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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1070019" data-attributes="member: 17953">If losing the first game of the season is criteria to dump a coach or consider your team as losers, we'd start by saying that 50% of the coaches should be fired after the first game.Approximately 17.65% of all Super Bowl champions lost their first game of the season, as nine out of 51 winners had an opening-game loss. More recently, from 1993 to 2017, this figure rose to nearly 30%, with seven of the 24 Super Bowl winners starting the season 0-1. What you need to avoid as a team is losing the first two games because that can take you out of it pretty quickly. An interesting stat is that 8 out of the last 25 Super Bowl matchups had a team in it that lost the first game of the season so maybe there's too much emphasis put on winning that first game.Maybe one of the biggest problems there is coaching the Bears is that any losses at the beginning of a new coach's tenure is enough to make the fan base throw them under the bus, and the team along with them. Nothing speaks to esprit de corps like everyone turning on them before they even get started. You might also consider that the Vikings defense might be just that good, and not an easy team to play against.</blockquote>

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