I finally figured it out. It’s the only remaining logical explanation.
We’re being punished!
For what, I don’t yet know. But I’m working on it.
Meanwhile, the punishments grow in volume and severity. How else to explain why Fox’s Chris Spielman spent Sunday’s Giants-Eagles game lecturing about plays “in space” and in a “vertical” direction?
He eventually violated the Geneva Conventions, with this about the Eagles: “They have had problems creating space and getting open. No vertical threats besides Zach Ertz.