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I won't say that there's a lack of talent (WTF does that mean?), or that there's a lack of elite teams.
But the parity this year seems totally non existent. You have three classes of teams right now about as clear as you've ever seen it. 10 teams are really good. 10 teams are absolute shit town. The gap between those two groups is hellaciously large. It's pretty astonishing. |
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10-23-2013, 10:33 PM | #3 |
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I miss hits. I don't agree there aren't dominant teams this season. I think there are fewer this season. As clunky as the offense is, the Chiefs are dominating opponents imo. same with Broncos & Saints, Seattle..
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It means that Tom Brady isn't 7-0 and Manning just lost and they don't know the name of a single player on the Chiefs roster other than the coach, which means that the NFL now sucks.
Last year, the talent was crazy sick. There was a true East and West coast team battling it out in the Super Bowl and the Harbaugh brothers were the toast of the media. Now, the ****ing slap dick Chiefs are kicking ass and the national media has been too ****ing lazy to look beyond 45 miles inward from either coast to notice that anybody else actually plays football professionally. I guarantee you that if the 49er's or Pats were 7-0 right now, these shitstains would be talking about "dynasty" and shit like that. The Chiefs have been so bad that the only reason that they could be 7-0 is that the entire NFL decided to take a nose dive right into a shitter in the 2013 season. |
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The reality is that the CBA signed in 2011 changed everything.
There is far less offseason contact. There are no more Two-a-Days, which were vital to conditioning, scheme and camaraderie. There is limited contact during the season. The result is that talented veteran teams have the edge due to continuity. Teams with higher turnover suffer more. Bad teams are not likely to turn around quickly. It will probably be another five years before the playing field is leveled but parity has really never existed in the NFL, despite their intentions. |
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steelers, cincy, niners.. did not expect those teams to falter
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7-0 Giants, Cowboys, Packers, Steelers = Great teams
7-0 Chiefs = Must be a down year for talent The media is butthurt because their darlings aren't the focus |
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I wouldn't say the talent is down, but there's a changing of the guard. A few teams are on the decline while others are struggling to come up.
I have no idea what happened to Houston and Atlanta.
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Kevin Keitzmann talked today about Mizzou not getting enough respect in the SEC, that it's always an excuse with the Good Ole Boys of the SEC to blame injuries, schedule etc for why Mizzou might win the SEC East. I believe this is the same old thing. Bob Ryan is as Patriots homer as they come, he's living in the Dynasty Days of yore and believes that there has to be a dominant team every year. But back to the excuse thing, it has to be that it's a down year talent wise in the NFL, it can't be that the Chiefs are gritty, hard nosed football players who might just be one of the best teams in the NFL. No, it has to be an excuse why we are 7-0, because we're not the usual bunch to be doing this great. If Pittsburgh, the Cowboys, or the Patriots had our schedule and they were 7-0, the talking heads around the league would say they're the best team in the NFL. Maybe it's not so much a mirage that we had so many Pro Bowlers last year at 2-14, maybe people knew that our talent was what was real and not our record.
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