The 2017 NFL season was a mess. Too many penalties, too many concussions, too many torn ACLs, too many officiating controversies and too many critical tweets from the president regarding protests during the national anthem. Fans jumped ship, ratings declined, our pets' heads were falling off!
As yours truly wrote in a February, if 2017 wasn't the year of the protest or the year of the injury, it was the year of "What is a catch?"
But a glass-half-empty argument can be made that 2017 was only the tip of the iceberg and that the 2018 season might soon make 2017 look like football nirvana.