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Originally Posted by The Germanator
I don't know man. I'm an Eagles fan and even I will admit that the Patriots are a legitimately GOOD team...You can't win 3 out of four and say they aren't.
I'd even say the Eagles having won 4 (5) straight division could qualify as a (much) lesser dynasty.
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To do what the Pats have done in this day and age is amazing, but even though the organization’s past 5 or 6 years to build this team may be the best 5 or 6 year run in the history of sports managing, this group of players wouldn't beat any other dynasty in NFL history (90s Boys, 90s Cos, 80s Giants, 80s 9ers, 70s Steelers, 70s Dolphins, 70s boys, 60's Pack, 50's Colts)
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Originally Posted by Perfect Stu
the hard salary cap is what helps make the NFL the best professional sports league in the world.
the fact that the owners, coaches and front office have to WORK to build and create a successful franchise is fantastic, instead of MLB which often turns into an auction.
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Oh no no no no no.
You wantonly throw money around in MLB, you still lose. See Late 90s dodgers and Os, Yankees now (might not even make the playoffs), Os now, Mets forever. The system in the NFL is the best of the major sports but there are two things I want changed.
1) Adopt a slotted system for draft picks, like the NBA
2) Allow teams to go over the salary cap to resign a player that they drafted. As a colts fan you have to know that either Edge or Wayne is going to be gone next year. Why should a team that drafts well be punished because their hand picked talent has matured to the point that they can no longer afford it?
Baseball teams, with 81 revenue opportunities a year, can’t make more money than NFL teams with 8. If that number isn’t completely staggering I don’t know what is. The problem with baseball isn’t so much that teams are allowed to spend freely as it is that some teams don’t make enough money (or are owned by people/companies not willing to spend enough money) to even compete. The Atletics don’t have a huge payroll but they’ve been one of the most consistant teams in the league the last 5-6 years. That being said, the As are still spending about 26 million more than the D rays (55ish to 29ish.) If you’ll take a look at the team payrolls:
http://www.onestopbaseball.com/TeamPayroll.asp
You’ll notice that right around that 55-60 million dollar range (which is better than 2/3rds of the league) you see a big separation between the teams that are at least competitive and your bottom feeders. If baseball just had a little revenue sharing with a salary floor, you’d see a lot more competitive teams. At the very same time, however, you’ll see that there are teams in the top 15 that are absolutely dreadful.
It’s further proof that throwing money at a problem won’t necessarily make it go away, and it furthers my belief that the NFL could actually strengthen the game, remove some parity, allow a few teams to form a true upper echelon and make football a lot more interesting. Remember how great the Packers/Cowboys/49ers match ups in the mid 90s were? They would have made last weekend’s Steelers/Pats tilt look like a pre season game.