Skins and Texans poised to be next year's Cardinals?

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Originally Posted by irish

The point of the NFL season isnt to have a good record its to get into the playoffs, make a run, and win it all. Unually the good record and getting into the playoffs go together but last year they didnt for NE. AZ's record doesnt matter, they got into the playoffs and beat 3 teams that anyone would have said were better than AZ except that they couldnt beat AZ so AZ went all the way to the big game and almost won. Ask any NFL player who had a better season AZ or NE and they will tell you AZ because the point is to win it all and AZ had a chance to do it and NE didnt.

Given this logic, it follows that teams should be allowed to bargain to set their divisions each season. Since the point should just be to win it, why have set divisions? Wouldn't things be more interesting if we just shouted and lobbied until our division opponents are the Lions, the Broncos, and the Browns? C'mon, that'd be so great!

I didn't have anything to say about your first point because NE didn't deserve to make the playoffs this year. They had the same shitty schedule that the rest of their division had and their 11 wins were less quality than the Ravens or the Dolphins' 11 and the Colts' 12. Arizona probably didn't deserve to make the playoffs either, but their closest competition was 7-9 San Francisco. By the end of the (regular) year, SF was probably playing better football, but they were never really a threat to catch Arizona in that division. No one was really.

But whereas you deem that to be because of an inherent winning quality of the Cardinals, the rest of us just see their three division opponents picking in the top ten in this years draft.