Fake-Fat Sunny Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 A look at the overall standings in the league gives me a very strong sense of it being a league of haves and have-nots. True, there was some final weekend suspense as to who would make the playoffs, but this tension consisted of whether a few teams would fail to make it with double digit win production or not as the league has really divided into a fair chunk of teams being simply bad and having no chance whatsoever for the playoffs while a few teams balance them off by simply walking through the last few games of the season trying to get healthy for the playoff run. The competition in the final weekend really was in a couple of games with KC falling short with 10 wins and the NFC East with the Boys falling short of 10 wins and missing out. Maybe it is just the same as last year with the Bills failing to win their last game and falling a game short of the playoffs, but the added wildcard for next season is that I think next year is going to see a huge jump in the salary cap of teams which is going to take the locked in payscale of teams generally constrained by the cap and allow teams to sign exorbitant contracts for a few players. I suspect this will result in an even more bizarre discrepancy between the high and low ((actually a low NFL salary is still extraordinarily high by human standards) salaries within teams. To the extent this also dovetails with a bizarre discrepancy between high and low performance of teams in terms of records, this is simply going to be a bizarre off-season. The Bills may be leading the charge in terms of bizarre situations. There will be a tendency for teams to want a quick fix glitzy contract for the team, but the Bills are not going to see their problems solved by any quick fixes. We'll see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadBuffaloDisease Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 Over the past 5 years or so, the quality of play of football has been pathetic. And it doesn't seem like it's going to get better. No team today could beat a SB winner prior to about 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernMan Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 Over the past 5 years or so, the quality of play of football has been pathetic. And it doesn't seem like it's going to get better. No team today could beat a SB winner prior to about 1999. 548390[/snapback] I've said many times that the "loser" Bills' superbowl teams of the 90's had the kind of talent that they would kick the snot out of any superbowl winner of the last 7 or 8 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbyte Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 In today's NFL, it is good coaching and GM skills with player scouting. It is how to acuire talent and manage the salary cap. Almost all team have talent the BILLs are a perfect example of bad coaching and management. They spend a lot of money on some players from other teams and do not have build the depth needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 the quality of the NFL players gets better each and every year. there are plenty great teams and players, and there were garbage teams since forever. the cap and FA make it LESS of a case of haves and have nots, the chargers went from crap to solid to not quite making it over 3 seasons. the only thing we don't see is a team that is so stacked (old cowboys, 49ers, etc) that they just walk over other teams while running simple plays all the time. the NFL is more sophisticated now. the one thing that has dropped off is consistency, prolly due to coaches moving around and being specialists (the best coaches now in many cases were the best coaches 20 years ago too, dick v, marty s, parcells, billacheck, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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