The first half of the 2018 NFL season is over, and the trade deadline has passed. That means teams are done making drastic changes to their rosters.
While we don't yet know which squads are championship-caliber and which are pretenders, we do know which ones can begin keeping an eye on 2019.
Some may overcome a slow start to the season, but many more will not. Some simply have too big of a hole to climb out of and don't have the tools to do so. Below, we'll focus on where such teams are heading down the stretch, why it's time for them to focus on the future and what kind of goals they can accomplish with the postseason effectively out of the question.