BALTIMORE — The quality of play in the NFL has dropped off but, thankfully, it isn’t totally boring.
With marquee quarterbacks like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers — and their respective teams, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers — slumping, the league is having a slow makeover.
Even the genius of eventual Hall of Fame coach Bill Belichick was questioned at the beginning of the season when his New England Patriots lost three of their first four, but he has re-established himself as the best in any era.
