I think the thing with the AFC is that you can clearly identify 7 good teams. That likely means a pretty brutal AFC playoffs. The NFC I think its just the Lions as the lone great team in the NFL with the Eagles, Commanders, and Vikings in the solidly good team category.
I would definitely include the Packers in the good team territory. They are a bigger threat than the Commanders or Vikings IMO - Commanders are good but they don’t have quite enough to go on a Super Bowl run IMO - they don’t have enough weapons at receiver or a strong enough D, as for the Vikings I don’t trust Darnold at all and their D has some holes. The Packers have a solid and fairly deep team on both sides of the ball, Love needs to cut down on the turnovers but I think they are the bigg3st threat to the Lions other than the Eagles.
What about Tampa, Saints, Indy, Denver, Green Bay etc? Seems like a larger pool outside of Tier 1 Lions to me in the NFC
Packers are currently +37 point differential. Kinda dinging them for the same reason Im not saying the Chiefs are great.
Why?
Indy and Denver are in the AFC. What exactly are you talking about? And the Saints aren’t very good, you mention them and the Bucs yet you don’t mention the Falcons? The Falcons are the best team in the NFC South and are the favorites to win the division despite their back to back losses. This post doesn’t make much sense.
My apologies on Indy and Denver lol, multi tasking and not thinking straight…
Fair enough. It seems like the AFC has more clear cut really strong teams - Chiefs, Bills, Steelers, Ravens, while in the NFC the Lions and maybe the Eagles stand out above the rest. The NFC seems a bit deeper - all 4 West teams are in the playoff race, 3 teams in the North in the race, Falcons and Bucs in the South and Eagles and Commanders in the East, whereas in the AFC I’m pretty sure six of the playoff teams will be Chiefs, Ravens, Steelers, Bills, Texans and Chargers, I’m not sure who the 7th will be I guess the Broncos, there are more weak teams in the NFC - the only terrible teams in the NFC are the Panthers, Giants, perhaps the Cowboys and Saints, in the AFC the Jags, Titans, Raiders, Browns, Pats and Jets suck.
I see 6 teams above the rest.
I think part of what colors my view on the NFC is that I haven't seen enough of the Cardinals. I'm looking at their roster and not really sure how their defense is putting up the numbers that its putting up. I probably need to watch them more. My bias is to think Kyler Murray will fade down the stretch and their defense can't be as good as it has shown.
You guys got your chip tho.
How come they didn't trade for an edge rusher?
They did get Zadarius Smith or whoever. If Myles Garrett, or Trey Hendrixckson, or Maxx Crosby would have been available they might have. But they have very very few older vets and have a bunch of their key players locked up long term. Maybe they didn't feel like mortaging the future for one Superbowl. Like Rams did with Stafford when Donald was nearing the end. And then went back to purgatory for a couple years. They have to feel like they can maintain this level of competition for the near future at least.
