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    Odd odd league

    This is a weird league. Honestly, we looked like the worst team in the league the past two games, then manage to go into Oakland and beat them. I realise they didn't have Carr out there and had he played, the game may have been a lot different. At the same time the Jags lose badly to the Titans the week before destroying us in London.

    Lots of parity in the league this year it would seem.





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    All these injuries keep changing the landscape from week to week.

    In the salary cap era, you can't afford to lose key players to injury, suspension, retirement, etc. because it's really hard to replace them with players who are even half as good (or ready) and your constrained by the cap in signing those replacements. Having too much dead cap is obviously a further handicap. And with expansion adding more teams--yeah, I know it's been that way for decades now--the talent pool is stretched even thinner.

    It doesn't help matters that colleges are churning out fewer pro ready players because most colleges no longer run pro style systems. So, proper scouting, development, and usage of draft picks, while they're still dirt cheap, is essential to a team's success.

    The current CBA limiting how much practice time these young players can get makes developing these draft picks in a timely manner even more of a challenge. It doesn't do you much good if a high round draft pick finally has the light bulb come on in their head in their final year of their rookie contract, not if you're unable to retain them. And if you do, there's always the risk that they were a one year wonder.

    And being in the habit of having higher round draft picks switch positions, if you're wrong in your assessment there, will only stunt their growth and leave you with yet another wasted 2nd round pick. And you can't afford to keep wasting those picks. Because then you need to try to fill those holes with either more draft picks, or expensive FAs, or gamble on cheaper, older/injury prone FAs.

    Throw in that the officials can impact the outcome of any close game, what with all these rules which are pure judgement calls on their part, and that's how you end up with league-wide parity.





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