Another NFL regular season comes to an end and the New Orleans Saints are once again in the play offs for the fourth straight year. But very little has changed for the NFL or the Saints. The regular season ends with only 13 teams with a winning record out of the 32 total teams. The NFL is still the non-competitive league year in and year out. Two of the playoff teams, Washington and Chicago do not have winning records. In fact no team in Washington's division has a winning record.
The Saints during the regular season beat only one team with a winning record, Tampa Bay. So no one really knows how good the Saints really are despite the hype of the sports media, especially the local sports media. The sports page in Mondays New Orleans Advocate after the game with Carolina read, "PICKED APART" like the Saints beat a really good team. But Carolina won a total of only 5 games this season and are a poor team who are poorly coached.
But people who are objective know that the good teams who know how to play good defense and not allow Saint receivers to run wild unprotected, expose the Saints weakness. That is one reason why the Saints have been eliminated from the last three playoffs. So now the Saints have another opportunity to show how good they really are. Their first opponent is Chicago who finished the season at 8-8. Just another opponent without a winning record.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
Food for thought: There are too many teams in the NFL and too little talent to go around player wise and coaching wise. The result, few teams with winning records, too many with losing records. A competitive league would be around 20-24 teams at the most.
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