the "getting up" to play us syndrome

just had a moment of realization--- it seems to me that since for this whole decade playing down to the competition has been the theme and losing to rookies and first time starters seems to happen an inordinate amount for us (ie stafford, gradkowski, fitzpatrick)...... As a diehard Boston Celtics fan when we won the title 2 years ago i noticed that we got everyones best effort every night, the fans were more up to beat us, we got 100 percent effort from the other team every night out--- because we were the champs and acted like idiots people "got up" to play us..... Tying this into the redskins it definatley seems that we get everyone's best effort every game,  i wonder if that's because since we always play down to the competition bad teams have a different level of confidence playing us.  Its the reverse championship belts theory. It even seems that teams will activley try and start first timers against us and i wonder if that has something to do with the confindence playing us seems to give teams.  We even manage to play teams right as their getting healthy too (ie rams and steven jackson last year, and seahawks and hasselbeck last year)