11.  Are these Mavericks a better team than those '88 Mavs?

12.  Drexler has made Houston a better running team and a better passing team.

13.  Even if they are, the better team doesn't always win.

14.  Even if the Trojans are not a significantly better team, they will be better conditioned.

15.  Even though we haven't won many games, it's hard to argue that this is not a better team that it was a year ago."

16.  Even their better teams lost the 1982 conference championship game in the Miami mud and lost the 1998 conference championship game in Denver after a halftime lead.

17.  Everyone gave everything they had and we were the better team, but they won the game.

18.  Everyone knows we are a better team with the regulars out there."

19.  Favre is on record as saying San Francisco, a 36-22 loser to Green Bay, is a better team than the Vikings.

20.  Except for the second part of the middle period, New Jersey was the better team.