Reiss also said the fact the Patriots didn’t beat a team this season with a better-than-.500 record doesn’t anything in the grand scheme of things.

“When that started to come out at the end of the regular season I’m thinking to myself, have we forgotten any context of what it means to play in the NFL?” Reiss said. “So the fact that they didn’t beat a team that finished the season with a better than .500 record is now significant? So you’re trying to tell me, that game when they go play the New York Jets, and most people are picking the Jets and some predicting it’s the end of the Patriots dynasty.

Now that game doesn’t mean anything because they finished 8-8? That’s ridiculous. “The NFL is all about when you play a team as much as who you play. So now you tell me in the playoffs that doesn’t matter? Sometimes I think we have too much time on our hands to dissect and analyze. It’s paralysis by analysis on a statistic like that.

“They won some games in some tough spots this year. The Denver Broncos had won six straight games when the Patriots were going into Denver, a place they’ve had trouble winning over the course of franchise history. And now you’re telling me that game doesn’t mean anything because the [Broncos] didn’t finish above .500? I find that stuff ridiculous.”