AsylumGuido

Not much love for Sean Payton.

Sinner

“Not much love for Sean Payton. 😆”

Your smiley face would kiss his shoes if he walked through cow patties and came into the building today. And rightfully so.

BakoSaint

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.

AsylumGuido

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AsylumGuido

Anyone that claims that Demario's age is a detriment to the team completely ignores that fact that others still see him as one of the top players in the league at any position.

AsylumGuido

BakoSaint

DeMario's age is a risk factor for his decline and makes it highly unlikely that his play could significantly improve. Its not that he isn't good now. Its that at his age there is a major risk of an abrupt decline. If we had a linebacker of similar present ability who was much younger, the odds of decline would be lower, and the odds of some sort of ridiculous Lawrence Taylor / Ray Lewis career year that leads the team to a ring with a historically good defense would, although unlikely, be possible.

Even Mickey Loomis has basically said this that, that DeMario thinks he can play forever but they realize his age and the uncertainty that brings.

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Salient points.

AsylumGuido

LOL!!!! There aren't even a handful of LB's can can play at the level of Demario today! You are so full of ****. He's one of the top three or four in the entire league.