The six teams most likely to miss the playoffs after making it in 2018-2019
 

This guy is freaking nuts!

Alright, let's talk some logic and some ground rules before someone reads this entire article and gets very mad online. First, getting to the NFL playoffs is very difficult. Making the tournament doesn't happen every year because of injury, schedule changes, and the game of football is difficult. It only happens consistently when you have Tom Brady as your quarterback, Bill Belichick as your coach, and three other teams in your division that bumble and stumble around every year consistently. So, don't take this as an insult. Second, there is always turnover in the playoffs. Sometimes team play over their heads. Sometimes teams that have high expectations fail. Sometimes it the schedule change and sometimes it's just like. What we are trying to do here is guess six teams that made the playoffs last year, but will miss the playoffs this year. Maybe all 12 teams make it back, but that's not likely. Maybe it's four teams that turnover. We created the number six and we are sticking to it. So, let's rank them.

Baltimore Ravens
The Ravens play in one of the toughest division in the NFL. The Browns are expected to make the playoffs this year. The Steelers are always good and get to play the no one...……….

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I love his caveats "The Colts are on this list if Andrew Luck goes down. The Eagles are on this list if Carson Wentz goes down. We can't predict the future".....but let me try and predict the future anyway.

Truth is, most good NFL teams would have zero change of making the playoffs if the starting QB goes down. The Saint's, by contrast have a Pro Bowl QB as a backup. Sure, Teddy isn't Drew, but he is probably the leagues best No. 2 and history says he's better than over 50% of the starters in the NFL.

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Not Gonna' Read It! :whatever:

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Kind of like a being weatherman. Right or wrong...you stillage get paid.

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I read it. I needed a good laugh to brighten my day. It worked!!!

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His points do make sense. Especially skill position depth on offense. It wouldn’t surprise me. It is the NFL and you play the games for a reason. I think injury would be the only thing that could keep us out.
I’m not convinced Brees has dropped off. He was having a career year until his line started to suffer injuries. Drew himself may have been hurt.

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No mention of the Chargers though - THE most overrated team last year. I swear, the Chargers have more fans online than they do in L.A. I had to hear this crap for months on every forum how they were some legit SB contender and then people acted shocked and bewildered when New England dismantled them with ease.

I agree on Baltimore. The Ravens have this habit of cranking out elite defensive teams with lack luster offenses, and then disappointing in the playoffs. I don't know if they will be back in the playoffs unless Jackson develops more as a passer.

I don't think Seattle, neither L.A. team or the Texans will be back in the playoffs next year.

Dallas is the one team I am iffy on, cause their defense is legit but they are still coached by the clapper, which means if they make the playoffs, they aren't going far.

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I have a bit more belief in the Chargers than you, but on all other counts I agree.

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Agreed.

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If they can learn how to defend the screen pass, they will be improved.

Chargers were ranked dead last in yards given up on screen passes last year. The Pats didn't even really do anything special against them in the playoffs, they just did screens to Sony Michel and carved them to pieces.

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I actually agree on Houston, Chicago, Dallas.

I really don't know on the rest, including us. Our division is too competitive and we can't expect to run over Carolina and Atlanta again head to head. This division always has turnover. Then there is the elephant in the room, Tampa Bay. If they turn it around with Arians, we are gonna have a fight. Honestly, 4-2 will be hard to come by in the division again.

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Heated battles in the NFC SOUTH ... indeed.

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God I hate playing Tampa, more so than Atlanta and Carolina. They don't make the playoffs, but they are like those pesky Lions teams that pull out wins in the NFC North to screw it up for whatever team wins that division.

I think our record vs Tampa since 2006 is 16-10. They seem to always split with us. One game will be a blowout or a convincing win that isn't really close, then the other game is always a tight, grind it out type of game, usually with low scoring.

Tampa was the team that threw a wrench at us in 2011 when they shocked the crap out of us. The Rams loss that year didn't really bother me cause they were riding high on the Cards World Series win and we were coming off a laughable blowout against a tanking team. But that Tampa loss made me want to scream. Losing to Tampa cost us a first round bye.

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I've said before that the NFC South has been built to beat the Saints. No one else can put it together like Sean Payton though thank goodness. There is a lot of talent on the other teams but none of them possess the vision that coach Payton has. That is what separates the men from the boys.

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In Georgia, you need a pry-bar.

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I think the pesky team will be the dolphins this season , just feel it.

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I believe new HC Brian Flores will turn that team around and I think the Cards gave up on Josh Rosen prematurely.

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Rosen was the sacrificial lamb to a horrible Cards team. They ranked dead last in rushing, had an abysmal o-line and their receivers did not do much either.

The Colts are my dark horse pick. If Adam V makes his kicks against the Chiefs, they are only down 7 points in the 4th quarter of that playoff game. Reid was doing everything to blow that game with horrible play calling in the second half, the Colts offense just didn't show up until it was too late.

If New England has an off year, I wouldn't be surprised if Indy makes the SB.

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So true. It seems Andy has done that more than a few times over his HC career.

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Like the time KC had the Colts by 28 points and lost in OT.

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And they followed that up losing to the Titans with an 18 point lead.

Andy Reid's playoff record in K.C. looks almost identical to what his record looked like in Philly during the first 5 years.

The Chiefs kinda remind me of the old Peyton Manning Colts with how bad their division is. Denver hasn't beaten them since 2015 when Manning was there. They have owned the Chargers for years, whom fluked a win out of them this past year, and Oakland has been a punching bag in that division for years.

The AFC West used to be a division of parity on a historical scale, but that's not been the case of this decade. Denver easily ran that division in the 4 year span they had Manning. Now K.C. routes the whole division like how the Colts would stomp all over their crappy AFC South opponents.

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Yes, we are.


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