They say no one sells hope like the NFL.
Every year, every team has a theoretical shot at playing relevant football. Sometimes, if they’re lucky, the football they play could even be construed as fun, or heaven forbid, aesthetically pleasing. (Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.) In a league where parity runs supreme, it’s not out of the ordinary for half of every season’s postseason field to be completely fresh. With a few major tweaks and some general good fortune — a bounce of the ball here and there — a last place, bottom-dwelling team from last fall could catapult into first place.