Bad Football? It May Be (Mostly) an Optical Illusion

October 25, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Sunday's slate of NFL games sure looked ugly. They were ugly before breakfast, ugly after midnight, ugly in the city, ugly in the desert, ugly on two continents. It looked like the ugliest week of football to ever come at the end of a stretch of ugly weeks of football. 
But was it really that bad? Or is the current "NFL stinks" storyline an optical illusion?
There has been lots of talk over the past month about bad television ratings, a saturated market and an inferior NFL product. And yes, 6-6 ties belong in 1930s football history archives, not on prime-time television in 2016. But as Jason Lisk pointed out last week at The Big Lead, columnists have been complaining about the decline in NFL quality for at least 25 years. Read Lisk's quotes from yesteryear and you will find the same familiar themes you have heard in recent weeks: There aren't enough good quarterbacks to go around, teams don't stay together or practice long enough, and so forth.
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