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Originally Posted by AsylumGuido (Post 997679)

Not much love for Sean Payton. :D

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The Patriots make sense as the worst. Really tough division. 3 proven QBs vs a rookie with a lot of doubts. Bad record last year. Unproven coach who is potentially a big downgrade. Minimal weapons on offense. If Maye flops the Patriots could have the #1 overall pick again and might take another QB.

I think #3 worst on the Broncos is pretty harsh. The Broncos have an unproven QB but they have a proven coach who has won with Winston, Hill, Bridgewater, Wilson, etc.

I feel the Cardinals could be one of the worst. They were 4-13 last year. Murray could easily get hurt again and then Desmond Ridder is their QB. Or Murray could slow down or give up and lose a step since it doesn't seem to be clicking for him. I would expect the Cardinals to lose more games than the Broncos.

A lot will depend on rookie and 2nd year QBs. It seems these rankings doubt Maye, Nix, Young, and Levis but the draft is a crapshoot and it could almost as easily be Williams, Daniels, and/or McCarthy who is a disaster.

I can see the potential for Falcons to be good but also for the Falcons to be the worst team in the league. They bet the farm on an aging QB coming off an injury, and there is risk that Cousins will never be the same. They used their draft capital to select an injury prone developmental backup QB who could be forced into action too early if Cousins is not healthy. Raheem Morris is a proven loser head coach. If the first domino falls and Cousins faces a setback in his recovery, I could see the easily flustered head coach and the raw rookie QB leading the Falcons to the worst record in the NFL as the entire locker room falls apart under crushed expectations.

As a dark horse for the worst team, the Seahawks lost a proven coach in Pete Carroll who seemed like the glue holding the locker room together. Carroll was a popular coach forced into retirement and that may divide the locker room. Their new coach is totally unproven. Their QB Geno Smith is a known mediocre QB. But he was also potentially a mediocre system QB who could be unstartable with a new coach running the show. What if he regresses as bad as Russell Wilson did away from Carroll? DK Metcalf seems like his development has stalled, Lockett is getting older, and Smith-Ngigba had a disappointing rookie year with injuries.