We have to be careful what stories we tell about ourselves, because our perception of our own abilities—of our successes and failures—is not always an accurate one. That’s doubly true of NFL teams.
Franchises are full to the brim with wealthy, powerful people who can come to smell roses whenever someone in the board room farts, and that can lead to those teams sinking into years of mediocrity or worse. There’s the way Dave Gettleman and Joe Judge talk about the putrid Giants, the seemingly endless trials and rebuilds of the Jets, and the extremely slow motion immolation of the Seahawks.