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

[PortCityProphet]

You have a false sense of what parity should be.
Just cause it's not a new team in the championship every year dont mean it aint parity.
What you're asking for doesn't make sense in the realm of sports when you have contracts, good players staying good etc

 

[Biscayne]

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.

Only one team can make the SB, but two teams make the AFC title game. One team just made their 5th straight and nobodies shocked about it. It was expected. Just like The chiefs and bengals are basically gonna be expected to next year, until they have to decide between paying burrow and keeping that talent. Either way, they still povablt won’t bottom out and can be a perennial playoff Appearing team. You know what, you’re right. Maybe I’m wrong. Next year AFC title game is gonna be Dolphins vs Browns.

You can’t tell me anything. I watched Tom Brady run our division longer than any NBA dynasty in my lifetime.

 

[Biscayne]

You have a false sense of what parity should be.
Just cause it's not a new team in the championship every year dont mean it aint parity.
What you're asking for doesn't make sense in the realm of sports when you have contracts, good players staying good etc

I know what parity actually is. What I think it should be, is based on how much that word is touted in this league, Vs the reality of what many of us fans of franchises on the outside looking in have been actually witnessing.

 

[Biscayne]

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

Somebody was complaint that the Steelers should’ve gotten in the playoffs over the dolphins, when it looked like Buffalo was gonna blow us out, at the Beginning of the wild card round game.

 

[Shadow King]

Only one team can make the SB, but two teams make the AFC title game. One team just made their 5th straight and nobodies shocked about it. It was expected. Just like The chiefs and bengals are basically gonna be expected to next year, until they have to decide between paying burrow and keeping that talent. Either way, they still povablt won’t bottom out and can be a perennial playoff Appearing team. You know what, you’re right. Maybe I’m wrong. Next year AFC title game is gonna be Dolphins vs Browns.

You can’t tell me anything. I watched Tom Brady run our division longer than any NBA dynasty in my lifetime.

And then after that, Colts vs Ravens.
Next Steelers vs Texans.
Then Raiders vs Jaguars.

When does it stop? Teams build to sustain a window. 1 or 2 will be better than the other at this endeavor. Yes, you're wrong.

 

[Biscayne]

And then after that, Colts vs Ravens.
Next Steelers vs Texans.
Then Raiders vs Jaguars.

When does it stop? Teams build to sustain a window. 1 or 2 will be better than the other at this endeavor. Yes, you're wrong.

Teams build to sustain a window. That’s sports. The NFL is no different than any other league in this way. And that’s ok. Why keep this half truth of “NFL parity” going? Everyone was certain Miami was gonna somehow fukk up this greatest show on turf like offense that looked good in November. Everyone predicted the December train wreck, because we’re the dolphins. And many teams are just consistently not built to make deep playoff runs or make the playoffs once every half decade or so. Perennial mediocrity. At least in the AFC. Cultural mediocrity. It happens.

 

[Shadow King]

Teams build to sustain a window. That’s sports. The NFL is no different than any other league in this way. And that’s ok. Why keep this half truth of “NFL parity” going? Everyone was certain Miami was gonna somehow fukk up this greatest show on turf like offense that looked good in November. Everyone predicted the December train wreck, because we’re the dolphins. And many teams are just consistently not built to make deep playoff runs or make the playoffs once every half decade or so. Perennial mediocrity. At least in the AFC. Cultural mediocrity. It happens.

This is just you whining becauae your team never opened their window.

There is parity in the NFL. There is a chance for their to be half a dozen HOF QBs in 1 conference for the next decade, I don't know what else to tell you other than today is today and tomorrow is tomorrow.

 

[Biscayne]

This is just you whining becauae your team never opened their window.

There is parity in the NFL. There is a chance for their to be half a dozen HOF QBs in 1 conference for the next decade, I don't know what else to tell you other than today is today and tomorrow is tomorrow.

My whining is backed up by facts and history. All these potential HoF QBs, health will sort them out, per usual. But at the end of the day, it’s shaping to look like the 00s AFC when it was the Brady, Roethlisburger, Manning show. You speak from the perspective a fan who’s team doesn’t have to do the QB shuffle every year. It’s nice that you got burrow, but that kinda proves my point. Of course you’re happy go lucky. I’d be preaching all sorts of “cheer up bucko, everyone has a chance” shyt too.

As long as you have a franchise QB you can consistently morph your team around, you’ll always be in the hunt. Wild card bottom feeders will rotate from team to team, but the divisional leaders will always dominate the playoffs.

 

[Shadow King]

My whining is backed up by facts and history. All these potential HoF QBs, health will sort them out, per usual. But at the end of the day, it’s shaping to look like the 00s AFC when it was the Brady, Roethlisburger, Manning show. You speak from the perspective a fan who’s team doesn’t have to do the QB shuffle every year. It’s nice that you got burrow, but that kinda proves my point. Of course you’re happy go lucky. I’d be preaching all sorts of “cheer up bucko, everyone has a chance” shyt too.

As long as you have a franchise QB you can consistently morph your team around, you’ll always be in the hunt. Wild card bottom feeders will rotate from team to team, but the divisional leaders will always dominate the playoffs.

Why are you assuming I'm a Bengals fan?

Keep whining.

 

[Biscayne]

Why are you assuming I'm a Bengals fan?

Keep whining.

Even worse. This has to be Roger Goodells burner the way you capin. Pls tell me you’re at least a fan of a remaining playoff team.

 

[Shadow King]

Even worse. This has to be Roger Goodells burner the way you capin. Pls tell me you’re at least a fan of a remaining playoff team.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

The NFC has always been more competitive than the AFC. The only thing that changes in the AFC is which teams dominate.

Fifteen years ago, it was the Colts, Patriots, and Steelers. Then you had the Broncos and Ravens in the mix, but that's mostly because Peyton went to the Broncos. Now, you have the Chiefs, Bengals, and Bills mixing it up. The Bills haven't made the Super Bowl yet, but they'll get there. The Chiefs are about to go to their fifth straight AFC Championship Game, to play the team they played last season. The same team that ended up making the Super Bowl themselves.

Meanwhile, in the NFC, you get a new champion every season. The last team to repeat was the 2014 Seahawks. Since then, you've had multiple teams that made it to the Super Bowl and didn't even make it to the playoffs the year after.

 

[Biscayne]

 

[trix1234]

interesting point.....I think ultimately the NFL are able to sell parity because of the 'one-off' playfoff games.

But unless the team with the better QB has a ton of injuries or the QB himself is injured, then 90% of the time the team with the better QB wins.

A team can go from being a bottom feeder to a viable team a lot quicker in the NFL but their ceiling is capped

 

[DjMe]

My whining is backed up by facts and history. All these potential HoF QBs, health will sort them out, per usual. But at the end of the day, it’s shaping to look like the 00s AFC when it was the Brady, Roethlisburger, Manning show. You speak from the perspective a fan who’s team doesn’t have to do the QB shuffle every year. It’s nice that you got burrow, but that kinda proves my point. Of course you’re happy go lucky. I’d be preaching all sorts of “cheer up bucko, everyone has a chance” shyt too.

As long as you have a franchise QB you can consistently morph your team around, you’ll always be in the hunt. Wild card bottom feeders will rotate from team to team, but the divisional leaders will always dominate the playoffs.

Looking at divisional round participants:
49ers drafted Brock after you guys drafted Tua.
Lions got Goff after you guys got Tua.
Texans got Stroud after you got Tua.
Ravens resigned Lamar and he was on the market, you could have had him.
Bucs got Baker after you got Tua.
Love had never started a game and the Pack moved on from their franchise QB after you got Tua.

So 75% of the Divisional Round teams, since you drafted Tua, took stock of their QB, ditched him, got a new one, and made it further than the Dolphins.

Nothing's wrong with the league's parity--the Dolphins just hired an effeminate autistic weirdo with a drinking problem to run their team, and he's not cut throat enough to kick lefty to the curb.

Now youre gonna extend him too.
Youre gonna be right back here complaining about parity after the Colts smoke you in the playoffs with some hot shot 3rd round rookie under center that they draft to replace Richardson