![]() With a first-year head coach (Shane Steichen) and rookie quarterback (Anthony Richardson), the learning curve was always going to be steep – laudable as it is that the franchise decided to stop treading water under center. Arizona Cardinals (2-15)Įven if QB Kyler Murray’s reconstructed ACL was ready to go Week 1 – it won’t be – there would be serious questions about the Cards’ ability to compete in 2023 based on a degraded roster, particularly on defense, and a green coaching staff. probably won’t be handing off very often anyway. And if this defense is as shaky on the field as it is on paper – especially in the back seven – then Jimmy G. But at least QB Jimmy Garoppolo (foot) has a clean bill of health and the experience to adjust to a Jacobs-less offense if need be. ![]() With RB Josh Jacobs, last season's league rushing leader, in witness protection, they’re already in a predicament. ![]() So let’s rank the teams, from least likely to most, on the chances I give them to make the jump from 2022 bystanders to 2023 contenders (predicted record in parentheses, with asterisks denoting playoff projection): 18. Who will crash the party in 2023? My annual record projections (and 33 consecutive seasons) suggest the requisite quartet of newcomers will show up … and probably more. In 2022, eight of the participants in the Super Bowl tournament weren’t part of it in 2021. Dating to 1990, when the postseason field expanded to 12 teams (it increased to 14 in 2020), at least four clubs have qualified in every season after missing the playoffs the year before. The parity which the NFL strives to achieve – free agency, the salary cap, draft and schedule all mechanisms designed to hinder the strong and help the weak – has sustained an amazing streak that’s well into its fourth decade. Watch Video: Does Russell Wilson's personal life affect the Broncos locker room? ![]()
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