The 10 Most FRAUDULENT NFL Team Records in the Super Bowl Era 

Really think you should've limited this to teams that finished with winning records.

2023 Falcons - Lost to 2-15 Panthers, 4-13 Cardinals, 4-13 Commanders, and 6-11 Titans yet went 7-10

The 2003 Cardinals somehow beat the 10-6 Packers and the 10-6 Vikings. Ironically, the win vs. the Vikings gave the Packers the NFC North title, and Keith Poole, who caught the game-winning TD, was given a key to Green Bay.

We all know how the last game of the 2003 Cardinals panned out Vikings fans look away

That 2009 Raiders team made their wins count: 4 of the W’s came against teams .500 or better (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Denver)

I would prefer to see this as the team(s) with the lowest C-score with a 9-7 record, 10-6, 11-5, etc. Would be interesting to know which 14-2 and 15-1 were the lowest C score all time.

Yeah, I have to agree with the comments section, here. In what universe would a 3-13 team be considered frauds? The title of the video should have been about playoff or winnings teams, not 3, 4 or 5-win teams. Nobody in their right mind would look at their records and say that they overachieved even a little.

I'll say this, this was a well produced and well researched video. However, it's hard to call any team fraudulent because of some wins you may consider lucky, if the other team doesn't do what they need to do to win then they deserve to lose. I'm a Lions fan and the Lions gave the first game against the Vikings away, but that was the Lions fault and they deserved to lose.

What about the 2022 Buccaneers? 8-9, got blown out in half of their losses, a worse PD than the Vikings, historically awful running game. They were the real fraud of 2022. At least Minnesota had an above average offense

2022 Vikings, we weren’t frauds, we just had Kirk Cousins as a QB and an awful Defensive Coordinator, and our offense was amazing when our defense showed up

I was expecting a lot more teams over .500 to be on this list. But the vikings were and definitely deserved to be number 1.

By this logic, CCC probably thought the 2022 Raiders were merely unlucky rather than unclutch They were Bizarro Minnesota: awful in 1 score games, blowing double digit leads left and right, rarely getting blown out, zero luck But I bet they had a great C score

Aside from agreeing with the idea of limiting this list to winning teams, I think the whole calculus is mistaken. These are teams that outperformed their metrics, usually by winning close games with clutch plays. This is a GOOD thing, not evidence of fraud.

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2020 Steelers?

Thought the 2023 Eagles would make the list.

So who were the unluckiest teams of all-time? High C score, bad record.

I'm a seahawks fan, and even I think our 2020 team should be on this list. We went 12-4, but honestly should have been 8-8 or 9-7. We didn't deserve to be a 12 win team and it showed in the playoffs when the Rams beat us in the Wild Card.

Quite an interesting video. I do like how you focused on the one possession games as often luck can turn those records around. I will say it was a tad deflating to see so many teams who lost a lot of games anyway makes up the majority of the list. Nevertheless, entertaining video.

It would be interesting to do a list about teams that had great stats but so so records (like the 2005 Chargers)

I thought for certain the 2000 Cardinals would be on this list. Two wins (Cowboys and REDSKINS) by one point each and an eight-point win over the godawful Browns. Lost the rematch in Dallas 48-7, and Vince Tobin was fired the next day.

2018 dolphins were 7-9 and played like they were 4-12

Great content, keep it up!! 👏

This was a fun video

You can't compare 2022 to 2023 with the Vikings, since Minnesota had a lot of key injuries. It's also making it difficult to tell if O'Connell is a good coach or not. One lucky year and one unlucky year. We need a more run of the mill year to really evaluate him.

Sorry dude...if you wind up with more points than the other team....even repeatedly...thats NOT FRAUDULENT....injuries, cohesiveness.(which is hard to measure), teams letting go of the rope, exhaustion( some teams can coast ontheir talent to an extent..others must play atvtheir maximum to be competitive) IMPROVEMENT!, and a lack of quality depth...i guess i just feel that word fraudulent is a poor descriptive...using averages are to me kinda using misleading stats...WAYYYY to many variables in ANY squad's record...The great Nolan Richardson used to say statistics are sometime for losers...

I'm surprised but happy the 2019 Packers aren't on here, although we did make the NFC Championship at least

"fraudulent"??? yall took some liberties with that term smdh

Was schedule strength considered in these rankings? I didn't see it mentioned and based on past videos it's usually a staple in rankings.

Now do a list of really good teams that just could not win-- seems like the fair thing to do.

As a Steelers fan I was worried a few of our recent seasons would show up here glad to see they didn't though.

Ok now getting that off my chest. Man that was a fun year but also very frustrating becauze we had the worlds worst defense in the history of football anywhere. Our offense kept us in games and won us games. Our game against Buffalo that year was the most crazy game in history of football. I suggest anyone who is a legit fa of football to go and watch that game in its entirety. Dont skip any part of the game. To many crazy things happened in that game. It was the 1st time that we played Buffalo sinxe we traded number 14 to them for a draft pick that gave us Justin Jefferson. So its was also a show down between those 2 guys and Jefferson made a point in that game. Yo make sure everyone knew that we won out on that trade. We sent Diggs the cry baby to the bills and in return. The oick we gkt from them for diggs gave us Jefferson. He made the best catch in history in that game. On 4th down. So going into that game peopek wondered who was the vetter WR and who won in that trade. The game had to be played to find out. And after the game it was clear. And it was of course the vikings who won in that trade.. Jefferson is 10 times better. But in 2022 know one knew yet. But Justin played his ass off and showed us all who was better and who won the b trade. And its such a fun and crazy game that even id ur not a fan of either team. U will still enjoy watching that game. It is nuts how it went down. Every time you thought one team had it sealed. BAM BOOM. Something would happen to change that. They would have a 99% chance of winning they just had to dnap the ball. On the goal line no less amd westher they got in or not they still would have keot that 99% chance to win... unless 1 thing happened. Just watch. Promise youll love it. Its a historic game

Football Reference has a rating system called SRS (Simple Rating System) based on Point Differential, Margin of Victory and Strength of Schedule! Most of these teams are minus by FR!!

5:40 I think a 7-10 team would be 1.5 games below .500, not 3 games below .500

Great video loves the highlights. Inly thing i did not like was who was number 1. Because im a lufe ling and huge vikings fan. So i hoped the clip for the beginning was b.s. but nope it was true. And onxe i seen the yeat on it. All of those memories came rushing back lol and after the 2021 season. Me with evwryone else said if he got lucky amd the ball bounced the other way on all of those close games. We would have a really good record. Because every singke close game lady luck went the other way and it was so frustrating to be that clos eon so many games. And u dont want games to be that close that many times anywayd. So it was all defensive plays that needed to get bettwr. The defense in general needed to get way bettet. Fix that and we would be a very good team. Because we were soooo close so many times. So what did the vikings do in the off-season? Well they addressed the defense of course. But BUUUUT they did something super dumb. I noticed in the off-season that they were uoading tons of players on defense. Someone wanted to make it his team so the new defensive coach got rid of everyone. And switched to a 3-4 defense. We have NEVER had 3-4 as out main scheme. Its always veen 4-3. Amd the dumbass coach DC got rid of evwryone and replaced them with other players that sucked. He drained out Defense Line and stocked up on LB and DB's. Cuz of the switch to 3-4. Which was dumb. Whatbhe really was doing was trying to make it his defense by getting rid of all of the guys we already had and most od them were super good. . All because. His excuse i should say was because of the switch from 4-3 to 3-4. Hebdidnt have to do anything to the roster. Mostly since it was a brand new defense he was going with and didnt know if it wouls work. But he wanted his guys and blah blah blah.. so we got rid of very good DL and added junk linebackers and that switch to the 3-4killed us all season and he b was so bone headed he refused to switch back to the 4-3 saying it wouls eventually work.... it NEVER DID. And the head coach had to switch it back to the 4-3 but when he did. We no longer had the guys who could effectively play that defensive scheme anymore because in the off-season he got rid of them all. I have never seen such a poor defense then that of the 2022 Minnesota Vikings that year. The onlyreason why we won so many games is because od our offense being sooo dam good that year and we also got very lucky more then a few times. The offense had to be good that year. All we could hope for is that we had the ball more times then our opponents and that we ended up with the ball last. Because we new we could score. We also new we coukd not stop the other team from scoring either. Man that was a tough year to swallow. Teams that year that we gad close games with. If we would have had the defense from the year before or just a better defense then we had we would habe blown iut all of those teams we had close games with. You guys have no idea of how bad our defense was that year. We took such a massive drop in defense that yeat from the year before that man did that hurt. And its all on one guy. The defensive coordinator that year. He sucked. He wanted that shitty 3-4. And i know with some teams that defense works great and wat better then 4-3 would for them. Good for them. But not for the vikings. And were used to havj g a good defense all the time. We never have a shitry one.. well that guy moved us from 4-3 which we have never ever used as our base D. And then he cut all of our studs on the D side if the ball. So we had no I e to play the new base D. Amd worse yet. When the head coach stepped in to switch it back. He had no guys to use cuz thebother guy released all of our good players but one. So webhad a shot that year to make some damage in the post season. But that chance was taken away in the off-season before when the new DC graped out D talent and switched to a scheme Foreign to the team. Of course he fired after that season. Which should have happened after 6 or 7 games. It was really that bad folks. But our new head coach made a great gore in the off season with horinf Brian flores as out new DC... let me tell you about that guy. All of the hype about him beinf a great defensive mind is true. He didnt have a lot to work with because of what his Predecessor did to the team getting rid of a lot of the guys. So we got what we could thro free agency and the drafts and then he went to work. What a difference. First thi g brian did was out as back to 4-3 and then his coachj g took over. The man is a defensive genius. We instantly went from last in defense and it wasnt even close . We instantly went from last not even close like i said to be I ng a lot better then average being one of the betterbteMs on defense and he didnt even have the guys he wanted to work with. He took what was left over from the moron who graped our D the tear before. And his schemes and plays just everything made us such a better team on that side of the ball. The guys on defense love playing for him... and now they have a full yeat u der there belt under flores and he got what he wanted in the draft and maybe help in free agency. So we should be a lot better on D this year. We drafted a DE/LB Lawrence Taylor and Derek Thomas type of player in the first round. Dallas Turner. Who should maje an immediate impact on defense. And we are already studs on offense... we have the vest WR AND TE COMBO in the league. And we added a great RB IN the off season from green bay. So as long as our temp starter a former 1st round draft pick feom 6 or 7 years ago as longbas he playes good then we will be extremely dangerous. And we drafted the best CB in the draft with J.J. MCcarthy. Our franchise QB. THE GUY WE GOT to start u yim he is ready is a former 1st round pick. Which i think he will surprise the whole dam league. He has never has the weapons that we have for him to work with . Sam Darnald. Good young QB. Always played for crap teams unt now. So i predict he will have a huge year for us and by far the best of his career. Its the first time the man has ever had good WR'S and a great TE to work with. He is going to explode this year. So heads up to anyone reading this long comment. Sorry for that by the way. But if your reading this. Do t be surprised when u start seeinf his name popping up as torching other teams. He was drafted that high for a reason. And now he finally gets to live up to that hype back then. Becauae the man can ball he has been showing thag all off season. We made a good choice lettinf kirk walk. He was over priced and old anyways and could get us over the hump. Sam will be an improvement. Now that he has awesome weapons and has 7 years of experience. This is going to look to easy for him. And J.J is also kicking ass. But om glad they are groomi g hkn for a year or 2 so get him ready the right way.. the vikings are serious SB contenders

They only went 7-10 because the qb got injured

Uhhh...what?? I'm STILL trying to figure out what you're meaning by "fraudulent"?? Swing and a miss on this one

What background music is this. I hear it a lot on NFL highlight shows.

I'm surprised the Kansas City Cheats aren't on this list more.

Each Colts team that made the list was coached by the same man, Ted Marchibroda! Excluding 1987* (strike shortened season) with coach Ron Meyer and mid-season acquisition Eric Dickerson, Ted was the only Colts coach to have winning seasons under notorious owner Robert Irsay. Thankfully, Robert's son Jim has made the Colts respectable, and at times great. Ironically the Colts were victims of the largest comeback victory at the expense of the "fraudulent" 2022 Vikings. Also 2009 was the last season for possibly the biggest bust in NFL history (pun fully intended), Raiders QB JaMarcus Russell.

That vikings team had no quit in it. That is why they were able to win those close games. From 21-23 the Vikings have played in a LOT of 1 score games. You failed to mention the teams they were beating in 22, they played vs most of that years playoff teams. The greatest comeback in NFL history was in 22, vs the Colts. Nor did you mention all the 1 score losses 2023 had. Etc. That team earned its record, every week. When you play majority close games, your going to have a low points differential. They are the hardest working team in NFL history, if anything.

Bears had 2 seasons that were 13 and 3. Maybe other season was 12 and 4. And they were no better than a 500 team

also remember that the 'perfect' Dolphins team had the easiest schedule and opponents.

Would love to see best teams to not win the Super bowl :)

Lions fans who agree.

The 1995 chiefs should be here.

Wrong again

Where's the next imperialism

Fer shame, Doc. Discussing the 2021 Raiders without including the scenes of Brandon Staley of the Chargers stupidly calling a timeout when it had appeared the Raiders were willing to accept a tie in the final game of the regular season which would have enabled both teams to make the playoffs. The Raiders then kicked the winning field goal in a "Take That!" salute to Staley as a result which eliminated the Chargers and allowed the Steelers to make the playoffs instead.

1998 Atlanta Falcons 14-2, as fraudulent as it gets!