Mediocrity Marred NFL Product Last Season and That’s Unlikely to Change in 2016

April 15, 2016   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

The NFL can generate buzz in a way no other sports league in America dare dream of. On an April Thursday at the outset of baseball season and just before the NBA playoffs the news cycle was dominated by an NFL trade for draft picks and the release of the 2016 schedule.
If the league announced they were changing the color in the shield from royal blue to something in a nice cerulean, people would talk about it. It would be news.
However, look deeper at the schedule for this year and strength of schedule rankings—at the final standings for the 2015 season, and another story becomes evident, one the NFL isn’t so gung-ho to have a three-hour special about on their in-house cable network.
Call it parity if you’re feeling kind or mediocrity if you aren’t. But there are a lot of so-so football teams in the National Football League. There were in 2015.
And there will be in 2016.
For a significant portion of the 2015 regular season, 20 or more NF...

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