There are 32 NFL teams in the NFL and at the end of the 2019 regular season, only 13 teams had a winning record. It follows the same pattern as past seasons and there is no let up in sight. There are just too many poor teams and too many poor coaches and not enough quality players to stock 32 teams. The college draft will never bring parity to the league as the NFL and owners declared when the draft was put in place, and it never will under the present set up.
Four of the eight divisions have only one team with a winning record. The north and west division in the American conference and the south and east in the national conference. The NFC west is the most competitive division with three teams with a winning record. The Saints are the only team with a winning record in their division and the Saints beat only four teams with a winning record in 2019, Houston, Tennessee, Philadelphia and Seattle. Yet, all the New Orleans sports writers want to talk about and report on are Brees's personal records.
And the NFL's playoff system contributes to the non-competitive state of the league by allowing teams who have won nothing after a 16 game schedule be chosen for the playoffs and a opportunity to play for the world championship without accomplishing anything during the regular 16 game season. The NFL is a disaster but the money keeps flowing in to the NFL, the owners and the players. And of course you have states like Louisiana who continue to give corporate welfare to the wealthy owners like the owners of the New Orleans Saints.
A competitive NFL??? It does not exist.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
