Four Verts: Race for No. 1 pick is splashing in sewer puddles, while Colts wrecked playoff hopes in worst way possible

Three games left! Every week at this point in the season has a heightened sense of importance as offseason plans start to come into shape and the playoff picture solidifies. This week’s Four Verts will hit on a team that likely blew their shot at the playoffs in comically clumsy fashion on the road, but we’ll start with teams looking forward to the NFL Draft.

Race for the No. 1 pick in NFL Draft is impossibly sad

If it seems like this year’s playoff race is lacking some juice — it is. With three weeks left in the regular season, the playoff teams are just about set, barring a few battles within the NFC West and NFC South. That’s because the bottom of the NFL is tragically bad and unlucky this year with more teams than usual hanging around with two or three wins for this point of the season. That quantity of inequality has created a log jammed race for the first overall pick this year, with seven teams in play at this point in the season. The funny thing is, as many people have noted far before the season began, this doesn’t appear to be a great draft at the top, but someone has to make these picks.

There are currently nine teams with four or fewer wins, more than double the amount of teams that had four or fewer wins at this time last year (four). There are normally five or six teams with really poor records by Week 15, so to have over a quarter of the league in this space is actually unusual for recent trends. There’s just been a mix of bad play and back luck that’s gotten some of these teams to this point.

Like any other year, there are some teams that truly stink. The Raiders and Giants are currently in the lead for the first pick with hard-earned 2-12 records. No one mistaking those teams as unlucky. The Panthers, Jaguars and Titans probably fall into this bucket as well. Then there’s the Browns, who just punted the first half of the season trying to pretend that Deshaun Watson was a starting-caliber quarterback before being a bit more…

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Publish date : 2024-12-18 19:29:00

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