NFL parity doesn't mean much, if you're a fan of a perennial loser.

[Bboystyle]

What 49ers are doing is incredible but who's the next best plug and play qb system?

I think they're an exception.

KC.

Henne took them on a 98 yard TD drive when mahomes left. Cleary a plug and play system

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

Bruh you preaching. Ppl are so fukkin blind dude. Making the playoffs in the NFL is considered success and it’s considered being proof that parity exist. A 9-8 team falling ass backward into the playoffs and losing in the Wild Card round isn’t true parity.

I think going from a team with Manning and to a lesser extent Luck for 2 decades, then having Brissett/Rivers/Wentz/Ryan helped me realize this.

Even counting this year's disaster, Indy has been 31-34-1 post Luck. Right around .500. We've even been to the playoffs!
But Indy has never been a contender, just good enough to be in playoff contention and give fans "hope."
I'm so happy they bottomed out so we can at least have a chance at landing a QB again. Going 9-8 with Wentz is torture.

NFL is a genius sport though. High % of one-score games, best of 1 playoff series, and nearly half the league makes playoffs. A lot of fans can convince themselves their team has a shot.

You get the excitement of three meh teams GB-Detroit-Seattle battling it out for a 7th seed playoff spot that shouldn't exist. The game between GB-Detroit was the most watched SNF finale in 6 years.
All so the Seahwaks can get slapped up by the 49ers. 7th seeds 0-6 and counting.

 

[RammerJammer]

There definitely is parity in the NFL, windows for most teams are short and at the same time, windows can open up very quickly, just five years ago the Texans and Bears were good teams and the Bills and Bengals stunk. Hell the Rams won the Super Bowl last year, now they’re old, washed, and wanting to move off of star players.

 

[b. woods]

Going 9-8 with Wentz is torture.

Try living through "7-9 Purgatory" for three-straight seasons.

NFL is a genius sport though. High % of one-score games, best of 1 playoff series, and nearly half the league makes playoffs. A lot of fans can convince themselves their team has a shot.

And it allows players/coaches/assistants/GMs/front offices who should be to survive longer than they deserve.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Parity can be sold to you as long as you’re a fan of a competent organization. I can’t speak for the rest of the league, but as a Raider fan it’s an eternal offseason because my team will never amount to shyt. At all. Parity means nothing in Raider Nation

I have higher hopes in the Lions benefitting from parity than the Raiders. If two expansion teams were formed this afternoon those teams would be blessed by parity well before my lowly squad

Give me periodic runs of dominance by the Lakers over all this football shyt

 

[b. woods]

Parity can be sold to you as long as you’re a fan of a competent organization. I can’t speak for the rest of the league, but as a Raider fan it’s an eternal offseason because my team will never amount to shyt. At all. Parity means nothing in Raider Nation

I have higher hopes in the Lions benefitting from parity than the Raiders. If two expansion teams were formed this afternoon those teams would be blessed by parity well before my lowly squad

Give me periodic runs of dominance by the Lakers over all this football shyt

All you and my other Raider/Laker breh @Trojan 24 have to do is find nut-ass Mark Davis , slap that chili bowl fukkery off his head like it was a kufi , and the Raiders will return to Excellence.

 

[Biscayne]

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Division winners and playoff teams switch up consistently. So there is parity.

That’s horrible. Like I mentioned earlier. Simply making it in as a wild card or making it to the divisional round, is a false sense of parity. 9-8 Jacksonville has a good end of season run, beats another mediocre Chargers team in the Wild Card round. Nice story nice run, but in the end they lose to Josh Allen and a Bills team who’s been the “we have next” team for the past few years. Again, it’s the same QBs whom we thought were gonna win the AFC last year, who are the remaining 3 this year. Burrow, Mahomes, Allen. True parity would be a Jacksonville or Miami making it to the AFC title game. Not Mahomes making it to his 5th straight and or burrow potentially making it to his 2nd in a row. Playoff teams switch all the time in every league. Knicks might make it in this year as an 7th seed. The Heat who were 1st in the east might make it in as an 8th seed or miss the playoffs outright. That’s parity too, right?

 

[Biscayne]

There definitely is parity in the NFL, windows for most teams are short and at the same time, windows can open up very quickly, just five years ago the Texans and Bears were good teams and the Bills and Bengals stunk. Hell the Rams won the Super Bowl last year, now they’re old, washed, and wanting to move off of star players.

This bengals bills “used to stink” argument I keep seeing is a bad one. It’s not in good faith, because it ignores the fact that they stunk because they didn’t have their generational hof level QBs for all those years. Now, either one of those teams are about to get to the AFC title game. One one them on their 2nd straight appearance the other on their 2nd appearance in 3yrs. Yeah they used to stink, but those days are gonna be over because they both have HoF level QBs who will consistently keep their franchises “in the hunt” at the very least. “In the hunt” is basically their bottom. While winning their respective divisions is gonna be a feasible annual feat. Unless DaShaun pans out and or Lamar gets weapons and or Tua can remain healthy and or Herbert gets weapons, the Burrow, Mahomes, Allen trio are gonna stay atop their divisions. We literally just came out of New England dominating the AFC East for literally 20yrs! Why do people think windows in the NFL can’t remain open for a long ass time? Other teams will consistently look for their franchise QB while the teams with luck of a healthy QB could sit the top of their divisions and conferences for YEARS. Again, Patrick Mahomes is goin to his 5th straight AFC title game and nobody is shocked. Nobody picked Jacksonville. Nobody picked Miami to bear Buffalo. There are predictive factors like in any other sport. And single elimination doesn’t change this.

 

[FakeNews]

People confuse parity and mediocrity.

 

[Biscayne]

People confuse parity and mediocrity.

True

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

All you and my other Raider/Laker breh @Trojan 24 have to do is find nut-ass Mark Davis , slap that chili bowl fukkery off his head like it was a kufi , and the Raiders will return to Excellence.

One day the Vegas mob will make this right. Til then I have no expectations.

 

[b. woods]

One day the Vegas mob will make this right. Til then I have no expectations.

Trust me, breh, you and @Trojan 24 slap that shyt off his head , it will get his mind right to FINALLY sell the team to a true L.A. billionaire boss like he should have a long time ago, who will abandon that Vegas stadium , RIGHTFULLY force the team back to L.A. , build his own state-of-the-art venue there , and remind everyone who the TRUE NFL TEAM OF L.A. is supposed to be.

 

[Trojan 24]

Trust me, breh, you and @Trojan 24 slap that shyt off his head , it will get his mind right to FINALLY sell the team to a true L.A. boss like he should have a long time ago, who will abandon that Vegas stadium , RIGHTFULLY force the team back to L.A. , build his own venue there , and remind everyone who the TRUE NFL TEAM OF L.A. is supposed to be.

Hopefully I see him in the street someday

 

[murksiderock]

Breh, as long as they have Burrow, they’re gonna have a better chance than other teams in the conference who are still struggling to find a healthy franchise QB. It took a decade for the Steelers to fall off. Finally when Ben got old.

And the Steelers still haven't quite fallen, their bottom is .500...

 

[Shadow King]

You guys might go to your 2nd straight conference title. Congrats to you, but that ain’t parity. That’s a quick rebuild, due to you guys having a hall of fame QB. You guys are gonna dominate the conference for a long time, which is good for you giys, but doesn’t bode well for the rest of us. That ain’t parity. Conference dominated by 3 QBs.

3 All-Pro QBs (4 pending Ravens/Lamar saga) in 1 conference is parity. Only 1 team can make the Super Bowl at a time.

This same conference had 1 team go 9 times in 19 years so this is literally night and day.