"This time of year, you're as good as your record says you are."
I don't know if that is the exact wording of that phrase, but you get the point.
If a football team finishes the regular season with a 13-3 record, as the Steelers did in 2017, then that team is what its record says it is.
Or is it?
Co-hosting a post-game show for 17 weeks gave me some habits.
One of those habits was saying—in many different and creative ways—"Oh, get out of here! You're crazy! This team is (insert great record at various points of the season here)!