

  23. Imagine not winning your division even once in the last 22 years. That must suck.

  24. what i think was funny about this is that both in 2002/04, the steelers arguably had a better team those years but just ran face first in brady, then dont even win the division in 5 but still win a title. same goes with 2010 really. besides bettis over mendenhall, that 2010 team was arguably better then 05, yet they just couldnt keep up that game.

  25. The only NFC teams to win more than one championship in that timeframe are…The Bucs and The Giants.

    I knew that already, but it still kind of broke my brain.

  26. The Steelers are the only team to have not finished last in the division even once in the last 20+ years.

    … thanks cleveland s/

  27. It’s pretty cool looking at the division leaders. You can pick out the Tom Brady era, Mahomes era, and Josh Allen era. You can even see Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton, and Russell Wilson eras in their respective divisions.

    Then you look at the NFC East and it looks like a Random Number generator.

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