{"id":7,"date":"2012-09-16T04:18:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T04:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2015-02-07T05:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:09:38","slug":"nfl-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"NFL Anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"nfl\"<\/a>With the 2012 NFL season fast approaching, pundits are busy serving up another round of fearless predictions. I enjoy reading these predictions because 1. they are bold and 2. they are frequently\u00a0hilariously inaccurate.<\/p>\n

This is the great thing about the NFL: no one has a clue and anyone who says they do is full of baloney. The league has mostly been a crapshoot over the past 10 years (save for the Pats, Steelers, and Manning-lead Colts), with teams jostling for position like ping pong balls in a lottery draw.<\/p>\n

And still some writers insist on using phrases like \u201cup and coming\u201d and \u201cback of the pack\u201d in an attempt to project a team\u2019s un-chartable trajectory. History should have taught us that in the NFL the up and coming team is generally an illusion. Look at the Buccaneers, for example, who went a \u201cpromising\u201d 10-6 in 2010 and then fell to 4-12 in 2011 (despite having largely the same roster). Now Si.com\u2019s Don Banks predicts new head coach Greg Schiano\u00a0 \u201ceasily will better the Bucs\u2019 record of last year and have [the] club being identified by year\u2019s end as one to watch in 2013.\u201d Only in the NFL can a team go from up-and-comer to bottom of the pack to up-and-comer again in the span of 12 months.<\/p>\n

The 49ers, on the other hand, flipped the script after a dismal 6-10 campaign in 2010, hired a new coach and finished 13-3 in 2011. Meanwhile, the Rams went a \u201cpromising\u201d 7-9 under rookie quarterback Sam Bradford in 2010, kept the roster largely intact and then finished 2-14 last year. Where is the rhyme? Where is the reason? What can account for this anual see-saw?<\/p>\n

The answer is there is none. In baseball, the NBA and the NHL continuity and momentum create dynasties and perennial doormats. In the NFL, every season is a blood bath, with the only predictable outcome an unpredictable, entertaining mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the 2012 NFL season fast approaching, pundits are busy serving up another round of fearless predictions. I enjoy reading these predictions because 1. they are bold and 2. they are frequently\u00a0hilariously inaccurate. This is the great thing about the NFL: no one has a clue and anyone who says they do is full of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,22,18,20,24,23,21],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colts","tag-greg-schiano","tag-patriots","tag-peyton-manning","tag-sam-bradford","tag-st-louis-rams","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}