Thirty two teams have their sights set on a Super Bowl victory come February. Thirty one teams will have that dream smashed to various degrees.
This means, of course, that just under 97 percent of the league’s franchises will ultimately know heartbreak this winter. It’s significantly easier to lose an NFL title than to win it. Some teams already have their blueprint for failure laid out, using it as their vehicle to a high draft pick in a rebuilding era. Others aren’t even considering the possibility, keeping their vision solely on a Lombardi Trophy that odds suggest they won’t be holding at the end of the season.
