23-12-2021, 01:58 AM
By football, I mean professional American football. College football is its own thing with recruiting and high turnover.
The NFL has a regular season that's barely long enough to ensure that the best teams make it into the playoffs, but short enough that relatively bad teams can either sneak into the playoffs and maybe make a run at the Super Bowl or throw a wrench into one of the good teams' playoff ambitions.
Considering all the tools that the NFL uses to ensure better parity (the draft, the salary cap, scheduling that pairs teams with equal ranked teams outside their division, etc.), I find it fascinating that the good teams tend to be stable, and Lions or Browns just consistently staying awful or at the very least underperforming.
I don't know, I like what I see, but it still feels strange how this balance is being kept.
The NFL has a regular season that's barely long enough to ensure that the best teams make it into the playoffs, but short enough that relatively bad teams can either sneak into the playoffs and maybe make a run at the Super Bowl or throw a wrench into one of the good teams' playoff ambitions.
Considering all the tools that the NFL uses to ensure better parity (the draft, the salary cap, scheduling that pairs teams with equal ranked teams outside their division, etc.), I find it fascinating that the good teams tend to be stable, and Lions or Browns just consistently staying awful or at the very least underperforming.
I don't know, I like what I see, but it still feels strange how this balance is being kept.
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