Parity

Is this Goodell's wet dream? 5(?) games decided by 2 points or less?

 

I watched 4 or 5 different games on Sunday Ticket today and I can tell you that Goodell must have been giddy because I saw some TERRRRRRIBLE defense played today. The Saints, Raiders, Colts, and Lions all lit up the scoreboard. What's the point of having a franchise qb when you're gonna give the guy a scrub d? Luck can't do everything and neither can Brees.

 

I saw several "targeting the receiver" penalties, but they let a lot of hand fighting go as well....

 

I saw multiple launching calls today during fg's and apparently the league made a big deal out of that in the offseason this year.

 

This was one of the worst NFL days I can remember. All of my most-hated teams squeezed out close wins (New England, Baltimore, Seattle, Cincinnati, Green Bay) and all of the teams I was hoping to win, lost.

*Was sure New England was going to lose today and was hoping the other AFC East teams would get a jump on them making the Pats have to play catch-up after Brady returned. Instead, the Pats are 1-0 and the rest of the division is 0-1. Unreal.

*Was hoping we'd get an early jump on Cincy and Baltimore but both of them ran into kickers that can't kick. The Jets pretty much dominated Cincy but Nick Folk missed an extra point and a chip shot and they lost by one point and Dan Carpenter missed a game-tying field goal late and the Bills fell to the rats.

*Also, in regards to playoff seeding (yeah, my head is already there), most all of the teams that can realistically make the playoffs in the AFC managed to win in non-conference games: Oakland beat NO, Houston beat Chicago, Denver beat Carolina, New England beat Arizona . . . only Jacksonville and Indianapolis failed to close out their games.

*After the Cards' kicker (Cantanzarro or something like that) missed that final kick, I just sat there like, "Welp, that was a waste of nine hours" then shut the tv off and went to bed.

Now I get to drive three and a half hours to DC where I accidentally purchased the wrong ticket on StubHub and have an end zone seat fifteen rows up when I thought I purchased the first row directly behind the goal posts. I hate end zone seats but thought the first row might be a cool experience. Ugh. Tough football weekend.

 

Probably more mediocrity than parity.

 

Yeah if you watch the Raiders you can tell that they think they are awesome but honestly they've played against two TERRIBLE defenses and their own defense is pretty horrible too.

 

A very watered down product I think.

 

It all depends on which side of the ball they spend the most of their salary cap on, colts spend more on offense and denver spends more on defense, we spend more on offense and less on defense...........