2025-03-07 10:44:53

From nepotism to staggeringly bad contracts: the NFL’s most hopeless franchises

Plenty of the league’s teams are bad. But there are a select few for whom hopes of a turnaround in fortunes are a distant prospectFive years ago, we looked at the teams vying for the championship belt of incompetence. If a lesson came from the exercise – the Chargers, Commanders and Texans made the list – it’s that a young franchise quarterback can transform a team’s fortunes pretty quickly. The other lesson is that Woody Johnson is a consistently awful owner. Anyway, here’s our latest list of woe. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/07/from-nepotism-to-staggeringly-bad-contracts-the-nfls-most-hopeless-franchises

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