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Originally Posted by RedinTexas
That variety is not due to all teams having an equal shot. The lack of variety in your statistic is due to the nature of football being dominated by great QBs, not by the nature of of revenue distribution. In baseball, it is vastly easier for the big-market teams (i.e. high revenue) to advance past the regular season than it is for the small-market (i.e. low revenue.) A larger variety in the teams advancing to the conference/league championship games is not in itself an indication that small-market teams have as much or more chance than the big-market teams.
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Right, but you talk about the Royals as if they are this diamond in the rough in terms of small market competitiveness.
Whereas by your own definition of success (advancing past the regular season), the A's, Tampa Bay, the Brewers, and Cleveland have all had great success advancing past the regular season since the Royals did in 2015.
While football doesn't have payroll disparities like baseball, franchises absolutely suffer from terrible owners just like baseball -- and like baseball, the NFL really doesn't do anything with their terrible owners.
Anyway, back to Spags.
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Originally Posted by RealSNR
Spags defenses seem to do this a lot. Even the all-star Giants defense that won them a Super Bowl was kinda mediocreish at the beginning of the season. There's a reason that team was a wild card in the regular season.
So the question is... can he just coach a defense to play like this earlier in the season and to continue improving and communicating as the season goes along?
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Spags with a filthy d-line is an incredible defense to watch. That
should be a given, but Sutton had phenomenal front 7's that often underperformed in big moments and seemed too passive when there were opportunities to strike. Spags, otoh, is the impatient madden player who goes with Engage Eight to try to force a sack and turnover, and it's a blast to watch when he's clicking.