Kapernick, Luck and Dalton

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(11-04-2015, 05:42 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Every year there is a team or two that was crowned during the off-season that busts.  The Colts may either be like that OR since they just fired their OC could possibly be like that Ravens team that fired their OC mid season and went on a run.  Who knows.

My biggest point is that we can rag on certain divisions being easy and the AFC North being hard, but we have to admit that we made the playoffs 4 years in a row in that hardest division and lost to teams from the AFC South, AFC South, AFC West, and AFC South.  Plus, the last time the Steelers made the playoffs they lost to an 8-8 AFC West team that made the playoffs almost by default.

That's just the nature of the playoffs, though.  Both 7-win teams that made it won their games, and the perennially-crappy AFC South has racked up a surprising number of post-season wins despite being a division one can win with what may be 6 wins this season.

I just don't see how players can go from players good enough to win a SB with in a couple of months, to the reason a particular QB is having a down year.  From a skill position standpoint, this year's Colts are better than last year's roster. 

The playoffs is a small sample size.  Over the course of the last 3 seasons the AFC North has a winning record whereas the AFC South has a losing one.  It isn't such a stretch to say one conference has an easier road to the playoffs than another one.