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Titans was easy to predict. Everyone in their division got better and they stayed the same.

That season where a wildcard team beat an undefeated team to win the Super Bowl was pretty stupid

We say this about every season about how things defy consensus. To your point on us, it’s not like a guard alone drastically improves an offensive line that Henry can hardly overcome or signing a CB2 makes a secondary better with a 30 year old Kevin Byard and a bunch of JAGs. DHop can’t cover for a 35 year old game manager all the time. This is just a bad roster regardless of improvements to offensive playcalling and injuries

Nah, the season where the Eagles won the Super Bowl was the stupidest because the Eagles won the Super Bowl.

In 2020, we played a Wednesday afternoon version of Thursday night football because there was a Covid outbreak in the ravens locker room, and it was on Wednesday because the Rockefeller center Christmas tree people told the nfl to fuck off. That game saw tiktok sensation trace mcSorley hit Hollywood brown for a 70 yard touchdown to bring a ravens team that was 15 players short of a full gameday roster within one score of a 10-0 Steelers team at Heinz field

not to even say anything about a practice squad wideout starting at QB for Denver bc all their quarterbacks took off their tracking bracelets so they could sit next to each other in the film room, and subsequently all got covid

Also - empty stadiums

That season was stupid as shit

WWII took place in the 20th century btw.

Any season where both the Lions and the Jags are good makes literally no sense.

Yeah agreed this season feels lame. Hard to explain, it's just....less interesting than normal, idk

IDK man, anyone who didn't see the Giants and Vikings regressing wasn't paying much attention last year. Joe Burrow was injured to begin the season which explains the Bengals, the Patriots didn't bother to include WRs on their roster this year, the Titans are double injured at literally every position...it's a surprising season but not an illogical one.

I think the football product suffers with Thursday games every week and so many international games. The travel and the short weeks can be difficult for players and for coaches.

I think the 18th week adds some level of change in roster strategy/player utilization beyond just "don't play your starters in preseason games." But even if that's it, the lack of violent reps before week 1 hurts things like OL and linebackers ability to start out strong.

I also think that between guys like Brees and Brady retiring the past couple seasons, and Rodgers being hurt this year, the changing in the QB guard has made some defenses look better and offenses look worse. Plus defenses are adapting to the offense-friendly rules, which is making some good offenses look bad.

I don't think it's stupid. The league changes rules so often that there's always some amount of shifting going on in the standings. Refs always blow calls, especially in big spots. Same as it ever was

Yeah most seasons every team is exactly as good as expected and every game is normal and uninteresting

This season more than any other seems to be plagued by media SCREAMING about how this team may be the greatest team or this player is clear MVP front runner or this one single game played means the collapse of team x or the meteoric rise of team Y.

Kansas City is head and shoulders the best. Every other team has issues that can be exploited.

I think it’s only “stupid” if you’ve never paid attention to how the season usually unfolds. It’s very rare that a team starts the season hot and rides that all the way to the Super Bowl appearance (let alone title).

The Chiefs could end up being the exception to this rule because Mahomes, but if you look at the previous Super Bowl winners it’s very rare that they were the best team during the first half of the season.

Nope, feels like a standard season of predictability mixed in with unpredictability.

We almost had a Bortles vs Foles SB

The Chiefs looked pretty mortal without Kelce, though I'm sure the young guys on the offence get better over the course of the season, which is what their defense experienced last season.

That being said, I do think this season is missing that completely invincible team(s), which we've had a lot of over the past several years. Someone made a post about it, but I think defenses are just getting better and most offenses are just ok.

the officiating has been the worst it's ever been.

Every season since 2019 has been pretty stupid honestly

At least the refs know what a catch is this year.

In the past, I've looked to the other 31 teams for entertainment because mine has basically sucked. Rarely have I been disappointed. This season my team is finally entertaining and good and now I oddly am finding the rest of the league to be quite boring.

A few guys are doing some amazing things like Myles Garrett, Lamar Jackson, and Tyreek Hill but overall games haven't been all that interesting this year.

College football has actually pulled me back after waning interest the last few years. There seems to be 3-4 amazing games every week at the college level.

Parity doesn't mean it's nonsense

It’s always this way. Football is a silly sport. Weird things happen every week. It defies prediction and explanation

Covid Season

"This season isn't the same as a the 2016 season, it's so dumb"