I'm just going to go ahead and say that this isn't the best of looks for the NFL (i.e. AFC). Parity is great and all, but it's kind of an indictment of your product when a franchise that has gone above and beyond in outdoing even their own special brand of organizational incompetence still technically has a chance to hobble to the Championship podium despite having spent well over half the season intentionally shooting themselves in the foot. I suppose it's nice that there is at least one masochist who can still parade around Ohio calling himself an "eternal optimist" while clutching desperately to a possibility that's exponentially less likely than winning back-to-back lotteries. That said, a league suffering from a distinct drop-off in performance probably doesn't want to hear that - despite their best efforts - a team that's actively tried to suck their way into "there's always next season" still hasn't totally slip the grasp of potential playoff spot. Also, I find it absolutely fascinating that out of the 46 outcomes the Browns would need to make the postseason, the 40 that don't require them to actually win a single game seem far more feasible. Banking on a couple random ties seems ridiculously unlikely, but in comparison to Cleveland rattling off 6 straight wins? Those draws might as well result in a foregone conclusion. The Browns are so bad that they could legitimately get an unforeseen amount of help and would still need to 6 teams to fail to show up to the stadium to pick up a playoff spot that they unbelievably still have such a long shot at that it makes Steph Curry's range look like Shaq's shot chart.
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