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.
Teams in the latter category have spent the last six months reflecting on their rosters and doing their damnedest to fix any flaws that could ultimately become fatal. Some clubs have hidden their weaknesses well enough that pointing them out feels like nitpicking. Others, well, they’ll have to cover up their problems with a fine layer of paint and duct tape and hope things don’t fall apart too thoroughly.
Let’s talk about those flaws today, from the obvious to the potentially obscure. Here’s the reason why all 32 NFL teams won’t win Super Bowl 58.