In professional sports, year to year, no league lends itself to drastic swings in team performance more than the NFL. In the NBA, the only thing that swings things drastically for an NBA team in one year is trading for or signing a big star. In Major League Baseball, teams...
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In professional sports, year to year, no league lends itself to drastic swings in team performance more than the NFL. In the NBA, the only thing that swings things drastically for an NBA team in one year is trading for or signing a big star. In Major League Baseball, teams that get to the top generally stay there because of market size and long term contracts.
The NFL, with short careers and a league whose players are operating under largely short term deals and where injuries are RAMPANT, oftentimes sees as much as 50 percent turnover in the roster of playoff teams from year to year. In fact, oftentimes, one of the two Super Bowl participants misses the playoffs altogether the following season.
There are ALWAYS a few Cinderella teams every year. It's how the late commissioner of the league back in the '80s, Pete Rozelle, dreamt up his best version of the NFL when he was running it. He wanted parity, and he got it.
If we take 11 losses as the threshold for a team to be considered an empirically bad to very mediocre football team, here are the Cinderella candidates for 2023:
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