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maybe, but I think it's better when there are juggernauts who we looked forward to facing off against each other. As it stands, a Bills-Bears Super Bowl is just as plausible as the teams that are left.
Rams Seahawks are the 2 best teams in the NFC
Denver’s D is elite and Patriots look like a new emerging dynasty with Drake Maye although his stats in the snow game were mediocre.
Overall I agree it would be better to see a Josh Allen or Lamar in contention but they aren’t here because they fell short. Messed up their best chance to get a SB with no Mahomes or Burrow in the pathway
not saying it's better with Allen or Lamar, Allen was a coin flip game too over JAX. Want to see 2-3 teams unequivocally dominate, then have to face off against each other. In 1990, Giants beat 2-team defending champs SF with Montana/Young 15-13, then had to play the Bills who won 51 - 3 in the AFC title game over the 12-4 Raiders in the SB. Those were matchups I wanted to watch. Now it's maybe SEA, maybe LAR, maybe BUF, maybe CHI, JAX, DEN, NE -- all coin flips.
While it can feel “scripted” and definitely the refs can sometimes play into it (Brady / Mahomes getting 50/50 calls most of the time) I think unequivocally the level of talent and competition in the league is better today than 10 / 20 / 30 years ago.
NFL has turned into a factory that churns the most elite athletes out where it’s pretty common for players on their rookie contracts to be the best in the league for a year or 2
So many memorable wins and superbowls have been based on luck when the margin of error for either team is small.
Out of anything this year I think we just have worse QBs in the playoffs than normal