BillyC

After watching all the teams play this year, I have come to the conclusion that none of the teams are nearly as good as in years past. Philly and Indy both made it to their division championship game and both teams have major weaknesses. The Colts defense might be OK by today's standards, but hardly remind me of a strong defense. Philly's offense is just plain bad. Before free agency and all the new teams, talent wasn't so spread out through the league. Now days, I see players that really couldn't have cut it in the NFL in years past.

Carolina and the Pats are in the super bowl, but neither one is a great team by past standards. The Buffalo teams that lost 3 superbowls would destroy both of those teams. As a matter of fact, the Bobby Hebert led Saints with the dome patrol defense would destroy both of those teams. How do you think Jake would like facing Pat Swilling, Ricky Jackson, Sam Mills, Vaugn Johnson, Wayne Martin, and Co.?

After seeing how bad some the playoff teams were this year, it made me feel much better about the Saints. We're much closer than I thought. I'm going to even have to reevaluate my thinking on Jim Haslett after watching some of the terrible coaching in the playoffs.

Teams don't play to win anymore. Well, the Pats do, but I really saw no one else that did. I think 99.9% of the teams have a very good chance at going to the playoffs next year. If the Pats are considered a dynasty team, I don't think that speaks too highly of the NFL.

[Edited on 20/1/2004 by BillyC]