I watch and love NFL football. Even with so much effort for parity in the league, there clearly are those top-tier teams and seemingly perpetual basement dwellers. While salary caps, schedules, team size and draft picks are established to make teams more equal, there are still clear favorites. Of course, any team can beat another team on Sunday—some games are pretty predictable.
Every player in the NFL is good, really good. In fact, exceptional is probably more accurate. They did not get to the NFL unless they had talent. The degree of separation of talent between all NFL players is pretty small. I was fortunate enough to play with two players that made it to the NFL. One appeared in a Super Bowl with the Cincinnati Bengals and the other was with the Detroit Lions and then the Pittsburg Steelers. I had NFL dreams, a little thing called “talent” just got in the way.