Classyposter58;1833845 wrote:Does anyone think the increasing speed of the game is why these games were so lopsided? This is now 4 years in a row where no wild card team has made the Super Bowl and in both games yesterday the losing team looked completely out of gas.
Idk maybe I'm crazy but it just seems like the extra week off lately has helped more than ever
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Could have something to do with it, but I think a bigger reason might be that right now, the NFL is sort of in this place where it seems there are only a handful of legit good teams and a lot ranging from average to bad; combined with how injuries were very prevalent at least this year. Look at this year's wild card teams.
Raiders: Very good team playing without their most important player, turning them into an inept offensive team.
Dolphins: Solid team that started slowly, got legitimately good and then lost their QB and became mediocre at best after that.
Giants: Good team that seemed very up and down. Some weeks, a SB contender; other weeks, mediocre.
Lions: An eminently mediocre team that got in the playoffs because they were good against bad teams and bad against good teams (0-5 vs playoff teams, 9-2 vs non-playoff teams)
With that group, the Giants were the only team with even a remote chance of doing anything notable and they ran into a very hot team on the road to start with, which ended them.
