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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It feels to me like more teams are tanking seasons than years past where it was usually just one or two teams.
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That's because a lot of them aren't tanking, they just stink. Of the 7 teams who are 1-4 or worse, the only one that came in to actually tank are the Cardinals and they've looked the best of that group. Then you look at the 2-3 teams and other than the Bengals, it's a bunch of "sure, that was predictable", and even if you just say "Joe Burrow got hurt" the Bengals make sense too.
The thing that's different this year, it seems to me, is that there are fewer good teams out there. Sure, there's the 49ers, Eagles, Dolphins, Chiefs, Bills, Cowboys and arguably the Lions although the jury is still out. Then you get the Seahawks, Bucs, Ravens, Steelers and Saints. Are those teams actually good, or are they just... respectable?
And even a couple of the good teams are just in that list because you know deep down they have the talent; the Bills and Cowboys have been very inconsistent and the Eagles and Chiefs have looked kind of lifeless. Other than SF, there has been nobody who you'd say, "OK, that right there is how you're supposed to football".